Conference Schedule
Monday, February 13, 2012—Franke Institute
9:00 Greetings
David Schloen, Acting Director of CCJS (University of Chicago)
9:15 Introduction
9:30 Morning address
Rachel Havrelock (University of Illinois Chicago) “Joshua, Ben-Gurion, and Me: The Borders of the Land and the Limits of the Collective”
10:30 Coffee
10:45 Panel I: Modern Trajectories of Biblical Geography
Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago)
- Ofri Ilani (Tel Aviv University) “The Eighteenth Century Debate on the Conquest of Canaan”
- Sam Berrin Shonkoff (University of Chicago) “Ancient Soil and Firm Sod: On Buber’s Insistence that the ‘Land of Israel’ Literally Refers to the Land”
- Meredith Aska McBride (University of Chicago) “No Place to Be: Matisyahu’s Chasidic Reggae-Rap at the Boundaries of a Performative Israel”
Response: Sam Brody (University of Chicago)
12:45 Lunch
1:45 Panel II: The Borders of language – Bilingualism and Ineffability
Chair: David Nirenberg (University of Chicago)
- Adam Stern (Harvard University) “‘Our Torah’: Moses Ibn Tibbon, The Qur’an, and the Potentiality of Translation”
- Rachel Seelig (University of Toronto) “Ludwig Strauss and the Borderland of German-Hebrew Bilingualism”
- Hillel Ben Sasson (Hebrew University) “Ineffability and Transgressing the Borders of Language: The Divine Name YHWH”
Response: Na’ama Rokem (University of Chicago)
3:45 Coffee
4:00 Afternoon Address
Israel Yuval (Hebrew University) “The Root and the Branch: The Foundation of Rabbinic Identity”
5:30 Conclusions