Past Faculty Seminars

Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; the Departments of Jewish Studies and Italian; and the Program in Comparative Literature Dr. Daniel Ross Goodman, Department of Theology and Religious Studies, St. John’s University; Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting...

The Henry Schwartzman Endowed Faculty Seminar Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; the Departments of Jewish Studies, History, Art History, and English; and the Rutgers Initiative for the Book Joseph A. Skloot Rabbi Aaron D. Panken Associate Professor of...

Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life; the Departments of Jewish Studies, History, Art History, English, and Religion; and the Rutgers Initiative for the Book  Images of labyrinths appear historically in diverse cultures, but are little known to scholars of...

Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Department of Jewish Studies, the Program in Global Medieval Studies, and the History Department NAAMA COHEN HANEGBI Department of History, Tel Aviv University An enigmatic line in a Hebrew Castilian medical casebook notes...

Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Department of Jewish Studies, the Department of History, and the Center for European Studies  Michal Shapira, Department of History, Tel Aviv University; Affiliated Visiting Scholar, Bildner Center, Spring 2025  Tuesday,...

Sponsored by the Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the Department of Jewish Studies, and the Department of Religion Jenny Labendz Associate Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, St. Francis College Allen and Joan Bildner Visiting Scholar This faculty seminar will...

Tuesday, April 16th, 2024, 5:30-7:00pm Professors Melani McAlister (George Washington), Justine Howe (Case Western), and Michal Raucher (Rutgers) will each speak for 10-15 minutes, followed by a moderated conversation and questions from the audience.  This event will be open to Rutgers students,...

AJ Berkovitz Hebrew Union College Tuesday, April 2 at 10:30am Miller Hall room 115 (14 College Ave.)   We tend to take the activity of reading for granted. However, as historians of the book and its readers have shown, engaging with a text is a multi-layered event conditioned by material reality and...

Naomi Cohn Zentner Bar-llan University, Department of Music Douglass Library, Performing Arts Seminar Room (basement) Tuesday, March 26 at 4:00pm   Self-recorded repertoires in the early twentieth century, much like historical memoires, may serve as musical microhistories, bringing new perspectives...

Eitan Hersh Professor of Political Science at Tufts University March 21, 2024 @ 5:30 PM  Miller Hall 115 This event is open to Rutgers students, faculty and staff.   WHAT DO WE KNOW ABOUT ANTISEMITISM ON CAMPUS? Join us to learn about new research conducted by Dr. Eitan Hersh about the impact of...

Cosponsored by the Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life, the History Department, the Program in Comparative Literature, and the Program for Global Medieval Studies RONI COHENFulbright Fellow at Columbia UniversityDepartment of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University Tuesday, February 6 at...

Yael Shomer Israel Institute Visiting Scholar at Rutgers, Senior Lecturer in the School of Political Science, Government, and International Affairs Tel Aviv University December 12, 2023 Miller Hall room 115 (14 College Ave.)   How do candidate selection processes affect women’s representation in...

Alon Schab Bar-Ilan University November 1, 2023 Marryott Music Building conference roomMason Gross School of the Arts, 81 George St., New Brunswick   Salomon Sulzer is among the most influential figures in the history of Jewish Music. It is with Sulzer’s first publication, Schir Zion I (ca.1840)...

Donavan Ramon Assistant Professor of English at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville | Visiting Bildner Scholar, Rutgers University October 17, 2023 Miller Hall room 115 (14 College Ave.)   In the Amazon Prime original movie Master (2022), the character Liv, a university professor, passes as Black to...