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The Honors Program always enjoys the opportunity to feature what YU’s own faculty is working on. For our final luncheon of the fall semester on December 12th, we were honored to host a Faculty Reading in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, and Poetry. The reading featured Professors David Puretz, Liesl Schwabe, and Brian Trimboli of the YC English Department […]
In another installment of our Humanities in Dialogue series on November 7th, Professor Ronnie Perelis sat down with Professor Daniel Rynhold to discuss Prof. Rynhold’s new book, Nietzsche, Soloveitchik, and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy (Cambridge University Press, 2018), co-authored with Michael J. Harris. Their conversation gave students the opportunity to learn more about Prof. Rynhold’s research and […]
We are pleased to announce that the Honors Program has both a new home and a new director! Over the summer, the program moved from Furst Hall to Belfer Hall, and Dr. Daniel Rynhold took over as the director of the program. Following this transition, the Honors Program had an eventful October, packed with luncheons, […]
Last week, the Honors Program held two memoir events, featuring three different authors.
On Monday, November 6th, we had a special “Evening with Faculty Memoirists,” with Prof. Joy Ladin (David and Ruth Gottesman Professor of English at Stern College for Women) and Prof. Joanne Jacobson (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of English, […]
Our last few Honors luncheons were devoted to hearing from our YU faculty on various topics.
On September 27, Rabbi Ozer Glickman spoke on “The Future of Torah, Poetry, and the Humanities in the Age of Big Data.” Rabbi Glickman has spent years applying data science to rich data sets in the […]
Welcome to a new school year at YC Honors!
After a range of Honors orientation activities and our Welcome Back luncheon, the Honors Program started our regular luncheon series again today with a reading by our very own Professor of English, Richard Nochimson.
Prof. Nochimson, who has been teaching Yeshiva University students about fiction […]
On April 26, YU Assistant Vice President for Government Affairs Phil Goldfeder shared his political experience with Honors students at our weekly luncheon lecture series. He spoke about balancing Judaism with a life of public service.
To read a detailed account of his talk, click here.
The spring semester is off to a great start at the Jay & Jeanie Schottenstein Honors Program! We started off our spring luncheon series on February 1st, when Honors Students has a chance to meet the new director of the Honors Program, Prof. Shalom Holtz.
Another highlight of our February luncheon schedule was the […]
The Honors Program’s fall luncheon series is off to a great start!
On September 7th, we held our first luncheon of the semester, a Welcome Luncheon, where students gathered to hear about our plans for the semester and got to share their ideas as well. New students and old enjoyed pizza and heard from the […]
Dr. Erin Graff Zivin visited the Honors Program to talk about her book, Figurative Inquisitions: Conversion, Torture, and Truth in the Luso-Hispanic Atlantic. Dr. Erin Graff Zivin is the Chairperson of the Spanish and Portuguese and Comparative Literature Department at the University of Southern California, and is an expert on Marrano culture.
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