Two Lectures by Professor Naomi Seidman

Concordia University Institute for Canadian Jewish Studies and Figura, Département d’études françaises announce two lectures by Professor Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto

Lecture I:

Freud and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self

Monday, February 18 at 4:00 pm in Room H 537 of the Hall Building, 1455 de Maisonneuve, West (Metro: Guy-Concordia).

Lecture II

Sister Scholars: The Emergence of Orthodox Girls' Education in Interwar Poland

Tuesday, February 19 at 5:00 pm in the Religions and Cultures Department Seminar Room (R-103, 2050 McKay Street, Metro: Guy-Concordia). Light refreshments will be served. 

Professor Seidman is Jackman Humanities Professor at the University of Toronto and a Guggenheim Fellow (2016). Her books include A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Sexual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (1997); Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation (2006); The Marriage Plot, Or, How Jews Fell in Love with Love, and with Literature (2016); and Sarah Schenirer and Bais Yaakov: A Revolution in the Name of Tradition (2019). Professor Seidman’s current research is on Freud and Yiddish.