“Teaching the Bible with Technology”
This workshop focuses on teaching the Bible—its texts, languages, and history—with technology, covering a range of approaches from online resources to online teaching. Presentations and discussions with two recent Bible program alumnae: Anne Knafl,...
The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library: How it Works
The Joe and Rika Mansueto Library at the University of Chicago houses cutting-edge facilities for preservation and digitization of physical books, as well as a high-density underground storage system with the capacity to hold 3.5 million volume equival...
Harper Lecture with David Archer: Of MOOCs and Global Warming
Physical Sciences 13400, Global Warming: Understanding the Forecast, goes international as a free massive open online course, or MOOC, this fall on coursera.org. This course, which has been taught since 1995 and became the most popular class in the Uni...
“Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism”: A Wednesday Lunch Dean’s Forum with Christian K. Wedemeyer
A Dean's Forum on “Making Sense of Tantric Buddhism: History, Semiology, and Transgression in the Indian Traditions” by Christian K. Wedemeyer, Associate Professor of the History of Religions. Jeffrey Stackert, Assistant Professor of Hebrew Bible, ...
"On the Introductions by Pines and Strauss II.” Featuring Paul Mendes-Flohr, Jeffrey Macy, and Josef Stern
Session 6 from the conference “Pines’ Maimonides: The History of the Translation and Interpretation of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed.’ Marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Shlomo Pines’ English translation of Maimonides’ ‘Guid...
“Al-Harizi’s Translation of the ‘Guide’ in its Cultural Moment” presented by Raymond P. Scheindlin
Session 2 from the conference “Pines’ Maimonides: The History of the Translation and Interpretation of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed.’ Marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Shlomo Pines’ English translation of Maimonides’ ‘Guid...
Luis Giron Negron presents “Pedro de Toledo’s Mostrador de los turbados: The Christian Reception of Maimonides’ ‘Guide’ in 15th Century Spain”
Session 2, “The History of Translations of the ‘Guide’ in Medieval Philosophy” from the conference “Pines’ Maimonides: The History of the Translation and Interpretation of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed.’ Marking the 50th Anniversary of th...
Pines’ Maimonides: The History of the Translation and Interpretation of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed’ – Session One
Pines’ Maimonides: The History of the Translation and Interpretation of ‘The Guide of the Perplexed,’ marking the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Shlomo Pines’ English translation of Maimonides’ ‘Guide’ by the University of Chicago...