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SUMMARY:5/30 — 6/1 TALKS | '22 — '23 Graduate Fellow Colloquia
DESCRIPTION:See the event page for more details. \nRegister Now >
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/22-23-graduate-fellow-presentations/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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SUMMARY:5/25 WORKSHOP | 'Anglo-Saxons of the East': Armenian Self-Definition... with Ara Daglian
DESCRIPTION:‘Anglo-Saxons of the East’:\nArmenian Self-Definition in Early 20th Century America\nRegister Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is thrilled to invite you to the second in a new series of workshops\, a lecture led by Jewish Studies Graduate Fellow Ara Daglian. Please join us to celebrate his imminent graduation and learn something new from him\, all while enjoying wine and Dingfelder’s Deli delights. Yes\, you read that right! \nIn this lecture\, Ara Daglian will share some of his research from his work-in-progress\, “Anglo-Saxons of the East”: Armenian Self-Definition in Early 20th Century America\, to which Professor Devin E. Naar of the Sephardic Studies Program will pose some initial questions before the floor opens for discussion. Read on for a brief synopsis of his forthcoming paper: \n\nThis paper focuses on an important work of Armenian-American identity — The Armenians in America by M. Vartan Malcom. While previously known as a source of statistical and quantitative information on early Armenian-American history\, the text also provided a voice to Armenian-Americans in an era where the American public knew them only through paternalistic aid campaigns and fundraiser slogans. \n\n\nTo analyze The Armenians in America as a work to redefine the Armenian-American identity\, this paper turn towards Jewish studies for inspiration. Jewish studies historiography boasts a highly developed framework for understanding how Jewish Americans redefined themselves in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries\, offering a useful tool for studying Armenian-Americans as well. \n\nRegister Now >\n\nCo-sponsored by UW’s Middle East Center and UW’s Armenian Student Association. \nAbout the speakers\n\n \nAra Daglian is a master’s student in the Middle East Studies program at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Originally from Connecticut\, he received his B.A. in history from Eastern Connecticut State University before coming to the University of Washington. As a Stroum Center graduate fellow\, Ara plans to examine the complex inter-communal relations between Jews\, Arabs and Armenians residing in Jerusalem during the British Mandate era. He is a Robinovitch Family Fellow. \n\n\n\n\nDevin E. Naar is the Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies\, Chair of the Sephardic Studies Program\, Associate Professor of History\, and faculty at the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies in the Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. As chair\, Naar has spearheaded a project to collect\, preserve and disseminate the rich Sephardic and Ladino historical\, literary and cultural heritage. After serving as a Fulbright fellow to Greece\, his first book\, Jewish Salonica: Between the Ottoman Empire and Modern Greece\, was published by Stanford University Press in 2016. The book won the 2016 National Jewish Book Award in the category of Research Based on Archival Material and was named a finalist in Sephardic Culture. It also won the 2017 Edmund Keeley Prize for best book in Modern Greek Studies awarded by the Modern Greek Studies Association. As a fellow in the Society of Scholars at the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington in 2013-2014\, Dr. Naar began his second book project\, Reimagining the Sephardic Diaspora. He conducts research in Judeo-Spanish\, Greek\, Hebrew and French.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-25-workshop-anglo-saxons-of-the-east-armenian-self-definition-with-ara-daglian/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows,Workshop
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Reimagining Jewish Narratives in New Contexts: From Antiquity to the Present
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220524T120000
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SUMMARY:GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Political and Archival Policies: International and Local Perspectives
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/graduate-fellows-colloquia-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210521T100000
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SUMMARY:GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Tradition and Continuity: Jewish Cultural History Through Art\, Music and Travelogue
DESCRIPTION:Join 2020-2021 Stroum Center graduate fellows Ke Guo\, Abby Massarano\, and Jeffrey Haines as they present their research in Jewish studies: \n\nFrom Home to Zoom: Sustainable Futures for Sephardic Music\nKe Guo\, Robinovitch Family Fellow \n\nThe Binding of Isaac in Late Antique Synagogues: The Function of Biblical Art in Performing Jewish Identity\nAbby Massarano\, Robert and Pamela Center Fellow \n\nTracing Jews in Medieval Kurdistan: Syriac and Muslim Sources as a Window into Jewish History\nJeff Haines\, I. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Fellow \n\nColloquium Respondent: Hamza M. Zafer\, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization \n\n\nLearn more about each presenter and their research: \n\n \nKe Guo\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\n“From Home to Zoom: Sustainable Futures for Sephardic Music” \nKe Guo is a Ph.D. student in music education with a focus in ethnomusicology at the University of Washington’s School of Music. She was born in Wuhan\, China\, and studied applied mathematics at UCLA for her B.S. degree. She then obtained an M.S. in management science and engineering from Stanford University and an M.M. in music education from San José State University. Her research in world music education and ethnomusicology has covered topics in both Chinese music and Sephardic music. As a vocalist and multi-instrumentalist\, she is also active as a concert performer\, and has offered individual concerts as well as collaborative concerts in America and Europe. Focusing on the topic of the worldwide transmission and reception of Sephardic music both within and outside of the Sephardic community\, she is excited to conduct future field research in the Iberian Peninsula\, Turkey\, and other countries around the Mediterranean. Read about Ke’s research: \n\n“Rediscovering ‘El bukieto de romansas’: A century of Sephardic folk songs” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nAbby Massarano\, Robert and Pamela Center Fellow\n“The Binding of Isaac in Late Antique Synagogues: The Function of Biblical Art in Performing Jewish Identity” \nAbby Massarano is a graduate student in the School of Art\, Art History\, and Design at the University of Washington\, where she is pursuing her M.A. in art history. Her research is focused on the interplay of image and biblical text in Mediterranean and Near Eastern Abrahamic art in Late Antiquity. She received her B.A in psychology with a minor in art history from Mills College in Oakland\, CA. After moving to Seattle\, she worked in art conservation and preservation before deciding to return to academia. For her fellowship project\, Abby is researching the interplay of text and image in late antique Abrahamic art of the Near East and the Mediterranean through scenes of the Akedah (The Binding of Isaac) in synagogues and other worship spaces. In addition to the Stroum Center graduate fellowship\, Abby is also a recipient of the Foreign Language and Area Studies Fellowship for Hebrew. Read about Abby’s research: \n\n“Mosaics of the Abraham & Isaac story show how Jews in late antiquity used art to connect with religion and community” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nJeffrey Haines\, I. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\n“Tracing Jews in Medieval Kurdistan: Syriac and Muslim Sources as a Window into Jewish History” \nJeffrey Haines is a fifth year doctoral candidate in the University of Washington’s Department of History\, having previously completed a double B.A. in history and classics at the University of Massachusetts Amherst and an M.A. in early Christian studies at the University of Notre Dame. His dissertation\, “Mosul’s Hinterland: Village and Monastery in Early Islamic Mesopotamia\,” examines the history of the rural\, multi-religious communities that flourished on the northern edge of the Islamic caliphate through the lens of Syriac monastic histories. As a graduate fellow in Jewish Studies\, he will focus on the folklore and culture of the Jewish villages that have existed side by side with Christians\, Muslims\, Yezidis\, and Zoroastrians in this region for centuries. Read about Jeff’s research: \n\n“‘The yoke of the Gentiles is not upon them’: Benjamin of Tudela’s geography of Jews in medieval Iraq and Kurdistan” (2021)\n\n\n\nColloquium Respondent\n \nHamza M. Zafer\, Associate Professor of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization\, University of Washington\nHamza Zafer’s research focuses on the Quran’s engagements with Jewish communities in Arabia\, and the portrayal of these communities in the earliest Muslim historical and exegetical writings\, up to the 9th century. His first book\, “Ecumenical Community: Language and Politics of the Ummah in the Qurʾan\,” was published in November 2020.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/video-2021-graduate-fellows-colloquia-sephardic-modernity-cultural-history/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210519T113000
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SUMMARY:GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers\, Migrants and Midwives
DESCRIPTION:Join 2020-2021 Stroum Center graduate fellows Ben Lee\, Büşra Demirkol\, and Oya Rose Aktaş\, as they present their research in Jewish studies: \n\nThe Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Excavate Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers\nBen Lee\, Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow \n\nThe Modernization of Education and Its Impact on Midwives: The Case of Jewish “Bloody Midwives”\nBüşra Demirkol\, Mickey & Leo Sreebny Memorial Fellow \n\nMapping Early Migration from ‘Turkey’ to Seattle: A Social History of Seattle’s First Ottomans\nOya Rose Aktaş\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Institute Fellow \n\nColloquium Respondent: Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano\, Assistant Professor of History at the University of Pennsylvania \n\n\nLearn more about each presenter and their research: \n\n \nBen Lee\, Richard and Ina Willner Memorial Fellow\n“The Ladino Press: Using Machine Learning to Excavate Visual Content in Historic Ladino Newspapers” \nBen is a third-year Ph.D. student in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering at the University of Washington. His research lies at the intersection of machine learning and human-computer interaction\, with application to cultural heritage and the digital humanities. Ben graduated from Harvard College in 2017 and has served as the inaugural Digital Humanities Associate Fellow at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum\, as well as a Visiting Fellow in Harvard’s History Department. He is currently a National Science Foundation Graduate Research Fellow. For his fellowship research this year\, Ben will be applying his project Newspaper Navigator to historic Ladino newspapers in order to extract and study the content using machine learning. Read about Ben’s research: \n\n“Ladino newspapers are the new wave in ‘uncharted waters’ of digital history” (2021)\n\n\n\n \nBüşra Demirkol\, Mickey & Leo Sreebny Memorial Fellow\n“The Modernization of Education and Its Impact on Midwives: The Case of Jewish ‘Bloody Midwives'” \nBüşra Demirkol is a Ph.D. student the Interdisciplinary Program in Near and Middle Eastern Studies at the University of Washington. She received her B.A. degree in sociology at Galatasaray University and her M.A. degree in Turkish studies at Sabanci University. Her master’s thesis focused on modernization in the legal field during the late Ottoman era and its impact on women on the margins. Based on penal codes\, codification discussions and court records\, she traces how marginal women were redefined and constructed within the boundaries of the public sphere in Ottoman legal culture\, and were subjected to the state intervention according to a modern understanding of crime and punishment. Prior to graduate school\, she also worked as a social worker with African\, Afghan and Syrian refugees in Istanbul and conducted research about the official and unofficial schooling of Syrian children. \n\n\n \nOya Rose Aktaş\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Institute Fellow\n“Mapping Early Migration from ‘Turkey’ to Seattle: A Social History of Seattle’s First Ottomans” \nOya Rose Aktaş is a Ph.D. student in the University of Washington’s Department of History studying non-Muslim communities in the transition from imperial subject to liberal citizen in the late Ottoman Empire and early Turkish Republic. Her current research focuses on how state violence targeted at Christians affected the position of Jews in Istanbul\, and her project for the Stroum Center graduate fellowship will include work on the Sephardic diaspora in Seattle\, Washington. Prior to graduate school\, Oya worked on U.S. foreign relations and economic policy at Washington DC think tanks. Read about Oya’s research: \n\n“How Jewish residents of Seattle remembered the Armenian massacres in the Ottoman Empire” (2021)\n\n\n\nColloquium Respondent\n \nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano\, Assistant Professor of History\, University of Pennsylvania\nOscar Aguirre-Mandujano studies early modern Ottoman intellectual history\, and its connections to literature\, poetry\, and bureaucracy. Aguirre-Mandujano recently co-edited the book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives\, Objects\, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States” and is currently working on another book project\, “Poetics of Empire: Literature and Political Culture at the Early Modern Ottoman Court.” Oscar is a former graduate fellow of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/video-2021-graduate-fellows-colloquia-sephardic-modernity-cultural-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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SUMMARY:STUDENT EVENT | Teaching computers to read Ladino\, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews
DESCRIPTION:How do you teach a computer to read an endangered language — and a language that many people don’t even know exists? While machine learning technology has enabled us to read and research texts online in many languages\, there’s one language that our computers and smartphones have yet to learn: Ladino\, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews. \nJoin Benjamin Charles Germain Lee\, a third year PhD student in the Paul G. Allen School for Computer Science & Engineering and the Stroum Center’s Richard Willner Memorial graduate fellow\, who will speak about his Library of Congress Innovator in Residence project\, Newspaper Navigator\, and his ongoing work with Professor Devin Naar studying Ladino newspapers using machine learning and computer vision. \nGreat for students of Ladino\, Sephardic studies\, information science and management\, digital humanities\, computer science & engineering\, history\, Spanish\, communications\, and any fan of the UW libraries. \nFor undergraduates and graduate students only. \nRSVP for Zoom link.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-machine-learning-and-computer-vision/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-jewish-studies-graduate-fellows-colloquia/#panel3
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200603T113000
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SUMMARY:6/3 COLLOQUIUM | Violence\, Victimhood & the "Natural Order" in the Armenian Genocide & Holocaust
DESCRIPTION:Jewish Studies graduate fellows Oya Rose Aktas and Derek Wiebke discuss victim / perpetrator relationships in history and literature. \nPresentation #1 — Oya Rose Aktas\, Ph.D. student\, History\n“Beyond Victim and Perpetrator: Understanding the 1915 Genocide Through the Jewish Press Between the Liberal and National Orders” \nPresentation #2 — Derek Wiebke\, M.A. student\, Germanics\n“Between Victim and Perpetrator: Reading the Holocaust as Ecological Wound in Elfriede Jelinek’s ‘The Children of the Dead’”
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-jewish-studies-graduate-fellows-colloquia/#panel2
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200601T130000
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SUMMARY:6/1 COLLOQUIUM | Regional and Global Dimensions to Israeli Foreign Policy: Shifting Relationships with the Palestinian Territories\, Ghana\, and Taiwan
DESCRIPTION:University of Washington Jewish Studies graduate fellows Bret Windhauser\, Francis Abugbilla and Eryk Waligora offer perspectives on Israeli foreign policy. \nPresentation #1 — Bret Windhauser\, M.A. student\, Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations\n“Over and Under the Border: Goods Smuggling in Israel/Palestine” \nPresentation #2 — Francis Abugbilla\, Ph.D. candidate\, International Studies\n“Diplomacy at the Crossroads of Recognition and Development: Israel-Ghana Relations Explained” \nPresentation #3 — Eryk Waligora\, M.A. student\, International Studies\n“Unrecognized: How Israel and Taiwan are Forging New Soft Power Relations”
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/2020-jewish-studies-graduate-fellows-colloquia/#panel1
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190521T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190521T133000
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SUMMARY:5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory\, History & Thought
DESCRIPTION:Join 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf\, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado and Hayim Katsman as they share their research. \nA light lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the bottom of the page if you plan to attend. \nVincent Calvetti-Wolf\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar\n“Protocols and Protest: The Yemenite Babies Affair\, the Mizrahi Struggle\, and Struggles of Interpretation” \nVincent is a first-year student in the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Interdisciplinary PhD Program. He holds a BA in Liberal Arts from The Evergreen State College and obtained a Master of Arts in International Studies\, with a focus in Comparative Religion\, from the University of Washington in 2017. His research explores the histories and politics of social movements led by Mizrahi Jews in Israel. His current project focuses on the strategies used by grassroots movements in Israel to raise awareness about the Yemenite\, Mizrahi and Balkan Children Affair that took place in the early 1950s. Vincent is graduate student co-coordinator of the Israel/Palestine Research Colloquium. \nRead about Vincent’s research on the Yemenite Babies Affair and Mizrahi history: \n\n“Remembering the thousands of children who disappeared in the “Yemenite Babies Affair”” (2019)\n\nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar\n“Politics and Society: The Role of Memory in the Moroccan Jewish Museum in Casablanca” \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, who hails from Connecticut\, is a second-year MA student in Middle East Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Pablo obtained his BA in International Relations and a minor in Arabic Studies from Connecticut College. Pablo has studied at Alexandria University in Egypt and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. At the University of Washington\, Pablo has been researching the intersection of history and politics in countries in the Middle East\, particularly the political and historical narratives of Jewish refugees\, Syrian refugees and other forced migrants from the Arab world. He speaks conversational Arabic\, Hebrew and Turkish. \nFaculty respondent: Noam Pianko\, Professor\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Pablo’s research on Mizrahi identity and history: \n\n“How should we remember the forced migration of Jews from Egypt?” (2019)\n“How Iraqi Jews are reclaiming their cultural legacy in Israel” (2018)\n\nHayim Katsman\, I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\n“Contemporary trends in religious-Zionist thought and practice” \nAs a PhD student in International Studies\, Hayim researches the interrelations between religion and politics in Israel/Palestine. Focusing on the religious-Zionist movement and the settlement enterprise in the West Bank and Gaza\, Hayim’s research shows how developments in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict have affected religious Zionists’ theological interpretations of the Israeli state. Before coming to the University of Washington\, Hayim lived in a Kibbutz on the Israel/Gaza/Egypt border\, where he works/ed as a car mechanic. Hayim received his BA in philosophy from the Open University of Israel and completed his MA thesis on the theology of Rabbi Yitzchak Ginzburg at the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University. \nFaculty respondent: Noam Pianko\, Professor\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Hayim’s research on life in modern Israel: \n\n“Protecting academic freedom in Israeli higher education” (2019)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-21-colloquium-jewish-memory-history-thought/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20190329T031948Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190422T221534Z
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SUMMARY:4/17 COLLOQUIUM | International Politics\, History\, and Jews
DESCRIPTION:Join 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Berkay Gülen and Kerice Doten-Snitker as they share their fellowship research. \nA light lunch will be served. Please RSVP at the bottom of the page if you plan to attend. \nBerkay Gülen\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\n“Discussing Turkey-Israel Relations in Israel: Common Themes\, Different Perspectives” \nBerkay Gülen is a Ph.D. candidate in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She received her MSc degrees in International Relations from the Middle East Technical University\, Turkey\, and in International Politics from the School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS)\, University of London. Berkay’s academic interests led her to conduct research at the Moshe Dayan Center of Tel Aviv University in 2013 and the Institute of National Security Studies in Tel Aviv in 2018. Her doctoral research is on foreign policy decision-making and Turkey-Israel relations after 1991. \nFaculty respondent: Liora Halperin\, Benaroya Chair in Israel Studies\, Jackson School of International Studies \nRead about Gülen’s research on Israeli/Turkish foreign policy: \n\n“Why doesn’t Israel have a minister of foreign affairs?” (2019)\n“Interviewing foreign policy makers during a crisis” (2019)\n\nKerice Doten-Snitker\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow\n“Jewish Expulsions in the Medieval Holy Roman Empire” \nKerice is a doctoral candidate in Sociology at the University of Washington. She double-majored in Sociocultural Studies and International Relations at Bethel University (Minnesota) before completing an MA in Sociology at the University of Washington. Her scholarly interests include processes of inclusion and exclusion in society. Her current work examines the roles of political institutions\, economics\, and religion in the exclusion of Jews in medieval times\, focusing on the Rhineland (western Germany). In Fall 2017 she was a visiting student at the Arye Maimon Institute for Jewish History at Universität Trier in Trier\, Germany\, funded by the Deutscher Akademischer Austauschdienst (DAAD). In addition\, she works at the University’s Center for Evaluation and Research for STEM Equity\, which focuses on increasing equity — and the participation of systematically excluded students and professionals — in the fields of science\, technology\, engineering and math. \nFaculty respondent: Annegret Oehme\, Assistant Professor of Germanics \nRead about Doten-Snitker’s research on anti-Semitism in medieval Europe: \n\n“How anti-Semitism was used to gain political power in medieval Germany” (2019)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/graduate-fellow-research-colloquium-history-politics-jews/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180514T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20180122T051450Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180508T165747Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Reviving Languages & Teaching the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Rob Keener and Sara Molaie as they share their research on human rights issues and diplomacy in Israel and other countries in the Middle East. \nA light lunch will be served. \n \nRob Keener\, Israel Studies Program Fellow\n“Constructing a Project-Based Learning Curriculum to Teach the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict” \nRobert Keener was born in Houston\, Texas\, where he attended St. Thomas High School and Texas Tech University. After college\, Robert spent two years working in the oil and gas industry in Houston before academia came calling. He attended Ole Miss in Oxford\, Mississippi\, where he took two courses on the history of the Middle East that sparked an interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The multi-sided presentation of the conflict by his mentor\, Dr. Nikolas Trepanier\, was far different than the single-sided polemics that he had previously heard. While at Ole Miss\, Robert focused on studying systems of oppression such as apartheid\, Jim Crow and imperialism. After earning his MA in history\, Robert enrolled in the University of Washington’s Multicultural Education doctoral program\, where his research centers on teaching controversial topics in social studies\, global citizenship education\, and the construction of knowledge. When he is not working as a research assistant at the Center for Multicultural Education or trying to earn his doctorate\, Robert enjoys hiking in the mountains with his wife Emily and their chocolate lab named Rylee.\n  \n \nSara Molaie\, Robert & Pamela Center Fellow\n“Hebrew and Persian Revival Movements in the 19th Century” \nSara Molaie is pursuing her Master’s in Comparative Religion in the Jackson School.  As a member of the minority Baha’i community in Iran where she grew up\, Molaie has had to overcome many challenges. After she immigrated to the United States in 2009\, she focused her post-secondary education on religious studies\, in an effort to contribute to raising awareness of the possibilities for multicultural coexistence. With a focus on Judaism and Islam\, she completed elementary biblical and modern Hebrew and intermediate Arabic in her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Washington. Working on her MA thesis\, which is related to the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language\, she is going to advance her Hebrew in the summer as an FLAS awardee.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-human-rights-diplomacy-middle-east/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,Israel Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180427T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20180122T045420Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180220T175150Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Israeli Diplomacy\, Jewish Refugees and Sephardic Soldiers in the 20th & 21st Centuries
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Samuel Gordon\, Pablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, and Ozgur Ozkan as they share their research on migration\, the Israeli state\, and military participation in this academic panel. \nA light lunch will be served.\n  \n \nSam Gordon\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow\nPaper title: “21st Century Israeli Diplomacy: Challenges and Opportunities in a New Era” \nSam Gordon is currently a first-year master’s student at the Jackson School for International Studies concentrating on the Middle East. He is from Florida and attained a bachelor’s degree in 2014 from Florida State University majoring in History and International Affairs. After graduation\, Sam moved to Jerusalem and worked as a research assistant at the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs. He conducted research on topics including diplomacy and human rights in the Middle East. He also spent nine months living and working in Prague\, where he absorbed a great deal about Jewish communities of Central Europe. For his Graduate Fellowship project\, Sam plans to investigate the role Israel will play in the newly forming international order as well as the challenges and opportunities it faces on a global scale. His research interests include Israeli foreign policy\, geopolitics of the Middle East\, and the intersection between technology and foreign policy.\n  \n \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Neither Zionist\, nor Egyptian: The Forced Migration of the Jews of Egypt in the 1950s” \nPablo Jairo Tutillo Maldonado\, who hails from Connecticut\, will pursue an MA in Middle East Studies at the Jackson School in the Fall 2017. Pablo obtained his BA in International Relations and a minor in Arabic Studies from Connecticut College. Pablo has studied at Alexandria University in Egypt and at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem in Israel. At UW\, Pablo is interested in researching the intersection of history and politics of countries in the Middle East\, particularly the political and historical narratives of Jewish refugees from the Arab world. He speaks conversational Arabic\, Hebrew and Turkish.\n  \n \nOzgur Ozkan\, Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nPaper title: “Seattle’s Sephardic Connections to the Northern Aegean: War\, Military Service\, and Migration in the Early Twentieth Century” \nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson School of International Studies’ doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur’s research covers nationalism\, ethnic politics\, and civil-military relations in the Middle East. He has been conducting research on non-Muslims’ experiences in the Ottoman Army in the early twentieth century. He is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the northern Aegean and southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity\, as well as Jewish participation to the Balkan Wars and the First World War.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-eastern-mediterranean-world-israeli-diplomacy-jewish-refugees-sephardic-soldiers-20th-21st-centuries/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,Israel Studies,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180226T140000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20180109T211246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180222T194538Z
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Sephardic Culture: Music\, Language & Literature from Spain to Seattle
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Molly FitzMorris\, Vivian Mills and Sarah Riskind as they share their research on the topics of Ladino language\, Sephardic music\, and the early-modern literature of Spain. \nProfessor Devin Naar of the Stroum Center’s Sephardic Studies Program will offer commentary on the Fellows’ work as the faculty respondent for this panel. \nA light lunch will be served; please RSVP below to be included in the lunch order.\n \nMolly FitzMorris\, Isaac Alhadeff Sephardic Studies Fellow\nPaper title: “The search for the shinedji: Using Ladinokomunita as a corpus to study Modern Ladino morphology” \nMolly is a third-year PhD student in the Department of Linguistics.  She has a BA in Latin American Studies from New York University\, and an MA in Hispanic Studies from the University of Washington.  Her research focuses on the documentation of Ladino in Seattle\, and her two current projects explore the dialects of Ladino spoken in Seattle and the use of a common Turkish suffix in Ladino.  Molly helped organize the first three International Ladino Day celebrations in Seattle\, and is an occasional student at the weekly Ladineros classes.\n \n \nVivian Mills\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar\nPaper title: “Shem Tov of Carrión: Jewish Poetry and Moneylending in Fourteenth Century Castile” \nVivian is a second-year PhD student in Spanish and Portuguese Studies at the University of Washington. She was born in Ecuador and moved to the United States with her family at the age of sixteen. She received a BA in Business Economics and an MA in Spanish from the University of South Florida. Her research focuses on identity and the building of textual authority in the literary works of Jewish\, Converso and Morisco writers of late medieval and early-modern Iberia. Her latest research focuses on the works of Shem Tov of Carrion\, a medieval poet and rabbi. When not reading poetry\, you can find Vivian at work in her garden or spending time with her family.\n \n \nSarah Riskind\, Robinovitch Family Fellow\nPaper title: “Sephardic Music Reimagined: Modern Arrangements for Choir” \nSarah is a doctoral student in choral conducting in the UW School of Music. Originally from Boston\, MA\, she holds degrees from Williams College and the University of Wisconsin-Madison. In addition to conducting\, singing\, and teaching\, she has composed choral and instrumental works that have been performed in Massachusetts\, Vermont\, New Hampshire\, Wisconsin\, and Washington\, many of which use Jewish liturgical texts in Hebrew and English. She is currently pursuing research on choral arrangements of Sephardic Jewish music.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sephardic-culture-music-language-literature-spain-seattle/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture,Graduate Fellows,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180213T170000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20180108T204624Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180212T175223Z
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SUMMARY:Was the Etrog Jewish? Science\, Trade & Religion in the 19th Century
DESCRIPTION:Etrog fruits in a stall at an Israeli market. Via Wikimedia Commons. \nThis talk will explore the global history of the etrog fruit – a staple of the Jewish harvest holiday Sukkot – from the Sephardi eastern Mediterranean to Ashkenazi northern Europe during the nineteenth century. \nLearn more about the etrog’s multiple incarnations – as a citrus fruit\, a commodity\, and a sacred object – as it passed from the hands of Muslim producers and Ottoman traders to Jewish consumers. \nLight refreshments will be served. \nAbout the Speaker\nConstanze Kolbe is a scholar of Mediterranean Jewish history and global history with interests in economic\, trans-national and cultural history\, and is the Stroum Center’s Hazel D. Cole Fellow for the 2017-2018 academic year. She received her Ph.D. from the history department at Indiana University in 2017. Before coming to the US\, she graduated from the School of Oriental and African Studies in London. \nHer dissertation “Crossing Regions\, Nations\, Empires: The Jews of Corfu and the Making of a Jewish Adriatic\, 1850-1914” examines how the Jews of the small Mediterranean island of Corfu created a regional commercial and cultural network in the Adriatic during the nineteenth century. The protagonists are the merchants\, publishers and rabbis who lived in Corfu and created intimate ties with Corfiote and non-Corfiote Jews\, Muslims\, Catholics and Christian Orthodox peoples in several cities: Italian Padua\, Ottoman-Albanian Scutari and Hapsburg Trieste. The Corfiote Jews created a distinctively Jewish regional space through circulating religious discourses and commodities such as the etrog fruit\, soap\, and people.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/etrog-ever-jewish-science-trade-religion-19th-century/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170511T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20161024T221630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212115Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Life in Conflict Zones
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. \n“Non-Muslim Military Service and Minority Experience in the Late Ottoman Empire”\nOzgur Ozkan – 2016-17 I. Mervin & Georgiana Gorasht Fellow\nOzgur Ozkan is a PhD candidate in the Jackson’s School International Studies doctoral program. He holds a BS degree in Systems Engineering and an MA degree in Regional Security Studies from the US Naval Postgraduate School. Ozgur is planning to study Sephardic Jewish heritage in the Northern Aegean and Southern Marmara\, especially in Canakkale and its vicinity. He is particularly interested in Sephardic Jewish participation in the Ottoman Gallipoli Front in the First World War and the immigration patterns of Sephardic Jews of this region. \n“Effects of Violence on Civilian Support for Militancy”\nEmily Gade – 2016-17 Samuel & Althea Stroum Fellow\nEmily Gade is a PhD candidate in the Political Science Department at the University of Washington. Her research focuses on civilians in conflict zones\, political violence and nonviolent resistance\, and she is especially interested in the role of ZAKA recovery workers in Israel. Before coming to Seattle\, she worked as a contract research and writer\, most recently completing research for the LSE Center for the Study of Global Governance on peace agreements. Emily also enjoys athletic endeavors\, having competed at the 2012 Olympic Trials (rowing) in the lightweight double sculls and placed second in that same event at the 2013 US National Team Trials. \nProfessor Noam Pianko will serve as moderator and respondent for these presentations. \n\n \nPowered by Eventbrite
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/life-in-conflict-zones/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170309T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20161024T215547Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212128Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Refugees and Minorities in Israel
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research papers to be discussed. \nOded Oron \nOded Oron – 2016-17 Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow. His research project is “Migrants’ Mobilization for Rights and Recognition in Israel and the United States” \nOded Oron was born and raised in Tel Aviv\, and his research focuses on the political mobilization of labor migrants and undocumented workers in Israel and the USA. Oded already holds degrees in Political Science and Communications as well as in Politics and Government. Prior to his enrollment in the Jackson School’s International Studies doctoral program\, Oded worked in the Israeli media and government communications\, and also worked for Hillel at UCLA. This is his second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu – 2016-17 Robert and Pamela Center Fellow. Her research project is “Non-Jewish Citizens of the Jewish State: Bedouin Citizens’ Perception of the State in Israel.” \nEsra Bakkalbasioglu is a PhD candidate in Near and Middle Eastern Studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. She received her MA and BA degrees in Political Sciences and International Relations from Bogazici University\, Turkey. She is writing her dissertation on the politics of infrastructure in the peripheral regions of Turkey and Israel. This is Esra’s second year in the Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. Check out Esra’s new blog post\, Questions of Denial. \nThis research seminar will be facilitated by Prof. Kathie Friedman of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nSave the date for the final seminar in the series:\nLife in Conflict Zones\, Thursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, featuring Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science)
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/refugees-minorities-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161208T133000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20161024T215012Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T185903Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellow Presentation: Spinoza\, Borges\, and Literary Imagination
DESCRIPTION:New event series this year! The Jewish Studies faculty is hosting quarterly seminars featuring the research projects of our Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows. These talks will take place at lunchtime\, 12:00-1:30 pm\, on the UW campus. Join us to hear about the latest innovations in the field from our talented class of 2016-17 fellows! \nVegetarian lunch will be provided; please RSVP so that we can plan our catering accordingly. Everyone who RSVPs will receive an advance copy of the research paper to be discussed. \nFirst Presentation: Zachary Tavlin\, “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination”\nOn Thursday\, December 8th at 12:00 pm\, Zachary Tavlin\, a PhD candidate in the Department of English\, will present “Polishing Crystals in the Twilight: Spinoza\, Borges\, and the Literary Imagination.” Zachary Tavlin is the 2017-17 Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar at the Stroum Center. He is a PhD candidate in the UW Department of English. He received his BA in Philosophy from The George Washington University in 2011\, and his MA in Philosophy from Louisiana State University in 2013. He is currently writing a dissertation on nineteenth-century American literature\, the visual arts\, and embodied phenomenology. He has published numerous articles and book chapters on topics including psychoanalysis\, Victorian materialisms\, eco-criticism\, poetics\, philosophy and American literature\, and film theory. \nCheck out Zachary Tavlin’s new blog post\, Is It Time to Reconsider Marlowe’s and Shakespeare’s Jews? \nProf. Michael Rosenthal\, this year’s Samuel and Althea Stroum Chair\, will serve as the respondent to Zachary’s paper. Prof. Rosenthal is faculty for the UW Department of Philosophy. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early modern philosophy\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and Jewish philosophy. Prof. Rosenthal’s current research focuses on the philosophy of Benedict Spinoza\, and he is currently finishing a book on Baruch Spinoza’s Theological-Political Treatise. \nCheck out Prof. Rosenthal’s blog post\, Was Spinoza a Heretic or a Theologian? \nSave the dates for the Winter Quarter and Spring Quarter Graduate Fellow presentations:\nThursday\, March 9th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Oded Oron (JSIS-International Studies) and Esra Bakkalbasioglu (JSIS-Near and Middle Eastern Studies) will speak on Refugees and Minorities in Israel \nThursday\, May 11th\, 12:00-1:30 pm: Ozgur Ozkan (JSIS-International Studies) and Emily Gade (Political Science) will speak on Life in Conflict Zones \n  \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/spinoza-borges-literary-imagination/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 317\, Thomson Hall 317\, Seattle
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160506T113000
DTSTAMP:20260408T152305
CREATED:20160128T195325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170823T212218Z
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SUMMARY:Graduate Fellows Spring Research Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies will host its annual Spring Research Symposium on Friday\, May 6. We are proud to highlight research by the seven members of the 2015-16 Jewish Studies Graduate Fellowship. Each fellow has received funding and mentorship from the Stroum Center to help further their masters- and doctoral-level projects related to Jewish Studies. \nThis year\, we are debuting a new\, interactive format for our symposium\, modeled on the poster session at academic conferences. Fellows will be stationed around the room with materials related to their research projects. The audience is invited to circulate among these stations\, hear about the fellows’ exciting projects\, and ask the students questions directly. We look forward to an engaging and interactive forum for sharing and connecting! \nPaid parking for this event is accessible at the North Gatehouse entrance at NE 45th Street and 17th Avenue NE. The closest parking lot to the Intellectual House are at the Padelford Parking Garage (N-18\, N-20\, and N-21). Gatehouse attendants will be able to provide you with directions and a campus map if you’re unsure of where to go. \nA light kosher breakfast will be served. \nHere is this year’s slate of topics: \nCanan Bolel\, Richard M. Willner Memorial Scholar: \nMapping Jewish Childhood in Seattle\, 1900-1950 \nRachel Graf\, Philip Bernstein Memorial Scholar: \nComics and Narratological Perspective: (Witnessing) Bias in Direct Experience \nBerkay Gulen\, Samuel and Althea Stroum Fellow: \nTurkey’s Israel Policy After 2002 \nOded Oron\, Deborah and Doug Rosen Fellow: \nLet My People Stay: Seeking Asylum in the Jewish State \nSasha Prevost\, I. Mervin and Georgiana Gorasht Fellow: \nFrom Hebrew Atheist to Sufi Martyr: Sarmad Kashani\, the “Jewish Saint of India” \nKatja Schatte\, Rabbi Arthur A. Jacobovitz Fellow:\n“Don’t We All Have a Responsibility in This World?”: Jewish Women’s Lives and Identities in East Berlin\, 1945-1990 \nEmily Thompson\, Mickey Sreebny Memorial Scholar:\n“Readily Known and Accessible”: First Steps Toward a Seattle Jewish Library Catalog \nWe thank our community supporters for their generosity in establishing these fellowships and contributing to the vibrant intellectual community at the Stroum Center!\n  \n[title size=”1″ content_align=”left” style_type=”single solid” sep_color=”” class=”” id=””]Links for Further Exploration[/title] \n\nClick here to find out more about this year’s class of Jewish Studies Graduate Fellows\, including blog posts related to their projects.\nInterested in applying for the 2016-17 Graduate Fellowship? Click here! Applications are due April 1st.\n\n  \nRSVP below to reserve your spot. Last year’s symposium was completely sold out!
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-symposium/
LOCATION:Intellectual House\, 4249 Whitman Court\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Graduate Fellows
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