2001-02

Conversion, Comparison, Gender

A Stanford Humanities Center Workshop

Co-sponsored by ARC

Carl Bielefeldt & Lee Yearley, sponsors
Shari Epstein & Jennifer Rapp, coordinators

Supported by a grant from the Mellon Foundation

Unless otherwise noted,
all events will be held at 4:30
in the Humanities Center
(formerly the Bowman Alumni House)

For more information or to join the email list, contact:
Jenny Rapp (jrrapp@stanford)

Autumn 2001

Tuesday, October 30

"What is Conversion? A Roundtable Discussion"
Lee Yearley
Religious Studies
Followed by an opening reception

Tuesday, November 6

"Chekhov's Jewish Converts"
Gabriella Safron
Slavic Languages & Literatures

Tuesday, November 13

"Going Forth and Coming Home:
Two Parables of Travel in the Lotus Sutra"
Carl Bielefeldt
Center for Buddhist Studies

Tuesday, November 27

"Pickpockets, Conversion,
and the Transcendental Style in Film"
Greg Watkins
Religious Studies

Winter 2002

Tuesday, February 12

"Kant on Moral Conversion"
Allen Wood
Philosophy

Tuesday, February 19

"The Art of Conversion in Late Antiquity"
Robert Gregg
Religious Studies

Tuesday, February 26

"Incomplete Conversion(s)?
Patroling the Borders between Judaism and Christianity"
Charlotte Fonrobert
Jewish Studies

Tuesday, March 5

"Losing My Religion:
Autobiographies of Conversion Away from Religion"
Charles Hallisey
Buddhist Studies

Spring 2002

Tuesday, April 30

"Werde wesentlich! Heidegger's Conversions"
Thomas Sheehan
Religious Studies

Tuesday, May 7

"Epistemologies of Conversion"
Guari Viswanathan
Columbia University
Co-sponsored by CASA & SAI

Tuesday, May 21

"The Ghost in the Machine:
Conversion and Translation from Jerome to Luther"
Naomi Seidman
Graduate Theological Union

Tuesday, May 28
12:00 noon, CSRE Seminar Room, Building 240.

"Language and Other Symbols of Conversion:
Newly Orthodox Jews in Philadelphia"
Sarah Benor
(Linguistics)