Events Search and Views Navigation

Event Views Navigation

Upcoming Events

June 2020

6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean

Painting of Hagar in the desert, holding a child, an angel in the background
Friday, June 5, 11:30 am - 1:00 pm
Zoom

Graduate fellows Canan Bolel, Jennifer Hunter and Erin Gilbert talk about bodily integrity and displacement in the ancient world and the 19th century.

Find out more

April 2021

Free

POSTPONED | American Christians and the Holy Land: Before, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine

Photograph showing a tour group in contemporary clothing walking along a long dirt road in a rocky desert landscape
Tuesday, April 6, 2021, 4:00 pm
HUB 340 University of Washington HUB
Seattle, WA 98195 US

Dr. Hillary Kaell discusses the modern phenomenon of American Christian pilgrimage trips to Israel/Palestine and how American Christians make sense of these experiences.

Find out more
Free

POSTPONED | Ghetto: The History of a Word

Daniel Schwartz in a button-down shirt and glasses
Thursday, April 22, 2021, 6:30 pm
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE
Seattle, WA 98195 United States

Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word "ghetto" from 16th-century Venice until today.

Find out more
Free

POSTPONED | Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Ottoman Izmir

Tuesday, April 27, 2021, 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm
Thomson Hall 101 2023 King Lane
Seattle, WA 98195 United States

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 more

May 2021

Free

POSTPONED – STROUM LECTURES | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: Rabbinic Stories of Gender, Class, and the Violence of the Unseen

Painting representing the Noah's ark story, showing a figure of Noah gesturing over animals, with human figures huddling behind him, surrounded by the suggestion of blue waves
Wednesday, May 12, 2021, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Kane Hall 210 4069 Spokane Ln
Seattle, WA 98105 United States

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.

Find out more
Free

POSTPONED – STROUM LECTURES | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: The Afterlives of Noah’s Ark – Catastrophe, Disability & the Politics of Survival

Painting representing the Noah's ark story, showing a figure of Noah gesturing over animals, with human figures huddling behind him, surrounded by the suggestion of blue waves
Friday, May 14, 2021, 7:00 pm - 8:30 pm
Kane Hall 210 4069 Spokane Ln
Seattle, WA 98105 United States

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.

Find out more
+ Export Events

For blog write-ups about our events and more information about annual programs like the Stroum Lectures, visit our Events page.