Presentation of papers at conferences/meeting
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2026 (July), “Extinct Species, Future Species & Defining
Animals in Medieval Kabbalah”, International Medieval Conference, Leeds University.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2025 (December) “Kafka, Kabbalah & the Human-Animal Power Struggle”, AJS, Washington DC.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2025 (July) “Kabbalistic Visions of Other Beings”, IMC, University of Leeds, Leeds.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2025 (June) “How Medieval Kabbalists are Relevant to the Ecological Crises”, Crossing Borders, Transgressing Boundaries: Religion, Migration and Climate Change, International Society for the Study of Religion, Nature, and Culture (ISSRNC), University of California, Santa Barbara.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2025, (March) “Human Entanglement Panel”, Finding the Way: Religion, Ecology, and the Future of Applied Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2025, (March) “Staying with the Trouble Panel”, Finding the Way: Religion, Ecology, and the Future of Applied Humanities, Stanford University, Stanford.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2024 (December), “A Medieval Kabbalistic Deconstruction of the Human”, Jewish Studies: Beyond the Human, AJS, online.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2024 (November), “Fantastic Flora: A Medieval Kabbalistic Reading of Plants”, Wandering Beyond the Boundaries: Defining the Natural in Jewish and Hebrew Literature, Inalco, Paris.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2024 (June), “For the Intention of Creation was for all Creatures to Ascend in Rank: The Mystical Experience in a Kabbalistically Environmental Trend”, Religion and the Environment, the 7th conference of the Israeli Association for the Study of Religions, the Open University, Ra’anana.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2024 (May), “On the (Marginal) Medieval Kabbalistic Animal Turn”, Newberry Library Symposium on Animality in pre-modern Jewish art and culture, Northwestern University & the Newberry Library, Chicago.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2024 (January), “What World(s) Did God Create? On a fierce polemic among medieval kabbalists regarding creation, extinction & Human-Animal Relations”, Creation & Recreation, The Australian Association of Jewish Studies, online.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2023 (December), “Kabbalistic Cosmic Cycles of Time and the Transformation of Mankind”, Kabbalistic, Hasidic, and Neo-Hasidic Thought, AJS, San Fransisco.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2023 (December), “Kabbalists & Ecology”, roundtable discussion: Just Religion?: New Perspectives on Jewish Studies, Environmental Ethics, and Ecology, AJS, San Fransisco.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2023 (March) “Humanimals, Non-Human Animals and the Kabbalistic Secret of the Grand Sabbath”, Judaisms, Jewishness and Time, JSGSA, Indiana University, online.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2022 (August) “On the Secrets of the Sabbatical and the Jubilee”, The Eighteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2022 (January), “An Ambivalent Encounter with Kabbalah in Twentieth-Century Maghreb: The Case of R. Joseph Messas”, R. Joseph Messas: Halakha, Thought & History, Yad Ben Zvi Institute & Ono Academic Collage, Jerusalem.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2021, “Prophecy According to Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi: An Astro-Kabbalistic Method”, Annual Doctoral Students’ Conference in Memory of Tsippi Kauffman, Department of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2020, “Rabbi Hayyim Vital’s Favorite Book”, “For There I, Hayyim, was Living”: R. Hayyim Vital and His World, An Online Conference Commemorating the 400th Anniversary of his Death, Yad Ben Zvi Institute, online.
Schnytzer, Jonnie, 2019 (December), “Metempsychosis, Metensomatosis, and Metamorphosis: On Rabbi Joseph ben Shalom Ashkenazi’s Systematic Theory on Reincarnation”, Association for Jewish Studies 51st Annual Conference, San Diego.