Naomi Seidman is Director of the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies and Koret Professor of Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union Berkeley, CA, and part of the Jewish Studies Faculty at U.C. Berkeley. She is the author of two books, Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation (University of Chicago Press, 2006) and A Marriage Made in Heaven: The Secual Politics of Hebrew and Yiddish (University of California Press, 1997), and numerous articles on issues of difference, gender, Judaism, history, literature, translation and sexuality.
(There will be a reception and dinner for faculty before the talk beginning at 5pm in Carleton’s Severance Great Hall.