Levinson Lectures

Date	Speaker	Tile of Lecture
2023 2022 2022	Heidi Campbell Professor of Communication and Religious Studies, Texas A&M University Linda Gradstein Professor of Journalism at NYU-Tel Aviv and Hebrew University Anne E. Parsons Author of From Asylum to Prison Director and Associate Professor of Public History at the University of North Carolina at Greensboro Adam Carlin Director of Learning & Engagement at the Everson Museum of Art in Syracuse, NY and co-Director of the Greensboro Contemporary Jewish Museum	The Future of the Hybrid Synagogue: Considering the Challenges and Opportunities Created by Technology for Jewish Congregations in a Post-Pandemic Era Women in Israeli Society: The Army, the Rabbis, and Me Remembering Resistance: A Jewish Uprising in Ukraine
2021	Andrew Marantz Author of the New York Times Notable book Antisocial	Antisocial Media: Antisemitism and Combating Religious Hate Online
2019	Marcie Cohen Ferris Professor of American Studies at the University of North Carolina Chapel Hill	The Jewish South: Race, Place, & Religion in an American Region
2018	Sarah Imhoff Assistant Professor in the Department of Religious Studies & the Borns Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University	Jewish Men Past and Present: Sexuality and Stereotypes
2017	Susan Niditch Samuel Green Professor of Religion at Amherst College	Proclaim Peace: War in the Hebrew Bible and Beyond
2016	Amy-Jill Levine University Professor of New Testament & Jewish Studies, Mary Jane Werthan Professor of Jewish Studies & Professor of New Testament Studies at Vanderbilt University	Jesus’ Parables as Jewish Stories
2015	Jarrod Tanny Associate Professor of History & the Charles Hannah Block Distinguished Scholar in Jewish History at the University of North Carolina Wilmington	From the Borscht Belt to the Bnei Mississippi: Jewish Humor in Dixieland
2014	Martin Kavka Professor of Religion at Florida State University	Letting God in to the Public Sphere: On the Politics of Covenant