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!
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.