• Jewish Philosophy Research Group Talk (Josef Stern, Chicago)

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 418 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Prof. Stern will deliver a talk on "Maimonides and the Falasifa on Certainty and the Certainty of Prophecy."  His research is broadly in contemporary philosophy of language and medieval philosophy, especially Arabic and Jewish philosophy. 

  • Theocracy—Jewish Philosophy Reading Group Workshop

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    What exactly is the rule of God? Join us for an all-day workshop sponsored by the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies & the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy.

  • The Work of Hannah Arendt (Workshop and Staged Reading)

    108N Munk School of Global Affairs, 1 Devonshire Pl., Toronto, ON M5S 3K7

    Fifty years ago, on November 24, 1972, the first conference on German-Jewish political theorist Hannah Arendt’s work was held in Toronto, resulting in her only visit to the city. The Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies marks the 50th anniversary of this historical conference with a one-day workshop. Faculty, graduate students, and postdocs at Toronto universities will revisit the “work of Hannah Arendt” in three interdisciplinary thematic panels.

  • Hermann Cohen’s “Ethics of Maimonides”

    Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100 (Main Floor Lecture Hall) 170 St. George Street, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    Join us for a three-day conference on Hermann Cohen’s "Ethics of Maimonides" organized by Michael Rosenthal and Ynon Wygoda.