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.
11/3 TALK | Jewish Dogs and the Nazi Beast: Animal Studies and Holocaust Literature
Zoom 0Naomi Sokoloff will provide a lecture diving into animal studies and Holocaust literature.
11/10 TALK | “A Reply to Screamers”: How Americans Responded to the Holocaust
Zoom 0Susan A. Glenn lectures on how Americans responded to the Holocaust in this entry into the ten-lecture series.
STUDENT EVENT | Teaching computers to read Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews
RSVP for Zoom linkHow do you teach a computer to read an endangered language -- and a language that many people don't even know exists? While machine learning technology has enabled us to read and research texts online in many languages, there's one language that our computers and smartphones have yet to learn: Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews.
11/17 TALK | From the Ottoman Empire to Auschwitz and Beyond: Is the Holocaust a “European” Event?
Zoom 0Devin E. Naar asks "is the Holocaust an "European" event in this entry into the ten-lecture series.
11/18 DISCUSSION | “Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making”
A conversation between Naomi Sokoloff and Nancy Berg, co-editors of the new collection "Since 1948: Israeli Literature in the Making," and many of the contributors.
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.