Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture

For this year's lecture, we welcome Dr Amir Teicher (Tel Aviv University) who will speak on Mendeling Jews: A History of Racial Genetics.

The Construction of Genetic Identities: The Case of the Jewish Genome Prof. Erika Hagelberg (Department of Biosciences, University of Oslo; Cheney Fellow in the Arts, University of Leeds) New developments in DNA technology are having a huge impact on medical genetics, forensic identification, and exciting areas of research, including ancient DNA studies. But the technology...

Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the Astrolabe; The Establishment of a New Science in the 12th Century Within the ten-year period from 1140 to 1150, the first texts on the astrolabe were written in Hebrew, and several translations and original works were written in Latin. The texts were either translations of, or closely dependent on Arabic...

Einstein's Jewish Science Steven Gimbel (Gettysburg College) This year's Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Steven Gimbel, who holds the Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Chair at Gettsyburg College, and is the author of the recent book Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion (Baltimore, 2012).  The...

Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing Sander Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University): The Selig Brodetsky Lecture was given in conjunction with the Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture project, supported by the Burton Family Charitable Trust,...