The group meets several times each term on weeks alternate to the Senior OT/HB Seminar to discuss papers presented primarily by graduate students, but also by invited senior faculty. It is a great opportunity to interact with each other's research, explore new ideas, and build relationships.
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Date: 14 February 4.30pm
Place: Faculty of Divinity, Lightfoot Room
Speaker: Rosalie Moloney is a 3rd Year PhD student here at Cambridge working on "Putting Tamar in her Place."
Paper: Rosalie will be presenting a paper entitled "Tamar: Agent of God?"
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CANCELLED - Date: 28 February 4.30pm
Place: Faculty of Divinity, Room 7
Speaker: Dr Paul Michael Kurtz is a Marie Curie Fellow at the Faculty of Divinity and a Postdoctoral Research Associate at Queens' College, as well as a Postdoctoral Fellow of the Research Foundation – Flanders, based at Ghent University. Paul's larger work is on German intellectual history, historiography, and the history of knowledge, with more disciplinarily-concrete agenda in the history of interpretation and the history of biblical, oriental, and theological scholarship in late modern Europe.
Paper: Paul will be speaking about his current research project on political representations of ancient Judaism in the German-speaking lands of the 19th century against the background of discourse on the nation and national identity. In addition, Paul will share his wisdom for early-career academics by talking about his experiences as a doctoral and now postdoctoral researcher.
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Date: 14 March 4.30pm
Place: Faculty of Divinity, Room 7
Speaker: Bruno Clifton is a Catholic priest and Dominican friar, as well as a PhD student at Cambridge. His research focuses particularly on social scientific approaches to the Bible.
Paper: Bruno will be presenting on "Family and Identity in the Book of Judges". This is also the title of Bruno's PhD dissertation.
