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SUMMARY:10/14 TALK | Book Launch: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture - Mika Ahuvia
DESCRIPTION:In a discussion with author and journalist Sigal Samuel\, faculty member Mika Ahuvia will discuss the large role that angels played in the ancient Mediterranean world\, drawing on her recent book\, “On My Right Michael\, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture.” \nWatch the conversation now:\n \nAbout this talk\nMika Ahuvia’s new book on angels in ancient Jewish culture examines a common element of Jewish practice that is often overlooked or dismissed: angels\, the invisible beings who serve as intermediaries\, guardians and role models for humans. \nIn a conversation with author and journalist Sigal Samuel\, Ahuvia will explain how angels have extended humans’ experience of the divine beyond scriptures and synagogue walls across time\, and how related practices — including magical invocations — illustrate the many ways in which people have practiced Judaism and Jewishness throughout history. Learn more about the book. \nAbout the speakers\nMika Ahuvia researches the formative history of Jewish and Christian communities in the ancient Mediterranean world. Specializing in Late Antique Jewish history\, she works with rabbinic sources\, liturgical poetry\, magical texts\, early mystical literature\, and archaeological evidence. \nHer new book\, “On My Right Michael\, On My Left Gabriel: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture\,” investigates conceptions of angels in foundational Jewish texts and ritual sources\, and uncovers how angels made their way into the practices and worldview of ancient Jews. Ahuvia teaches courses in Jewish Studies\, comparative religion\, and global studies in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies and is also the Stroum Center’s Undergraduate Program Coordinator. \n\nSigal Samuel is senior reporter for Vox’s Future Perfect project\, and co-host of the Future Perfect podcast. She is also the author of two books. “Osnat and Her Dove\,” a children’s book\, tells the true story of the world’s first female rabbi. “The Mystics of Mile End\,” a novel\, tells the story of a dysfunctional family dealing with mysticism\, madness\, and mathematics in Montreal. The book was nominated for the International Dublin Literary Award and won a Canadian Jewish Literary Award. Sigal earned her M.F.A. in creative writing from the University of British Columbia and her B.A. in philosophy from McGill University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/angels-in-ancient-jewish-culture-mika-ahuvia/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:11/16 COSPONSORED TALK | Was the Biblical Joseph on the Spectrum?
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URL:https://www.hilleluw.org/events/talk-was-the-biblical-joseph-on-the-spectrum/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social\, Historical and Ethical Perspectives
DESCRIPTION:Image: Wheel of public health interventions\, developed by the Minnesota Department of Health (2019). \nNadav Davidovitch\, Professor of Health Systems Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, gave the 2021 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies\, discussing Israel’s response to the COVID-19 pandemic in conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, Associate Professor of Global Health at the University of Washington. \nWatch the presentations now:\n \nAbout this talk\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, a public health professor and epidemiologist at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, will explore the different meanings of public health from historical\, sociological\, political and health policy perspectives\, focusing on several case studies from the Israeli perspective\, from the 1950s absorption of mass immigration and related vaccination and public health efforts to the handling of the COVID-19 pandemic in the present day. \nIn conversation with Abraham Flaxman\, UW professor of global health\, Davidovitch will discuss the interaction between scientific advisory committees and policy makers\, and pressing issues including health inequities\, the influence of politics\, and the role of trust and solidarity in public health practices and policy-making. \nAbout the speakers\n\nNadav Davidovitch\, M.D.\, MPH\, Ph.D.\, is an epidemiologist and public health physician. He is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health Systems Management in the Faculty of Health Sciences and the Guilford-Glaser Faculty of Business and Management at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev in Israel. He teaches on health policy\, public health\, health promotion\, the Israeli healthcare system\, public health ethics\, and global health. He is also affiliated with the Center for the History and Ethics of Public Health at the School of Public Health\, Columbia University\, NY\, and with the School of Public Health\, University of Illinois – Chicago. \nAbraham Flaxman is Associate Professor of Global Health at the Institute for Health Metrics and Evaluation (IHME) at the University of Washington\, where he is currently leading the development of new methods for cost effective analysis through microsimulation. Prior to becoming an associate professor\, Dr. Flaxman was a post-graduate fellow at IHME\, and before that he was a post-doctoral fellow at Microsoft Research. Originally from Evanston\, IL\, Dr. Flaxman earned his B.S. in mathematics from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He earned his Ph.D. in algorithms\, combinatorics\, and optimization from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006. Dr. Flaxman has written his popular blog\, Healthy Algorithms\, since 2008. His posts cover mathematics\, computer science\, and his research at IHME. \nThis event made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Center for Studies in Demography & Ecology and the Population Health Initiative at the University of Washington\, and by Americans for Ben-Gurion University.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/public-health-covid-19-israel-historical-perspective/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:1/19 EVENT| Book Talk & Discussion: “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” - Liora R. Halperin
DESCRIPTION:In this event\, faculty member Liora R. Halperin will discuss her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and the creation of historical narratives around Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, with Stroum Center Director and fellow faculty member Noam Pianko. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nBeginning in the late 1870s\, Jews from the religious communities of urban Palestine\, joined in the 1880s by migrants from the Pale of Settlement in the Russian Empire and other parts eastern Europe\, began to purchase land and establish private agricultural colonies in Ottoman Palestine\, with the goal of creating productive\, self-sufficient Jewish communities. Though these agricultural colonies predated the Zionist movement of the late 1890s\, they served as hubs for subsequent Jewish migrants and later came to be seen as the first Zionist wave of Settlement\, or “First Aliyah.” Yet\, because of their more religious or socially traditional ethos and use of Arab workers\, the stories and ideas surrounding these private settlements were often at odds with later Zionist movements\, especially Labor Zionism and the call for “Hebrew Labor.” \nIn a conversation with Noam Pianko\, Professor of Jewish Studies\, Halperin will discuss the stories around these Jewish settlements\, how they fit into the broader story of Zionism\, and how she reconstructed this history via a wide range of sources. \nAbout the speakers\n\nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nNoam Pianko is the Samuel N. Stroum Chair of Jewish Studies and Professor in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies. Pianko also directs the Samuel and Althea Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and serves as the Herbert and Lucy Pruzan Professor of Jewish Studies. He received his Ph.D. in Religious Studies & Judaic Studies from Yale University in 2004. His most recent book\, “Jewish Peoplehood: An American Innovation” (New Jersey: Rutgers University Press\, 2015)\, won the American Jewish Historical Society’s Saul Viener Book prize\, and traces how the concept of “peoplehood” emerged at the beginning of the last century as an American-Jewish innovation calibrated to shape discussions of nationalism\, Zionism\, and American Jewish identity. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-launch-oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:1/20 PANEL| Scholarly Perspectives — "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past"
DESCRIPTION:In a panel conversation\, three scholars will offer responses to and commentary around faculty member Liora R. Halperin’s new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” and how the history of early Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine has been folded into the story of the State of Israel. \nAbout this talk\n\nIn her new book\, “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past\,” Liora R. Halperin looks at the history of moshavot\, Jewish agricultural settlements in Ottoman Palestine\, and the ways in which the history of these settlements has been folded into the story of the State of Israel in the early 20th century. \nIn this panel conversation\, scholars Alon Confino (University of Massachussetts Amherst)\, Nahum Karlinsky (Ben-Gurion University)\, and Sherene Seikaly (UC Santa Barbara) will offer their responses to the book\, connecting it to broader understandings around the processes of creating history and historical narratives\, in particular as these relate to the State of Israel. \nAbout the speakers\n\nAlon Confino is Director of the Institute for Holocaust\, Genocide\, and Memory Studies\, and Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. His recent books include “Foundational Pasts: The Holocaust As Historical Understanding” (Cambridge University Press\, New York\, 2012) and “A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide” (Yale University Press\, 2014). He studied at the University of Tel Aviv and earned his M.A. and Ph.D. at the University of California\, Berkeley. \nNahum Karlinsky is a Senior Lecturer at the Ben-Gurion Research Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism\, where he has taught numerous courses on Israeli identity\, the social\, cultural and urban history of Israel/Palestine\, and post-Zionism\, neo-Zionism and Jewish fundamentalism. In 2006-2007\, he was chair of the Israel Studies Program at Ben-Gurion University. In 2008-2009\, he was a fellow at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. Since 2008\, he has been affiliated with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and MISTI-Israel as a visiting associate professor at MIT’s Political Science Department. He is currenly a visiting professor at Boston University. \nSherene Seikaly is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In her forthcoming book\, titled “From Baltimore to Beirut: On the Question of Palestine\,” she will follow the trajectory of her great grandfather. Traveling with her ancestor from his nineteenth century mobility across Baltimore and Sudan to twentieth century immobility in Lebanon\, Seikaly places the question of Palestine in the context of a global history of race\, capital\, slavery\, and dispossession. She is co-editor of Journal of Palestine Studies and co-editor of Jadaliyya. \nLiora R. Halperin is Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History at the University of Washington\, and has scholarly interests in nationalism and collective memory\, language ideology and policy\, and Jewish-Arab relations both in Ottoman and Mandate Palestine and in the early years after Israeli statehood. Her first book\, “Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine” (Yale University Press\, 2015)\, was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She has published academic articles in The Journal of Social History\, Jewish Social Studies\, Middle Eastern Studies\, and The Jewish Quarterly Review\, among other venues. She received her Ph.D. in history from UCLA in 2011\, and is the Benaroya Chair of the UW Israel Studies Program. \nThis event is cosponsored by the Middle East Center and the Department of History at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/oldest-guard-zionist-past-liora-halperin-panel/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:2/8 EVENT | The Detention of Uyghur Muslims in China
DESCRIPTION:In this event\, UW alum Darren Byler\, Ph.D.\, will draw on his research\, fieldwork\, and first-hand experiences to explain the scope and impact of China’s detainment of Uyghur Muslims in forced labor camps\, in conversation with UW Professor Emerita Sandra Silberstein. \nAbout the speakers\n\nDarren Byler is Assistant Professor of International Studies at Simon Fraser University. His recent book\, “Terror Capitalism: Uyghur Dispossession and Masculinity in a Chinese City” (Duke University Press\, 2021) is based on two years of ethnographic fieldwork in the Uyghur homeland in Chinese Central Asia\, and examines the impact of detention and surveillance on Uhgyur and Han male migrants. He received his Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Washington. \nSandra Silberstein is Professor Emerita of English at the University of Washington\, where she researches rhetoric in times of national crisis and discourses around terrorism; linguistic constructions of gender\, race\, ethnicity; critical applied linguistics and second language studies.\n \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the Center for Human Rights\, the China Studies Program\, and the East Asia Resource Center at the University of Washington.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/detention-of-uyghur-muslims-in-china/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Student
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T120000
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SUMMARY:2/24 TALK | "Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx" — Jonathan Israel
DESCRIPTION:In this online webinar\, intellectual historian Jonathan Israel will discuss his recent book\, “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx” — part of the University of Washington Press’ Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series — and the idea that revolutionary movements of the 18th and 19th centuries were deeply rooted in Enlightenment philosophy\, particularly the works of Jewish thinkers like Baruch Spinoza. \nThe talk will be facilitated by Michael Rosenthal\, Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy at the University of Toronto and UW Emeritus Professor of Philosophy. \nWatch the webinar now: \n\nAbout this talk\n\nIn the 18th and early 19th centuries\, a small but conspicuous fringe of the Jewish population became the world’s most resolute\, most intellectually driven\, and most philosophical revolutionaries\, among them the pre-Marxist Karl Marx. Yet the roots of their alienation from existing society\, and their determination to change it\, extend back to the very heart of the Enlightenment\, when Spinoza and others living in a rigid\, hierarchical society first developed a modern revolutionary consciousness. \nDrawing on his recent book\, “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx: The Fight for a Secular World of Universal and Equal Rights\,” part of the University of Washington Press’s Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies series\, leading intellectual historian Jonathan Israel will show how the radical ideas in Marx’s early writings were influenced by this legacy. \nIsrael will also consider how writers of the “Radical Enlightenment” understood Jewish marginalization and ghetto-ization — and the forces of superstition\, prejudice\, and ignorance that sustained these structures — and how the quest for Jewish emancipation led “revolutionary” thinkers to formulate theories of social and legal reform\, paving the way for later revolutionary actions that helped to change the world from the French Revolution onwards — though perhaps not in the ways these thinkers intended. \nAbout the speakers\n\nJonathan Israel is professor emeritus in the School of Historical Studies at the Institute for Advanced Study. His many books include “European Jewry in the Age of Mercantilism\, 1550–1750” and “Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity\, 1650–1750.” He delivered the 2017 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies\, which focused on Spinoza as a revolutionary thinker and the idea of the “Radical Enlightenment” and the Jewish Emancipation. \nMichael A. Rosenthal holds the Grafstein Chair in Jewish Philosophy\, with appointments in both the Department and the Anne Tanenbaum Centre for Jewish Studies. Prior to joining the department\, he was professor of philosophy and Jewish studies at the University of Washington at Seattle. He teaches and publishes in the areas of early modern philosophy\, ethics\, political philosophy\, and Jewish philosophy. Michael’s current research focus is Spinoza’s political philosophy\, both in relation to central issues in Spinoza studies and Spinoza’s engagement with the Jewish Philosophical Tradition\, particularly Maimonides. Michael is also interested in the reception of Spinoza in subsequent Jewish philosophy including Moses Mendelssohn and Hermann Cohen. He received his Ph.D. from the University of Chicago in 1996.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/revolutionary-jews-book-talk-jonathan-israel/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:3/10 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes - "All Things Being Equal": Mobile Extractions in a Carceral World
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URL:https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D156932877&eventid=156932877
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:3/11 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes - Colloquium: "Interior Frontiers and the Entrails of Inequality"
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/colloquium-ann-laura-stoler-interior-frontiers/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220331T180000
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SUMMARY:3/31 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes: Why Is It So Hard to Shrink the Carceral State?
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URL:https://simpsoncenter.org/events/event-detail?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D156933239&eventid=156933239
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T171500
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SUMMARY:4/12 TALK | The Rise of Modern Vernacular Hebrew: How Language Shapes Identity (and Vice Versa)
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, linguist Ivy Sichel will discuss the rise of modern vernacular Hebrew in the 1950s and related ideas — how using particular language variety can influence its speakers\, and how speakers make the language their own. \nWatch the talk now: \n \nAbout this talk\n\nHow did the modern vernacular variety of Hebrew — the informal\, everyday version of the language — come to eclipse the prestigious prescriptive variety of Hebrew to become the standard? How does value accrue to particular varieties of a language? \nIn this talk\, Ivy Sichel will analyze the social meanings associated with the new native vernacular of Modern Hebrew\, taking a positive stance towards the new native vernacular\, which is constructed via differentiation from its alternatives (formal or text-based Hebrew). \nThe new vernacular is reflexive\, and it speaks for itself with the authority of experience\, as opposed to the traditional authority of the text. A speaker of modern vernacular Hebrew necessarily\, and often unknowingly\, possesses a positive attitude towards it\, and is an active agent in the propagation of a new collective (of speakers) and its values. \nThe talk will explore this type of subjectivity\, and the ways in which speakers participate in the dissemination of a collective set of ideas about the modern vernacular. \nThe talk will also explore the consolidation and dissemination of these values by particular individuals\, with a focus on Ma Nishma\, a weekly column written in Modern Hebrew published in the 1950s. \nEvent image from the “World Dictionary of Hebrew Slang\,” written by Netiva Ben-Yehuda and Dan Ben-Amotz and published in 1982. Via the Jewish Women’s Archive. \nAbout the speaker\n\nIvy Sichel is Associate Professor of Linguistics at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Her work focuses on syntactic theory. She is also interested in the sociolinguistics of the revival of Hebrew speech\, and has written about women’s contributions to the revival project at the turn of the 20th century (with Miri Bar-Ziv Levi)\, and about the relationship between the revival and the establishment of the State of Israel (with Uri Mor).
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/modern-vernacular-hebrew-language-identity/
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:5/10 STROUM LECTURE | Does the United States Have a Jewish Question?
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URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroum-lectures-2022-americas-jewish-question-lila-corwin-berman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T200000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220210T214221Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220324T003700Z
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SUMMARY:5/12 STROUM LECTURE | Belonging in Question: Jews in the American Civic and Legal Imagination
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/stroum-lectures-2022-americas-jewish-question-lila-corwin-berman/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T121500
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220504T210223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223213Z
UID:39445-1654081200-1654085700@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:6/1 TALK | Silenced Horrors: Sexual Violence During the Holocaust in Ukraine
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D159578067
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Marta_Havryshko-cropped.jpg
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220908T212950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223155Z
UID:40065-1665072000-1665077400@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:10/6 TALK | How the Soviet Jew Was Made — Sasha Senderovich
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://slavic.washington.edu/calendar?trumbaEmbed=view%3Devent%26eventid%3D160858950
LOCATION:HUB 214\, UW Seattle Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221019T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220929T191243Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223145Z
UID:40140-1666195200-1666200600@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:10/19 TALK | Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jews-of-Arab-Lands-banner.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221026T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220929T192339Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223137Z
UID:40144-1666800000-1666805400@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:10/26 TALK | The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jews-of-Arab-Lands-banner.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221102T163000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20160929T192910Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223126Z
UID:40147-1667401200-1667406600@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:11/2 TALK | Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jews-of-Arab-Lands-banner.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T163000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20160929T193401Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223114Z
UID:40149-1668092400-1668097800@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:11/10 TALK | Coffeehouses\, Parks\, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/jews-of-arab-lands-middle-east-history-lectures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Jews-of-Arab-Lands-banner.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20160929T180034Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223101Z
UID:40273-1668526200-1668531600@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:11/15 EVENT | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode: The Case of Poetry and Literary Translation
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://spanport.washington.edu/calendar#new_tab
LOCATION:Denny Hall 213
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Spanish & Portuguese Studies":MAILTO:spsuw@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T103000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230215T122000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20220106T220223Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223047Z
UID:40595-1676457000-1676463600@jewishstudies.washington.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230104T205723Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T185626Z
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SUMMARY:2/23 RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM | "Suppose the Mother were Jewish"\, a Happy Hour with Susan Glenn
DESCRIPTION:Leo Pfeffer speaking at the National Convention of the American Jewish Congress (1966). Seated is Shad Polier. Image credit: American Jewish Historical Society\, Center for Jewish History\, New York City.  \nRegister Now >\n\nThe Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is thrilled to invite you to the first in a new series of workshops\, a happy-hour research colloquium led by Susan Glenn. Please join us to celebrate Susan’s three years as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor in Jewish Studies! Plus\, you can enjoy alcohol and light charcuterie. \nIn this colloquium\, Susan Glenn will share some of her research from her work-in-progress\, “Suppose the Mother Were Jewish”: Leo Pfeffer\, the American Jewish Congress\, and the Problem of Religious Protection Law\, to which a Ph.D. candidate Joana Bürger will pose some initial questions before the floor opens for discussion. Read on for a brief synopsis of her forthcoming paper: \n\nA towering figure in the history of twentieth-century First Amendment litigation\, Leo Pfeffer (1909-1993)\, intervened in more church-state cases than any other twentieth century lawyer. Pfeffer is best remembered for challenging the constitutionality of religious activities in the public schools\, state aid to parochial schools\, tax exemptions for religious institutions\, and discriminatory Sunday closing laws. This paper focuses on an important arena of Pfeffer’s church-state jurisprudence that has been ignored by historians and legal scholars: his daring and controversial forays into the religious minefield of child adoption and custody. A deeply religious Jew for whom the strict separation of church and state was also an article of faith\, Pfeffer not only challenged the constitutionality of “religious protection” laws and judicial practices that made it difficult\, if not impossible\, for couples to adopt children born to mothers whose religion differed from theirs\, he also argued for the First Amendment rights of mothers\, including Jewish mothers\, to have their children raised in a religion that differed from their own. \nThe paper argues that Pfeffer’s views on religion\, the constitution\, and child adoption–and the controversies they provoked — constitute an important\, but yet to be written\, chapter in the history of postwar American Jewish debates about religion\, the family\, and Jewish “continuity.” \nRegister Now >\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Susan Glenn is a University of Washington History Professor who holds a Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley (1983).  She previously served as the Howard and Frances Keller Endowed Professor in the University of Washington’s Department of History\, and now serves as the Samuel and Althea Stroum Professor in Jewish Studies. Her published work includes two books and a co-edited volume of cross-disciplinary essays\, Boundaries of Jewish Identity (University of Washington Press\, 2010)\, Susan’s book Daughters of the Shtetl: Life and Labor in the Immigrant Generation (Cornell University Press\, 1990)\, won the American Historical Association’s Joan Kelly Memorial Prize for the best book in gender and women’s history. Her second book\, Female Spectacle: The Theatrical Roots of Modern Feminism (Harvard University Press\, 2000)\, analyzed the significance of late nineteenth and early twentieth century popular theater as a critical site of women’s enlarging cultural and social authority. Currently\, she is working on a study of religious conflicts over child adoption in the aftermath of World War II. \nMoreover\, Susan has twice been appointed as Distinguished Lecturer by the Organization of Historians\, and has also served on both the Academic Council of the American Jewish Historical Society and the Advisory Council of the Jewish Women’s Archive. \nCosponsored by the Department of History. \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/2-23-research-colloquium-suppose-if-the-mother-were-jewish-happy-hour-with-susan-glenn/
LOCATION:Smith Room\, Suzzallo Library\, UW\, 4000 15th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Workshop
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230331T103000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230310T201909Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T185731Z
UID:41146-1680255000-1680258600@jewishstudies.washington.edu
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230403T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230117T204905Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T223004Z
UID:40598-1680537600-1680541200@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:4/3 TALK | Sarah Zaides Rosen on "Tevye's Ottoman Daughter"
DESCRIPTION:Register Now >\n\nIn this talk\, historian and Stroum Center for Jewish Studies’ Associate Director Sarah Zaides Rosen will trace the story of 19th- and 20th-century Russian Jews who left the Pale of Settlement\, crossed the Black Sea and arrived in Constantinople (modern-day Istanbul)\, all in the twilight years of the Russian and Ottoman Empires. \nThis talk will introduce listeners not only to a fascinating Jewish community where Sephardic Jews were the majority (and Ashkenazi Jews the minority)\, but also to the ways in which Sephardic Jews responded to a refugee crisis\, and in turn how they contended with contemporary political ideas\, including Zionism. \nThe audience will also learn about hopeful Jews who created agricultural colonies in the western Aegean region of Turkey (such as Or Yehuda)\, funded by philanthropist Baron Maurice de Hirsch and aided by the nascent agricultural school Mikveh Israel. There\, in these early “kibbutz”-like colonies\, Russian and Ashkenazi Jews would either await Ottoman citizenship\, which would allow them to move on to the Land of Israel\, or slip through the borders between what is now Turkey\, Syria\, and Israel. \nCentered on the book “Tevye’s Ottoman Daughter: Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews at the End of Empire“\, Sarah will discuss Jewish identity in the late Ottoman world\, and the ways in which Zionism was being debated and interpreted in the late Ottoman context. \nRegister Now >\n\nPresented by the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies. \nCosponsored by the Departments of History and Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures\, the Ellison Center for Russian\, East European\, and Central Asian Studies\, and the Middle East Center. \nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Sarah Zaides Rosen received her Ph.D. from the Department of History at the University of Washington in 2017 and her B.A. from the University of California San Diego. She was a fellow at the Woodrow Wilson Foundation and has held the Titus Ellison Fellowship and multiple Joff Hanauer Fellowships at the University of Washington. Her research has been supported by the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture\, Brandeis University\, and the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism. Zaides Rosen is currently Associate Director of the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies at the University of Washington. \nIn conversation with Professors Canan Bolel (MELC) and Devin E. Naar (History and 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 Dy at (206) 543-0138 or jewishst@uw.edu at least 10 days before the event.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/szr-book-talk/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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ORGANIZER;CN="Stroum Center for Jewish Studies":MAILTO:jewishst@uw.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230225T005309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T230254Z
UID:40817-1683054000-1683059400@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:5/2 STROUM LECTURE | "Melodeklamatsiye": A Yiddish Performance Genre ?
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0SYoi6rzWo&list=PL90oKJgqWC2aPPrKo70l0kj0I0ZYDncHa&index=4
LOCATION:Kane Hall 220\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230504T203000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230123T235816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230720T230308Z
UID:40877-1683226800-1683232200@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:5/4 STROUM LECTURE | "Between Me and the Other World"\, an Immersive Music Experience
DESCRIPTION:
URL:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j7vrv1qEDeI&list=PL90oKJgqWC2aPPrKo70l0kj0I0ZYDncHa&index=2
LOCATION:Kane Hall 225\, UW Campus
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230515T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230428T210732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230512T000100Z
UID:41509-1684170000-1684175400@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:5/15 BOOK TALK | Wordplay in Ancient Near Eastern Texts with Professor Scott Noegel
DESCRIPTION:As part of the UW Department of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures‘ “Conversations With Scholars” lecture series\, this will be an all-access book talk that will be completely open for questions from attendees after a few brief introductory remarks from the author himself\, Professor Scott Noegel. \nBOOK TALK\n\n\nThe monograph offers a comparative study of the various functions that wordplay serves in ancient Near Eastern texts and provides a comprehensive classification for the phenomenon. \nLanguages covered include Sumerian\, Akkadian\, Egyptian\, Ugaritic\, biblical Hebrew\, and Aramaic. The monograph also examines definitions of “wordplay” by exploring ancient conceptions of words and the generative role of scripts (consonantal\, syllabic\, and pictographic). Also discussed are issues of terminology\, genre\, audience\, grammaticality\, interpretation\, and methodology. \nThe book further considers the distribution and preferences of these devices among the languages and discusses a number of principles and strategies that inform their creation\, such as ambiguity\, repetition and variation\, delayed comprehension\, metaphor and metonymy\, clustering\, and the use of rare words. The book concludes by suggesting potential avenues for future research. \n\n \nDownload a free copy of the book at: https://www.sbl-site.org/…/pdfs/pubs/9780884144762_OA.pdf and click on the button below to join the Zoom event on Monday\, May 15\, 2023 at 5:00 pm. \nBOOK TALK
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-15-book-talk-wordplay-in-ancient-near-eastern-texts-with-prof-scott-noegel/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230521
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230524
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230427T210716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230515T193914Z
UID:41484-1684638000-1684810799@jewishstudies.washington.edu
SUMMARY:5/21 - 5/22 UW Symposium | Jews Amidst the Embers of the Ottoman Empire
DESCRIPTION:Research in the fields of Jewish\, Ottoman\, and Middle East history is often focused either on the late Ottoman period (variously defined)\, or on successor regimes (e.g. Republican Turkey\, Arab and Balkan nation-states\, British mandate Palestine or French mandate Syria). Moreover\, scholars often divide the worlds of Ottoman Jewry into two discrete zones defined by geography\, culture\, or language: the Ladino-speaking Jews of the Balkans and Anatolia\, and the Arabic-speaking Jews of the Eastern Mediterranean and parts of North Africa. Yet due to the parameters imposed by multiple (sub)fields\, language limitations\, and other factors\, these various Jewish groups–who also intersect with Greek-speaking Jews\, Neo-Aramaic-speaking Jews\, Yiddish-speaking Jews and others–are often not conceptualized within an integrated framework. \nWorking across these temporal and geographic divides reveals the legacies and afterlives of the Ottoman Empire after its demise\, continuity as well as change across space and across moments of historical rupture\, and the mechanisms by which the Ottoman Empire took on meaning as an object of memory within and in light of later political\, cultural\, and social developments. \nConference Overview\n \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/5-21-5-22-uw-symposium-jews-amidst-the-embers-of-the-ottoman-empire/
LOCATION:Madrona 313 + Communications 202
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T183000
DTSTAMP:20260417T061834
CREATED:20230502T011730Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230808T185803Z
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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:9/12 LUNCH & LEARN | Antisemitism and the Politics of "Tolerance"
DESCRIPTION:Russell Shorto has called Amsterdam “the world’s most liberal city\,” and indeed\, the Netherlands is well known for its tolerant approaches to drug enforcement\, legalized sex work\, and gay rights. However\, recent events have brought this self-congratulatory attitude into question\, especially in debates over immigration and multiculturalism. \nIs tolerance as positive of an ideal as it seems on the surface? Or might a focus on tolerance reinforce the very conflicts it is intended to manage? This conversation will explore the legacies of the Holocaust for how antisemitism is approached in the Netherlands today and its complex relation to anti-Muslim racism. \nLUNCH & LEARN\n\nAbout the speaker\n\n\n Nicolaas P. Barr\, Ph.D.\, teaches in Comparative History of Ideas and Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. He leads a UW study abroad program to Amsterdam and is the Dutch-to-English translator of Tofik Dibi’s coming-out memoir Djinn. Nicolaas has appeared on The Stranger’s podcast “Blabbermouth” to discuss such terms as anarchy\, progressive\, and neoliberal\, and written on Dutch racism in The Nation and Jewish Currents. He’s an editor for H-Low Countries and a trombonist in the Mexican band Banda Vagos.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/9-12-lunch-learn-antisemitism-and-the-politics-of-tolerance/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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ORGANIZER;CN="Holocaust Center for Humanity":MAILTO:info@HolocaustCenterSeattle.org
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