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Lectures and Events |
The Irving and Regina Rosen Public Lecture Series
Irving & Regina Rosen have endowed a permanent lecture series in Jewish Studies at Queen's University. The purpose of the series is to enable the wider community to better understand the living and vital tradition of Judaism, its relationship to other religious traditions and its role in the development of contemporary civilizations. And to explore the historical role played by Jews and Jewish thought. Speakers in the Rosen Lecture Series are noted figures in the field of Jewish thought and tradition, who, having been recommended by the Rosen Lecture Committee, are invited by the Principal of Queen's University to deliver lectures directed toward a broad audience of both the university and the Kingston communities. PAST ROSEN LECTURES 1988: Dr. David Weiss A Judaic Perspective of Nature and Science 1990: Dr. Steven Katz American Jews: Past, Present and Future 1992: Dr. Ze'ev Mankowitz Jewish Tradition and History: The Perception from the Post Modern Era 1993: Dr. Irving Abella Continuity and Anti-Semitism: The Paradox of the Canadian Jewish Agenda for the 1990s 1994: Dr. Sylvia Barak-Fishman Revisioning American Jews in Film and Fiction 1995: Dr. Robert Alter The Achievement of Gershom Scholem 1995: Dr. Norma Joseph & Rabbi Elyse Goldstein You Don't Know Me by My Title: Self Identities and Modern Jewish Feminism 1997: Dr. David Novak The Human Rights Debate: Does the Jewish Tradition have anything to Contribute? 1997: Dr. Alfred Bader The Bible and Dutch Masters 1997: Dr. Susan Sered Show Me You Can: Wives, Husbands and Israeli Rituals of Birth 1999: Dr. Gershon Hundert Poland and the Jews - Over the Millennium 1999: Dr. Moses Pava Business Ethics and Religion: An Investigation from a Jewish Perspective 2000: Dr. Ruth Wisse The First and Still Greatest Jewish Stand-up Comedian 2001:Barry Levy and William Dever Is the Bible Historical? 2001: Donald Harmon Akenson “The Lord made it luckily come to pass”; The Present Moment in Judaic Studies 2003: Janice Gross Stein The Remaking of the Modern Middle East 2004: Edward L. Greenspan, Q.C. Should Hate Speech Be A Crime? 2005: Todd Gitlin The Socialism of Fools: Anti-Semitism and the Left 2006: Emanuel Adler Changing Identities: The Road to Israeli Palestinian Peace 2006: Elie Weisel (co-sponsored) 2007: Craig Kielberger (co-sponsored) 2007: Irwin Cotler Human Rights, Genocide, and the Pursuit of Justice 2007: Howard Adelman Getting Even: Boycotts in Jewish History 2008: Samuel Heilman Sliding to the Right: The Contest for the Future of North American Jewish Orthodoxy 2008: Joel Sokolsky, PhD, Principal Royal Military College The US, Israel, and the West: a 21st Century Assessment 2009: Dr. Daniel Robert Woolf The Gnat in Titus’ Nose: Jews and the Writing of History from Antiquity to the Present 2010: Dr. Warren Bass Support Any Friend: Kennedy’s Middle East and the Making of the U.S.-Israel Alliance
UPCOMING ROSEN LECTURE, OCTOBER 26th, 2011 “Torah and Qur’an in Modern Islamic and Jewish Thought: Tradition and Criticism,” Muhammad Abu Samra, David Yellin College and Al-Quds University and Howard Tzvi Adelman, Queen's University, The Irving and Regina Rosen Public Lecture Series Date: 6:00 PM Wednesday, October 26th 2011 Location: Dunning Auditorium with refreshments @ 5:45 PM This years annual Regina and Irving Rosen Lecture will be conducted in conjunction with the Queen’s University Jewish-Muslim Dialogue Project. Muhammad Abu Samra, or David Yellin College and al-Quds University in Jerusalem is co-teaching courses with Howard Tzvi Adelman, Director of the Program in Jewish Studies, Queen’s in the Department of History, Religion, and Development Studies. These courses include Scripture in Judaism and Islam, Jews and Arabs in World History until 1492, Comparative Diasporas: Israelis and Palestinians Abroad, and One Land: Many Narratives. In addition, Abu Samra is teaching the introductory Religion course in Islam and part of a graduate seminar in Religion. Muhammad Abu Samra has been teaching in Israeli and Palestinian colleges of education and universities for many years. He holds a tenured position in Arab culture and education at David Yellin College of Education in Jerusalem. In addition he teaches at Al-Quds University. Muhammad Abu Samra is in the final throes of completing a doctorate at the University of Haifa on the role of the Qur’an in modern Arab culture. The Irving & Regina Rosen Lecture series at Queen’s University is to enable the wider community to better understand the traditions of Judaism and the history of Jews, their relationships to other religious traditions, and their role in the development of contemporary civilizations. Speakers in the Rosen Lecture Series are noted figures in the field of Jewish thought and tradition, who, having been recommended by the Rosen Lecture Committee, are invited by the Principal of Queen’s University to deliver lectures directed toward a broad audience of both the university and the Kingston communities. For further information, contact Lori.vanderHorden@queensu.ca.
The Harry and Sylvia Rosen Memorial SymposiaSylvia Rosen, with the support of Merle and Philip Koven, Harvey Rosen and Sharon Monson, and Merrill and Wayne Rosen, has endowed a permanent symposium, seminar, and conference series in Jewish Studies at Queen University. The purpose of these programs is to stimulate a greater awareness for Jewish Studies at Queen’s and in the Kingston community, its role in the arts and sciences, and its relationship with general cultural developments. Past Rosen Symposia 1994: Judaism and Folklore 1998: The Pharisee Symposium 2000: Jewish Music 2003: Music, Culture, and Peoplehood: Jewish Soul and Jewish Song 2004: Hasidic Tales 2010: 100 Years of Jewish Life in Kingston Upcoming Rosen Symposium 2011: Talking about Events in the Middle East: A Faculty Readings Symposium |
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Jewish Studies Program at Queen’s University Kingston, Ontario, Canada |