Résultats

      For three evenings of discussion and debate, noted authors and thinkers analyze the Ten Commandments and share their ideas for a moral code for our own time. Listen to the opening lecture with Christopher Hitchens, author of the New York Times bestselling book God is Not Great: How Religion Poisons ...

      Dr. David Evans highlights some of the ROM's latest field projects and newest dinosaur discoveries. The ROM dinosaur research program is currently expanding at an unprecedented rate, with many new and exciting lab and field projects taking place across the globe, from Mongolia, to South Africa, to the Canadian Arctic ...

      Dr. Emanuel Tov (J.L. Magnes Professor of Bible, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, and Editor-in-Chief, Dead Sea Scrolls Publication Project) focuses on the activities of the scribes who lived at Qumran. Lecture details range from the preparation of the leather to the actual writing in columns, and their level of precision, the ...

      Dr. Hindy Najman (Director of the Centre for Jewish Studies and Associate Professor of Ancient Judaism in the Department and Centre for the Study Religion at the University of Toronto) sheds light on the claim that revelation did not cease in the Second Temple period, but was understood to persist ...

      Supported by the Weisz Family in memory of Margaret Weisz. Dr. Eileen Schuller (Professor, Department of Religious Studies, McMaster University, Hamilton) explores some of the key texts about women and what they might tell us about the presence and role of women in this community and more broadly in Second ...

      The Institute for Contemporary Culture presented the fourth annual Eva Hotby Lecture on Contemporary Culture on October 27, 2009. Celebrated American writer and publishing magnate Lewis Lapham, explores the theme of celebrity in modern society. This lecture was inspired by the ICC exhibition, Vanity Fair Portraits: Photographs 1913 - 2008.

      Meryl Streep, one of today's true Hollywood icons, visited the ROM for an evening of thoughtful reflection and discussion. Interviewed by Johanna Schneller, the Globe and Mail's film critic, this lecture was associated with The Question of Celebrity programming series which explores fame and the evocative allure of celebrity. Audio ...

      Dr. Lawrence Schiffman (Edelman Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, and Chair of the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University) surveys ancient Israel at the time of the Second Temple and explores how the Scrolls enrich our understanding of this momentous era. The opinions expressed in ...

      Meet Lang Lang and discover the inspiration, personality and appeal of this celebrated young pianist. Lang Lang performed at the opening ceremony of the Beijing 2008 Olympic Games and on September 21, 2008 Peter Oundijian of the Toronto Symphony interviewed him at the ROM.

      For three evenings of discussion and debate, noted authors and thinkers analyze the Ten Commandments and share their ideas for a moral code for our own time. Listen to A.J. Jacobs, author of The Year of Living Biblically: One Man’s Humble Quest to Follow the Bible as Literally as Possible. ...

      Dr. Martin Abegg (Ben Zion Wacholder Professor of Dead Sea Scroll Studies, religious Studies Department, Trinity western University, Langley British Columbia, and Co-Director of the Dead Sea Scrolls Institute) discusses the stories of the Scrolls that made their way to Toronto. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of ...

      Yuval Peleg, Israel Antiquities Authority District Archaeologist for the Jordan Valley, discusses the most recent excavations at the site of Qumran, and their effect on the understanding of the site in the second of the Anne Tananbaum Lecture Series. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of the speaker ...

      For three evenings of discussion and debate, noted authors and thinkers analyze the Ten Commandments and share their ideas for a moral code for our own time. Listen to the closing lecture by Camille Paglia author of bestsellers Sexual Personae, Sex, Art, and American Culture and Vamps & Tramps. The ...

      Dr. Dan Bahat (former district archaeologist for Jerusalem, and currently Adjunct Professor, Faculty of Theology, University of St. Michael’s College, University of Toronto) explores the Jerusalem of 2,000 years ago during the time the Dead Sea Scrolls. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of the speaker and do ...

      Dr. Eugene Ulrich (John A. O’Brien Professor of Hebrew Scriptures, University of Notre Dame, and Chief Editor of the Qumran Scrolls) discusses the similarities and discrepancies between the Massoretic Bible and the Dead Sea Scrolls in the first of the Anne Tanenbaum Lecture Series. The opinions expressed in this lecture ...

      Listen as Dr. Eric Meyers (Bernice and Morton Lerner Professor of Jewish Studies, and Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University. Past President, American Schools of Oriental Research) explores the relationship between the disparate groups that populated Sepphoris through the ages. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of ...

      Pnina Shor (Head of the Department for the Treatment and Conservation of Artifacts, Israel Antiquities Authority) discusses the challenges and process of conserving and preserving the fragile Dead Sea Scrolls for future generations. The opinions expressed in this lecture are those of the speaker and do not necessarily reflect the ...

      Highlights from a discussion between the artist Hiroshi Sugimoto, History of History exhibition, and Daniel Libeskind, architect of the Michael Lee-Chin Crystal; recorded on May 31, the special event was presented by the Institute for Contemporary Culture.

      Managing Director, Institute for Contemporary Culture, Kelvin Browne on the artist Carlos Garaicoa and the exhibtion of his work at the ROM.

      William Thorsell (Director & CEO) and Justin Jennings (Associate Curator) address the audience at the media preview of the exhibition Ancient Peru Unearthed.