List of Events Series Proposal Organizing Faculty: Gad Barzilai (Jackson School) Richard Block (Germanics) Susan Glenn (History) Noam Pianko (Jackson School) Michael Rosenthal (Philosophy)	Sovereigns and Subjects:  Jewish Political Thought & Experience in the 20th Century A Series of Events sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program,  the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the College of Arts & Sciences Exchange Program, the Program on Values in Society, the Institute for Transnational Studies, the Philosophy Department, and the Germanics Department.
	CONFERENCE Sovereigns and Subjects:  Jewish Political Thought & Experience in the 20th Century February 24-25, 2008     Official Conference Program    Conference Paper Archive *To download a paper, click here and you will find a program.  Click on the desired paper and the paper should download to your browser.  I will post the papers as they are sent to me.  If the paper is available, the title will be linked to the file.  You will need a password, which will be made available to participants.
	Past Talk: "From Politics to Law: Modern Jewish Thought and the Invention of Jewish Law" (Click Here for an Abstract) Professor Leora Batnitzky Princeton University, Department of Religion Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities Communications 202 Thursday, April 26th, 3:30pm
	Speaker Bio: Leora Batnitzky's teaching and research interests include philosophy of religion, modern Jewish thought, hermeneutics, and contemporary legal and political theory. In 2002 she was awarded Princeton's President's Award for Distinguished Teaching. She is the author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation and Idolatry and Representation: The Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered.  She is also the editorof the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion and since 2004 she is the co-editor, with Peter Schaefer, of Jewish Studies Quarterly.  She is currently writing a book titled Modern Jewish Thought and the Invention of Jewish Religion and is also at work on a project on the philosophical and historical relations between modern religious thought (Jewish and Christian) and modern legal theory (analytic and Continental).  She is on leave for the academic year 2006-2007 during which time she is the Berkowitz Fellow in the Hauser Global Law Program at New York University Law School.
	Past Talk: "Beyond Statism: Rethinking Jewish Collectivity" Professor David N. Myers Director, UCLA Center of Jewish Studies Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities, Seminar Room, Communications 202  Tuesday, October 10, 3:30pm
	Speaker Bio: David N. Myers has written extensively in the fields of modern Jewish intellectual and cultural history, with a particular interest in the history of Jewish historiography. He has authored Re-Inventing the Jewish Past: European Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Return to History (Oxford: 1995) and Resisting History: Historicism and its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (Princeton, 2003). At present, Myers is working on books on the Diaspora Hebraist thinker Simon Rawidowicz and the Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Yoel, New York. He is also actively involved in a major project on the history of Jews in Los Angeles.
	Series Rationale: The purpose of our seminar series is three-fold:  1) to explore Jewish perspectives on the paradoxes and limits of modern liberalism and the nation-state; 2) to see what is unique about the Jewish experience of modern politics in the last hundred years or so; and 3) to find out what this experience has in common with other ways of negotiating the nation-state and the modern world order.  We propose to talk about the Jewish experience not so much as historians but primarily as political theorists, whose goal it is to offer a critique, both normative and practical, of existing political structures on the basis of an informed historical and sociological understanding of the present.  And we hope to stimulate this conversation through bringing to campus a series of speakers whose own work critically considers the problem of modern Jewish political experience through a variety of disciplines.  For a more detailed version of the rationale, please click here.
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