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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 4 August 2020
Mark KligmanProfessor of Ethnomusicology and Musicology, Herb Alpert School of Music UCLA and Director of Lowell Milken Fund for American Jewish Music in dialogue with
Baruch Cohon
Rabbi and cantor in California lecturer University of Judaism, Hebrew Union Musical editor on the 3rd…[Read more]
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Carl Gelderloos deposited Introduction to Marx & Critical Theory | Spring 2020 in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis is the syllabus for an introductory course on Marx and critical theory that I taught at Binghamton University in the spring semester, 2020. It revises and expands an earlier iteration of the course that I had taught in spring, 2018, also at Binghamton University.
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThe next ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 28 July 2020
What’s on your mind?
The High Holydays 2020: how will they sound in Lockdown, and what are the implications for Cantors in the future?
Curated by Russell Grossman for ECA with international cross-denominational panel including Alex Klein, Manchester and Jeremiah Lockwood, Califo…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoNext week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ (COZ) Tuesday 21 July 2020
Join Malcolm Miller and Malcolm Singer discussing ‘The Composer in Lockdown: Malcolm Singer’s Jewish Works’
Tuesday 21 July 2020: Pacific: 09:00 / Eastern USA: 12.00 / UK: 17:00 / Western Europe 18:00 / Israel 19:00 (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and soc…[Read more]
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Darshi Arachige deposited Kali’s Child – A Search for An Autobiographical Ramakrishna in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 6 months agoThis is a review of the book “Kali’s Child: The Mystical and the Erotic in the Life and Teachings of Ramakrishna, Jeffrey J. Kripal, University of Chicago Press, 1995” . “Kali’s child” fell well short of a proof that Sri Ramakrishna’s mystical experiences were actually “profoundly, provocatively, scandalously erotic”. To reconstruct the autobiogr…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoNext week’s ‘Conversation on Zoom’ Tuesday 14 July (COZ) 14 July 2020
We invite you to join Jeremiah Lockwood PhD candidate at Stanford University Graduate School and accomplished radical Jewish musicians- (Sway Machinery), in dialogue with and Hankus Netsky Multi-instrumentalist, composer, teacher and scholar, founder-director of the Klezm…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic instituting ‘speed sessions’ on 28 July in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe ‘Speed Sessions’ (last Tuesday of the Month in the COZ slot) will be an opportunity to speak about ‘What is on your Mind’. The Theme for 28 July is:
‘High Holidays: what will they sound like in Lockdown and how might this impact on cantors in the future’.
This is a cross demoninational platform.
If you woud like to speak for ten minutes…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoTuesday 7 July 2020
Pacific: 09:00 / Eastern USA: 12.00 / UK: 17:00 / Western Europe 18:00 / Israel 19:00 (The room will open 15 minutes early for greetings and socialising).We invite you to join Professor Jehoash Hirshberg and Rakefet Bar-Sadeh
in dialogue with Israeli Composer Tzvi Avni (b 1927)about his long creative career, with exam…[Read more] -
Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic COZ this comng week in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoReminder for COZ this wee: Tuesday 30 June
Cantor Matthew Austerklein Beth El Congregation, Akron, Ohio
in dialogue with
Cantor Abraham Lubin
Past-President of the Cantors Assembly on sixty-five years as a cantor across three continents.See the updated COZ Ongoing document attached with all the programmes.
Zoom Log-in https://hcommons-staging.…[Read more]
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Martha Stellmacher replied to the topic Conversations on Zoom in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThe recording of the first Conversation on Zoom (Professsor Eliyahu Schleifer and Dr Naomi Cohn-Zentner, 23 June 2020) as well as the Powerpoint Presentation is available for download here.
Many thanks to both speakers and the large audience (more than 70 participants)!
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Geraldine Auerbach replied to the topic Conversations on Zoom in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoTo Members of the Jewish Music Group
We are excited that ‘Conversations on Zoom’ launches tomorrow, Tuesday 23 June (09:00 Los Angeles; 12.00 New York; 17:00 UK; 18:00 Hannover, 19:00 Jerusalem time)
Dr Naomi Cohn Zentner will be talking to professor Eliyahu Schliefer about Sailing Through Long Liturgical Texts: Ashkenazi Cantorial Ren…[Read more]
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Andreas Vrahimis deposited Wittgenstein and Heidegger against a Science of Aesthetics in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoWittgenstein’s and Heidegger’s objections against the possibility of a science of aesthetics were influential on different sides of the analytic/continental divide. Heidegger’s anti-scientism leads him to an alētheic view of artworks which precedes and exceeds any possible aesthetic reduction. Wittgenstein also rejects the relevance of causal…[Read more]
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Hervé Roten started the topic Music Festival… in a Jewish mood in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDear colleagues,
Many countries celebrate the Music Festival this June 21. On this occasion, the European Institute of Jewish Music (Paris) is pleased to present to you 4 playlists of Jewish music on its website.
Also have a look at our English newsletter to enjoy all other online content.
Good listening, Shabbat shalom and kol tov.
Hervé…[Read more]
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Geraldine Auerbach started the topic Conversations on Zoom in the discussion
Jewish Music on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoDear Friends and Colleagues.
Welcome to the new International Forum for Jewish Music Studies. As you know the Forum launches Tuesday, 23 June 2020, with ‘Conversations on Zoom’ (COZ) where scholars, practitioners and archivists engage in dialogue on their work, interests and approaches.
To join the conversation with the log-in details go to
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Ismail Royer deposited Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims – Urdu in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 7 months agoThis is an Urdu translation of the work “Pakistan’s Blasphemy Law and Non-Muslims”
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Rebecca Ruth Gould deposited High Tide of the Eyes: Poems by Bijan Elahi in the group
Islamicate Studies on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoThe hermit-poet of modern Persian literature, Bijan Elahi (1945-2010) was a modernist poet, a prolific translator of Eliot, Rimbaud, Michaux, Hölderlin, and the founder of Other Poetry, the leading avant-garde movement within Persian modernism. Elahi passed the last three decades of his life in seclusion in his house in Tehran. He stopped…[Read more]
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Sandra Leonie Field deposited The Politics of Being Part of Nature in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoGenevieve Lloyd argues that when we follow Spinoza in understanding reason as a part of nature, we gain new insights into the human condition. Specifically, we gain a new political insight: we should respond to cultural difference with a pluralist ethos. This is because there is no pure universal reason; human minds find their reason shaped…[Read more]
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Sandra Leonie Field deposited Course Design to Connect Theory to Real-world Cases: Teaching Political Philosophy in Asia in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoStudents often have difficulty connecting theoretical and text-based scholarship to the real world. When teaching in Asia, this disconnection is exacerbated by the European/American focus of many canonical texts, whereas students’ own experiences are primarily Asian. However, in my discipline of political philosophy, this problem receives little…[Read more]
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Sandra Leonie Field deposited Political power and depoliticized acquiescence: Spinoza and aristocracy in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAccording to a recent interpretive orthodoxy, Spinoza is a profoundly democratic theorist of state authority. I reject this orthodoxy. To be sure, for Spinoza, a political order succeeds in proportion as it harnesses the power of the people within it. However, Spinoza shows that political inclusion is only one possible strategy to this end;…[Read more]
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Sandra Leonie Field deposited ‘China and England: On the Structural Convergence of Political Values’. Responding to China and England: The Preindustrial Struggle for Social Justice in Word and Image, by Martin Powers. in the group
Philosophy on Humanities Commons 5 years, 8 months agoAt the centre of Powers’ (2019) China and England is an extraordinary forgotten episode in the history of political ideas. There was a time when English radicals critiqued the corruption and injustice of the English political system by contrasting it with the superior example of China. There was a time when they advocated adopting a Chinese…[Read more]
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