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Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture

Aaron Roland Endowed Lecture

From left to right: Aaron Roland, Miriam Roland, Judith Plaskow, Charlotte Fonrobert

The Aaron Roland Endowed Lectures are supported by the Aaron-Roland Fund For Jewish Studies which was established in 1969 and is our longest running lecture series. In 2016-17, we welcomed back Judith Plaskow, 25 years after she was the Aaron Roland lecturer in 1992. Here are a few of our most recent Aaron Roland lectures:

 

  • 2023-24: Threading History: Jewish Americans and the Garment Industry with Richard Meyer (Art History, Stanford), Hasia Diner (History, NYU), Gabriel Goldstein (Curator, Yeshiva University Museum)
  • 2022-23: Munich: The Film, the Event, and Memory with Oscar-nominated screenwriter and Tony award-winning playwright, Tony Kushner
  • 2019-20: Gender and Access to Justice in the Hebrew Bible  with Justice Daphne Barak-Erez, Professor of Religious Studies at Manhattan College
  • 2018-19: City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement with Sara Yael Hirschhorn, Visiting Assistant Professor in Israel Studies at the Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies at Northwestern University
  • 2017-18: "Denial," History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving with Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College 

Past Events

Date
Thu November 9th 2023, 12:00pm - 1:30pm
Location:
Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Presented in conjunction with the exhibition Morris Hirshfield Rediscovered, on view at Cantor Arts Center through January 21, 2024

Date
Wed October 19th 2022, 5:00pm - 6:30pm
Location:
Oshman Hall, McMurtry Building
355 Roth Way, Stanford, CA 94305

Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, Tony Kushner, will be in conversation with Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert and Dr.

Date
Wed January 15th 2020, 5:00pm - 6:00pm
Location:
Building 460, 4th floor, Terrace Room (426)

Aaron Roland Endowed Lecture

Date
Mon February 11th 2019, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Building 460, 4th floor, Terrace Room

Aaron Roland Endowed Lecture

Date
Mon April 30th 2018, 6:00pm - 7:30pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Humanities Center

Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College

Date
Thu March 9th 2017, 7:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, Stanford Humanities Center

The Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture

Date
Thu November 5th 2015, 5:00pm - 7:00pm
Location:
Kehillah Hall - Ziff Center at the Koret Pavilion - Hillel at Stanford

Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture 

John T. Pawlikowski, Professor of Social Ethics and Director of Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union

Date
Wed October 29th 2014, 6:30pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Cubberly Auditorium

From Alila to Ana Arabia: A rare evening with filmmaker Amos Gitai

Date
Mon October 21st 2013, 7:00pm - 9:00pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall, 424 Santa Teresa St.

Ivan Jablonka, Associate Professor of History at the Université Paris XIII Nord (France)

Date
Mon January 14th 2013, 7:30pm - 9:30pm
Location:
Levinthal Hall- Stanford Humanities Center

Who's Afraid of Assimilation?  Rethinking the Purposes of Jewish Education for the 21st Century