Sunday, January 8, 2017
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Mandel Building, Room 530
9:45-10:00: Coffee
10.00 – 10.15: Institutional Greetings
10.15 – 10.30: Opening Remarks
Part I: Knowledge
Session 1
10:30-11:30: Cass Fisher (University of South Florida): The Ins and Outs of Rosenzweig's Religious Epistemology from the Perspective of 21st Century Theological Reflection
11:30-12:30: Netanel Kupfer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The Methodology of a Star and the Geometry of a Hexagram. Rosenzweig's (mathematical) "new-thinking" from a Kantian-Cohenian point of view
Chair: Michael Roubach (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
12:30-14:00: Break
Session 2
14:00-15:00: Benjamin Pollock (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): The All and the Everyday: Rosenzweig's Therapeutic Method
15:00-16:00: Roy Amir (Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Content and Method in The Star of Redemption: A Proposal for a Neo-Kantian Interpretation of Rosenzweig's Philosophical Project
Chair: José María Sánchez de León Serrano (The Martin Buber Society of Fellows/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
16:00-16:30: Coffee Break
Session 3:
16:30-17:30: Elliott R. Wolfson (University of California, Santa Barbara): Nomadism, Homelessness, and the Homecoming of the Poet: Rosenzweig and Heidegger in Conversation
Chair: Christoph Schmidt (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Monday, January 9, 2017
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Mt. Scopus
Mandel Building, Room 530
9:45-10:00: Coffee
Part II: Aesthetics
Session 4:
10:00-11:00: Anne Eusterschulte (Freie Universität Berlin): Franz Rosenzweig and Walter Benjamin: Conceptualizations of ‚experience‘ - aesthetical and historical perspectives on ‚language thought‘.
11:00-12:00: Christoph Kasten (Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin/ Goethe Universität Frankfurt): "Die Bibel auf Deutsch". Franz Rosenzweig as a proponent of aesthetic fundamentalism?
Chair: Franscesca Gorgoni (Université Paris 1 Panthéon-Sorbonne-INALCO)
12:00-13:30: Break
Session 5:
13:30-14:30: Antonios Kalatzis (The Martin Buber Society of Fellows/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Episodic Genius. Rosenzweig on Art, Love and Calling
14:30-15:30: Gesine Palmer (Zentrum Jüdische Studien Berlin): From Jena to Jerusalem? “Judaism as a Method”, 100 Years later
Chair: Yakir Paz (The Martin Society of Fellows/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
Session 6:
16:00-17:00: Bruce Rosenstock (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign): Franz Rosenzweig and the Ontology of the Viewed World
Chair: Philipp Reick (The Martin Buber Society of Fellows/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
18:00: Dinner
Tuesday, January 10, 2017
The Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem
Bustanai Street, 33
9:45-10:00: Coffee
Part III: Politics
Session 7:
10:00-11:00: Yosef Schwartz (Tel Aviv University): Jewish Orientalism. The Peculiar Case of Franz Rosenzweig
11:00-12:00: Roberto Navarrete (Universidad Complutense de Madrid): Politik, Geschichte und Globalisierung der Welt bei Franz Rosenzweig
Chair: Guy Miron (The Open University/Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem)
12:00-13:30: Break
Session 8:
13:30-14:30: Beate Ulrike La Sala (Freie Universität Berlin): Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig on individuality and moral agency
14:30-15:30: Enrico Lucca (The Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center/The Hebrew University of Jerusalem): Translation, Politics, and Secularization: Franz Rosenzweig and Gershom Scholem in discussion after 1926
Chair: Simon Godart (Friedrich-Schlegel Graduate School/Freie Universität Berlin)
15:30-16:00: Coffee Break
Session 9:
16:00-17:00: Christian Wiese (Goethe Universität Frankfurt): Erdfremdheit: Exile, Exterritoriality, and Zionism in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig
17:00-18:00: Final Conclusions
Chair: Sara Ehrentraut (Freie Universität Berlin)