PSCO
Philadelphia Seminar on Christian Origins
an Interdisciplinary Humanities Seminar
in its fiftieth-eighth year under the auspices of
The University of Pennsylvania
Department of Religious Studies
201 Cohen Hall, Philadelphia PA 19104
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Schedule
2017–2018 Topic:
What Did Ancient Jews Know?
Exploring the Place of Scientific Knowledge
in the World of Ancient Judaism
All sessions will be held in the Second Floor Lounge (Room 254) of Cohen Hall at the University of Pennsylvania and will run from 7:00-9:00 p.m., preceded by an informal dinner, starting at 6:00 p.m.
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Thursday, 12 Oct. 2017 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Jews and the Land from Muslims to Christian Spain” Andrew Berns (University of South Carolina) |
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Thursday, 2 Nov. 2017 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Animals as a Knowledge-Ordering Technology” Peter Struck (UPenn), Donovan Schaefer (UPenn), Matt Chalmers (UPenn) |
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Thursday, 7 Dec. 2017 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Nurses, Midwives, Healers, and Talmudic Encyclopedism” Lennart Lehmhaus (Freie Universität Berlin; Katz Center) |
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Thursday, 25 Jan. 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Snakes in the Garden:
Sexuality, Animality & Disability in the Rabbinic Jewish Eden” Julia Watts Belser (Georgetown University; Katz Center) |
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Thursday, 22 Feb. 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“The Motif of Uzziah’s “Sickness” (צרעת) in the Deuteronomistic History, Chronicles, and Beyond” Isabel Cranz (University of Pennsylvania) This presentation has been rescheduled for February 22! |
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Thursday, 1 March 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Embryology between the Jewish and the Galenic traditions”
Gwynn Kessler (Swarthmore) and |
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Thursday, 15 March 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Sacred Landscapes of Germanus: Phenomenology, Movement, and the Holy Man as Relic” Cam Grey (University of Pennsylvania) |
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Wednesday, 11 April 2018 7:00–9:00 p.m. Cohen Hall, Penn |
“Forgetting Ancient Jewish Sciences” Annette Yoshiko Reed (NYU) |
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