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Annual Seminar Schedule 2019-2020

Oct. 01, 2019

13:00

Violence and its Justification in the Abrahamic Faiths

Date: Tuesdays 10am	Speaker	Lecture Title
05-Nov-19 Click HERE for the flyer.	Menachem Lorberbaum, The Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University	Foundational Violence: The Pheneas Episode
19-Nov-19 Click HERE for the flyer.	Ayelet Harel Shalev, the Conflict Management and Resolution Program and the Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	A mosaic of communities or a Hindu nation? - Inter-Religious relations and Political Violence in India
03-Dec-19 Click HERE for the flyer.	Peter Sh. Lehnardt, The Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev	They started it! – or how to speak about religious (auto-)aggression of summer 1096 in Ashkenaz
17-Dec-19 Click HERE for the flyer.	Avigail Manekin-Bamberger, MBSF, Hebrew University; Rivka Elitzur Leiman, Tel Aviv University	Sorcery, Curses and Vows: Aspects of Violence in Ancient Magic
14-Jan-20 Click HERE for the flyer.	Michal Bar-Asher Siegal, The Goldstein-Goren Department of Jewish Thought, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Verbal Violence: on Insults in Late Antiquity
21-Jan-20 Click HERE for the flyer	Ron Dudai, The Department of Sociology & Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Betrayal, Violence and Religion in Northern Ireland
28-Jan-20 Click HERE for the flyer	Tour of the old city of Jerusalem with Eran Tzidkiyahu, Dr. Anna Gutgartz and Dr. Rafi Lewis	Urban conflicts in Crusader Jerusalem, and current tensions around Temple Mount/Haram a-Sharif
17-Mar-20 Click HERE for flyer - cancelled!	Milan Zonca, Prague Centre for Jewish Studies, Faculty of Arts, Charles University Czech Republic - cancelled!	Who are God’s Warriors? Heresy, War, and Jews in Hussite Bohemia. - cancelled!
30-Mar-20 Click HERE for flyer - postponed.	Rainer Josef Barzen, University of Muenster - postponed.	Taqqanot Qehillot Šum - Book Event in Hebrew - postponed.
31-Mar-20 Click HERE for flyer	Nimrod Hurvitz, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	Jihadis Also Cry: Emotions, Culture and Apocalypse in the Isis Milieu (in Hebrew)
21-Apr-20 - postponed.	Ofer Zalzberg, Ussher Fellow, Trinity College Dublin - postponed.	Diplomatic Compromise, Religious Non-Negotiability and Religiously Motivated Violence- postponed.
21-Apr-20 Click HERE for flyer	Cana Werman, Jewish History Department, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev	The Persecution of Christ's Followers (in Hebrew)
05-May-20 Click HERE for flyer	Tamar Rotman, Department of History, Bar Ilan University	Catholics, Arians, and Identity construction in the works of Gregory of Tours (in Hebrew)