Migration and the Bible

Sunday, March 3, 2019

• 12:00 Welcome, lunch
• 1:00-2:00 Leora Batnitzky, Princeton University, and Ilana Pardes, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Opening remarks and The Bible and Migration: from Genesis to Toni Morrison
• 2-2:40 Edward Greenstein, Bar Ilan University
  Exile as the Staging Ground for a Comeback: The Fugitive Hero in the Hebrew Bible.
• 2:40-3 Break
• 3-3:40 Galit-Hasan-Rokem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Restless Ancestors and an Abode at the Center of the Universe
• 3:40-4:20 Naphtali Meshel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  Strange Migrations: On the Translation of the Hebrew Bible into the Sanskrit Language
• 4:20-4:40 Break
• 4:40-5:20 Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto
  Translation, Migration, and the Wanderings of Biblical Meaning
• 5:20-6:00 Ofer Dynes, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
  The Rabbi who Thought He was Queen Esther: Political Survival Between States during Poland’s Partitions
• 6:00-6:20 Break
• 6:20-7 Vivian Liska, University Antwerp/The Hebrew University
  The Jew, The Migrant: Experience—Metaphor—Poetry
• Dinner

Monday, March 4, 2019

• 9:00-9:40 Seth Perry, Princeton University
  'A Speckled Bird among the Birds of the Forest’: Itineracy, Cosmopolitanism, and the Bible in Early America
• 9:40-10:20 Amir Eshel, Stanford University
  Beyond Departure and Return: On S. Y. Agnon’s A Guest for the Night
• 10:20-11:00 Coffee break
• 11:00-11:40 Chana Kronfeld, University of California Berkeley
  Gendering Migration: The Bible as (Negative) Blueprint in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Women’s Poetry of Dislocation.
• 11:40-12:20 Eric Gregory, Princeton University
  The Bible and the Ethics of Immigration
• 12:30-1:30 Concluding thoughts and lunch

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