2025 Lipman Lecture
with Award-Winning Author
Dara Horn 

This Precedented Moment in Jewish History
Thursday, April 3, 7 p.m. 
Ostrove Auditorium, Diamond Building
Followed by Book Signing and Dessert Reception 
also available via Livestream with Registration

The 2025 Lipman Lecture will be delivered by author and historian Dara Horn on Thursday, April 3 at 7 p.m. in Ostrove Auditorium at Colby College. Free and open to the public.

This program will be in person at Colby. All are welcome to attend in person It is also available on livestream by registration. Please register to receive the link. You will receive the link in your inbox the day before the event. We will also send out a reminder email the morning of the program. Questions? Contact Liz Soloway Snider, [email protected].

Dara Horn is the award-winning author of six books, including the novels In the Image (Norton 2002), The World to Come (Norton 2006), All Other Nights (Norton 2009), A Guide for the Perplexed (Norton 2013), and Eternal Life (Norton 2018), and the essay collection People Love Dead Jews (Norton 2021). 

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

Horn received her doctorate in Yiddish and Hebrew literature from Harvard University. She has taught courses in these subjects at Sarah Lawrence College and Yeshiva University, and has held the Gerald Weinstock Visiting Professorship in Jewish Studies at Harvard. She has lectured for audiences in hundreds of venues throughout North America, Israel, and Australia. She lives in New Jersey with her husband and four children.