Jewish Studies

Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

4:30 pm, Abernethy Room, Axinn Center at Starr Library

Sponsored by the Program in Jewish Studies and the Program in Creative Writing

(For information on Mr. Cole’s Quint Lecture, see the listing for Wednesday, Oct. 17, 4:30 p.m.

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The 35^th Annual Hannah A. Quint Lecture in Jewish Studies

A Mini-Residency, October 17-18

Lecture, Tuesday, October 17

Poet and translator Peter Cole will speak on “Wanting Song, In the Beginning: Poetic Surprise and Jewish Life”

4:30 pm, Twilight Hall Auditorium

Poetry Reading, Wednesday, October 18

Peter Cole reads from his new book of poems, Draw Me After (Farrar Straus and Giroux, 2022)

4:30 pm, Abernethy Room, Axinn Center at Starr Library

The Soul of the Stranger: Reading the Torah from a Trans Perspective

Speaker: Dr. Adi Livny, Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury

Dr. Livny holds a Ph.D. from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and is an historian of Zionism and Israel. She also coordinated the international project “The Historical Archive of the Hebrew University: German-Jewish Knowledge and Cultural Transfer 1918-1948,” an Israeli-German collaboration that involved cataloging and evaluating the archive’s materials from the pre-state era. She is the Israel Institute Teaching Fellow at Middlebury.

Speaker: Dov Waxman, author of forthcoming book by Princeton University Press, “Trouble in the Tribe: American Jewish conflicts over Israel” Professor of Political Science, International Affairs, and Israel Studies Stotsky Professor of Jewish Historical and Cultural Studies Co-Director, Middle East Center Northeastern University

A bilingual poetry reading/presentation (in Spanish and English) by young Uruguayan poet and academic Laura Cesarco Eglin, an up-and-coming Latin American writer living in the United States (http://laucesarco.blogspot.com/).

MacArthur Fellow Peter Cole has taught during Winter Term and lectured at Middlebury in the past, most recently on Jewish mystical poetry.

Speaker: Professor Paula Fredriksen Professor of Scripture emerita at Boston University and Distinguished Visiting Professor of Comparative Religion at the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Paula Fredriksen will examine what Augustine had to say about Jews and the Jewishness of Jesus and Paul, putting those ideas in contrast to what other Christian theologians argued. Her talk will range from the fourth century to present-day Israel, where Augustine’s words still echo.