Yeshiva University Museum

A Bernard Revel Graduate School of Jewish Studies public conference, in memory of Professor Ron Birke

2pm Opening Dedication
Mimi Klimberg

2.15pm-3.15pm Session 1 (Chair: Jonathan Dauber)
Dr. Jeremy Brown MD (National Institutes of Health, Bethesda MD)
The Surprising Influence of Maimonides’ Book on Poisons
Dr. Hava Tirosh Samuelson (Regents Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, Arizona State University)
Maimonides and the Science of Ecology: Nature, Law, and Virtue

3.15-3.25 Break

3.30pm-4.30pm Session 2 (Chair: Martin Kaufman)
Dr. Yehuda Halper (Professor, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Bar Ilan University & Visiting Professor, Divinity School, University of Chicago).
New Ideas in Old Books: Maimonides on Scientific and Religious Commentaries
Dr. Alexander Green (Assistant Professor of Humanities, Hamilton School for Classical and Civic Education, University of Florida).
The Moral Psychology of Maimonides' Laws of Repentance

4.30-4.40 Break

4.45-5.30 Keynote Address (Chair: Daniel Rynhold)
Dr. Zeev Harvey (Professor Emeritus, Department of Jewish Thought, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Why Was Natural Science so Important to Maimonides?

Free admission but registration required. Please email revelevents@yu.edu to RSVP.

Co-presented by Yeshiva University Museum