5/25 | STROUM LECTURES | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: Grappling with Risk, Reimagining Hope
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
5/27 STROUM LECTURE | Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change: The Afterlives of Noah’s Ark – Gender, Disability & the Politics of Survival
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Watts Belser uses rabbinic Jewish texts on political violence, imperialism, and disaster to grapple with pressing contemporary questions about climate change and environmental justice.
10/14 TALK | Book Launch: Angels in Ancient Jewish Culture – Mika Ahuvia
Faculty member Mika Ahuvia discusses her new book on the sizable role of angels in ancient Jewish culture.
10/25 EVENT | “The Hangman”: On Adolf Eichmann’s Executioner — Screening & Conversation with Director Netalie Braun
Following a screening, director Netalie Braun will discuss the story of Shalom Nagav, the Yemenite Jew who executed Adolf Eichmann and has ruminated on this experience ever since. In conversation with Smadar Ben-Natan and Liora Halperin.
11/16 COSPONSORED TALK | Was the Biblical Joseph on the Spectrum?
In an event at Hillel UW, Samuel J. Levine, a Touro Law Center professor, will offer a reading of Joseph's story that presents a portrait of him as an individual on the autism spectrum.
11/18 BENAROYA LECTURE | Analyzing the Israeli COVID-19 Response in Context: Social, Historical and Ethical Perspectives
Epidemiologist and public health expert Nadav Davidovitch will discuss public health and the COVID-19 pandemic by looking at past large-scale public health challenges, drawing on examples from the state of Israel.
12/8 STUDENT EVENT | Narrating Migration Stories: Podcasting Sephardic Jewish Journeys
Scholar Chris Gratien, co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast, and journalist Sam Negri talk about how they tell migration stories, looking at the personal history Sam's father, Leo Negri, an undocumented Sephardic Jewish immigrant.
12/12 LADINO DAY | Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
In the University of Washington's 9th annual Ladino Day celebration, editors of the new book "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in
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.