UCSIA/IJS-Leerstoel 2012-2013: Prof. dr. David Ruderman
In het acade
Publiekslezing I
donderdag 21 februari 2013 om 20.00 uur / Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen
God and Nature: Jews, Christians and the Challenge of Early Modern Science. A Textual Dialogue between Profs. Steven Vanden Broecke and David Ruderman
Prof. dr. David Ruderman in dialoog met Prof. dr. Steven Vanden Broecke (Universiteit Gent)
Lezing in het Engels
Publiekslezing II
donderdag 7 maart 2013 om 20.00 / Hof van Liere, Prinsstraat 13, 2000 Antwerpen
How Jews and Christians Read the Opening Chapters of the Book of Genesis: A Textual Dialogue between Profs. Peter Stallybrass and David Ruderman
Prof. dr. David Ruderman in dialoog met Prof. dr. Peter Stallybrass (University of Pennsylvania)
Lezing in het Engels. Deze lezing zal gevolgd worden door een receptie.
Deelname aan de lezingen is gratis.
Vijfdelige cursus "Between Cross and Crescent: The History of Jewish Civilization from the Rise of Islam to Spinoza"
Data: 20 en 27 februari; 6, 13 en 20 maart - telkens van 18.00 tot 21.15 - Universiteit Antwerpen - Stadscampus (lokaal R.213 voor 20 feb, lokaal R.125 voor alle overige data)
Deze cursus biedt een overzicht van de middeleeuwse joodse geschiedenis en filosofie van Mohammed tot Spinoza. Hierbij wordt behandeld: de joodse gemeenschap in de context van islam en christendom, zowel in de middeleeuwse als in de vroegmoderne tijden, alsook middeleeuwse joodse filosofie (Saadia, Maimonides, Ha-Levi, Kabbalah, Luria, enz.). Voorts worden de joods-christelijke en joods-islamitische verhoudingen besproken en vergeleken. Het laatste deel van de cursus behandelt de vroegmoderne tijd - renaissance en reformatie - en eindigt met het 17de eeuwse Amsterdam.
Deze cursus kan gevolgd worden als keuzevak door de studenten van de faculteit letteren en wijsbegeerte van de UA, maar ook door elke geïnteresseerde. Voor meer informatie en inschrijvingsmodaliteiten als keuzevak, gelieve contact op te nemen met het Instituut .
David B. Ruderman is the Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Professor Ruderman was educated at the City College of New York, the Teacher’s Institute of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America, and Columbia University. He received his rabbinical degree from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in New York, and his PhD in Jewish history from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Professor Ruderman has taught in the Graduate School of the Jewish Theological Seminary of America in New York, the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, and was a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study at the Hebrew University. In June 2001, the National Foundation for Jewish Culture honored him with its lifetime achievement award for his work in Jewish history.
Peter Stallybrass is Walter H. and Leonore C. Annenberg Professor in the Humanities and Professor of English and of Comparative Literature and Literary Theory at the University of Pennsylvania. He has held visiting positions at the University of London, and, as Directeur d’Études, at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales in Paris. He has received fellowships from the American Council for Learned Societies, the Society for the Humanities at Cornell University, the Folger Shakespeare Library, the Globe Theater, London, the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, and the Guggenheim Foundation. In 1999, he was chair of the English Institute at Harvard University, and he has been a Trustee of the Institute since 2002. He has written extensively on literary and cultural theory, and on the history of the book
Steven Vanden Broecke is a specialist of early modern history of science, history of magic, and intellectual history, with a focus on the relation between religion, magic and science at the Ghent Centre for the History of Science. Most of his work has focused on the Low Countries, Italy and Denmark of the 15th and 16th centuries. He has published a monograph on Renaissance astrology, on the basis of a dissertation which was awarded the bianual Jan-Gillis prize of the Royal Flemish Academy for Sciences and Arts (2002). He is a senior member of the editorial board of Lias (Journal of Early Modern Intellectual Culture and Its Sources) and President (since 2008) of the history section of the Koninklijke Zuid-Nederlandse Maatschappij voor taal-en letterkunde en geschiedenis.