Shalem
Works in Progress Seminar

Lecture Series

 

 

The Shalem Center's Works in Progress Seminar is a weekly forum at which scholars and occasionally visitors present current projects and engage in discussion with the Shalem academic community.

 

 

Lectures in this series, Winter – Spring 2011:

This list is updated periodically, please check back for updates.

 

June 22, 2011 - Menachem Merhavy, Guest Lecturer.
Topic: של מי העבר הזה? איראן בחיפוש אחר עברה במאה ה-20

 

June 15, 2011 - Ofir Haivry, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.
Topic: "To be announced": John Selden and modern constitutionalism

 

May 30, 2011 - MK Benny Begin, Guest Lecturer.
Topic: מהיכן נשלחו מכתבי לכיש ערב חורבן הבית הראשון

 

May 22, 2011 - Yoram Hazony, Provost.
Topic: Wrestling with God

 

May 11, 2011 - Ze’ev Maghen, Senior Fellow, Middle East & Zionist History.
Topic: Someone to Watch over me: The Case against Freedom

 

April 6, 2011 - Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President.
Topic: The Biblical Origins of the Modern Nation-State

 

March 23, 2011 - Micha’el Tanchum, Post-doctoral Fellow, Middle East and Islamic Studies.
Topic: The Nation-State and Human Progress: A Meditation on the Nationalism of Tomas Masaryk and David Ben Gurion

 

March 2, 2011 - Hannah Hashkes, Post-doctoral Fellow.
Topic: Torah’s 70 faces

 

February 23, 2011 - Tzahi Weiss, Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: התמורות בתפיסת האל בשירתו המוקדמת של ביאליק – ומחקר ההבטים הדתיים בספרות העברית החדשה

 

February 16, 2011 - Menachem Kellner, Senior Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.
Topic: And Yet, the Texts Remain: The Problem of Genocidal Biblical Texts

 

February 9, 2011 - Steven Kepnes, Guest Lecturer.
Topic: Jewish Textual Reasoning as Jewish Theology

 

February 2, 2011 - Ido Hevroni, Associate Fellow.
Topic: הקונה את הספינה, קנה את החלומות: פנטסיה תלמודית ויחסה לריאליה

 

December 29, 2010 - Prof. Oded Balaban, Guest Lecturer.

Topic: ערכים והכרה – הכרת הערכים והכרת ההכרה  :המחלוקת סביב הטוב הנעים והמועיל שבין פרוטגורס ואפלטון בעת העתיקה והשלכותיה לתקופתינו

 

December 15, 2010 - Suzanne Last Stone, Visiting Scholar.

Topic: Genesis and Noahide Law

 

December 8, 2010 - Yoram Hazony, Provost.

Topic: The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: An Introduction

 

December 1, 2010 - Daniel Polisar, President.
Topic: Preparing College Students for Citizenship: A Historical and Philosophical Perspective

 

November 24, 2010 - Amichai Magen, Associate Fellow, Government, Law and Diplomacy.

Topic: Ungoverned Spaces, Failed States, and Israel's Strategic Challenges

 

November 17, 2010 - Dr. David Sorotzkin, Guest Lecturer.
Topic: Maharal of Prague, the Natural Law and the Formation of Modern Judaism

 

November 10, 2010 - Yitzhak Lifshitz, Senior Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.

Topic: מחשבות חדשות על תפיסת האל - מעבר לדיאלקטיקה של ימי הביניים

 

October 27, 2010 -Eric Lawee, Visiting Fellow.
Topic: Canon and Commentary: Rashi's Resisting Readers and Philosophy in the Jewish Public Square

 

October 20, 2010 - Josh Weinstein, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
Topic: Three concepts of dvekut

 

October 13, 2010 - Meirav Jones, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
Topic: Hebraism and English Republicanism: An Alternative Perspective

 

Octorber 6, 2010 - Yosef Gorny, Guest Lecturer.
Topic: כאן ועכשיו: היסודות האוטופיים בהשקפה ובמעשה הציוני

 

 

Previous Lectures

 

May 26, 2010 – David Dalin, Guest Lecturer.

Topic: Icon of Evil: Hitler's Mufti and the Rise of Radical Islam

 

May 12, 2010 – Jeff Helmreich, Visiting Scholar.

Topic: Who’s Afraid of Naturalism? Demystifying Reduction in Mind and Morals

 

May 5, 2010 – Jacob Wright, Visiting Scholar.

Topic: A People-in-Arms: Citizen Armies versus Royal Forces in the Tanakh

 

April 28, 2010 – Ran Baratz, Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: Why the Presocratics?

 

April 21, 2010 - Shiri Cohen, Guest Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University.

Topic: מושג התועלת: מדויד יום לג'רמי בנתהאם

 

March 17, 2010 - Thomas Rid, Visiting Fellow.

Topic: Bentham’s Concept of ‘Determent’: A Fresh Look at Coercion and Political Violence

 

March 10, 2010 - Asaf Turgeman, Guest Lecturer, Haifa Univeristy.

Topic: אנטי-ציונות ואנטי-שמיות: הילכו שנים יחדיו בלתי אם נועדו?

 

March 3, 2010 - Allon Gal, Guest Lecturer, Ben-Gurion University.

Topic: הציונות לאזוריה: היבטים גאו-תרבותיים

 

February 24, 2010 - Menachem Kellner, Senior Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: Haredi Appropriations of Rambam in the Twentieth Century

 

February 10, 2010 - Ze’ev Maghen, Senior Fellow, Middle East & Zionist History.

Topic: Why (and How) We Should Study Islam

 

February 3, 2010 - Rav Yitzhak Lifshitz, Senior Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: בין אתיקה ותיאולוגיה: המתח הפנומנולוגי שבטעמי המצוות

 

January 27, 2010 - Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President.

Topic: Genesis and the Foundations of a Jewish Political Theory

 

January 5, 2010 - Eva Brann, Guest Lecturer, St. John's College.

Topic: Liberal Arts Curriculum and Education

 

January 4, 2010 - Eva Brann, Guest Lecturer, St. John's College.

Topic: Billy Bud

 

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December 30, 2009 - Julia Annas, Guest Lecturer, University of Arizona.

Topic: Unity of Virtue

 

December 24, 2009 - Jeff Helmreich, Guest Lecturer, University of California, Los Angeles.

Topic: Against Legalism and Humanism: What a Hebrew Ethics has to Offer

 

December 9, 2009 - Suzanne Last Stone, Visiting Scholar.

Topic: Law Without Nation: The Contemporary Legal Debate and the Ongoing Jewish/Halakhic Discussion

 

November 25, 2009 - Hannah Hashkes, Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: אמונה ומובן ביחיד ובקהילה

 

November 10, 2009 - Sheldon Rothblatt, Guest Lecturer, UC Berkeley.

Topic: Liberal Arts Education: Histories and Problems

 

November 3, 2009 - Daniel Polisar, President.

Topic: The Purpose of College Education: General Observations and the Israeli Context

 

October 20, 2009 - Micha'el Rindner, Post-doctoral Fellow, Middle East and Islamic Studies.

Topic: From Clerics to Caliphate: Islam, The State, and the Deobani Movement in Pakistan

 

October 13, 2009 - Public Lecture, Prof. Eric Schliesser, University of Leiden.

Topic: Spinoza and Hume: Two Critiques of Natural Science

 

October 12, 2009 - Eric Schliesser, Guest Lecturer, University of Leiden.

Topic: Hume’s Invention of Philosophical Traditions

 

September 22, 2009 - Ofir Haivry, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: What Can I Know? Epistemology and Human Nature in Early Modern Political Thought

 

September 15, 2009 - Dr. Joseph David, Guest Lecturer, Hebrew University.

Topic: לאום, שפה וחוק" – מפגשה של ההלכה היהודית עם תורת המשפט המוסלמית”

 

July 14, 2009 - Public lecture, Tamar Szabo Gendler, Yale Univeristy.

Topic: What Philosophers Got Right about Human Nature

 

July 12, 2009 - Tamar Szabo Gendler, Guest Lecturer, Yale University.

Topic: On the Regulation of Habit: from Aristotle to Hume and Beyond

 

July 2, 2009 -  Yoram Hazony, Provost.

Topic: What Has Human Nature to Do With Shalem

 

June 30, 2009 - Aim Deuelle Luski, Guest Lecturer, Tel-Aviv University.

Topic:  הסופיה של עמוס - קריאה פילוסופית בנבואה הקדומה

 

June 23, 2009 - Jacob Howland, Guest Lecturer, Tulsa University.

Topic: Plato and the Talmud

 

June 16, 2009 - Ran Baratz, Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: Gods, Truth and Enlightenment in Ancient Greece

 

June 9, 2009 - R. Yitzhak Lifshitz, Senior Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: Rav and Shmuel on How to Read the Tanach

 

June 2, 2009 - Tzahi Weiss, Post-doctoral Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: הפנטזיה על המסורת השבתאות כמשל

 

May 26, 2009 - Ofir Haivry, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.

Topic: Jewish Sources of John Selden's Idea of Church State Relations

 

May 19, 2009 - Elad Filler, Guest Lecturer, Bar-Ilan University.

Topic: אליגוריה, מיסטיקה ופוליטיקה אצל פילון

 

May 19, 2009 – Public Lecture, Fred Tauber, Boston University.

Topic: Freud the Reluctant Philosopher

 

May 18, 2009 - Fred Tauber, Guest Lecturer, Boston University.

Topic: Freud, Brentano, and The Quandary of Psychic Cause

 
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