Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy

Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy

University of Washington (Seattle)

Conference Program (May 21-22, 2017), including the Stroum Lectures (May 21 and 23)

Sunday, May 21st

UW Hillel

4745 17th Ave NE
Seattle, WA 98105

12:45pm

Welcome and Opening Remarks

Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington)

1-3pm -- Panel 1 (UW Hillel)

Spinoza in the 17th Century

Session Chair:  Colin Marshall (UW, Philosophy)

Spinoza on the Divinity of Scripture

Steven Nadler (University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Spinoza, His Family, and the Revolts against Philip II and the Inquisition

Jonathan Israel (Institute for Advanced Studies)

3:15-5:15pm --Panel 2 (UW Hillel)

Spinoza, the Jewish Enlightenment, and German Radicals

Session Chair:  John Toews (UW, History)

Activity and Suspension: German-Jewish Spinozists Respond to Hegel

Tracie Matysik (University of Texas)

The Study of Scripture and the Study of Nature

Michah Gottlieb (New York University)

Solomon Maimon on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and the Maskilim

Abraham Socher (Oberlin College)

7:00pm -- Stroum Lecture featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel (Kane Hall, room 220)

In What Sense Was Spinoza a Revolutionary Thinker?

8:30pm -- Stroum Lecture Reception to follow lecture (Kane Hall, Walker-Ames Room)

Monday, May 22nd

Husky Union Building

4001 E Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA 98195

9am-11am -- Panel 3 (HUB, room 334)

Spinoza and Jewish Politics

Session Chair:  Daniel Bessner (UW, Jackson School)

The Prophets at War:  Hermann Cohen on Spinoza and the Moral Basis of Citizenship

Michael A. Rosenthal (University of Washington)

Particularism and Universalism Revisited: Spinoza, Leon Roth, and the Category of “Jewish Philosophy”

Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University)

The Zionist Critique of Spinoza’s Politics

Julie E. Cooper (Tel Aviv University)

LUNCH BREAK

1-3pm – Panel 4 (HUB, room 334)

Spinoza, the Emotions, and Kabbalah

Session Chair:  Melanie Tate (UW, Philosophy)

Spinoza and Freud on Bodies, Images, and Affects

Julie R. Klein (Villanova University) 

The Greatest Thing You'll Ever Learn: Debating Spinoza over Loving God and Being Loved in Return

Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University)

Spinoza, Platonism, and Some Jewish Thinkers

Michael Morgan (University of Toronto and Indiana University)    

3:30-5:30pm – Panel 5 (HUB, room 334)

Spinoza and Modernity

Session Chair:  Ellwood Wiggins (UW, Germanics)

Spinoza on the Election of the Hebrews

Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins University)

The Hyphen in the Theological-Political:  Spinoza to Mendelssohn, Heine and Derrida

Willi Goetschel (University of Toronto)

Toward a History of Jewish Anti-Spinozism

Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University)

Tuesday, May 23rd

7:00pm -- Stroum Lecture featuring Prof. Jonathan Israel (Kane Hall, room 220)

Jewish Emancipation and the Radical Enlightenment

For registration for both the conference and the Stroum Lectures, see the webpage: 

http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/.

For further information on the schedule, see the webpage:

http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/conference-schedule/

For further information on the participants, see the webpage:

http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/spinoza-modern-jewish-philosophy/speakers/

If you have any other questions regarding logistics, please contact the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies:

http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/

The Conference has been supported by The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies, The Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Departments of Philosophy and Germanics at the University of Washington.