Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies
University of Pennsylvania
katz.sas.upenn.edu
22nd Annual Gruss Colloquium in Judaic Studies
Terrace Room, Claudia Cohen Hall
249 S. 36th Street, Philadelphia, PA 19104
SUNDAY APRIL 17
MONDAY
APRIL 18
1:30 pm Greetings
Steven Weitzman
Ella Darivoff Director, Herbert D. Katz Center for
Advanced Judaic Studies
1:45 pm
HIDDENNESS & THE
ELUSIVE IN CULTURE
AND SOCIETY Chair: James A. Diamond
University of Waterloo/Katz Center
4:15 pm
THE PARADOX OF
RATIONALIZING
“BEYOND REASON”
Chair: Paul Nahme
Brown University/Katz Center
What Cannot Be Said: Moses Mendelssohn
and the Limits of Translation
Eli Schonfeld
Katz Center
A Rabbinic Id?
The Evil Inclination and Its
Misconceptions
A (Jewish?) Modernist Perspective on the
Expressivity of Music
Ruth HaCohen
Ishay Rosen-Zvi
8:30 amCoffee & Light Breakfast
9:00 am
POETICS/EXPRESSION
BEYOND REASON
Chair: Françoise Mirguet
Arizona State University/Katz Center
The Poetics of Nostalgia in Second
Generation Iraqi Facebook Forums
Rakefet Zalashik
Embodying the Sacred and
the Politics of Identity in
Contemporary Israeli Judaism
Rachel Werczberger
Katz Center
Passive Decisions: Rosenzweig
and Derrida on the Political
Miriam Jerade
Katz Center
Respondent: Sharrona Pearl
University of Pennsylvania
Katz Center
Desiring Expression: The Queer Time
of Modern Jewish Women’s Poetry
1:30 pm
Zohar Weiman-Kelman
3:00 pm
Scenarios of Violence and Exception:
Walter Benjamin’s Zur Kritik der Gewalt Gothic Agnon
Imagining Otherwise and the (1921)
Karen Grumberg
Unreason of Reason: Dreams,
University of Texas at Austin Freddie Rokem
Madness, and Ecstasy in the Tel Aviv University
Respondent: Lital Levy
Jewish Mystical Tradition
Princeton University/Katz Center
CONCLUDING PANEL
Moderator: John M. Efron
University of California, Berkeley/Katz Center
Galit Hasan-Rokem
Shaul Magid
David Nirenberg
Tel-Aviv University, Princeton University
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Respondent: Martin Kavka
Elliot R. Wolfson
Florida State University/Katz Center
University of California, Santa Barbara/Katz Center
Guilt beyond Reason:
A Psychoanalytic Perspective on the Jewish Law of Confessions 3:45 pm Coffee Break
(by invitation)
Hall of Flags, Houston Hall, 3417 Spruce Street
Philadelphia, PA 19104
11:00 am Coffee Break
11:30 am
POLITICS BEYOND REASON
Chair: Anne Norton
University of Pennsylvania
Beyond the DSM: Trauma and the Culture of
Jewish Psychiatry in Israel
Keren Friedman-Peleg
Respondent: Annette Yoshiko Reed
University of Pennsylvania
Dinner
University of Connecticut School of Law/
Katz Center
Anne C. Dailey
6:30 pm
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev/Katz Center
The College of Management - Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion/
Katz Center
Lunch Break
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem/Katz Center
Indiana University, Bloomington/Katz Center
University of Chicago
5:00 pm
Reception
ARCH Building, Room 108
3601 Locust Walk,
Philadelphia, PA 19104