Upcoming Events
2/5 | Bad Jews: Bad for the Jews? Sex, Shame and Moral Policing in Argentine Jewish History with Mir Yarfitz
Wednesday, February 5, 7:00 pm PST - 8:30 pm PST at Thomson Hall 101How did twentieth century Argentine Jewish organizations view sexual morality? And how did these views impact the broader Jewish community? Hear guest lecturer Mir Yarfitz discuss this and more.
2/19 | Translating Freud: Psychoanalysis in the Popular Jewish Press with Naomi Seidman
Wednesday, February 19, 4:30 pm PST - 6:00 pm PST at Communications 120Guest lecturer Naomi Seidman will take us inside "the Freud craze" to explore the impact Freud's work had on Eastern European Jews.
Celebrating the Stroum Center at 50
Tuesday, March 11We invite you to join past and present SCJS faculty and students as we mark 50 years of cultivating diverse Jewish thought on campus, in the community and around the globe. We have a full day of events planned, starting with a series of daytime panels highlighting SCJS’s key accomplishments and ending with an evening discussion titled “Today’s campus conflicts and the future of Jewish Studies.”
Ladino Day 2024: “The Familiar” with Bestselling Author Leigh Bardugo
In the 12th annual Ladino Day, bestselling fantasy author Leigh Bardugo ("Shadow and Bone") discusses her new novel, "The Familiar," its use of Ladino, and the family history that inspired it, with UW professor Canan Bolel.
Stroum Lectures 2024: Life in Imperial Germany and Escape from Nazi Germany – Marion Kaplan
2024 Stroum Lecturer Marion Kaplan discusses how German Jews reacted emotionally in the hopeful era after Emancipation (1870-1918), and in their odyssey fleeing from Nazi persecution (1933-1945).
Ladino Day 2023: “Kantika,” A Sephardic Novel by Elizabeth Graver
In the 11th annual Ladino Day, author Elizabeth Graver discusses her new novel, “Kantika,” a moving, multi-generational saga inspired by Graver’s grandmother.
About Our Events
- All events are offered to students and the public free of charge
- Our annual marquee events, the Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies, began in the 1970s and are still going strong!
- Our frequent programming partners on campus include the Departments of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures (MELC), History, Spanish & Portuguese Studies and Linguistics
- The Stroum Center partners to support Seattle-area events featuring our faculty or related academic topics. Past partners include the Seattle Public Library and Seattle Jewish Film Festival
- Examples of recent innovative programs: Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust Lecture Series and the inaugural ‘Muestros Artistas’ [Our Artists] Sephardic Arts Symposium of 2023