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.
VIDEO | Writing Trauma, from the Holocaust to the Pandemic: Poetry from Immigrant Jewish Writers from the Former Soviet Union
RSVP for Zoom linkJulia Kolchinsky Dasbach and Luisa Muradyan discuss their poetry with faculty member Sasha Senderovich.
COSPONSORED TALK | Ethnic Identity & Ethnic Organizing: Darfurian Asylum Seekers in Israel
Ph.D. student Lisa Richlen will discuss how Darfurian Sudanese refugees construct identity through community organizing in Israel.
VIDEO | American Christians and the Holy Land: Before, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine
RSVP for Zoom linkHillary Kaell discusses the modern phenomenon of American Christian pilgrimage trips to Israel/Palestine and how American Christians make sense of these experiences.
VIDEO | Ghetto: The History of a Word
Zoom 0Daniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word "ghetto" from 16th-century Venice until today.
VIDEO | The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: Dina Danon in Conversation with Devin E. Naar
RSVP for Zoom linkDina Danon (Binghamton University) will discuss her new book, "The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History."
GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers, Migrants and Midwives
Zoom 02020-2021 graduate fellows discuss Ladino newspapers, Ottoman Jews in Seattle, and Jewish midwives at the turn of the 20th century.