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SUMMARY:Failure is an Option: Immigration\, Memory\, and the Russian Jewish Experience with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 7 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 9 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive. \n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:I Alone Can Fix It: Tales from the New Dystopia with Gary Shteyngart
DESCRIPTION:The Stroum Center for Jewish Studies proudly announces its 2018 Samuel and Althea Stroum Lecture series with Gary Shteyngart. \n \nA decade and a half ago\, with the publication of his 2002 novel The Russian Debutante’s Handbook\, the writer Gary Shteyngart launched a new wave of literary production by Jewish writers who immigrated to North America from the Soviet Union at a young age\, and who took up the pen in English\, their adopted tongue. By now\, works by award-winning and bestselling writers Anya Ulinich\, David Bezmozgis\, Boris Fishman\, Lara Vapnyar\, Irina Reyn\, Nadia Kalman\, Sana Krasikov\, and others easily fill an impressive—and growing—bookshelf. Coinciding with the flourishing of English-language literature by authors of diverse national\, ethnic\, and cultural backgrounds such as Jhumpa Lahiri\, Junot Díaz\, and Chang-rae Lee\, this cohort of writers placed the experience of Russian Jewish immigrants on the map of contemporary American fiction. \nShteyngart followed his debut with two more satirical novels. Absurdistan (2006) was a whimsical yet darkly comic take on both Vladimir Putin’s oligarchy and George W. Bush’s America. Super Sad True Love Story (2010) presented a dystopian vision of America’s decline that was filled with prophesies on issues ranging from surveillance technology to economic disparity that have gradually—and stunningly—been coming true in the years since. Vastly different in their breadth and set in a range of real and imagined locations the world over\, Shteyngart’s first three novels explored different versions of a series of nebbishes who\, in parodic ways\, resembled the author himself. \nWith the publication of his memoir Little Failure in 2014\, Shteyngart appears to have closed a chapter of his career that built rich fictional worlds on his satirized autobiography. Little Failure—a humorous\, touching\, and deeply honest exploration of his family’s and his own history delved deeply into the 20th century experience of Jews in the Soviet Union and during immigration that sat at the core of Shteyngart’s earlier fiction. In his anticipated new novel\, Lake Success\, to be published in autumn of 2018\, Shteyngart is poised to pivot in a new direction and to train his perceptive gaze on unfolding American realities. Set during a time that Shteyngart’s narrator defines as “the first summer of Trump\,” the novel launches its American Jewish protagonist—a hedge fund broker of dubious accomplishments and a failed father and husband—on a life-changing trip across the United States aboard a Greyhound bus. Semi-cognizant of other literary protagonists who had previously undertaken similar journeys of self-discovery and failed\, and not entirely unaware that such pursuits of lost time tend to yield disappointing results\, Shteyngart’s new hero offers profound observations of a native country he hadn’t known before\, its fabric of fragile human relationships rapidly and starkly fraying all around him. \nThe 2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart will offer an opportunity to look back on the first fifteen years of the writer’s career and to look ahead to his future literary pursuits. In a series of conversations with Sasha Senderovich\, Assistant Professor of Russian and Jewish Studies at UW\, and readings\, Gary Shteyngart will explore the questions of the role of humor and comedy in today’s world\, immigration and the Jewish experience\, prescient issues in Russian-American political and cultural relations\, and the satirist’s role in authoritarian societies. \nThis event is free and open to the public\, but RSVP is required. Please register for the May 9 lecture at the bottom of this page\, and for the May 7 lecture on its event page. \nThe Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies are an annual series of talks given by luminaries in the field of Jewish Studies\, hosted by Stroum Jewish Studies at the University of Washington. For more than thirty years\, through the generosity of Samuel and Althea Stroum\, Jewish Studies has been able to bolster public scholarship around Judaism. View highlights from the past thirty years below\, or scroll further to learn more about the history of the lectures and view the full archive.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/our-events/2018-stroum-lectures-gary-shteyngart/
LOCATION:Kane Hall 120\, 4069 Spokane Ln\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, US
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Arts & Culture
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SUMMARY:Grad Fellows: Reviving Languages & Teaching the Middle East
DESCRIPTION:Join 2017-2018 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Rob Keener and Sara Molaie as they share their research on human rights issues and diplomacy in Israel and other countries in the Middle East. \nA light lunch will be served. \n \nRob Keener\, Israel Studies Program Fellow\n“Constructing a Project-Based Learning Curriculum to Teach the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict” \nRobert Keener was born in Houston\, Texas\, where he attended St. Thomas High School and Texas Tech University. After college\, Robert spent two years working in the oil and gas industry in Houston before academia came calling. He attended Ole Miss in Oxford\, Mississippi\, where he took two courses on the history of the Middle East that sparked an interest in the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. The multi-sided presentation of the conflict by his mentor\, Dr. Nikolas Trepanier\, was far different than the single-sided polemics that he had previously heard. While at Ole Miss\, Robert focused on studying systems of oppression such as apartheid\, Jim Crow and imperialism. After earning his MA in history\, Robert enrolled in the University of Washington’s Multicultural Education doctoral program\, where his research centers on teaching controversial topics in social studies\, global citizenship education\, and the construction of knowledge. When he is not working as a research assistant at the Center for Multicultural Education or trying to earn his doctorate\, Robert enjoys hiking in the mountains with his wife Emily and their chocolate lab named Rylee.\n  \n \nSara Molaie\, Robert & Pamela Center Fellow\n“Hebrew and Persian Revival Movements in the 19th Century” \nSara Molaie is pursuing her Master’s in Comparative Religion in the Jackson School.  As a member of the minority Baha’i community in Iran where she grew up\, Molaie has had to overcome many challenges. After she immigrated to the United States in 2009\, she focused her post-secondary education on religious studies\, in an effort to contribute to raising awareness of the possibilities for multicultural coexistence. With a focus on Judaism and Islam\, she completed elementary biblical and modern Hebrew and intermediate Arabic in her undergraduate and graduate studies at the University of Washington. Working on her MA thesis\, which is related to the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language\, she is going to advance her Hebrew in the summer as an FLAS awardee.\n 
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/grad-fellows-human-rights-diplomacy-middle-east/
LOCATION:HUB 145\, UW Campus\, 4001 E Stevens Way NE\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Graduate Fellows,Israel Studies
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180527T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180527T180000
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SUMMARY:SIFF Film: The Oslo Diaries
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URL:https://www.siff.net/festival/the-oslo-diaries#new_tab
LOCATION:WA
CATEGORIES:Arts & Culture
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180531T123000
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SUMMARY:The Ottoman Last Decade: The Perspectives of "The Other Ottomans"
DESCRIPTION:Discover the fate of non-Turkish populations—especially Ladino-speaking Jews—during the final years of the Ottoman Empire in this lecture by Prof. Eyal Ginio. Prof. Ginio will discuss the significance and inclusion of non-Turkish speaking populations in current discussions on the late Ottoman period. No RSVP is required. \nAbout the Speaker\nEyal Ginio is an Associate Professor in the Department of Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, and is also the Coordinator of the Forum of Turkish Studies at the Institute of Asian and African Studies. He also serves as the chairman of the Ben-Zvi Institute for the Study of Jewish Communities in the East. \nHis research interests include the social and cultural history of the Ottoman State\, marginality and marginal populations in Ottoman society\, Islam in the Balkans\, and secular writing in Judeo-Spanish (Ladino) during the late Ottoman period. \nThe event is co-sponsored with the Middle East Center of The Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/eyal-ginio-ottoman-last-decade-perspectives-minorities-ottomans/
LOCATION:Thomson 317\, UW Campus\, 2023 Skagit Lane\, Seattle\, WA\, 98195\, United States
CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Sephardic Studies
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