The Human Condition vs. Classical Political Philosophy
Hannah Arednt, Leo Strauss and the “War of Ideas”
Thursday, October 3, 2019 12:30pm
The first researcher to present is Dr. Thomas Meyer (Munich/Berlin), an intellectual historian of modern Jewish philosophy and biographer of Ernst Cassirer and Leo Strauss. His current project is a biography of Hannah Arendt. In his talk he will contrast the projects of Arendt and Strauss. This session is scheduled for Thursday October 3, at 12:30, as always at the EWCJS library, 147 Bay State Road, second floor. A light lunch will be provided. There will be time for a Q and A.
Holocaust Trouble: The Political Implications of Remembering Refuge
Thursday, November 14, 2019 12:30pm
Dr. Sultan Doughan received her PhD in Anthropology from UC Berkeley and serves as post-doctoral fellow at the BU Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies. In her presentation, she will probe the case of a German-Palestinian museum guide who lost her job over a controversy that was triggered by her comparing her own family’s traumatic past in the Nakba with Jewish experiences during the Holocaust. The presentation will consider, among others, the reflexive institutional violence exerted by the public policing of speech. Respondent: Omer Bartov (Brown University). Light lunch provided.