The North American Levinas Society will host their annual conference virtually this year. This subject of this year’s conference is “THE FACE AND THE INTERFACE: Levinas, Teaching, & Technology”, July 20th-23rd, 2020. Conference participants will reflect on Levinas’s work from the perspective of the COVID-19 pandemic.
UNESCO Chair and University of Oregon Professor Steven Shankman will read aloud and comment on a few poems from his ongoing series of poems entitled “Talmudic Verses.” The title of Professor Shankman’s presentation is “Reading Levinas and Talmud in a Time of Plague: A Poetic Response.” His is the second of two presentations on panel that will be looking at “Confinement and Poetics in Levinas.” The begins at 9:15 (PT) on the morning of July 23rd.
