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:
- 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
Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright and screenwriter, Tony Kushner, will be in conversation with Prof. Charlotte Fonrobert and Dr.
Aaron Roland Endowed Lecture
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College
The Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture
Aaron-Roland Endowed Lecture
John T. Pawlikowski, Professor of Social Ethics and Director of Catholic-Jewish Studies Program at Catholic Theological Union
From Alila to Ana Arabia: A rare evening with filmmaker Amos Gitai
Ivan Jablonka, Associate Professor of History at the Université Paris XIII Nord (France)
Who's Afraid of Assimilation? Rethinking the Purposes of Jewish Education for the 21st Century
"Israel in a Turbulent Middle East"