The guest lecturer will be Susan Shapiro, assistant professor of religion at Columbia University. Dr. Shapiro teaches modern Jewish thought and philosophy of religion at Columbia and has published in areas including post-Holocaust thought and the rhetorics of body and gender in Jewish philosophy. Her articles have appeared in collections and journals, including the Journal of the American Academy of Religion , Semeia , the Harvard Divinity Review and Ha'aretz , among others. The MA and BA programs in Jewish Women's Studies are interdisciplinary and designed to give students the opportunity to focus on the history and culture of Jewish women through their texts and experiences. A dessert reception will follow the lecture.
Admission is free, but reservations are required.
Founded in 1886, the Jewish Theological Seminary is the academic and spiritual center of Conservative Judaism, granting undergraduate, graduate and professional degrees through its five schools and offering enriching programs for the Jewish community in the US, Israel and around the world.