GRAD COLLOQUIUM | Sephardic Experiences of Modernity: Newspapers, Migrants and Midwives
2020-2021 graduate fellows discuss Ladino newspapers, Ottoman Jews in Seattle, and Jewish midwives at the turn of the 20th century.
Ladino newspapers are the new wave in “uncharted waters” of digital history
Newspapers capture the past and hold key to Ladino’s future, says UW computer science student Ben Lee.
VIDEO | Teaching Computers to Read Ladino: Student Coffee Hour with SCJS Graduate Fellow Ben Lee
Watch a recording from our fall virtual coffee hour where 2020-21 Jewish Studies Graduate Fellow Ben Lee shared his research that applies machine learning technology to Ladino newspapers.
STUDENT EVENT | Teaching computers to read Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews
How do you teach a computer to read an endangered language -- and a language that many people don't even know exists? While machine learning technology has enabled us to read and research texts online in many languages, there's one language that our computers and smartphones have yet to learn: Ladino, a heritage language of Sephardic Jews.
Announcing the 2020-2021 graduate fellows in Jewish Studies
Incoming graduate fellows in Jewish Studies specialize in history, computer science, information science, art history, and music.
Learning Ladino, a Language I Already Knew
Graduate Fellow Oscar Aguirre-Mandujano specializes in Ottoman Turkish history, but his Jewish Studies research project has led him to a rare Ladino manuscript.
Announcing the 2019-2020 graduate fellows in Jewish studies
Incoming graduate fellows in Jewish Studies specialize in international studies, history, comparative literature, Germanics, and Near Eastern Languages and Civilization.
5/21 COLLOQUIUM | Jewish Memory, History & Thought
Join 2018-2019 Stroum Center Graduate Fellows Vincent Calvetti-Wolf, Pablo Jairo Tutillo and Hayim Katsman as they share their research.