Spring 2018 events
Admission is Free and open to the public
Inhabiting/Excavating/Sustaining: Understanding This Place
Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jodi Magness and Michael Ben-Eli in conversation, presented by the Tang Museum and the Office of Special Programs
Wednesday, March 7
7–9 p.m., Tang Teaching Museum, Payne Room
Photo by Stephen Shore, Mount Sodom, 2009,
41 3/4 x 50 3/4 inches, chromogenic print
This conversation brings together scholar Paul Mendes-Flohr, the Dorothy Grant Maclear Professor of Modern Jewish History and Thought at the University of Chicago Divinity School; archaeologist Jodi Magness, the Kenan Distinguished Professor for Teaching Excellence in Early Judaism at UNC-Chapel Hill; and international consultant Michael Ben-Eli, founder of the Sustainability Laboratory. Together they will lead a public conversation about “this place” through three interrelated lenses: the identities and communities that inhabit the land, understanding the land through its archaeology and the complex environmental issues around sustaining the land.
Co-presented by the Tang Museum and the Office of Special Programs.
This event, part of the exhibition , is free and open to the public and will be followed by a reception.
About the Jacob Perlow Series: A generous grant from the estate of Jacob Perlow—an immigrant to the United States in the 1920s, a successful businessman deeply interested in religion and philosophy and a man who was committed to furthering Jewish education—supports annual lectures and presentations to the College and Capital District community on issues broadly related to Jews and Judaism.