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SUMMARY:Stroum Lectures 2026 with Rafael Neis
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies is proud to announce our 2026 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series\, featuring Professor Rafael Neis from the University of Michigan. \nBoth events are free and open to all. Please register here: Registration Required \nLecture 1: Have ‘Men’ and ‘Women’ Always Existed? What the Talmud Can Tell Us\nMay 12\, 7:00-9:00pm\, UW campus – register for location \nWe often assume that the categories “man” and “woman” are stable and self-evident. Indeed\, ideas about the timelessness of gender may also underpin the refrain that “trans and nonbinary people have always existed.” This framing asks us to support the right of contemporary gender-diverse people to exist and flourish\, in part\, by recognizing that they\, too\, have an ancient lineage. In this talk\, Professor Rafael Neis presents an altogether different approach to gender. Through a journey into Talmudic texts composed in late ancient Iraq\, they invite us to set aside what we think we already know about gender categories. Doing so\, Professor Neis argues\, will illuminate how the ancient rabbis sought to invent\, classify\, and make meaning of the diverse plurality of human and other beings. \nLecture 2: Monsters\, Hybrids\, and Holy Images – Rethinking Bodies in Ancient Jewish Art  \nMay 14\, 4:00-5:30pm\, UW campus – register for location \nWalk through the ancient Mediterranean and Middle East\, and you would have been surrounded by images of all kinds—human figures\, animals\, hybrids\, and creatures that blur the line between the familiar and the fantastic. These images appeared everywhere: in streets and homes\, bathhouses and synagogues\, public buildings and sacred spaces. Art historians have traditionally taken upon themselves the role of assigning gender or species designations to such images in ways that replicate modern gender and sexuality concepts (especially of “male” and “female” or “masculine” and “feminine”).  In this talk\, Professor Rafael Neis explores a handful of examples from late ancient Jewish art in the Roman Galilee and Sasanian Iraq. Instead of sorting these images into boxes like “human\,” “animal\,” or “hybrid\,” or even “male\,” “female\,” and “queer\,” they invite us to see the complex ways in which ancient artists and communities imagined species\, divinity\, and gender. The result is an account of ancient Jewish visual culture that offers a more expansive representation of kinship\, difference\, and the sacred. \n  \nAbout the Speaker\nRafael Neis is a scholar and artist. Neis is the Jean and Samuel Frankel Professor of Rabbinic Literature and is appointed in the Department of History and Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. As Faculty Director of Arts Learning at Michigan’s Arts initiative\, Neis supports campus-wide art-integrated pedagogy. Their second book\, When a Human Gives Birth to a Raven: Rabbis & the Reproduction of Species\, was published in 2023 by University of California Press. Their artwork has been featured in shows and in many publications. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies is a nationally-renowned series of public lectures\, which has brought Jewish studies luminaries from around the globe to the University of Washington for more than fifty years. Made possible through the support of the Samuel and Althea Stroum Lectures Endowment\, this annual series is a cornerstone program of UW’s Stroum Center for Jewish Studies and has led to impactful conversations\, groundbreaking scholarship\, and award-winning publications. You may view the full Stroum Lectures archive here and review corresponding books published by University of Washington Press here. \n  \nImage: 4th-7th c. incantation bowl written in Aramaic from Iraq. Photo by Osama Shukir Muhammed Amin via Wikimedia Commons.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/stroum-lectures-2026/
LOCATION:UW Campus – register for location
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture - The Jews of Edirne: The End of Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders
DESCRIPTION:Join us in welcoming visiting author and scholar Jacob Daniels\, discussing his new book\, The Jews of Edirne: The End of the Ottoman Europe and the Arrival of Borders.  \nFree and open to all; registration required here. \nAt the turn of the twentieth century\, the city of Edirne was a bustling center linking Istanbul to Ottoman Europe. It was also the capital of Edirne Province—among the most religiously diverse regions of the Ottoman Empire. But by 1923\, the city had become a Turkish border town\, and the province had lost much of its non-Muslim population. With this book\, Jacob Daniels explores how one of the world’s largest Sephardi communities dealt with the encroachment of modern borders. \nDaniels will give a short presentation and will then be joined by Canan Bolel\, Assistant Professor in Jewish Cultures\, Languages\, and Literatures of the Eastern Mediterranean\, for a lively conversation and Q&A. \nJacob Daniels is Assistant Professor of Instruction and Assistant Director of the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies at The University of Texas at Austin. He received his Ph.D. in History at Stanford University in 2022. \nSponsored by the Sephardic Studies Program\, the Middle East Center\, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/book-talk-jacob-daniels-the-jews-of-edirne-the-end-of-ottoman-europe-and-the-arrival-of-borders/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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SUMMARY:Public Lecture | Ethan Katz
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a public lecture with Ethan Katz in HUB 145 from 4:00-5:30pm on October 19th\, 2027. More details coming soon! Please register here. \nEthan Katz is Associate Professor of History at UC-Berkeley\, where is also the Helen Diller Family Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Katz’s first book\, The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard\, 2015)\, received several prizes\, including a National Jewish Book Award. Katz has co-edited three other books\, including Colonialism and the Jews\, a finalist for a National Jewish Book Award. His newest book\, currently entitled Unsettling Histories: Zionism and Colonialism Reconsidered is under contract with Princeton University Press. Katz has taken a major leadership role in discussions of antisemitism and Israel/Palestine on college campuses. He is the co-founder of two pioneering programs at Berkeley: (1) the Antisemitism Education Initiative\, a program to improve the conversation about antisemitism through thoughtful education and engagement; and (2) The Berkeley Bridging Fellowship\, a year-long program that brings together diverse students for discussions about Israel and Palestine. His research has been supported by numerous fellowships\, including from the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania and the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism\, at the Hebrew University. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/public-lecture-ethan-katz/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures
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SUMMARY:Ladino Day 2027 | The Seattle Sephardic Bookshelf: A Glimpse into the Adatto Family Collection
DESCRIPTION:Hosted by the University of Washington since 2013\, Ladino Day is an annual educational and celebratory program that centers the Ladino (Judeo-Spanish) language through story and song\, and with lectures and reflections from scholars\, activists\, and community members. \n\nFor Ladino Day 2027\, join us on a curated tour through the Adatto collection – in both digital and physical form – with presentations by Sephardic Studies chair Devin Naar and other special guests. \nThe first scholars of Sephardic Studies at the University of Washington–and among the very first scholars in the field anywhere in the United States–siblings Albert and Emma Adatto completed their masters degrees in the 1930s focusing on Seattle Sephardic history and culture\, respectively. Since then\, Albert Adatto amassed one of the largest private collections of Ladino books from the Ottoman Empire located anywhere in the United States. Now digitized by the UW Sephardic Studies Program with the originals housed at UW Special Collections\, the Adatto bookshelf offers an unprecedented glimpse into the astounding literary and cultural creativity among Sephardic Jews over the centuries that has been hidden from public view until today. \nThis event will be held in-person on the 5th floor of the Suzzallo Library or online on Zoom. More details forthcoming. Registration links will be posted soon.  \n\nThis event is hosted by the Sephardic Studies Program and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Washington\, made possible by the Lucie Benveniste Kavesh Endowed Fund for Sephardic Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/ladino-day-2027-the-seattle-sephardic-bookshelf-a-glimpse-into-the-adatto-family-collection/
LOCATION:Suzzallo Library\, 5th Floor\, 4000 15th Ave NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195
CATEGORIES:Sephardic Studies
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