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.
4/10 PANEL | Perspectives on Cosmopolitan Istanbul in the Hit Netflix Series, “The Club”
In this virtual panel, scholars Reşat Kasaba (University of Washington), Christine Philliou (UC Berkeley), and Aron Rodrigue (Stanford University) will discuss the historical context and
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.
4/22 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In Anticipation of the Revolution
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.
COSPONSORED EVENT | De Inga y Mandinga: A Diaspora Tale from Latin America
A multimedia, bilingual theater production that tells the story of two women, one Jewish and one African, and their journey to Latin America.
5/6 SEMINAR | Jewish Writers from 20th-Century Ukraine: In the Midst of Pogrom Violence
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.
5/10 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.
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!