2025 Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture

Award-winning author and journalist Dara Horn will present, “In the Haunted Present: Dara Horn’s Dream for Living Jews.”

Horn – who has addressed audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel and Australia – will discuss Jewish life in America post Oct. 7, 2023: particularly the rise of antisemitism. The talk will tie in with her book: People Love Dead Jews: Reports from a Haunted Present.

Horn’s books have been translated into 11 languages and selected by New York Times Notable Books, Booklist’s Best 25 Books of the Decade and San Francisco Chronicle’s Best Books of the Year. Named one of Granta magazine’s Best Young American Novelists, she received two National Jewish Book Awards, the Edward Lewis Wallant Award, the Harold U. Ribalow Award and the Reform Judaism Fiction Prize. She also was a finalist for the JW Wingate Prize, the Simpson Family Literary Prize and the Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction.

Her nonfiction work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The Washington Post, The Atlantic, Smithsonian and The Jewish Review of Books, among many other publications, and she is a regular columnist for Tablet.

The lecture is free and open to the region’s academic and religious communities, as well as the public. Registration is required.

Hosted and sponsored by Loyola University Maryland’s Center for the Humanities, the Jerome S. Cardin Memorial Lecture was established in 1986 by the Jerome S. Cardin family to foster exploration of topics in the humanities pertinent to the Jewish and Christian traditions, particularly Jewish-Christian relations. Notable speakers have included Chaim Potok, Cornel West, Taylor Branch, Adam Gopnik, Stephen Greenblatt, Susannah Heschel, Daniel Mendelsohn and Robert Alter.