STARR SEMINAR SCHEDULE: Spring 2019
Thursdays, 3:00 – 4:30/5:00
Semitic Museum 201, 6 Divinity Ave., Cambridge
Papers for the seminar will be pre-circulated. If you wish to receive the paper and plan to attend (If you’re not on our regular email listserv), please rsvp to the Center for Jewish Studies <cjs@fas.harvard.edu>. Refreshments will be served. Limited parking vouchers will be available for non-Harvard guests.
January 31, 2019, David Stern: “Text and Book in Jewish Manuscript and Early Print Culture”
February 7, 2019, Aleksandra Buncic: "Art of Religion and Science: Two Illuminated Manuscripts from Medieval Catalonia"
February 14, 2019, Nathan Mastnjak: “The Jeremiah Collection and the Imagined book of Jeremiah”
February 21, 2019, David Sclar: “A Communal Tree of Life: Western Sephardic Jews and the Ets Haim Library in Early Modern Amsterdam”
March 7, 2019, Idan Dershowitz: “Material Redaction in the Bible”
March 14, 2019, A. J. Berkovitz: Materiality, Paratextuality and Ancient Jewish Readers: The Case of Psalm Titles in Late Antiquity
March 21, 2019 NO SEMINAR: Spring break
March 28, 2019, Tamara Morsel-Eisenberg: "Print, Knowledge Organization, and Halakha: Codification and Disorder"
April 4, 2019, Martina Mampieri: “Studying and Collecting Medieval and Early Modern Judaica and Hebraica Treasures Between Fascist Italy and Postwar America. Isaiah Sonne (1887-1960) and His Collection”
April 11, 2019, Jason Lustig: "Digital Archives, Virtual Collections, and an Enduring Dream of Reassembling the Jewish Past.”
May 2, 2019 TBA
May 9, 2019 WIND-UP meeting
May 16, 2019 snow day
As of November 26, 2018
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