LECTURE CANCELLED

Joel Kaminsky is the Morningstar Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Religion at Smith College. He received his PhD from the University of Chicago Divinity School and has been a Visiting Professor at Duke, Harvard, and Yale Divinity School.

He is the author of numerous books, edited collections, and articles, including The Hebrew Bible for Beginners: A Jewish and Christian Introduction and Yet I Loved Jacob: Reclaiming the Biblical Concept of Election.

Wilfred McClay holds the G.T. & Libby Blankenship Chair in the History of Liberty at the University of Oklahoma.  He is a Senior Scholar at the Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars in Washington and has served as a member of the National Council on the Humanities. 

Diana Schaub is Professor of Political Science at Loyola University of Maryland. Following her undergraduate studies at Kenyon College, Prof. Schaub received her MA and PhD from the University of Chicago. Her teaching and writing are concerned with issues in political philosophy and American political thought. In 2018, she served as Visiting Professor of Political Theory in the Government Department at Harvard. She is a contributing editor of The New Atlantis and on the publication committee of National Affairs.

Jonathan Silver is Senior Director at the Tikvah Fund and Executive Director of the Jewish Leadership Conference. After his undergraduate studies in Classics at Tufts University and Master's program in Jewish Civilization at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, he obtained a PhD in Political Science and Government from Georgetown University, with a dissertation entitled "Unto Thy Children's Children: Lockean Freedom and the Hebraic Horizons of Society and Self."

The Department of Classical Studies and Judeo-Christian Studies at Tulane University present a lecture by Dr. Moshe Fischer from Tel Aviv University.

Cultural interactions in the East Mediterranean in Greco-Roman times: Yavhen-Yam (Israel) as a case study

Thursday, October 18, 2018 at 5PM in Howard-Tilton B18

Reception to follow in Jones 210