Participant Biographies
Featured Speaker
Eva Illouz is author of, among other works, Consuming the Romantic Utopia: Love and the Cultural Contradictions of Capitalism (1997), The Culture of Capitalism (2002), Oprah Winfrey and the Glamour of Misery: An Essay on Popular Culture (2003), Cold Intimacies: The Making of Emotional Capitalism (2007), Saving the Modern Soul: Therapy, Emotions, and the Culture of Self Help (2008), Why Love Hurts: A Sociological Explanation (2012), Hard Core Romance: Fifty Shades of Grey, Best Sellers and Society (2014), Israel—Sociological Essays (2015), Emotions as Commodities: How Commodities Became Authentic (2018), Unloving: A Sociology of Negative Relations (2018), Happycracy: How the Industry of Happiness Controls Our Lives (2018), and The Emotional Life of Populism: How Fear, Disgust, Resentment and Love Undermine Democracy (2018).
Respondent
Elli Stern is Professor of Modern Jewish Intellectual and Cultural History in the Departments of Religious Studies and History, Yale University. Previously, he was Junior William Golding Fellow in the Humanities at Brasenose College and the Oriental Institute, University of Oxford. He is author of the award-winning The Genius: Elijah of Vilna and the Making of Modern Judaism (Yale University Press, 2012). His second monograph, Jewish Materialism: The Intellectual Revolution of the 1870s (Yale University Press, 2018), details the ideological background to Jews’ involvement in Zionism, capitalism, and Communism. He has served as a term member on the Council on Foreign Relations and a consultant to the Museum of the History of Polish Jews in Warsaw, Poland. Currently, he is a member of the Academic Advisory Board of the Center of Jewish History.
Moderator and Host
Our panel’s moderator is Gabriel Noah Brahm (aka Gabi Abramovich). Brahm is Director of the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute’s Israel Initiative; Professor of English and World Literature at Northern Michigan University; and currently serves as Visiting Scholar in the School of Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv University. A frequent contributor to such leading journals of thought and opinion as The American Mind, Fathom, Perspectives on Political Science, Society, and Telos, he is co-editor, with Cary Nelson, of The Case Against Academic Boycotts of Israel (2014). He received his B.A. from UCLA and his Ph.D. from the University of California, Santa Cruz. As a citizen of two countries, he has double, not dual, loyalties. Follow him on X (formerly Twitter) @Brahmski. |
