Lunch Colloquium with Masahide Goto and Takashi Sato

ABOUT THE EVENT

Join us for lunch and a presentation by Masahide Goto (Saga University, Japan) and Takashi Sato (Hokkai-Gakuen University, Japan, Visiting Scholar Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies NYU), entitled: Unexpected Affinities: Japanese Receptions of German Jewish Thought and Culture.

Kosher lunch will be served from 12:30 PM to 1:00 PM is open to students and NYU community members only. Presentation with start at 1:00 PM and is open to all.

German Jewish thought and culture have fascinated Japanese thinkers. This special lunch seminar will bring together two Japanese scholars of German Judaism who will discuss the relation of Japanese thinkers to Moses Mendelssohn and Leo Baeck.

Read the speakers pre-prepared remarks:

Download Masahide Goto's Remarks Here
Download Takashi Sato's Remarks Here

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About the Speakers

Masahide Goto is Associate Professor at Saga National University (Saga, Japan). He has published many articles about Modern Jewish Thought and Classical German Philosophy. His publications include “Modern Judaism and Religious Tolerance, On the Paradoxical Phenomenon of ‘Exclusivism in Enlightenment’”, Journal of Study of Monotheistic Religions, no.3 (in English) and “Interpretation von Ungrund in der Kyoto-Schule”, Berliner Schelling Studien, Bd.5 (in German). He currently works on the Japanese translation of Moses Mendelssohn’s “Jerusalem”.

Takashi Sato is Professor in the Faculty of Humanities, Department of British and American Studies at Hokkai-Gakuen University. He has published works in the area of Modern German Jewish Thought & History, including "Study and Object: Some Preliminary Considerations on Jewish Studies" (2018). "The Light of German Jewish Thought" (2015), and "Franz Rosenzweig: The Birth of a New Thinking" (2010).