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Friday
17:30 - 18:45 - Why on Earth Would an Intelligent Young Woman Convert to Judaism? - Lene Rachel Andersen - SU Pool Room
17:30 - 18:45 - Shamor V'Zachor - Aviva Dautch , Rebecca Joy Fletcher , Shmuel Klitsner , Amichai Lau-Lavie , Deborah Lipstadt - Rootes Chancellors 2
21:00 - 22:00 - Matityahu and Murder: Another Look at the Chanukah Story - Elliott Malamet - Rootes Chancellors 2
22:20 - 23:30 - The British Imperial / Metric Measurement Mess - Ronnie Cohen - SU North 2
Saturday
20:00 - 21:10 - Degree of Ethnic Tolerance in Russia - Alla Stremovskaya - Soc 2
20:00 - 21:10 - Light and Dark: Creating Limmud Shabbat - Joel Grishaver , Tamar Ish-Horowicz , Clive Lawton , Raymond Simonson , Tamra Wright - Soc 1
Sunday
09:30 - 10:40 - Unafraid: the Combative Philosophy of Eliezer Berkovits - David Hazony - Sci 4
11:00 - 12:10 - Hakhamim of the Spanish & Portuguese Jews' Congregation - Jeff Berger - Sci 8
11:00 - 12:10 - A Survivors Guide to BT (No, Not that BT) - Nick Gendler - Soc 1
12:30 - 13:40 - The Power of Satire: European-Jewish Cabaret - Rebecca Joy Fletcher - Lib 1
14:00 - 15:10 - Escaping the Prison of Halacha (1 of 4) - Matt Plen - Soc 2
14:00 - 15:10 - Rabbi Jehiel Jacob Weinberg: Between the Yeshiva World and Modern Orthodoxy (1 of 3) - Marc Shapiro - Soc 4
14:00 - 15:10 - Moses Mendelssohn and His Adversaries (1 of 3) - Allan Arkush - Soc 3
14:00 - 15:10 - Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (1 of 4) - Tzvia Greenfield - Hum 1
15:30 - 16:20 - Shimshon Raphael Hirsch - What Did He Really Stand For? - David Reuben - Soc 4
17:00 - 18:00 - Jewish Moot Court (Adult and Family) - Joel Grishaver - SU Terrace Bar
18:40 - 19:50 - Growing Up Jewish in a Communist State - Alla Stremovskaya - Ram 4
19:10 - 20:20 - Euro+Trash: Kafka, Comics and Collisions of Culture - Eli Valley - Sci 8
19:10 - 20:20 - 'Mordecai Richler: the Last of the Wild Jews' - UK Jewish Film Festival , Irene Wise , Lindsay Wittenberg - Arts - Cinema
19:10 - 20:20 - 10 Reasons Why We Need to Believe in God - Stuart Altshuler - Sci 2
20:40 - 21:55 - Shabbat From Creation to Fish Bones - Raphael Sylvester - Sci 7
20:40 - 21:55 - Lighting Up: the Beauty of Chanukah - William Kolbrener - Sci 4
20:40 - 21:55 - 200 Days to Go - the Olympics Really Are Just Around the Corner - Steve Miller - Ram 5
22:15 - 23:30 - Needed: a New Orthodox Theology (1 of 2) - Herzl Hefter - Sci 5
Monday
08:00 - 09:00 - The 12 Turning Points in Jewish History - Stuart Altshuler - Sci 4
09:30 - 10:40 - In the Beginning - Lene Rachel Andersen - Sci 7
11:00 - 12:10 - Bintel Brief (1 of 3) - Liana Finck - Soc 10 (YLC Art)
11:00 - 12:10 - Is Judaism Just Another Fundamentalism? - William Kolbrener - Sci 3
11:00 - 12:10 - Anthropology and the Holocaust: Primo Levi on Purity and Chaos - Robbie Duschinsky - Soc 6
12:30 - 13:40 - Innovating in the Jewish World - Zelig Golden - Soc 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Faith, Doubt and the Road Ahead: Struggling with Our Judaism - Nathan Lopes Cardozo , Elliott Malamet - Ram 1
12:30 - 13:40 - ADD, Esau, and the Sale of Birthrights - Shmuel Klitsner - Soc 1
14:00 - 15:10 - Escaping the Prison of Halacha (2 of 4) - Matt Plen - Soc 2
14:00 - 15:10 - They Married What They Wanted to Be: Rebbetzins in American Jewish Life - Shuly Schwartz - Sci 2
14:00 - 15:10 - Moses Mendelssohn and His Adversaries (2 of 3) - Allan Arkush - Soc 3
14:00 - 15:10 - Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (2 of 4) - Tzvia Greenfield - Hum 1
15:30 - 16:20 - The Dawn of the Third Stage of Judaism: the Stage of Return - Richard Elliott Friedman - Sci 3
17:10 - 18:20 - Spinoza, the Kotzker Rebbe and I - Nathan Lopes Cardozo - Sci 3
17:10 - 18:20 - Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (1 of 2) - Jonathan Myers - Soc 4
17:10 - 18:20 - Are You a Good Person? Teenagers Wrestle with Ethics - Elliott Malamet - Soc 3
18:40 - 19:50 - Growing Up Orthodox and Gay - K. David Brody - Arts - Mead Gallery 2
19:10 - 20:20 - 'Footnote' - Jewish Agency for Israel , Limmud Conference Social Events Team - Arts - Cinema
20:40 - 21:55 - Should the Current Chief Rabbi Be the Last Chief Rabbi? - Jonathan Romain - Sci 7
20:40 - 21:55 - Lying Around - Margaret Jacobi , Richard Jacobi - Sci 8
20:40 - 21:55 - Make Them Laugh, Make Them Cry, Make Them Ask the Reasons Why - Daniel Cainer , Maureen Kendler - Arts - Ensemble
Tuesday
09:30 - 10:40 - Why Are Our Children Alienated From Judaism? - Elliott Malamet - Sci 7
09:30 - 10:40 - A New Orthodox Theology - Radical Divine Immanence (2 of 2) - Herzl Hefter - Sci 5
11:00 - 12:10 - Goodbye, Columbus, Hello Christopher: the Evolution of American Jewry - Shuly Schwartz - Hum 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Debates on Synagogue Music in North America - Gershon Silins - Sci 4
12:30 - 13:40 - The Limits of Kiddushin - Yaffa Epstein , Herzl Hefter , Joel Levy - Ram 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Torah and the Pleasure Principle - William Kolbrener - Soc 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Limmud Chai - a Rabbi, a Chazan and a Life Coach - Michael Harris , Juliet Landau-Pope , Ramón Tasat - Lib 1
12:30 - 13:40 - Overkill? Is Israeli Society Obsessed by Remembering the Holocaust? - Yeshaya P Balog - Soc 6
12:30 - 13:40 - Are There Still More Jews in Ethiopia? - Sybil Sheridan - Lib 2
14:00 - 15:10 - Escaping the Prison of Halacha (3 of 4) - Matt Plen - Soc 2
14:00 - 15:10 - The Philosophy of Rav Kook: Is It Still Relevant? (2 of 3) - Marc Shapiro - Soc 8
14:00 - 15:10 - Fighting for the Diaspora: Jewish Soldiers in National Armed Forces - Reuben Livingstone - Sci 8
14:00 - 15:10 - Getting Ahead with (Jewish) Hats! (2 of 2) - Jonathan Myers - Soc 3
14:00 - 15:10 - Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (3 of 4) - Tzvia Greenfield - Hum 1
15:30 - 16:20 - Rabbis and Imams: Building Understanding in an Age of Fracture (1 of 2) - Muhammad Al-Hussaini , Mohamed Elsharkawy , Michael Hilton , Reuben Livingstone - Soc 3
15:30 - 16:20 - Jewish International Development: Sharing Knowledge, Changing Lives - Yossi Ives - Sci 4
17:10 - 18:20 - Karl Marx: Antisemite or Critic of Antisemitism? - Robert Fine - Sci 7
17:10 - 18:20 - Practising Judaism in a Secular Age: the Future of Halacha - Laura Janner-Klausner , Deborah Kahn-Harris , Joel Levy , Nathan Lopes Cardozo - Ram 2
17:10 - 18:20 - JCC4London2013 ... New Home with a New Programme! - Andrew Gilbert , Roy Graham , Atira Winchester - Sci 3
18:40 - 19:50 - A Jewish Guide to Happiness - Jonathan Romain - Soc 8
19:10 - 20:20 - Nietzsche and Modern Orthodoxy - Michael Harris - Ram 5
22:15 - 23:30 - Jewish American Dad - Nathan Abrams - Sci 3
22:15 - 23:30 - Free Will? It's All in Your Head - Natan Levy , Daniel Reisel - Ram 4
Wednesday
08:00 - 09:00 - Would You Murder and Also Inherit? A Biblical Story of Crimes, Misdemeanours and Other Addictions - Judy Klitsner - Sci 7
08:00 - 09:00 - Teaching Community to a Texting Generation - Janet Schatten - Sci 2
08:00 - 09:00 - Halachic Challenges of Being the Chief Rabbi of Poland - Michael Schudrich - Sci 5
09:30 - 10:40 - The Brilliance and the Horror: Faces of German Jewry (3 of 3) - Jonathan Wittenberg - Soc 1
09:30 - 10:40 - Pluralism vs Relativism: Case Studies in the Philosophical Underpinnings of Jewish Law - Shmuel Klitsner - Sci 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Becoming British - Anthony Nicholls - Sci 2
12:30 - 13:40 - Judaism on Love and Romance - Elliott Malamet - Sci 5
12:30 - 13:40 - Jacob Israel De Haan - the Life and Work of a Controversial Jew - David Soetendorp - Soc 4
12:30 - 13:40 - Inner or Outer Light: Personal Inspiration vs Communal Values - Chananel Rosen - Sci 4
14:00 - 15:10 - Escaping the Prison of Halacha (4 of 4) - Matt Plen - Soc 2
14:00 - 15:10 - Rabbi Shlomo Goren: the Revolutionary Chief Rabbi (3 of 3) - Marc Shapiro - Arts - Ensemble
14:00 - 15:10 - I Am Taking Off My Kippah! - Nathan Lopes Cardozo - Arts - Conference
14:00 - 15:10 - Four Jewish Spiritual Revolutions that Changed the World - and Me (4 of 4) - Tzvia Greenfield - Hum 1
14:00 - 15:10 - Baskin-Robbins Has 31 Flavours - How About American Judaism? - Shuly Schwartz - Sci 2
15:30 - 16:40 - Empowering Jewish Teens: the LimmudLA Way - Yechiel Hoffman - Sci 7
15:30 - 16:40 - Scriptural Reasoning: History, Theory and Practice (3 of 3) - David Ford - Soc 7
15:30 - 16:40 - My Wife Is a Bigamist: a Journey with Herzl - David Breakstone - Lib 1
17:00 - 18:10 - Two Approaches to Halachic Writing: Mishna Berura and Arokh HaShulchan - Ian Gamse - Sci 5
17:00 - 18:10 - Gendering Judaism - Lindsay Simmonds - Soc 7
17:00 - 18:10 - A Manifesto on the Future of Christian Theology - David Ford - Ram 6
17:00 - 18:10 - Agnostics Anonymous: Living the Death of God - Elie Jesner - Soc 1
22:15 - 23:30 - Torah Views on Singlehood and Marriage, Sexuality and Procreation - Danny Epstein - Ram 2
Thursday
11:30 - 12:40 - Half the Community - Waiting in the Wings: Women's Tefillah Groups and Bracha Parties (4 of 4) - Lindsey Taylor-Guthartz - Sci 7
11:30 - 12:40 - From Madoff to Strauss-Kahn: Why People Sin - the Psychology (2 of 2) - Daniel Goldfarb - Sci 5
11:30 - 12:40 - 'The Wisdom of Love': Philosophy, Religion and the Talmud in the Thought of Emmanuel Levinas (4 of 4) - Tamra Wright - Ram 3
13:00 - 14:10 - Lashon Tweets - Judith Levitt - Ram 6
13:00 - 14:10 - Israeli Society and the Holocaust or Why Did We Need a New Yad Vashem Museum? - Rachel Korazim - Ram 5
13:00 - 14:10 - God Is Not Righteous and the Torah Is Not Moral - Nathan Lopes Cardozo - Ram 1