Come debate the NBA lockout, November 15, 2011 3-4 PM

DEBATING THE NBA LOCKOUT

A Philosophical Exchange Between Players, Owners and You

Tuesday November 15

3 PM to 4 PM

Monarch Hall

How should the profits be split?

Should players accept a salary cap?

Is there hope for a season?

Come listen and participate in this philosophical debate

Philosophical Poetry Night! November 8, 2011 7:30-8:30

Come join us for Philosophical Poetry Night. There will be faculty poets as well as student poets lined up to read and share their art.

The reading will take place in the Fireside Room.

Contact Christopher Pallotti pallotc@lavc.edu or 818-947-2468

Annual Meetings 2011 of American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literature (SBL)

Annual Meetings 2011 of American Academy of Religion (AAR) and Society of Biblical Literatrure (SBL) will be held in San Francisco November 19-22.

The National Association of Professors of Hebrew (NAPH) is an affiliate of SBL and will be running a number of sessions. One session will feature the Jewish Jesus (by Zev Garber) volume as a Book Event.

National Association of Professors of Hebrew
11/20/2011
4:00 PM to 6:45 PM
Room: Golden Gate C1 - Marriott

Theme: Book Discussion: Zev Garber, ed., The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Purdue University Press, 2011)

Edward Goldman, Hebrew Union College - Jewish Institution of Religion, Presiding
Herbert Basser, Queens University
Jesus’s Demand to Abandon Worldly Possessions to Enter the Everlasting Kingdom (20 min)
Rivka Ulmer, Bucknell University
Psalm 22 in Pesiqta Rabbati: The Suffering of the Jewish Messiah and Jesus (20 min)
James F. Moore, Valparaiso University
Who Do We Say Jesus Is? (20 min)
Steven Leonard Jacobs, University of Alabama
Do Jesus and Paul Truly Matter Judaically? (20 min)
Emily Leah Silverman, Graduate Theological Union
Edith Stein Jewish Husband Jesus (20 min)
John T. Pawlikowski, Catholic Theological Union
Is a Jewish Jesus Significant For the Christ of Christian Faith? (20 min)
Zev Garber, Los Angeles Valley College, Respondent (30 min)

for more information, please contact Zev Garber at zevgarber@juno.com

Zev Garber to Speak at UCLA on the Jewish Jesus Oct 10, 12 noon

The event is free and open to the public, but pre-registration is required.

Please call 310-267-5327 or email cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu to pre-

register.

2nd Annual LACCD Philosophy Conference

Please join us for the 2nd Annual LACCD Philosophy Conference on April 15, 2011 from 10 AM - 3 PM in Monarch Hall at LA Valley College! The conference will be a celebration of philosophy and a gathering of faculty and students in the sharing of new ideas and opinions: faculty and students will present papers on various philosophical subjects such as ethics, political philosophy, logic, ancient philosophy, etc.

Continental Breakfast and Lunch will be served! Parking is available in lot B and can be accessed from Oxnard Blvd or Fulton Ave. Requests for accommodations for persons with disabilities should be directed to either myself Chris Pallotti pallotc@lavc.edu, Zack Knorr zknorr@gmail.com or Nate Placencia placenn@lavc.edu.

Assistant Professor of Philosophy, Rob Gressis, will be the keynote speaker. Professor Gressis is on faculty at California State University Northridge Philosophy and he will be presenting on what philosophy is. Professor Gressis is an excellent speaker and I am sure he will enlighten us. I am also very excited to announce that our plenary speaker will be Professor of Jewish Studies/Philosophy Zev Garber. Professor Garber is a renowned author/speaker and has been on faculty here at LAVC for over 30 years. Professor Garber will speak on a philosophical-mystical take on the Jewish Jesus to acknowledge the publication of his new edited volume, The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation (Purdue University Press, 2011).

The Great Philosophers Lecture Series

Please join us on Tuesdays from 7-8:30 in CC-104. Contact Chris Pallotti at 818-947-2468

for details.