Speaking Engagements Fall 2018
October 17, 2018
THE JULIUS FUND LECTURE
Case Western Reserve University
The Subversive Afterlife of Images:
Implied, Ensuing Action in Medieval Jewish Visual Culture
In any given work of art, the view of the object at rest is a snapshot of the extant state of theological and political affairs surrounding a given image. But as soon as we notice that ensuing action is implied, that the static image we are witnessing is but a single moment in a kinetic continuum, it becomes clear that the status quo of political and theological meaning may also hint at or imply a potential or consequence that remains hidden when we merely look at the image as it is frozen in time. When we take such a view, dissident or questionably orthodox political and theological messages that are implied (but not articulated) in the image reveal themselves.
October 19, 2018
Brown University
Symposium on the Illustrated Haggadah
October 29-30, 2018
Fairfield University
Bennett Center for Judaic Studies
Adolph and Ruth Schnurmacher Lecture in Judaic Studies
People of the Image:
How Jews Made Art in Spite of the Second Commandment- and Why it Matters
November 10-11, 2018
Congregation Shir Chadash, New Orleans
Shabbat Scholar-in-Residence
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