Hebrew Forum

Instructor: Vered Karti Shemtov
Office Hours: by appointment.
Email:   vshemtov@stanford.edu

The Hebrew forum meets once a week in Hillel (second floor library) on Tuesdays or Thursdays between 11:00-12:15 for conversations with Israeli scholars. All the conversations are in Hebrew although they will be targeted for advanced level and not only for native speakers. Advanced students can take it for 2 or 4 units or they can just join the forum whenever they want.

No units: no commitments
For 2 units: Attend all sessions with guest scholars, and write a short assignment on the topic
For 4 units: Attend Tue and Thu session. Guest speakers seesion and meet with the instructors to work on the vocabulary related to the topic of the week's lecture

Tentative Plan:

September 27: Professor Tal Goldn, History of Science, University of California, San Diego

October 4: Professor Sam Wineburg, Margaret Jacks Professor of Education and (by courtesy) of History

October 11: Renana Keidar, PhD Student, will discusslLegal issues in Israel

October 18th: Moshe Sakal, Author

October 25: Ruth Hershberg, Stanford and Technion (Israel), Professor of Biology.

November 1st: TBD

November 8th: Professor Ari Dubnov, Intelectual History

November 15th: TBD

Special date: November 30th, 12:00 : Eskol Nevo, Author
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December 6: Maya Arad, Author