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Gaisman Chair of Judeo-Christian Studies Fall 2012 Public Lecture
"Private Faith, Public Religion: Tensions in Modern Jewish Thought"
featuring Leora Batnitzky
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Building: Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway
Location: uptown campus
Leora Batnitzky received her PhD from the Princeton Department of Religion in 1996. She began teaching there the following year and received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2002. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000), Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006) and most recently, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2011). Her current research focuses on the conceptual and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental).
Sponsored by: Judeo-Christian Studies
Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors
Tickets: Not required
For more information
contact Ronna Burger
via
email to j-chsec@tulane.edu or rburger@tulane.edu
or by
phone at 504-866-8793
Additional information may be found at the event website at
http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/judeo-christian/
Date: Tuesday, October 16, 2012
Time: 7:00 PM - 9:00 PM
Building: Rogers Memorial Chapel, 1229 Broadway
Location: uptown campus
Leora Batnitzky received her PhD from the Princeton Department of Religion in 1996. She began teaching there the following year and received the President's Award for Distinguished Teaching in 2002. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered (Princeton, 2000), Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006) and most recently, How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2011). Her current research focuses on the conceptual and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental).
Sponsored by: Judeo-Christian Studies
Admission: Free
Attendance: Open to the public
Open to: Alumni, Faculty, Graduate students, Parents, Prospective undergrads, Staff, Undergraduates, Visitors
Tickets: Not required
For more information contact Ronna Burger via email to j-chsec@tulane.edu or rburger@tulane.edu or by phone at 504-866-8793
Additional information may be found at the event website at http://tulane.edu/liberal-arts/judeo-christian/
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