Calendar Event

April 27, 2012, 10:00 am to 5:00 pm

HC Dissertation Fellow Symposium

Nell Champoux, 2011-2012 HC Dissertation Fellow and Ph.D. Candidate in Department of Religion

Visions and Dreams of the Divine

Invited speaker:

Elliot R. Wolfson, Abraham Lieberman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University

Professor Wolfson received his Ph.D. from Brandeis University and his B.A. and M.A. in Philosophy from Queens College, City University of New York. He is a scholar of Jewish mysticism, phenomenology (most particularly as it relates to the hermeneutics of religious experience), and issues of esotericism in the history of religions.  He is author of many books and articles including “Language, Eros, Being: Kabbalistic Hermeneutics and Poetic Imagination” (Fordham University Press, 2005); “Open Secret: Postmessianic Messianism and the Mystical Revision of Menahem Mendel Schneerson” (Columbia University Press, 2009); and, most recently, “A Dream Interpreted within a Dream: Oneiropoiesis and the Prism of Imagination” (Zone Books, 2011).  Wolfson is also a painter and poet.

Friday, April 27, 10:00am-noon, Peter Graham Scholarly Room/SU Library  

Friday, April 27 1:00pm-5:00pm, Humanities Center Seminar Room, 304 Tolley

CO-SPONSORS: Department of Religion and the Judaic Studies Program in the College of Arts and Sciences