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18 July 2021|Event

Summer School: Facets of Early Modern Scepticism

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The third summer school of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies—Jewish Scepticism will be an online event held from 18–23 July 2021.

13 July 2021|Academic Affairs

Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres

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The Académie des Inscriptions et Belles-Lettres elected Senior Fellow at MCAS, Carlos Lévy, as academician for the Jean-Louis Ferrary chair...

7 July 2021|Academic Affairs

New Professor at Universität Hamburg

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Senior fellow at the Maimonides Centre, Eike Ursula Großmann, Hōsei-University, Japan, was accepted as professor for Japanese Studies / Cultural...

5 July 2021|Event

Online Lecture: Beyond Scepticism

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Dr. Jelscha Schmid, University of Basel, will give the lecture "Beyond Scepticism—Maimon’s Rational Dogmatism and the Method of Fictions."

21 June 2021|Research

Postponed: International Conference "Judaism, Zionism, and Scepticism in the Scholarship of Richard H. Popkin"

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The conference on "Judaism, Zionism, and Scepticism in the Scholarship of Richard H. Popkin" has been postponed to 9–11 May 2022.

13 April 2021|Event

The Female Contribution to Generation in Medieval Hebrew Texts

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Our senior fellow Resianne Smidt van Gelder-Fontaine will give a lecture on the treatment of the female contribution to the formation of the embryo in...

8 March 2021|Publication

Out in Print

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A Touch of Doubt (STIS 9)
Rachel Aumiller

What can we know about ourselves and the world through the sense of touch and what are the epistemic limits...

1 February 2021|Jewish Philosophy

Online Workshop: Mendelssohn's Commentary on Qohelet

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Mendelssohn’s commentary on Qohelet is a treatise that tackles prominent themes within natural religion such as the immortality of the soul and divine...

31 January 2021|Teaching

CfA: Summer School 2021

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The summer school "Facets of Early Modern Scepticism" is intended for MA students and PhD candidates from the humanities. 15 scholarships are...

12 January 2021|Jewish Philosophy

The Suspension of Judgment in Pyrrhonian and Cartesian Scepticism

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A Maimonides Lecture by Dr. Alexandra Zinke, Junior Professor at Philosophisches Seminar, Universität Tübingen.

10 December 2020|Academic Affairs

Fellowships 2021–22: Call for Applications

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The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies invites researchers to apply for its junior and senior fellowship programme for the academic year 1 October...

1 December 2020|Jewish Philosophy

The Voice of Written Texts and the Myth of Jewish Andalusian Freethinking

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A Maimonides Lecture by Prof. Sarah Stroumsa, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

27 October 2020|Event

Annual Lecture

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We would like to invite you to MCAS's Annual Lecture on October 27, 2020, at 18:00. Gianni Paganini (Università del Piemonte Orientale) will give the...

6 July 2020|Publication

Out in Print

Judah Halevi’s Fideistic Scepticism in the Kuzar

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As scepticism has rarely been studied in the context of the Arabic culture and its Judeo-Arabic sub-culture, it is small wonder that sceptical motifs...

18 June 2020|Academic Affairs

Ada Rapoport-Albert

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The Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies (MCAS) is deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Prof. Dr. Ada Rapoport-Albert, a member of MCAS’s Board...

20 May 2020|Publication

Out in Print: MCAS Yearbook 2019

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The 2019 edition of the Yearbook of the Maimonides Centre for Advanced Studies contains 12 brand new articles that exhibit significant advancement in...

16 March 2020|International Affairs

Coronavirus

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In light of the spread of the coronavirus in Germany and abroad, the Universität Hamburg has reassessed the situation and associated precautionary...

4 February 2020|Jewish Philosophy

Humour and Scepticism in Narratives in the Babylonian Talmud

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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Tuesday, February 4, 2020, at 18:00. Reuven Kiperwasser will talk about "'Had It...

14 January 2020|Jewish Philosophy

Workshop: Spinoza’s Anti-Sceptical System and Its Aftermath

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We would like to invite you to MCAS's next workshop on January 14–15, 2020.

8 January 2020|Jewish Philosophy

Skepticism as Philosophy

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We would like to invite you to a Maimonides Lecture on Scepticism on Wednesday, January 8, 2020, at 18:00. Katja Vogt (Columbia University) will talk...

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