Silverman Lecture Series

CMES presents the Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture Jochen Hellbeck Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University Jochen Hellbeck is the Distinguished Professor of History at Rutgers University, specializing in modern Russia, the Soviet Union...

CMES presents the Fall 2025 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial lecture with Lisa Suhair Majaj, PhD Poet, writer, editor, and scholar Watch Lisa Suhair Majaj's lecture on YouTube Lisa Suhair Majaj is a poet, writer, scholar, editor and children’s author. She...

The 2023 Hilda B. Silverman Lecture Series, co-sponsored by the CMES Middle East Forum and the Religion and Public Life's Religion, Conflict, and Peace Initiative (Harvard Divinity School), presents Amira Hass Journalist, Haaretz Amira Hass is the Haaretz...

CMES presents the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer Daniel Boyarin Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley Watch a video recording of this...

CMES is pleased to present the 2021 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer Daniel Boyarin Hermann P. and Sophia Taubman Professor of Talmudic Culture, Departments of Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, University of California, Berkeley This lecture will be...

CMES is pleased to present the 2019 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecture with Herbert C. Kelman Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics Emeritus, Harvard University Please note: This event has been CANCELLED, due to unforeseen circumstances. It...

CMES is pleased to present the 2018 Hilda B. Silverman Memorial Lecturer Brian Klug Senior Research Fellow in Philosophy, St. Benet's Hall, University of Oxford Watch Brian Klug's lecture Read Brian Klug's Lecture On December 6. 2017, the U.S...