Northwestern Events Calendar

Nov
6
2022

"S.Y. Agnon’s (Frustrated) Love Stories", Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of At the Handles of the Lock

When: Sunday, November 6, 2022
2:00 PM - 4:00 PM CT

Where: Harris Hall, 108, 1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Contact: Nancy Gelman   (847) 491-2612

Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings

Description:

"S.Y. Agnon’s (Frustrated) Love Stories"  A Conference Commemorating the 100th Anniversary of At the Handles of the Lock

SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 6th:

Panel One: 2:00pm - 4:00pm
"Sippurim Ketanim: Love on the Sands of Jaffa"
Tafat Hacohen-Bick, Herbert Katz Center, University of Pennsylvania
Wendy Zierler, Hebrew Union College 
Marina Zilbergerts, University of Wisconsin 
Chair: Na’ama Rokem, University of Chicago

MONDAY, NOVEMBER 7th:

Panel Two: 9:00am - 11:00am
"Agnon, Oz & Yehoshua"
Yael Halevi-Wise, McGill University 
Sheila E. Jelen, University of Kentucky 
Jeffrey Saks, Agnon House 
Chair: Hanna Tzuker Seltzer, Northwestern University

Panel Three: 11:15am - 1:15pm
"Disabled Love: Ovadia Ba’al Mum"
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan 
Nitza Ben-Dov, Haifa University 
Haim Weiss, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev 
Chair: David Roskies, JTS

Lunch for Conference Presenters: 1:15pm - 2:30pm

Panel Four: 2:30pm - 4:30pm 
"Elu ve-Elu (Miscellaneous Investigations)"
Irit Nagar, Ben-Gurion University 
Yohanan Petrovsky-Shtern, Northwestern University
Avi Shmidman, Bar-Ilan University 
Chair: James Redfield, St. Louis University


Conference sponsored by:
The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies, Northwestern University 
Prooftexts: A Journal of Jewish Literary History 
S.Y. Agnon House, Jerusalem 
Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute for Religion

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