The Jewish Studies Colloquium is an active intellectual space at UVA that brings together Jewish Studies faculty and graduate students for monthly conversations over lunch. At each colloquium a Jewish Studies faculty member or visiting scholar gives a presentation on current research, followed by a lively conversation.
“To Honor Father and Mother: Filial Piety in a Hebrew Adaptation of the Tales of the Buddha”
This year’s Jewish Studies Colloquium began with an excellent presentation by Professor Jessica Andruss on Wednesday, September 20th. Drawing on her current research, she discussed filial piety in a Hebrew adaptation of the Life of the Buddha. Not one to slow down, Professor Andruss recently finished Jewish Piety in Islamic Jerusalem: The Lamentations Commentary of Salmon ben Yeruhim, published by Oxford University Press this year.
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“The Concept of Terror in the Writings of Paul Gilroy and Hannah Arendt”
“Something about terror itself evades referential speech”
Over twenty students and faculty gathered to discuss new research from Political and Social Thought Professor Isaac Reed. In Reed’s argument, Gilroy and Arendt both challenge the modern fantasy of sovereign freedom and offer alternative theories of modernity through the lens of terror. How is terror distinct from power as a way of organizing social behavior? Why does terror destroy the moral person? And what connects the events of the Holocaust with Jim Crow racial terror?
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“Second-Hand Modernism: the Janus-Faced Echo Chamber of Migrant Translation”
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