Visiting Scholars Series
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Shalem’s Visiting Scholars Series features scholars from abroad who write on subjects of interest to Shalem’s academic community. Visiting scholars are invited to address Shalem staff and faculty, as well as deliver lecturers at Shalem which are open to the academic public in Israel. The Series is designed to facilitate the exchange of ideas between Shalem scholars and leading scholars from elsewhere.
Visiting Scholars at Shalem:
January 4 – 6, 2010 – Eva Brann, former Dean, St. John’s College, Annapolis.
December 30, 2009 – Julia Annas, Philosophy, University of Arizona.
"Unity of Virtue"
December 24, 2009 – Jeff Helmreich, Philosophy, UCLA
"Against Legalism and Humanism: What a Hebrew Ethics has to Offer"
December 9, 2009 – Suzanne Last Stone, Law, Cardozo School of Law at Yeshiva University. "Law Without Nation: The contemporary Legal Debate and the Ongoing Jewish/Halakhic Discussion"
October 12-13, 2009 - Eric Schliesser, Philosophy, Leiden University.
July 13-14, 2009 - Tamar Szabo Gendler, Philosophy, Yale University. 1. “On the Regulation of Habit: from Aristotle to Hume and Beyond“ 2. “What Philosophers Got Right about Human Nature“
June 30, 2009 - Aim Deuelle Luski, Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. "The Sophia of Amos – A Philosophical Reading of Ancient Prophecy" [Hebrew]
June 23, 2009 - Jacob Howland, Philosophy, University of Tulsa. "Plato and the Talmud"
May 18-19, 2009 - Alfred I. Tauber, Philosophy and Medicine, Boston University. 1. “Freud, Brentano, and the Quandary of Psychic Cause“ 2. “Freud the Reluctant Philosopher“
January 27, 2009 - Yaacov Deutsch, Historical Studies, Princeton’s Institute for Advanced Study. “Jewish Responses to Christianity in the Medieval and Early Modern Period“
January 15, 2009 - Gary Remer, Political Science, Tulane University. “Cicero, the Orator, and Representative Government“
December 31, 2008 - Steven Grosby, Religion, Clemson University. “The Third Culture“
November 23-24, 2008 - Joshua Mitchell, Political Theory, Georgetown University. 1. “Tocqueville for a Terrible Era“ 2. “Alexis de Tocqueville in Arabia – Teaching Western Political Thought Out East“
July 15-17, 2008 - Jonathan Jacobs, Philosophy, Colgate University. 1. “The Relevance of Medieval Jewish Philosophy to Contemporary General Ethical Theory“ 2. “The Problems of Athens and Jerusalem Revisited“
June 23-25, 2008 - David Schmidtz, Philosophy and Economics, University of Arizona. 1. “Ownership and Justice: On the Artificial, the Arbitrary, and Natural Facts in Property Regimes“ 2. “The Prehistory of Liberty: Truck and Barter and the Ascent of Man“
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