Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor to Present Three Lectures

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WILLIAMSTOWN, Mass., November 6, 2012— Galit Hasan-Rokem, the Croghan Bicentennial Visiting Professor in Jewish Studies for fall 2012, will present three lectures at Williams College. The first talk will take place at 7 p.m. on Wednesday, Nov. 7. The second talk is at 4 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 12, and the final talk on Monday, Dec. 3. All events are in Griffin Hall, room 7, and are free and open to the public.

Hasan-Rokem’s first talk is titled, “Postcards as Jews or Jews as Postcards: Mobility in a Modern Genre.” Her second lecture is titled, “Singing with the Sirens: Probing the Limits of Interpretation in Ancient Hebrew Literature.” Hasan-Rokem’s research interests lie in folk-literature, especially proverbs. She is currently teaching a course on Jewish literature from antiquity to the present with an emphasis on Rabbinic period titled, Sirens in the Synagogue: Real Imaginary Encounters in Jewish Narratives from Antiquity to the Present.

Hasan-Rokem is the Max and Margarethe Grunwald Professor of Folklore at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, where she teaches in the department of Hebrew literature and the Jewish and comparative folklore program. She served as the head of the Mandel Institute of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem from 2001 to 2004 and as president of the International Society for Folk Narrative Research from 1998 to 2005. Hasan-Rokem received her Ph.D. from Hebrew University in 1978.

The Croghan Bicentennial Professorship in Biblical and Early Christian Studies was established by John and Rosemary Croghan for a visiting professor to teach one course in Christianity and/or Judaism as well as to give public lectures.

The lectures are sponsored by the Bronfman Committee, Wiener Lecture Fund, Program in Jewish Studies, and the Croghan Bicentennial Professorship in Biblical and Early Christian Studies.

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Published November 6, 2012