Links to join the individual sessions are pasted below, please register in advance:
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Panel 1: The Mishnah and History - Tuesday Jan 5, 2021 11:00AM - 1PM EST
Shaye Cohen: Opening Remarks
Martin Goodman: The Presentation of the Past in the Mishnah
Hayim Lapin: The Mishnah as a Historical Document
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEuduiprTMtEt3cEaCPtrMb5g-u_9-2Ui6j
Panel 2: The Mishnah in its Historical Context - Thursday, Jan 7, 2021 11:00 AM - 1PM EST
Vered Noam: Mishnah and the Dead Sea Scrolls
Catherine Hezser: Mishnah and Greco-Roman Law
Jonathan Milgram: Mishnah and Ancient Near Eastern Law
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIkcO6przkjEtCrFH0TErF-a4sYmett3a8N
**NOTE NEW DATE FOR PANEL 5** Panel 5: Mishnaic Discourse - Monday January 11, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal: Mishnaic Hebrew/Language Beth Berkowitz: Rhetoric (including mahloket) Moshe Shoshan: Narrative
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJEqdequrjIjGN0C1FLg5vFszqAryoXhxanb
Panel 3: The Social World of the Mishnah - Tuesday January 12, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Adiel Schremer: Heretics Ishai Rosen-Zvi: Gentiles Gail Labovitz: Women and Gender
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0od-CvpzovG9MRa7eg3RwTWmzOBkWgMpH2
Panel 4: The Mishnah in its Literary Context - Thursday January 14, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
Yair Furstenberg: The Literary Evolution of the Mishnah
Shamma Friedman: Mishnah and Tosefta Azzan Yadin-Israel: Mishnah and Tannaitic Midrash
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJwsceqoqTktGdL8GsJJFGcKPDBZbMwi84n1
Panel 6: Composition, Transmission and Reception - Tuesday January 19, 2021 11:00 AM- 1:00 PM EST
David Stern: Early Transmission/Publication of the Mishnah Uziel Fuchs: From the Geonim to the Age of Print Chanan Gafni: From the Age of Print to the Nineteenth Century
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIqd-6sqTktH9dz6157bh1tqpR6n-dd1zok
Panel 7: The Mishnah and Judaism - Thursday January 21, 2021 11:00 AM - 1:00 PM EST
**NOTE SPEAKER CHANGE** Jonathan Klawans: Priests and Pietists Chaya Halberstam: Mishnah and Torah
Sarit Gribetz: Holiness in the Mishnah Naftali Cohn: Mishnah as Utopia
https://harvard.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJAkf-yurj0iH90AxAxDU_ES4QCE5ccTlKy9
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Elitzur Bar-Asher Siegal, Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew Language, Hebrew University
Beth Berkowitz, Ingeborg Rennert Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor, Department of Religion, Barnard College
Shaye JD Cohen, Littauer Professor of Hebrew Literature and Philosophy, Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, Harvard University
Naftali Cohn, Professor, Department of Religions and Cultures, Concordia University, Montreal
Shamma Friedman, Distinguished Service Professor Emeritus of Talmud and Rabbinics, Jewish Theological Seminary
Uziel Fuchs, Senior lecturer Department of Oral Torah, Herzog College and Department of Talmud, Bar Ilan University
Yair Furstenberg, Assistant Professor and Chair, Talmud Department, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Chanan Gafni, Rothberg International School at the Hebrew University and Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Martin Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies, Fellow of Wolfson College, and Fellow of the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University of Oxford
Sarit Gribetz, Associate Professor of Classical Judaism, Department of Theology, Fordham University
Chaya Halberstam, Associate Professor of Judaism, Department of Religious Studies, King's University College at Western University, Canada
Catherine Hezser, Professor of Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
Jonathan Klawans, Professor of Religion, Department of Religion, Boston University
Gail Labovitz, Professor of Rabbinic Studies, Ziegler School of Rabbinic Studies, American Jewish University
Hayim Lapin, Robert H Smith Professor of Jewish Studies and History and Director of the Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies, University of Maryland
Vered Noam, Professor of Talmud, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel Aviv University
Jonathan Milgram, Associate Professor of Talmud and Rabbinics, Department of Talmud and Rabbinics, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Professor of Rabbinic Literature, Department of Jewish Philosophy and Talmud, Tel-Aviv University
Adiel Schremer, Professor of Jewish History, The Israel & Golda Koschitzky Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Bar Ilan University
Moshe Shoshan, Senior Lecturer, The Joseph and Norman Berman Department of Literature of the Jewish People, Bar-Ilan University
David Stern, Harry Starr Professor of Classical and Modern Jewish and Hebrew Literature, Professor of Comparative Literature, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University
Azzan Yadin-Israel, Professor of Jewish Studies, Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers University
LOCATION:On Zoom STATUS:CONFIRMED DTSTART:20210111T160000Z DTEND:20210111T180000Z END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR