סדנת מחקר רב-תחומית: Contextualizing the Self
בית הספר להיסטוריה
Contextualizing the Self:
Creating and Recreating the First Person
An Interdisciplinary Workshop, 2016 – 2017
Chairman: Prof. Aviad Kleinberg
Semester I
Tuesday, November 1, 2016
Adam Seligman, “The Ritual and the Sincere Self”
Professor of Religion, Boston University
Respondent: Dr. Tomer Persico, Religious Studies Program, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, November 15, 2016
Allegra Fryxell, “Dynamic Encounters between the Self and the ‘Multi-Layered Universe’ of J. L. Moreno's Psychoanalysis”
Arnold Postdoctoral Fellow, (Ph.D. Cambridge)
Kutlughan Soyubol, “From Jinns to Genes: On Psy-sciences and Epistemic Modernity in Turkey”
Zvi Yavetz Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. CUNY)
Tuesday, November 29, 2016
Brook Ziporyn, “Losing the Self in the Philosophy of Zhuangzi”
Professor of Chinese Religion, Philosophy, and Comparative Thought, Divinity School, University of Chicago
Respondent: Prof. Galia Patt-Shamir, Department of East Asian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, December 13, 2016
Paul Stoller, “Experience, Narrative and the Construction of the Self”
Professor of Anthropology, West Chester University
Respondent: Prof. Haim Hazan, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, December 27, 2016
Elad Alyagon, “Constructing the Self through the Other: The Golden Age of the Scholar-officials and the Founding of the Song Dynasty’s
Penal-military Complex”
Zvi Yavetz Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. UC Davis)
Dror Weil, “Between Theology and Science: Arabo-Persian Physiology in Late Imperial China”
Arnold Postdoctoral Fellow (Ph.D. Princeton)
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
Federico Barbierato, “Losing More than Faith in 17th-Century Venice”
Professor of History, University of Verona
Respondent: Dr. Oded Rabinovitch, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, January 24, 2017
Mel Slater, “The Virtual Self”
Professor of Virtual Environments, Department of Computer Science, University College London
Respondent: Dr. Doron Friedman, Advanced Reality Lab, School of Communication IDC Herzliya
Semester II
Tuesday, March 14, 2017
Amos Oz, “Where My Stories Come From”
Author of “A Tale of Love and Darkness”, “Judas”
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
Elliot Wolfson, “The Divine Self in Kabbalah”
Professor of Religious Studies, UC Santa Barbara
Respondent: Prof. Adam Afterman, Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, April 25, 2017
Paola Tatakoff, “Conversion and Competing Identities in Medieval Europe: The Case of a Contested Child”
Professor of History and Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
Respondent: Prof. Tamar Herzig, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Tuesday, May 9, 2017
Peter Greenway, “Filming the Self”
Film Director, Screenwriter and Artist, “The Draughtsman’s Contract”, “The
Cook, the Thief, His Wife and Her Lover”, “Nightwatching”
Tuesday, June 6, 2017
Tina Lu, “A Consideration of Premodern Time Travel in China”
Professor of East Asian Languages and Literatures, Yale University
Respondent: Prof. Grace Fong, Department of East Asian Studies, McGill University
Tuesday, June 20, 2017
Lyndal Roper, “Luther, the Self and Biography”
Regius Professor of Modern History, University of Oxford
Respondent, Prof. Gadi Algazi, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
*** The lectures will be held in English