The Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies hosts a workshop on “Gender and Religious Identity” on 27 May 2019.

This workshop will be followed by Daniel Boyarin’s keynote on Jewish identity. Here is the program:

Welcome 8.45-9.00
9.00-12.00: Gender ses­sion
9.00: Martti Nissinen, HY: The Agency of the Female Prophets of the Hebrew Bible: Independent or Instrumental? Prophetic or Political?
9.30: Saana Svärd, HY: Studying Gender in the Ancient Near East
10.00: Outi Lehtipuu, HY: “No Male and Female”: Gender and the Rhetoric of Recognition in Early Christianity
10.30-11.00 Coffee break
11.00: Susanna Asikainen, HY: Investigating Emphasized Femininities in the Rewritten Biblical Narratives
11.30: Katharina Keim, Lund: Women and Gender in Pirqei deRabbi Eliezer
12.00-13.00: Lunch break

13.00-15.30: Re­li­gious iden­tity ses­sion
13.00: Antti Vanhoja & Nina Nikki, HY: Paulinism and Anti-Paulinism: Cultural Evolutionary Perspectives
13.30: Pekka Lindqvist, ÅA: Confrontations and Exegesis in Early Judaism
14.00-14.30: Coffee break
14.30: Maijastina Kahlos, HY: Pagans, Heretics, or Sorcerers? Labels and Identities in Local Religion in the Fifth Century CE
15.00: Riikka Tuori, HY: Karaite Identity in Early Modern Europe
17.00-19.00 Daniel Boyarin’s keynote lecture “What is the Jews?”
(Venue: Small Hall, University of Helsinki Main Building, Fabianinkatu 33, 4th floor), with reception

For more information and an up-to-date program, please have a look here.

SEE ALSO

The Death and Resurrection of the Old Hebrew Script, 24 Sept 2019 in Helsinki First Qumran Residency, 9–19 Sept 2019 Society of Biblical Literature International Meeting, Rome, 1–5 July 2019 First Congress of the Jewish Studies Society, Strasbourg, 30 June – 2 July 2019 The Scribe in the Biblical World, 17-19 June 2019 in Strasbourg Virtue from Qumran to the Quran, on 8 May 2019 Study tour in Israel, May 2019 Biblical and Archaeological Tour of Ancient Judea, 12-13 April 2019