The Global Lehrhaus Seminar: Topographies of Exile
Sessions
Each session will focus on a different aspect of upheaval and repair.
Session 12: Quo Vadis? Post-Corona: Homecoming and Tikkun Olam
As we envision an emergence from the pandemic, our final session will address the overarching question of Quo vadis—whither we should march to heal the medical, social and political scars wrought by the pandemic.
Session 10: Our Bodies in the Time of Pandemic: a Cross-Theological Discussion
This Lehrhaus Institute Seminar session will be vital discussion of corporality, spirituality and theology in and after pandemic.
Session 11: Art and Healing in and after a Pandemic
This session will examine existential and religious responses to the pandemic as expressed in art and humor, and wither laughter or rhyme may help at this time.
Session 9: Philosophic Reflections on Pandemic
This Lehrhaus Institute session will explore responses to the pandemic through the lens of philosophical scholarship.
Session 7: Medical Responses to Pandemic
This Lehrhaus Institute Seminar session will be a roundtable discussion featuring medical professionals from around the world exploring the medical community’s response to the ethical and practical challenge brought by the pandemic.
Session 5: Catholic and Protestant Responses to Pandemic
This Lehrhaus Institute Exile Seminar will be a roundtable discussion featuring scholars and practitioners, as well as members of the clergy, exploring Protestant and Catholic theological, pastoral and community responses to the pandemic.
Session 4: Jewish Responses to Pandemic
The Lehrhaus Institute Exile Seminar roundtable discussion on Jewish theological, pastoral, and communal responses to the pandemic. What resources might Judaism provide to flourish in and after pandemic?
Session 3: Fiction in the Time of Pandemic
This Lehrhaus Institute session will be a discussion of Albert Camus’ The Plague.
Session 2: Poetry in the Time of Pandemic
This Lehrhaus Institute Seminar session will be a roundtable conversation of poets on their craft in response to the pandemic. The discussion is entitled: "The Symbolic Significance of the Pandemic in and Through Our Poems."
Session 1: Inaugural Discussion
The Lehrhaus Institute’s Seminar opens with an introductory roundtable discussion probing responses to the social and ethical challenges posed by this pandemic. Featuring: Noah Feldman, Felix Frankfurter Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, host of the Podcast ‘Deep Background of Difference,’ and Bloomberg Opinion Columnist, Roberta Jacobson, former White House Coordinator for the Southern Border, former Assistant Secretary of State for the Western Hemisphere, and former U.S. Ambassador to Mexico, and Jerry Brown, Executive Chair, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, Chair, California-China Climate Institute, former Governor of California.