| 26 Apr 2022 | 15:00 | Online | |
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Description
We are excited to welcome Dr Zalman Rothschild, from the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, to present this first seminar in the Cambridge-Harvard Right to Science Study Group at gloknos.
Science is not part of Hasidic culture, an absence that begins with Hasidic education: many Hasidic children (especially Hasidic boys) do not receive meaningful secular education, including no education in the basic sciences. The New York State Education Department will soon enact reinforced compulsory education regulations, including minimum standards for teaching science in private religious schools. When the regulations are released in the coming months, they will ignite a firestorm of controversy. The stakes for the Hasidic community are high: the Hasidic curriculum is understood to be sacred, and one of Hasidism’s most central values, which represents its core identity, is the rejection of modernity and secularism. This talk and discussion will explore the normative debate regarding regulating Hasidic education.
Prof William S Koski (Stanford) will moderate this discussion, and Prof Paul Billingham (Oxford) will provide a response to the talk.
Attendance is free but spaces may be limited, so please reserve a space in the Zoom audience. Please be aware that we may take a recording of this event, which may include any questions and responses delivered by the audience.
gloknos is initially funded for 5 years by the European Research Council through a Consolidator Grant awarded to Dr Inanna Hamati-Ataya for her project ARTEFACT (2017-2022). ARTEFACT is funded by the European Research Council under the European Union’s Horizon 2020 Framework Programme for Research and Innovation (ERC grant agreement no. 724451). For information about gloknos or ARTEFACT please contact the administrator in the first instance.
The speakers
Zalman Rothschild holds a JD from Harvard Law School, magna cum laude, an MA from Yeshiva University, and a PhD in Religion from New York University. He clerked on the US Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit. His scholarship has appeared or is forthcoming in Columbia Law Review, University of Chicago Law Review, California Law Review, the Journal of Law and Religion, and Cornell Law Review, and has been covered by the New York Times. His writing for popular audiences has appeared in The Atlantic, The Guardian, and Marginalia Los Angeles Review of Books, among other outlets.
He is currently a Nonresident Fellow at the University of Lucerne School of Law, a Nonresident Fellow at the Stanford Constitutional Law Center, and an Adjunct Professor of Law at New York University School of Law.
William S Koski is the Eric and Nancy Wright Professor of Clinical Education and also the founder and director of the law school’s Youth and Education Law Project (YELP). He has also taught multidisciplinary graduate seminars and courses in educational law and policy.
Reflecting his multidisciplinary background as a lawyer and social scientist, Professor Koski’s scholarly work focuses on the related issues of educational accountability, equity and adequacy; the politics of educational policy reform; teacher employment policies; and judicial decision-making in educational policy reform litigation.
Paul Billingham is Professor of Political Theory at Magdalen College, Oxford. His research centres on the relationship between the actions of the state and the beliefs and values of citizens, especially their religious beliefs.
Paul also considers both the way in which citizens’ beliefs might constrain state action, given the liberal demand that laws be justified to all citizens, and the ways in which the state might permissibly seek to influence citizens’ values, to conform them to liberal ideals.
