STUDENT EVENT: Jewish Studies Virtual Coffee Hour
RSVP for Zoom linkUndergrads are invited to grab a cup of coffee or tea and join student engagement director Lauren Kurland and other students involved with the Stroum Center to hang out, get to know each other a little better, and hopefully laugh a little! Attendance limited to 5 students so we can all "see" each other and interact. Note, this coffee "hour" is only 45 minutes. Multiple coffee hours will be offered this spring to accommodate schedules.
6/1 COLLOQUIUM | Regional and Global Dimensions to Israeli Foreign Policy: Shifting Relationships with the Palestinian Territories, Ghana, and Taiwan
Zoom 0Grad fellows Bret Windhauser, Francis Abugbilla and Eryk Waligora offer perspectives on Israeli foreign policy.
VIDEO | Sasha Senderovich — Against Nostalgia: The Old Country in the Jewish American Imagination
WADr. Sasha Senderovich reads and offers thoughts on the dark poetry of modernist Yiddish poet Moyshe Leyb Halpern.
VIDEO | Chagall, Modigliani, & Jewish Painters from the Russian “Pale of Settlement”
Galya Diment explains how modernist painters Marc Chagall and Amedeo Modigliani related to Jewishness in their lives and art, looking at their time in Paris in the early twentieth century.
6/3 COLLOQUIUM | Violence, Victimhood & the “Natural Order” in the Armenian Genocide & Holocaust
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Oya Rose Aktas and Derek Wiebke discuss victim / perpetrator relationships in history and literature.
VIDEO | Richard Block —The 2015 Hungarian Drama “Son of Saul” and a New Chapter in Films About the Holocaust
Dr. Richard Block discusses the 2015 Hungarian film "The Son of Saul" and how it marks a shift in films about the Holocaust.
VIDEO | The History of a Page: Reflecting on the Talmud as a Physical Book (and What I’ve Learned Since My Stroum Lecture 23 Years Ago)
David Stern (Harvard University) explains how the Talmud evolved over the ages in this update to his 1997 Stroum Lecture in Jewish Studies.
6/5 COLLOQUIUM | Tracing Unruly Edges: Jewish Embodiment from Babylonia to the Mediterranean
Zoom 0Graduate fellows Canan Bolel, Jennifer Hunter and Erin Gilbert talk about bodily integrity and displacement in the ancient world and the 19th century.
Seattle Jewish Film Festival Sephardic Spotlight | The Final Hour
WA, United StatesA new documentary follows a young Sephardic woman who has just come to the realization that her ancestral language, Ladino, is on the verge of extinction.
Insights from a Half-Century of Ladino Studies: David M. Bunis in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
International Ladino expert Dr. David Bunis discusses his personal connection with the Ladino language, the history of Ladino studies, and the future of the field with Dr. Devin Naar, chair of the UW Sephardic Studies Program.
10/6 TALK | The History of Jewish Difference and Anti-Judaism as Ideology
Zoom 0Mika Ahuvia will discuss the history of anti-Judaism as an ideology in the introduction to this ten-lecture series.
10/13 KEYNOTE | The Difficulty of Confronting the Holocaust — Mass Murder in Jedwabne, Poland
Zoom 0Jan Gross lectures on the difficulty of confronting the Holocaust with a focus on the case of Jedwabne murder in Poland in this entry in a ten-lecture series.
10/20 TALK | Racism, Anti-Semitism, and the Lines of Solidarity
Zoom 0Nicolaas P. Barr will discuss antisemitism and racism and the lines of solidarity that arise between them.
10/25 CONFERENCE | Jewish Romance in the Middle Ages: Literature, Piety, and Cultural Translation
This conference brings together scholars working on medieval Jewish literature from varied perspectives to enable a cross-disciplinary, trans-institutional, and international dialogue that will highlight understudied voices in medieval literature.
10/27 TALK | Ideologies of Racial Superiority and Purity: Why Did Germany and Japan Engage in Such Extreme Mass Murder During World War II?
Zoom 0Daniel Chirot will lecture on the ideologies of racial purity and superiority in Japan and Germany in World War II.