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November 2020
Naomi Sokoloff will provide a lecture diving into animal studies and Holocaust literature.
Find out moreSusan A. Glenn lectures on how Americans responded to the Holocaust in this entry into the ten-lecture series.
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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.
Find out moreDevin E. Naar asks "is the Holocaust an "European" event in this entry into the ten-lecture series.
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Sarah Willen of the University of Connecticut will give the 2020 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of global migration to Israel and the Middle East.
Find out moreSasha Senderovich will lecture on the history and memory of Holocaust in the U.S.S.R. in this addition to the ten-lecture series.
Find out moreDecember 2020
Frederick Michael Lorenz will lecture on the case of the genocide in Myanmar before the International Court of Justice in this entry in the ten-lecture series.
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The 8th annual Ladino Day at the University of Washington will explore the intersection of Ladino and technology over the last century, and how revolutions
Find out moreDaniel Bessner, Hadar Khazzam-Horowitz, and Niko Switek conclude the ten-lecture series with this roundtable.
Find out moreFebruary 2021
How has the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as related in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible shaped the ways Jews, Muslims and Christians thought and continue to think about same sex relationships. Explore this question with Cole Fellow Dr. Brendan Goldman.
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Join Benaroya Fellow Smadar Ben-Natan as she analyzes Israeli protests and their relations to Covid emergency management, civil rights, and political divides in Israeli society.
Find out moreApril 2021
Dr. Hillary Kaell discusses the modern phenomenon of American Christian pilgrimage trips to Israel/Palestine and how American Christians make sense of these experiences.
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Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word "ghetto" from 16th-century Venice until today.
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Dina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History." Books will be available for sale at the talk.
Find out moreMay 2021
Dr. Julia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
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