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.
5/12 STUDENT EVENT| Post-Stroum Lecture Boba and Conversation
Private Location 1400 NE Campus Parkway, Seattle, WA, United StatesJoin staff from Hillel UW and a UW faculty member to discuss this year's Stroum Lectures over bubble tea — our treat!
5/19 WORKSHOP | Nation-State and Citizenship: The Exclusion and Persecution of Greek Jews in Romania Under the National Legionary State
Mary Gates Hall, Room 211BJoin Fulbright Scholar and UW Visiting Lecturer Nikos Tzafleris to workshop his article-in-progress on how Jews with Greek citizenship living in Romania navigated rising antisemitism and nationalism during a turbulent period of European history. Open to graduate students and faculty.
5/20 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Shadow of the Holocaust
A reading & discussion-based online seminar with faculty member Sasha Senderovich, looking at the prose and poetry of Jewish writers from Ukraine at three key moments in the 20th century. Advance registration required.
5/23 EVENT| An Evening with Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh
HUB 145, UW Campus 4001 E Stevens Way NE, Seattle, WA, United StatesIsraeli/Druze emissary to the U.S. Gadeer Kamal-Mreeh will discuss her experiences as a journalist and former Knesset member, and "the complexity of Israel," with faculty member Alan Dowty.
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Political and Archival Policies: International and Local Perspectives
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Francis Abugbilla and Lili Brown present about Israeli foreign policy in Africa and archiving local Sephardic history.
GRADUATE COLLOQUIUM | Reimagining Jewish Narratives in New Contexts: From Antiquity to the Present
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Aaron Carpenter, Shelby Handler, and Forrest Martin present their research in 20-minute presentations.
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."
10/19 TALK | Arabian Judaism and Early Islam
Zoom 0Who were the Jews of late ancient western Arabia? Hamza M. Zafer will explain how the Quran and other early Muslim writings provide tantalizing evidence about these communities.
10/26 TALK | The Jews of Medieval Baghdad in the Abbasid Era
Zoom 0Learn about the significant Jewish population — including Talmudic yeshivas, government officials, and financial agents — that resided in Baghdad, at the heart of the Abbasid caliph's imperial rule, for more than 500 years.
11/2 TALK | Jews and Muslims in Colonial Algeria: Between Intimacy and Resentment
Zoom 0Yuval Tal will explore the unique relations between Muslims and Jews in the French colony of Algeria between 1830 and 1962, examining the culture they shared and how colonial rule shaped their daily encounters.
11/10 TALK | Coffeehouses, Parks, and Neighborhoods: Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century Cairo
Zoom 0Alon Tam will explore the social history of the Jewish community in Egypt, looking at public places such as coffeehouses, parks, neighborhoods, and more.
11/15 EVENT | Territories of Ladino in its Postvernacular Mode: The Case of Poetry and Literary Translation
Denny Hall 213In this seminar Dr. August-Zarębska will explain the concept of postvernacularity and will argue that the revival of Sephardic literature from the late 1970s till now may be seen as a part of the postvernacular Ladino culture.
12/1 EVENT | Israeli Elections Panel
Zoom 0On the heels of the 5th Israeli election in 4 years, the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies' Israel Studies Program invites you to attend a panel of experts as they debrief the results and talk about what the outcome means—both for the future of Israel, and the world at large.