Upcoming Events
Water and the Environment in the Middle East: Israel’s Sustainability Challenges in the Desalination Era
Tuesday, November 27, 6:00 pm - 7:30 pm at Kane Hall 110Professor Alon Tal will give the 2018 Jack and Rebecca Benaroya Endowed Lecture in Israel Studies on the topic of Israel’s new dependence on desalination
“What are you laughing at?” Two nights with author Gary Shteyngart
Novelist Gary Shteyngart's Soviet-inflected humor is more relevant than ever in Trump's America.
2018 Stroum Lectures with Gary Shteyngart
Novelist Gary Shteyngart will explore questions of humor, identity, and politics in a series of conversations with Professor Sasha Senderovich.
Seattle’s fifth annual Ladino Day breaks tradition and hosts sold-out concert with Yasmin Levy
Singer Yasmin Levy's fusion of traditional and modern Sephardic music drew a packed house for the fifth annual Ladino Day.
About Stroum Center Events
- The Stroum Center brings world-class speakers and performers to the UW
- Stroum Center events are offered to students and the public free of charge
- Our frequent programming partners on campus include the Simpson Center for the Humanities, the Departments of Philosophy, History, and Near Eastern Languages & Civilization (NELC), among others
- Our annual marquee events, the Stroum Lectures, began in the 1970s and are still going strong
- The Stroum Center frequently partners to support events happening in the Seattle community, such as the Seattle Jewish Film Festival and Hillel’s Sephardic Hanukkah
- Examples of recent innovative program series: Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium and the Spinoza and Modern Jewish Philosophy Conference