“Is There a There There? Jewish Reflections on Place in the Diaspora”

Thursday, February 17, 2011
12:30 p.m.
Social Science Building, Room 107

“On Hermaphrodites, Eunuchs & Masculine Women: Talmudic Theories of Gender”

Thursday, February 17, 2011
7:00pm
IR/PS, Room 3201

This event is free to the public

Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Associate Professor of Religious Studies atStanford University, is a world-recognized expert on Talmudic literature. Her path-breaking work focuses on the relationship between Judaism, Greco-Roman culture and early Christianity, particularly as regards gender. Fonrobert’s book Menstrual Purity: Rabbinic and Christian Reconstructions of Biblical Gender (2000), won the Salo Baron Prize for a best first book in Jewish Studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in Jewish Scholarship. Fonrobert is co-director of the TaubeCenter for Jewish Studies.

For more information and to RSVP please contact judaicstudies@ucsd.edu

Hosted by the UCSD Judaic Studies Program