|
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.
June 15, 2011 - Ofir Haivry, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory, and Religion.
May 30, 2011 - MK Benny Begin, Guest Lecturer.
May 22, 2011 - Yoram Hazony, Provost.
May 11, 2011 - Ze’ev Maghen, Senior Fellow, Middle East & Zionist History.
April 6, 2011 - Daniel Gordis, Senior Vice President.
March 23, 2011 - Micha’el Tanchum, Post-doctoral Fellow, Middle East and Islamic Studies.
March 2, 2011 - Hannah Hashkes, Post-doctoral Fellow.
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.
February 9, 2011 - Steven Kepnes, Guest Lecturer.
February 2, 2011 - Ido Hevroni, Associate Fellow.
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.
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.
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.
October 20, 2010 - Josh Weinstein, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
October 13, 2010 - Meirav Jones, Associate Fellow, Philosophy, Political Theory and Religion.
Octorber 6, 2010 - Yosef Gorny, Guest Lecturer.
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
---
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 |
