Sephardi Thought and Modernity 2021 Webinar Series. An exploration of different experiences of Sephardi modernization
A collaboration between the Department of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Calgary, King’s College London and the International Network for Jewish Thought (UCM)
Organizers: Angy Cohen & Yuval Evri
Registration: http://ow.ly/qBIC50DcX7a
February 18th
Almog Behar (Tel Aviv University): Between Judeo-Arabic, Literary Arabic and Hebrew in Jewish-Arab (Literary) Modernity
March 18th
Yaakov Yadgar (Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford): Sephardim in Israel and the critique of secularism
April 22nd
Clemence Boulouque (Columbia Univerisity): In praise of the Orient: Elia Benamozegh’s Sephardic Modernities
May 20th
Gabriel Abensour (Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Rabbi Yosef Knafo’s Struggle for Democratization of Knowledge in Fin de Siècle Essaouira
June 17th
Yuval Evri (King’s College London) & Angy Cohen (University of Calgary): Foreign in a familiar land: language and belonging in the work of Jacqueline Kahanoff, Albert Memmi and Jacques Derrida