Upcoming Events
2/8 EVENT | The Detention of Uyghur Muslims in China
Tuesday, February 8, 12:30 pm PST - 1:30 pm PSTDarren Byler, Ph.D., and Mutallip Anwar, Ph.D, both alumni of the UW, will explain the scope and impact of Uyghur Muslim detention in China, drawing on research, fieldwork, and first-hand experience.
2/24 TALK | “Revolutionary Jews from Spinoza to Marx” — Jonathan Israel
Thursday, February 24, 12:00 pm PST - 1:30 pm PSTIntellectual historian Jonathan Israel will discuss how the writings of Spinoza and other Enlightenment thinkers influenced the revolutions of the 18th and 19th centuries.
VIDEO | 9th Annual Ladino Day – Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
Editors and contributors to "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States" (Koç University Press, 2021) discuss this multidisciplinary volume that highlights artifacts from the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
Ladino Day 2021: Sephardic Trajectories
Editors and contributors to "Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States" (Koç University Press, 2021) discuss this multidisciplinary volume that highlights artifacts from the Sephardic Studies Digital Collection.
VIDEO | Graduate Fellows Research Colloquia
The 2020-2021 cohort of graduate fellows in Jewish studies presents their research on Sephardic Jews in modern times, midwives in the Ottoman Empire, Sephardic music, ancient Jewish art, and Kurdish Jews in medieval Iraq.
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 Near Eastern Languages & Civilization (NELC), 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 2018 Stroum Lectures with novelist Gary Shteyngart