Lecturing

Here you will find a list of talks I have given in academic and non-academic settings.

Academic Talks and Conferences

Post-Liberalism, Post-Modernism, Post-Capitalism: on the Moral Core of Present Discontents (Copy)

Southern Political Science Association Annual Meeting, St. Pete Beach, FL (12th January, 2022)

The Idea of a Jewish Society: Yitzhak Baer’s Israel Among the Nations Reconsidered

Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference (7th June, 2021)

Hayden White and the Possibility of Faith in History (Copy)

The Use and Abuse of History for Theology and Ethics: Mining the Past for Present Norms: University of Notre Dame and University of Chicago Fifth Annual Joint Graduate Student Conference (March 29th, 2019)

Eric Auerbach 101

The Divinity School “101” Series, University of Chicago (January 18th, 2018)

Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes on Messianism and History

Midwestern Inter-University Workshop in Jewish Studies, University of Chicago (Nov. 2nd, 2015)

Nachman Krochmal and the Possibility of post-Textual Judaism

“Ways of Knowing” Graduate Conference in Religion, Harvard University (Oct. 23rd, 2015)

Jacob Taubes and the Meaning of Jewish History

Jewish Studies Workshop, University of Chicago (April 20th, 2015)

Liberalism and the Jewish Question in the Thought of Leo Strauss

Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem (May 2nd, 2013)

Public Talks

Lehi and the Struggle for Jewish Independence

Introductory Talk to the Film “Rage & Glory” (dir. Avi Nesher, 1984), Anshei Sholom Beit Israel Synagogue, Chicago, IL (Jan. 20, 2020)

Labor Zionism

Hillel House, University of Chicago (March 11th, 2019)

What is Modern Judaism? Or: Prolegomena to Bialik

Anshe Emet Synagogue, Chicago, IL (Feb. 21st, 2019)

The ‘New Jew’: Then and Now

Temple Israel, Valparaiso, IN (May 11th, 2018)

Time and Timelessness in Jewish History

Jacob Berman Community Center, Rehovot, Israel (Aug. 30th, 2015)