Academic Lectures
CANCELED: Dancing with the Angel of Death: Demonic Femininity in the Ancient Synagogue
Thomson 317 on the UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Laura Lieber of Duke University will discuss demonic femininity in ancient Jewish poetry.
CANCELED: How Frontier Jews Made American Judaism
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Shari Rabin explores how Jewish migrants in the era of westward expansion shaped the religious idioms, institutions, and ideologies of American Judaism.
Can Patients Refuse Lifesaving Treatment? A Comparative Review of Secular, Jewish & Israeli Perspectives
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Hadar Khazzam-Horovitz will review secular and Jewish-rabbinic approaches to the question of whether patients can refuse lifesaving treatment, and what role physicians should play in that decision.
3/4 TALK | New Language, New Story: How Translation Changed the Bible for Sephardic Jews Across History
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. David Wacks will discuss the history of Sephardic engagement with the Tanakh, from the medieval Arabic translations to the Ladino and Judeo-Spanish translations, commentaries, and legends through which generations of Sepharadim reinterpreted the Tanakh for the worlds in which they lived.
3/13 CONCERT | Singing the Sephardic Diaspora: Mediterranean Elements in Judeo-Spanish Choral Arrangements
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USLadino songs reflect a wealth of musical influences, from Turkish scales to Balkan rhythms. In this lecture-recital, recent Doctor of Musical Arts (DMA) graduate Sarah Riskind will discuss Mediterranean features of Sephardic music and how they can be highlighted in arrangements for chorus.
4/17 COLLOQUIUM | International Politics, History, and Jews
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesGraduate fellows Berkay Gülen and Kerice Doten-Snitker share their research on Israeli foreign policy and anti-Semitism in medieval Europe.
5/6 TALK | “More Mexican than the Nopal”: From Ottoman Jew to Mexican Diplomat in Vichy France, or the Story of Mauricio Fresco
Thomson 317 on the UW Campus 2023 Skagit Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Devi Mays will use the life of Mexican Jewish diplomat Mauricio Fresco to explore the multiple tensions undergirding global Sephardic life in the late interwar and World War II eras.
5/14 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Lost Archives, Sacred Wastebins, and Jews of the Medieval Islamic World
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
5/16 STROUM LECTURE | Jewish Manuscripts in the Digital Age: Manuscripts, the Digital Revolution, and the New Materiality
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesIn our 2019 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, Dr. Marina Rustow will consider the enduring relevance of ancient Jewish texts in an online era.
5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory, History & Thought
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Jairo Tutillo and Hayim Katsman as they share their research.
5/23 TALK | Visualizing Resistance: From Conflict to Concord in a Synagogue Mosaic
Odegaard Library 220 4060 George Washington Lane NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Ra'anan Boustan interprets an ancient depiction of a Jewish victory over Greek forces, and the clues it offers about Jewish identity during Roman times.
Katja Petrowskaja: A Family Story Between Memory and Forgetting
Communications 120 University of Washington, Seattle, WA, United StatesThe writer Katja Petrowskaja will speak about family history and memory in conversation with Sasha Senderovich.
10/29 TALK | No Pasarán!: Jewish Collective Memory in the Spanish Civil War
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesAmelia Glaser of University of California San Diego will speak about how the Spanish Civil War (1936-1938) united the anti-fascist left around the world.
11/19 TALK | American Jews and Israel in the Trump Era: Polarization and Protest
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesProfessor Dov Waxman will give the 2019 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of American Jewish support for Israel in the context of the Donald Trump presidency
AUDIO | From Humanitarian Relief to Holocaust Rescue: The Story of Tracy Strong, Jr.
Kane Hall 110 4069 Spokane Lane, Seattle, WA, United StatesDr. Christopher Browning tells the story of a relief worker from Seattle who established a safe house for refugees in 1940s Vichy France.