CJS | The Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies

The Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion at the University of California, Berkeley, Presents: Video Showing and Discussion with an Introduction and Response by Robert Alter.

Join us for our annual Jewish Studies conference, Hidden in Plain View: Jewish Women’s History Reconsidered on November 8, 2017. Speakers include Deena Aranoff (GTU), David Biale (UC Davis), Mara Benjamin (Mt. Holyoke), Elisheva Baumgarten (Hebrew University), Naomi Seidman (GTU), Francesco Spagnolo (UCB), and Ariel Mayse (Stanford). Event is sponsored by the GTU's Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies.

Conference Schedule

9am David Biale (UC Davis)

10am Deena Aranoff (GTU)

11am Mara Benjamin (Mt. Holyoke)

Break

A lecture by Dr. John Efron of UC Berkeley, sponsored by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the GTU. 

Join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for this kickoff luncheon featuring Andrew Ramer. Ramer works in a genre he has labeled Feminist Speculative-Fiction Theology. He’s the author of  several works, including: Torah Told Different: Stories for a Pan/Poly/Post-Denominational Era. He lives in Oakland and is, to the best of his knowledge, the world’s first ordained interfaith maggid.

The event is cosponsored by the Center for LGBTQ and Gender Studies in Religion at PSR. 

Dr. Naomi Seidman, Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union (CJS) will deliver the 2017 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: "When Jesus Spoke Yiddish: Translating the New Testament for Jews."

Watch live streaming video of this event. 

An interreligious event featuring lectures by Dr. Deena Aranoff and Dr. Nargis Virani. Cosponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies and the Center for Islamic Studies at the GTU, as part of the Madrasa-Midrasha program. GTU Dinner Board Room, 2400 Ridge Rd., Berkeley.

The GTU would like to acknowledge and thank The Walter and Elise Haas Fund for making this event possible. 

Dada, Dido,
Dodo, Du Du:
Or, Who’s Afraid of
Wisdom Verse?

The Fourteenth Annual
Judith Lee Stronach Memorial Lecture on the Teaching of Poetry

Lectures by Dr. Todd Lawson, Professor Emeritus of Islamic Studies, University of Toronto and Dr. Robert Alter, Professor of Hebrew, Comparative Literature, and Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley. GTU Library Dinner Board Room, reception 5:30 pm and lecture 6:00-8:00 pm.