Upcoming Events
12/8 STUDENT EVENT | Narrating Migration Stories: Podcasting Sephardic Jewish Journeys
Wednesday, December 8, 5:00 pm PST - 6:00 pm PSTScholar Chris Gratien, co-creator of the Ottoman History Podcast, and journalist Sam Negri talk about how they tell migration stories, looking at the personal history Sam's father, Leo Negri, an undocumented Sephardic Jewish immigrant.
12/12 LADINO DAY | Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects and the Ottoman Jewish Past in the United States
Sunday, December 12, 10:00 am PST - 11:15 am PSTIn the University of Washington’s 9th annual Ladino Day celebration, editors of the new book “Sephardic Trajectories: Archives, Objects, and the Ottoman Jewish Past in
1/19 EVENT| Book Launch: “The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past” – Liora R. Halperin
Wednesday, January 19, 2022, 4:00 pm PST - 5:15 pm PSTLiora R. Halperin will discuss her new book, "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past," and the creation of historical narratives related to early Jewish settlements in Ottoman Palestine, with fellow faculty member Noam Pianko.
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.
VIDEO | 2021 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies: Reading Jewish Texts in an Age of Climate Change
In the 2021 Stroum Lectures, Julia Watts Belser uses classic rabbinic Jewish texts to grapple with questions about climate change and environmental justice, inviting us to tangle with grief and re-imagine possibilities for survival.
“Lessons (Not) Learned from the Holocaust” lectures all available online
Video and audio recordings of all of the lectures from our 2020 series are now available online!
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