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 This Place, 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.