For the Religious Studies Program March Brownbag Lunch Series, Affiliate Professor Adam Stern (German and Jewish Studies) will present the talk:
“The Logic of Protection”
Friday, March 21st, 2025
12:15 – 1:15pm
Room 202/204 Bradley Memorial Building
(1225 Linden Dr. Madison, WI 53706. Stair-free access to the building is available through the south entrance)
This talk will introduce the life and work of Ilan Halevi (1943-2013), best known as the first Jewish member of the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It will set his writing on Jewish history and memory against the background of contemporary debates about Zionism and settler colonialism.
Open to all, please share widely with anyone who might be interested in attending!
About the speaker: Adam Stern arrived at the University of Wisconsin–Madison in 2019. His first book, Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy, was published with the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2021. Recent articles have appeared in journals such as CR: The New Centennial Review, Modern Intellectual History, and Critical Times. He is currently working on a synthetic genealogy of the Jewish settler.