Jewish Green Philosophy: A Conversation on Ecology, Theology, and Jewish Thought
March 18, 2021 at 3:30 PM EST
Zoom Registration:
http://bit.ly/jewishgreen
Zoom Link:
https://virginia.zoom.us/j/95930936470?pwd=RExoSFo5cmFVQnhDZXUrdHNMQ3hFUT09
Speakers:
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Regents Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. An intellectual historian, she focuses on philosophy and mysticism in premodern Judaism, feminist philosophy, religion and ecology, and religion, science, and technology. She is the author of the award-winning, Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon(1991);Happiness, in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge and Well-Being(2003), and Religion and Environment: The Case of Judaism(2020). She is also the editor of Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy(2004),Judaism and the Phenomenon of Life: The Legacy of Hans Jonas(2008), and the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers(2013-2018), a set of 21 volumes featuring outstanding Jewish thinkers today.
Yuval Jobani is a senior lecturer of Jewish Philosophy and Education at Tel Aviv University. He was a research assistant of Prof. Michael Walzer at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton (2008-2010), a visiting scholar at Brandeis University (2010-2011) and a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania (2016-2017).His publications include The Role of Contradictions in Spinoza’s Philosophy: The God Intoxicated Heretic(2016) and, co-authored with Nahshon Perez, Women of the Wall: Navigating Religion in the Public Sphere(2017) and Governing the Sacred: Political Toleration in five Contested Sacred Sites (2020).He co-edited with Ron Margolin a revised and expanded edition of A.D. Gordon’s Man and Nature: Meditations and Dreams of a Radical[Hebrew] (2020).
Willis Jenkins (Respondent)is Hollingsworth Professor of Ethics and Chair of the Department of Religious Studies at UVA. He is author of two award-winning books, Ecologies of Grace: Environmental Ethics & Christian Theology(2008) and The Future of Ethics: Sustainability, Social Justice, & Religious Creativity(2013),which won an American Academy of Religion Award for Excellence. He is editor of a number of volumes including, with Mary Evelyn Tucker and John Grim, the Routledge Handbook of Religion & Ecology(2017). At UVA, Jenkins serves on the leadership team of the Environmental Resilience Institute and co-directs two transdisciplinary environmental humanities labs.
The event is sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion.
For more information, please contact Prof. James Loeffler, Ida and Nathan Kolodiz Director of Jewish Studies, jewishstudiesprogram@virginia.edu or Prof. Asher Biemann, Co-Director of the Virginia Center for the Study of Religion, ab5j@virginia.edu.