April 23, 2025
Join the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies for a day of exploration on the theme of metamorphosis in Jewish thought and history. The scale of catastrophe and rupture in our current time prompts us to consider the process of transformation itself. Change is necessary, inevitable, and elemental. It is creation, evolution, miracle, and collapse. Metamorphosis makes us strange to others and unrecognizable to ourselves. It prompts resistance, ecstasy, and perplexity. This conference will host a variety of papers that consider the dynamics of metamorphosis in Jewish history, culture, and thought. Papers will examine the process of change itself, as well as conceptualizations of change as expressed in thought and literature.
Keynote address: "Poetics, Folklore, and Hermeneutics: Dialogic Approaches to Ancient Rabbinic Literature" by Prof. Galit Hasan-Rokem
Presented by the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union
Keynote address co-sponsored by the Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies and the UC Taube Center for Jewish Studies at Stanford University
Wednesday, April 23rd 2025, 9:00am - 5:00pm2400 Ridge Road Berkeley, CA 94709