December 2022, Newsletter #17
 
Seminar Schedule
 
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Spring Semester - 2021-2022 Academic Year

1/5/2022  

  • Dr. Assaf Tamari, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute: "City of the Kabbalists? Sixteenth-Century Safed as a Center and a Periphery"
  • Prof. Tamar Herzig, Tel-Aviv University Jews, "Christians, and Converts in Renaissance Italy"
  • Dr. Kanan Kitani, Doshisha University, "The Changing Faces of the Christians in Japan"
  • Prof. Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, Department of Jewish Thought, BGU, "Modeling Connections between Jews and Christians in the Babylonian Talmud: Questions of Center and Periphery"

To view the recorded lectures, click HERE.
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Fall Semester - 2022-2023 Academic Year

1/10/2022  

  • Dr. Yana Tchekhanovets, Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: "Monastic Hermitage in the Desert"
  • Prof. Ariel E. Mayse, Religious Studies, School of Humanities and Sciences, Stanford University: "Working with Shattered Vessels: Ecology and Environmental Ethics in Jewish Law and Theology"
  • Prof. Emeritus Elchanan Reiner, Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University, "The Cult of the Holy Place in the Late Antique and Medieval Galilee"
  • Prof. Nicholas Paul, Associate Professor of History and Director, Center for Medieval Studies, Fordham University: "Hortis et pomeriis habitatores delectat: Gardens in the Landscape of the Latin East"

To view the recorded lectures, click HERE.
Special Events
 
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Frédéric Brenner - artist

24/4/2022  
'Diaspora' is a photographic record of Brenner's 25-year search for Jewish life in 40 countries, over 5 continents.
CSoC's annual public event, in proximity to the Holocaust Memorial Day and the Israeli Day of Independence, and in dialogue with the Center's theme of 2021-2022: "Rethinking Center and Periphery".
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Book launch in honor of Prof. Katell Berthelot 

12/6/2022  
Prof. Berthelot is from the Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, France
The book event was held via zoom in English
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Prof. Daniel J. Lasker

15/6/2022
Barkan Hall, Marcus Family Campus, Beer-Sheva
This book event was held in Hebrew.
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Joint Conference in Oxford University
27-29/6/2022

This was the highpoint of CSoC's activities this year, and a wonderful opportunity for BGU faculty members and students to meet with colleagues  abroad, and discuss matters of common interest in Judaism, Christianity and Islam.
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Negev Interfaith الحوار بين الأديان في النقب יוזמה בין-דתית בנגב, Ms. Yisca Harani and Brother Olivier

8/11/2022
For photos, click here.
W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall, Building #71, Floor -1 // The Marcus Family Campus in Beer-Sheva
Promotions and Achievements of CSoC Steering Committee Members and Fellows
 
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M. Bar-Asher Siegal

28/3/2022  
Read the article in Hebrew from YNET here 
Prof. Bar-Asher Siegal is a CSoC steering committee member
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25/5/2022
Granted at the annual conference of the Israeli Society for the Study of Religion
Dr. Liberles-Noiman is a former CSoC fellow

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O. Weinshall-Shachar

13/7/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Weinshall-Shachar for receiving a postdoctoral scholarship at CSoC and at the Goldman Sonnenfeldt School of Sustainability and Climate Change at BGU.
Welcome to CSoC's research group on Religion and the Natural Environment!
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Y. Tchekhanovets

19/7/2022
Congratulations to Dr. Tchekhanovets on joining CSoC's steering committee team.
From the Department of Bible Studies, Archeology and the Ancient Near East, Dr. Tchekhanovets studies the material culture of late antiquity, the archeology of Byzantine churches, monasteries and sacred sites.
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M. Bar-Asher Siegal

21/7/2022
CSoC wish Prof. Bar-Asher Siegal  a successful and fruitful sabbatical.
Good luck at Yale University!
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J. Feldman

21/7/2022
CSoC wish Prof. Feldman a successful and fruitful sabbatical.
Good luck at Berkeley!
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A. Raz-Krakotzkin

21/7/2022
CSoC would like to express its deepest gratitute to Prof. Raz-Krakotzkin for his contribution to its steering committee and the center.
We'll miss you, Nono!
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J. Feldman

31/7/2022
Congratulations on winning a DFG Grant
with Prof. Becky Kook- Department of Politics & Government and Dr. Noam Tirosh - Department of Communication Studies, Eberhard Karls Universität Tübingen.
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Yana Tchekhanovets

31/7/2022
Congratulations on winning an ISF Grant
Prior to the large-scale excavations carried out in Jerusalem in recent years, the archaeological data relating to the Roman colonia Aelia Capitolina was extremely scanty. A few still-standing monumental arches, city coins, fragmentary preserved inscriptions, and limited historical sources were the only witnesses to its past. Nearly two hundred years of the city’s history were almost completely missing, crushed between the two dominant archaeological layers – the Early Roman Jewish Jerusalem of the 1st century CE and the Byzantine Christian metropolis of the 5th-7th centuries CE. The excavations of the last two decades completely change our understanding of Roman Aelia, its urban layout, planning stages, and monumental structures. The research aims to fill the lacunae in the archaeological record of the people who inhabited the city of Aelia Capitolina.
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G. Sofer

6/9/2022
Congratulations on winning a BGU prize from the unit for the promotion of teaching.
Gal Sofer is one of 7 winners who recieved the highest praise from their students from the 2021-2022 academic school year. Congratulations! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3YyMPgsuRyI&ab_channel=teachingcenter (in Hebrew, from minute 1:36) 
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M. Yagur

1.10.2022
Starting October 2022, Dr. Yagur will begin investigating the 'mixed' dwelling of Jews, Muslims and Christians in the urban centers of medieval Egypt and the Levant, and what does this reality tell us about individual and communal identity, and the confessional landscape of Islamic cities. Read a short description of the project here.
Dr. Moshe Yagur was a CSoC fellow of 2019-2020
Publications of former and present fellows
 
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J. Feldman

12/9/2022
Congratulations to Jackie Feldman, Nir Avieli and Lior Bear, who received the Dallen Timothy Best Paper Award for Journal of Heritage Tourism (2021) for their article on UNESCO World Heritage Sites in Luang Prabang
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S. Glauber-Zimra

14/3/2022
Anglo-Jewish Spiritualist Societies in the Interwar Period, in: Jewish Historical Studies (with Boaz Huss)
Transactions of the Jewish Historical Society of England 53 (2022): 83–104
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S. Glauber-Zimra

26/11/2022
Kabbalah: Journal for the Study of Jewish Mystical Texts
#52 (2022) pp. 145–90
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T. Rotman

13/6/2022
Reviewed by: Paul Fouracre The University of Manchester
In: The Medieval Review
Dr. Rotman was a CSoC fellow 0f 2020-2021

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