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SUMMARY:VIDEO | American Christians and the Holy Land: Before\, During and After Contemporary Pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Anthropologist Hillary Kaell discusses American Christian trips to the Holy Land — the history\, meaning\, and importance of modern pilgrimages to Israel/Palestine. \nWatch the talk now:\n \n \nAbout the event\n\nSince the 1950s\, millions of U.S. Christians have traveled to the Holy Land to visit the places where Jesus lived and died. Why do these pilgrims choose to journey halfway around the world? How do they react to what they encounter\, and how do they understand the trip upon return? \nDrawing on five years of ethnographic research with groups of pilgrims before\, during\, and after their trips\, Dr. Hillary Kaell (McGill University) frames the experience as both ordinary — tied to participants’ everyday role as “ritual specialists\,” or religious practitioners — and extraordinary\, since they travel far away from home\, often for the first time. \nThis talk will examine the kind of Christian education and personal experiences that compel individuals to take the trip\, and cover a few key examples of what they find once they arrive. Taking the rare step of following pilgrims after they return home\, the talk will also examine whether the trip makes an impact in Christians’ lives over a longer term. \nThroughout\, the rising popularity of Holy Land pilgrimage is contextualized within changes to U.S. Christian theology and culture over the last sixty years\, including shifts in Jewish-Christian relations and the development of a Christian leisure industry. Through explanations of research and context\, Dr. Kaell will shed light on how individual Christians make sense of their experiences in Israel-Palestine\, offering an important complement to top-down approaches in studies of Christian Zionism and foreign policy. \nAbout the speaker\nHillary Kaell is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Religion at McGill University\, where she holds a William Dawson Research Chair. She writes about North American Christianity\, often focusing on how Christians make and imagine global connections. She is author of “Walking Where Jesus Walked: American Christians and Holy Land Pilgrimage” (New York University Press\, 2014) and\, most recently\, “Christian Globalism at Home: Child Sponsorship in the United States” (Princeton University Press\, 2020). She has also collaborated on public education tools including the PBS television series\, God in America. More at www.hillarykaell.com and @hillarykaell \nThis event is made possible through the generosity of the Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Fund for Excellence in Israel Studies\, and is cosponsored by the Department of Anthropology and Global Christianity Initiative at the Comparative Religion Program in the Henry M. Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/hillary-kaell-christians-and-holy-land-israel-palestine-before-during-after-pilgrimage/
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CATEGORIES:Academic Lectures,Israel Studies
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SUMMARY:VIDEO | Ghetto: The History of a Word
DESCRIPTION:This lecture was originally scheduled as an in-person event in 2020\, and has been rescheduled as a webinar in 2021. \nDaniel Schwartz (George Washington University) will give a talk on the history of the word “ghetto\,” from 16th-century Venice to today. \nWatch the talk now:\n \n \nAbout the event\nFew words are as ideologically charged as “ghetto.” Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice\, the site of the first ghetto in Europe\, established in 1516; and Rome\, where the ghetto endured until 1870\, decades after it had been dismantled elsewhere. \nOver the nineteenth century\, as Jews were emancipated and ghettos were dissolved\, the word “ghetto” transcended its Italian roots and became a more general term for pre-modern Jewish life. It also came to designate new Jewish spaces — from voluntary immigrant neighborhoods like New York’s Lower East Side to the holding pens of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe — as dissimilar from the pre-emancipation European ghettos as they were from each other. \nAfter World War II\, “ghetto” broke free of its Jewish origins and became more typically associated with African Americans than with Jews. Chronicling this sinuous transatlantic journey\, this talk will reveal how the history of ghettos is tied up with the struggle and argument over the meaning of a word. \nRegister for this event here > \nAbout the speaker\nDaniel B. Schwartz is an associate professor of history and the director of the Judaic Studies Program at George Washington University. His first book\, “The First Modern Jew: Spinoza and the History of an Image\,” was co-winner of the Salo W. Baron Prize for the best first book in Jewish studies and was a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award in history. \n  \nThis event is cosponsored by the Department of History and the African Studies Program at the Jackson School of International Studies.
URL:https://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/4-22-ghetto-the-history-of-a-word/
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