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Dan Levene

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University of Southampton
Dan is a professor in the School of Humanities at Southampton University. His research interests are Jewish Aramaic magical texts from Late Antiquity, and metallurgical realia in the classical Jewish sources up to and including Late Antiquity.
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William Bechtel

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UC San Diego
William is a professor in the Department of Philosophy at UC San Diego. His research interests are philosophy of the life sciences, including cell and molecular biology, biochemistry, neuroscience and cognitive science.
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Zeev Weiss

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The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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David Ellenson

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Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles
David is a professor in the Jewish Institute of Religion at Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles. His research interests are: history of modern Jewish religious movements; modern Jewish religious thought; Jewish liturgy in the modern era; sociological analysis of modern Rabbinic responsa.

A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters

[RG #145] A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters

September 1, 2015 - January 31, 2016

Organizer: Yigal Bronner (The Hebrew University)

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Dandin’s Mirror of Poetry (Kāvyādarśa), a Sanskrit work on poetics composed in South India around 700 CE, is one of the most influential treatises ever produced in Asia.

The work was translated and adapted into a variety of languages in the south of the Indian peninsula and the island of Sri Lanka (Kannada, Tamil, Sinhala, and Pali), travelled to Southeast Asia (Burma and Indonesia), was repeatedly translated in northern and central Asia (Tibet and Mongolia), and may even have exercised influence on poetic praxis in China. Moreover, it is hard to overstate the profound impact of Dandin’s Mirror, which, in distant corners of Asia and at different times, consistently emboldened new literary beginnings.

 

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Ronit Meroz

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Tel Aviv University

Ronit is a professor in the Department of Jewish Philosophy, Talmud and Kabbalah at Tel Aviv University. Her research interests are Jewish mysticism (especially Book Bahir, the Book of Zohar, Lurianic Kabbalah).

George Quinn

George Quinn

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Australian National University

George Quinn is a professor at the School of Culture, History & Language at the Australian National University.

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His research focuses on the literature and popular culture of contemporary Java; patterns and sites of pilgrimmage in Java and Madura; and the Catholic Church in East Timor.

2018-2019 Fellow: New Directions in the Study of Javanese Literature

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Roman Bezrukavnikov

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MIT
Roman is a professor in The Department of Mathematics at MIT. His research interests are algebraic geometry and representation theory.