11/19 BENAROYA LECTURE | Fighting for Dignity: Migrant Lives at Israel’s Margins
Sarah Willen of the University of Connecticut will give the 2020 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of global migration to Israel and the Middle East.
11/24 TALK | In the Bloodlands: History and Memory of the Holocaust in the U.S.S.R.
Zoom 0Sasha Senderovich will lecture on the history and memory of Holocaust in the U.S.S.R. in this addition to the ten-lecture series.
12/1 TALK | Genocide in Myanmar: The Case Before the International Court of Justice
Zoom 0Frederick Michael Lorenz will lecture on the case of the genocide in Myanmar before the International Court of Justice in this entry in the ten-lecture series.
12/6 | Ladino Day 2020 — Revolutionizing Ladino: From the Printing Press to the Smartphone
Zoom 0The 8th annual Ladino Day at the University of Washington will explore the intersection of Ladino and technology over the last century, and how revolutions
12/8 TALK | Holocaust Lecture Series Concluding Roundtable
Zoom 0Daniel Bessner, Hadar Khazzam-Horowitz, and Niko Switek conclude the ten-lecture series with this roundtable.
1/12 COSPONSORED TALK | The Power of Personal Stories: UW Students Grapple with Stories of Survival and Loss
Holocaust Center for Humanity lunch-and-learn featuring UW faculty member Rawan Arar on the topic of survival and loss in the student context.
1/14 TALK | The Converso’s Return: Dalia Kandiyoti in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
RSVP for Zoom linkDalia Kandiyoti (College of Staten Island, City University of New York) will discuss her new book on conversos with Devin Naar (Isaac Alhadeff Professor in Sephardic Studies).
1/27 TALK | A Land of Milk and Honey: Biblical Narratives in Modern Israel
RSVP for Zoom linkRuth Tsoffar (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor) will give an online talk exploring the sublime space of milk and honey in the Bible and the way it has been mythologized in Israeli discourse
2/2 STUDENT EVENT | Ancient Perspectives on Same-Sex Relationships
How has the story of Sodom and Gomorrah as related in the Qur'an and Hebrew Bible shaped the ways Jews, Muslims and Christians thought and continue to think about same sex relationships. Explore this question with Cole Fellow Dr. Brendan Goldman.
2/10 COSPONSORED TALK | Rethinking Israeli Citizenship: The Case of Ethiopian Jews and Their Struggle for Naturalization Between 1955-1975
This event is part of the Jackson School of International Studies and its African Studies Program Winter 2021 Lecture Series "Protest, Race and Citizenship across African Worlds."
2/11 TALK | Outside of the Frame: Enslaved Persons in New Testament Ethics
RSVP for Zoom linkBernadette Brooten (Brandeis University) will give a virtual talk on the ways early Christian authors sought theologically to form gender and other relationships.
Protests, Corruption, and Civil Rights During COVID — Israel
Smadar Ben-Natan as analyzes Israeli protests against corruption and their relationship to covid emergency management, civil rights, and political divides in Israeli society.
2/25 COLE FELLOW TALK | Minorities and State Violence: The View from the Jews of Medieval Cairo
RSVP for Zoom linkCole Fellow Brendan Goldman will delve into the history of incarceration of minorities by looking at Jews from the medieval Islamic world, using medieval documents found in the Cairo Geniza, a synagogue storehouse.
VIDEO | Israel Through a Colored Lens: African American Perspectives on Mizrahi Israelis
RSVP for Zoom linkBryan Roby (University of Michigan – Ann Arbor) will give a virtual talk on the works of Black writers who examined Ashkenazi-Mizrahi relations within Israel.