Speakers

Professor Sergey Dolgopolski is Gordon and Gretchen Gross Professor of Jewish Thought in the University at Buffalo SUNY departments of Jewish Thought and Comparative Literature.

His general area of interest is the variety of ways in which philosophy and literature interact, creating new philosophical concepts and new literary forms.

He specializes in the Talmud as a body of text and thought seen from poetic, rhetorical, and philosophical perspectives.

He is the author of Other Others: The Political After the Talmud (Fordham University Press, 2018); The Open Past: Subjectivity and Remembering in the Talmud (Fordham U. Press, 2012); What is Talmud? The Art of Disagreement (Fordham U. Press, 2009); and a coeditor of Talmud/and/Philosophy (Indiana U. Press, 2024) as well as of When Jews Argue: Between the University and Beit Midrash (Rutledge, 2023). He is currently working on a monograph onthe sense of past and the agency of cited law in the Palestinian Talmud.  

Web: www.buffalo.edu/~sergey or https://arts-sciences.buffalo.edu/jewish-thought/faculty/faculty-staff.host.html/content/shared/arts-sciences/jewish-thought/faculty-profiles/dolgopolski-sergey.html

Lecture: How many tephilin shel rosh (head phylacteries) should conjoined twins wear?