We invite you to join past and present SCJS faculty and students as we mark fostering five decades of meaningful and insightful discussions on diverse Jewish experiences.

We have a full day of events planned, starting with a series of daytime panels highlighting SCJS’s key accomplishments.

Morning panels: “50 years of impact on campus and beyond”

9:30 a.m. – 12:45 p.m, Petersen Room, Allen Library

• 9:30-10:15 – Panel 1: Engaging the Public: The Legacy of the Stroum Lectures
  • Moderator: Sasha Senderovich, University of Washington
  • Anita Norich, University of Michigan
  • Ruth Behar, University of Michigan
• 10:15-11:00 – Panel 2: Launching the Next Generation of Scholars with the Cole and Graduate Fellowships
  • Moderator: Sarah Zaides Rosen, University of Washington
  • Michael Alexander, University of California, Riverside
  • Charlotte Elisheva Fonrobert, Stanford University
  • Benjamin Lee, University of Washington
• 11:00-11:15 – Break — Coffee/Snack

• 11:15-12:00 – Panel 3: Creating an Institutional Mark on UW’s Campus: Honoring our Faculty Trailblazers
  • Moderator: Noam Pianko, University of Washington
  • Paul Burstein, University of Washington (emeritus)
  • Hillel Kieval, Washington University (emeritus)
  • Joel Migdal, University of Washington (emeritus)
  • Sarah Stein, University of California, Los Angeles
• 12:00-12:45 – Panel 4: Shaping the Future of Sephardic Studies: A Decade of Scholarship, Global Engagement and Cultural Preservation
  • Moderator: Devin Naar, University of Washington
  • Canan Bolel, University of Washington
  • Jonathan Decter, Brandeis University 
  • Makena Mezistrano, Stanford University
  • Hannah Pressman, Jewish Language Project, Hebrew Union College