Five College Faculty Seminar in Book History with Benjamin Braude, Associate Professor of History, Boston College. Wednesday, March 5.
Prof. Benjamin Braude, History, Boston College, Research Associate, Religion, Smith College, has held appointments at Harvard, Princeton, École des hautes études en sciences sociales Paris, the Institute for Advanced Studies of the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, the Universidad Complutensa de Madrid, and St. Antony's College Oxford. Harvard has awarded him degrees in History (BA, Magna cum Laude, MA, PhD).
He has written extensively on race and identity in transnational perspective, including essays for the William and Mary Quarterly and Annales. His range of publications extends to American, Ottoman, Jewish, medieval European, and Islamic history. A major publication is the second edition (Boulder, Colorado, 2014) of the widely-cited classic collection Christians and Jews in the Ottoman Empire, (first edition, co-edited with Bernard Lewis NY. 1982), partial Croatian translation (Sarajevo, 2009).
This presentation for the Five-College Book History Seminar is excerpted from The Mysteries of Simone Weil, a work-in-progress drawing upon documents, newly discovered or long neglected, from archives and libraries in Europe and the United States.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Christian-Jewish Learning at Boston College
This talk will be offered online. Please register here.