Academic Lectures
10/14 TALK | Book Launch: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture – Mika Ahuvia
Faculty member Mika Ahuvia discusses her new book on the sizable role of angels in ancient Jewish culture.
11/16 COSPONSORED TALK | Was the Biblical Joseph on the Spectrum?
In an event at Hillel UW, Samuel J. Levine, a Touro Law Center professor, will offer a reading of Joseph's story that presents a portrait of him as an individual on the autism spectrum.
11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social, Historical and Ethical Perspectives
Epidemiologist and public health expert Nadav Davidovitch will discuss public health and the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at past large-scale public health challenges, drawing on examples from the state of Israel.
1/19 EVENT| Book Talk & Discussion: “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” – Liora R. Halperin
Liora R. Halperin will discuss her new book, "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past," and the creation of historical narratives related to early Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine, with fellow faculty member Noam Pianko.
1/20 PANEL| Scholarly Perspectives — “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past”
Scholars Alon Confino (UMass Amherst), Nahum Karlinsky (Ben-Gurion University), and Sherene Seikaly (UCSB) discuss faculty member Liora R. Halperin's new book about Jewish settlements in 19th-century Ottoman Palestine.
2/8 EVENT | The Detention of Uyghur Muslims in China
Darren Byler will explain the scope and impact of Uyghur Muslim detention in China, drawing on research, fieldwork, and first-hand experience.
2/24 TALK | “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx” — Jonathan Israel
Intellectual historian Jonathan Israel will explain how the writings of Spinoza and other Enlightenment thinkers influenced subsequent revolutionary movements.
3/10 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes – “All Things Being Equal”: Mobile Extractions in a Carceral World
Ann Laura Stoler will discuss the theoretical underpinnings of "free" prison labor in the keynote lecture of the "Negotiating Carceral Regimes" series.
3/11 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes – Colloquium: “Interior Frontiers and the Entrails of Inequality”
Ann Laura Stoler will lead a colloquium for graduate students and faculty on her recent book of essays "Interior Frontiers and the Entrails of Inequality."
3/31 COSPONSORED EVENT | Negotiating Carceral Regimes: Why Is It So Hard to Shrink the Carceral State?
What are the myths that make it so hard to reduce incarceration? Legal scholar Jonathan Simon explains.
4/12 TALK | The Rise of Modern Vernacular Hebrew: How Language Shapes Identity (and Vice Versa)
Linguist Ivy Sichel will discuss the rise of modern Hebrew, and the ways in which a new vernacular language variety can spread, and influence those who speak it.
5/10 STROUM LECTURE | Does the United States Have a Jewish Question?
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USHistorian Lila Corwin Berman looks at questions of Jews' citizenship and belonging in the United States over the course of American history.
5/12 STROUM LECTURE | Belonging in Question: Jews in the American Civic and Legal Imagination
Kane Hall 220 4069 Spokane Ln, Seattle, WA, USHistorian Lila Corwin Berman looks at the question of Jews' citizenship and belonging in the United States across American history.
6/1 TALK | Silenced Horrors: Sexual Violence During the Holocaust in Ukraine
Zoom 0In this talk, Marta Havryshko (Ukrainian National Academy of Sciences) will discuss the silence around sexual violence that occurred in Ukraine during the Holocaust, and the devastating impact of this kind of violence in this and in other wars and genocides.
10/6 TALK | How the Soviet Jew Was Made — Sasha Senderovich
HUB 214, UW Seattle Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesFaculty member Sasha Senderovich will discuss his recent book, "How the Soviet Jew Was Made."