Herbert D. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies Announces New Cohort of International Fellows

An international cohort of more than 20 scholars convened on Sept. 9, 2015 at the University of Pennsylvania’s Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies for a year of research on the theme of “Jews Beyond Reason: Exploring Emotion, the Unconscious, and Other Dimensions of Jews’ Inner Lives.”

These scholars, chosen for the prestigious residential fellowships from a large pool of applicants, will focus on aspects of internal life that lie beyond reason—emotions and feelings, the unconscious, sensation, imagination, impulse, intuition, mental illness, magic, and the nonrational dimensions of reason itself. These topics are part of a growing field within the humanities in general, of studies of emotion, cognition, and the mind.

In addition to its regular programming of academic seminars, lectures, and colloquia, the Katz Center will offer a series of public programs centered on the same theme of “Jews Beyond Reason.” In partnership with host institutions throughout the Philadelphia area, the center’s fellows will connect with non-academic audiences in a spirit of shared exploration.

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