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SUMMARY:2/15 TALK | Masua Sagiv on Religious Feminism and Social Change in Israel
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, scholar Masua Sagiv will dive into the past two decades in Israel to focus on how the Jewish religious (orthodox) society is undergoing a philosophical and theological revolution promoting gender equality\, in society and Halacha (religious law) alike. This revolution has a decisive impact on the Jewish religious society\, and in light of the Israeli constitutional arrangements that weave religious norms across the public sphere\, it influences the general Jewish public in Israel as well. The talk will introduce religious halachic feminism in Israel and some of its main struggles (in matters of marriage and divorce\, body and sexuality\, and spiritual leadership)\, focusing on the strategies the activists apply and their impact on Israeli society. \n\n\nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\nMasua Sagiv is the Koret Visiting Assistant Professor of Jewish and Israel Studies at UC Berkeley and a Scholar in Residence of the Shalom Hartman Institute based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Masua’s scholarly work focuses on the development of contemporary Judaism in Israel\, as a culture\, religion\, nationality\, and as part of Israel’s identity as a Jewish and democratic state. Her research explores the role of law\, state actors and civil society organizations in promoting social change across diverse issues: shared society\, religion and gender\, religion and state\, and Jewish peoplehood. Prior to moving to the Bay Area\, Masua was the Academic Director of the Menomadin Center for Jewish and Democratic Law at Bar-Ilan University. In addition\, Masua earned her doctorate in law from Tel-Aviv University\, where she wrote her dissertation on the topic of law and social change in the Halachic Feminist struggle in Israel.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/2-15-talk-masua-sagiv-on-religious-feminism-and-social-change-in-israel/
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:3/31 EVENT | A Workshop with Rachel Brown
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is hosting Rachel Brown for a morning workshop\, in which she’ll discuss chapter 1 of her forthcoming paper\, titled “Land\, Reproductive Labor and Accumulation: Situating Migrant Carework in Israel/Palestine”. Jewish Studies grad fellow Jake Beckert will serve as respondent. \n\nRegister Now >\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Rachel Brown‘s research and teaching interests include feminist and queer political theory\, settler colonialism\, Marxist feminism and questions of labor migration\, transnational feminisms\, and the politics of debt. \nShe earned her doctorate from The Graduate Center\, City University of New York in 2017. Her book manuscript\, Unsettled Labors: Migrant Caregivers in Palestine/Israel\, is under contract at Duke University Press. Her work has appeared in Feminist Theory\, Political Theory\, International Feminist Journal of Politics\, Theory & Event\, and Global Networks. Her most recent article is forthcoming in Race & Class. \n\n  \n\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/3-31-event-a-workshop-and-talk-with-rachel-brown/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Israel Studies,Workshop
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SUMMARY:1/24 WEBINAR | A New Day in Babylon and Jerusalem: Zionism\, Power\, Politics\, and Identity
DESCRIPTION:In this lecture\, based upon her forthcoming second book project\, historian and author Sara Hirschhorn will consider the modern histories of Zionism and the Left\, the rise of transnational “power” movements\, and the unraveling of American Jewish unanimity around Israel between 1967 and 1975.  The talk will historically inform pressing and politicized questions in the face of resurgent contemporary antisemitism. \nThe event will be held in Zoom webinar format. \nClick the button below to register and receive a link to the event: \nRegister Now > \n \nAbout the speaker\nSara Hirschhorn is currently a visiting professor at the University of Haifa Ruderman Program for American Jewish Studies and Senior Research Fellow at the University of Haifa Comper Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and Racism. She is also a research fellow at the Center for Antisemitism Research at the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and a fellow of the Jewish People Policy Institute. She received her Ph.D. in history from the University of Chicago in 2012. \nHer research\, teaching\, and public engagement activities are focused on the Israeli settler movement\, the Arab-Israeli conflict\, and Diaspora-Israel relations. These interests culminated in her first book City on a Hilltop: American Jews and the Israeli Settler Movement (Harvard University Press\, 2017)\, which won the 2018 Sami Rohr Prize in Jewish Literature Choice Award and was a finalist for the 2018 National Jewish Book Award. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/sara-hirschhorn-zionism-power-politics-identity/
LOCATION:RSVP for Zoom link
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:1/31 LECTURE | The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward - Lecture with Alon Tal
DESCRIPTION:After a century of conflict\, it is often said that in the Middle East the past is the enemy of the future. Nonetheless\, it is unwise to consider alternatives for resolving the Israeli/Palestinian conflict without understanding the antecedents to the present Gaza War\, the concerns of the sides and the key reasons behind the failed past efforts for reconciliation. \nAlon Tal\, a leading Israeli environmentalist and former member of the Knesset\, Israel’s parliament\, has been working to promote cooperation in sustainability between Israel and its neighbors for almost thirty years. \nThis talk will briefly consider the basic history of the military conflicts in the region\, how the present war in Gaza is changing perceptions\, the shift in the geopolitical dynamics of the Middle East\, and the prospects for transforming the present tragedy in order to open a new page in the relations between these historic adversaries. \nRegister to attend the event: \nRegister Now > \nThis event will also have a livestream option. View the livestream on YouTube: \nLivestream: The Israel-Palestine Conflict: Finding a Path Forward \n \nAbout the speaker\nAlon Tal is a visiting professor in sustainability at Stanford University and a professor of public policy at Tel Aviv University. In 2021 and 2022\, he was a member of Israel’s Knesset\, where he chaired the country’s first parliamentary sub-committee on climate change and the environment. \n \nThis lecture is cosponsored by the Near and Middle Eastern Studies Ph.D. Program and by the Middle East Center of the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/alon-tal-israel-palestine-path-forward/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 110\, 4069 Spokane Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:2/22 LECTURE | Jerusalem in Rome and Galilee: Encountering the Holy City in Jewish and Christian Mosaics
DESCRIPTION:The city of Jerusalem has long been of vital importance to numerous religious groups\, from antiquity to the present. But where did rank-and-file believers in the ancient world actually encounter images of the “Holy City” in their daily lives? And what cultural and social work did these images perform? \nJoin Professors Karen Britt and Ra‘anan Boustan as they explore a wide range of depictions of Jerusalem in floor and wall mosaics produced during late antiquity (third to eighth centuries CE). During this period\, which saw the emergence of both orthodox Christianity and novel forms of Judaism\, visual representations of Jerusalem became increasingly prominent in the decoration of religious buildings throughout the Mediterranean\, from the grand basilicas of Rome in the west to rural synagogues and churches in Palestine and Arabia in the east. They will show how images of Jerusalem bridged the great gaps in both space and time that separated the religious communities of late antiquity from Jerusalem and its glorious past. In the process\, these images brought the visual presence of the Holy City into spaces of worship throughout the Roman Empire\, thereby fostering memories of the past\, hopes for the future\, and forging networks of belonging that radiated out from this sacred center into the cities\, towns\, and even villages of the late Roman world. \nThis lecture is co-sponsored by the Middle East Center in the Jackson School of International Studies\, the School of Art + Art History + Design\, the Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, and the Department of Classics at the University of Washington. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, however RSVP is required. Click the button below to register: \nRegister Now >\nAbout the speakers\n\nKaren Britt is assistant professor of art history at Northwest Missouri State University. As an art historian engaged in archaeology\, her research focuses on the eastern Mediterranean. She has worked on archaeological projects at various sites in the region\, and is currently the mosaics specialist for the Huqoq Excavation Project in Israel. In her scholarship\, Britt explores how architectural decoration\, in particular mosaics\, can illuminate culture and society in the late Roman\, Byzantine\, and early Islamic worlds. Her research has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the U.S. Department of State’s division of Educational and Cultural Affairs\, the J. William Fulbright Foundation\, the Samuel H. Kress Foundation\, and the Council of American Overseas Research Centers. She is the co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017) and has authored or co-authored articles published in venues including Studies in Late Antiquity\, Journal of Late Antiquity\, Bulletin of the American Schools of Oriental Research\, Mediterranean Studies\, Journal of Art Historiography\, and Journal of Roman Archaeology. Britt has collaborated with Ra‘anan Boustan since 2014 on the publication of the synagogue mosaics in the village of Huqoq in lower eastern Galilee. \n Ra‘anan Boustan has been a Research Scholar in the Program in Judaic Studies at Princeton University since 2017. Before coming to Princeton\, he was an Associate Professor in the Department of History at UCLA. Boustan’s work explores the dynamic intersections between Judaism and other Mediterranean religious traditions in late antiquity\, with a special focus on the impact of Christianization on Jewish culture and society. In addition to publishing numerous articles and edited volumes\, Boustan is the author of From Martyr to Mystic (2005) and co-author of The Elephant Mosaic Panel in the Synagogue at Huqoq (2017). He currently serves as the Editor-in-Chief of two international journals\, Jewish Studies Quarterly and Studies in Late Antiquity. Boustan is the site historian for the Huqoq Excavation Project and collaborates with Dr. Karen Britt on the publication of the mosaic floor in the site’s late fourth-century synagogue. \nBritt’s and Boustan’s collaboration represents a close partnership between a specialist in late antique material culture who has worked on mosaics at archaeological sites in the eastern Mediterranean and a historian of religion with expertise in literary evidence\, especially the Jewish textual tradition from the Hellenistic\, Roman\, and Byzantine periods. They endeavor not only to bring their respective tools and expertise to bear on their work on mosaics\, but more importantly to develop as much as possible a fully integrated approach that avoids privileging one type of historical source. \n \nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/jerusalem-rome-galilee-holy-city-jewish-christian-mosaics/
LOCATION:Thomson Hall 101\, 2023 King Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:3/27 EVENT | A Spark of King David: The Musical Poetry of Rabbi Israel Najara Then and Now
DESCRIPTION:Can a 16th-century religious Hebrew poet remain relevant to contemporary audiences? Rabbi Israel Najara’s poetic legacy proves that this is indeed possible. A Middle Eastern contemporary of William Shakespeare\, nicknamed “A Spark of King David” by his followers\, Najara’s poems continue to be used for Jewish rituals and festivities in the present day. \nJoin us to hear from Professor Edwin Seroussiwhy Rabbi Najara’s poetry of hope and redemption has persisted in synagogues\, in Jewish homes\, and on Israeli pop stages to this very day. \nRegister Now >\nAlso register for Edwin Seroussi’s talk on Thursday\, March 28\, at 7:00 p.m.:\nSonic Ruins of Modernity: Ladino Folksongs Today \n\nAbout the speaker\n \nEdwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor Emeritus of Musicology at Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Chair of the Academic Committee of the Jewish Music Research Centre\, Visiting Scholar at Dartmouth College and\, in 2023/4\, Fellow at the Herbert G. Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania.  His research focuses on Jewish musical cultures of the Mediterranean and Middle East and their interactions with Islamic cultures\, Judeo-Spanish song and music in Israel. He explores processes of hybridization\, diaspora\, nationalism and transnationalism in diverse contexts and historical periods such as the Ottoman Empire\, colonial Morocco and Algeria\, Germany’s Second Empire and the Austro-Hungarian Empire\, the Zionist settlement in Palestine and the Judeo-Spanish-speaking diaspora.\n\nThis series is cosponsored by the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the UW Middle East Center\, the UW Near and Middle East Studies Ph.D. Program\, ArtsUW\, part of the College of Arts and Sciences\, and by the Ethnomusicology Program at the University of Washington. \nIt was made possible with the support of the Hazzan Isaac Azose Fund for Community Engagement\, which was created in partnership with the Isaac Alhadeff Foundation and the Benoliel Family Fund\, with additional support provided by Congregation Ezra Bessaroth\, the Seattle Sephardic Brotherhood and the Sephardic Bikur Holim Congregation\, as well as Jack I. Azose\, Howard Behar\, Harley and Lela Franco\, Jeff and Jamie Merriman Cohen\, Jack Schaloum and Marlene Souriano Vinikoor.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or by emailing jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/musical-poetry-of-rabbi-israel-najara/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture,Israel Studies,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:6/25 LECTURE | Not a Good Time for Hebrew? Novelist Maya Arad & "The Hebrew Teacher"
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a lively discussion with best-selling Hebrew-language author and Stanford University faculty member Maya Arad. \nOften called the “foremost Hebrew writer outside Israel\,” Arad will discuss her latest book\, “The Hebrew Teacher\,” which presents three remarkable novellas focusing on Israeli American life\, with Professor Naomi Sokoloff. \nThis event will be held in person on the UW main campus. Please register for more details: \nRegister Now >\n\n\nAbout the speaker\n \nMaya Arad is the author of eleven books of Hebrew fiction\, as well as studies in literary criticism and linguistics. Born in Israel in 1971\, she received a Ph.D. in linguistics from University College London and for the past twenty years has lived in California\, where she is currently writer in residence at Stanford University’s Taube Center for Jewish Studies.\n\nThe University of Washington is committed to providing access and accommodation in its services\, programs\, and activities. To make a request connected to a disability or health condition contact Grace Elizabeth Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/novelist-maya-arad-hebrew-teacher-not-a-good-time-for-hebrew/
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CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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