Stroum Lectures Archives - UW Stroum Center for Jewish Studies

Video: Gary Shteyngart discusses his new novel and “the new dystopia” of America in the 2018 Stroum Lectures

Author Gary Shteyngart shares tales from the world of hedge fund management and Trump's America that informed his new novel "Lake Success."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-08-19T21:15:16+00:00August 8th, 2018|Categories: Our Events, Video|Tags: Literature, Politics, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Video: Gary Shteyngart reflects on immigration, memory, and Russian Jews in the 2018 Stroum Lectures

Author Gary Shteyngart, in conversation with Professor Sasha Senderovich, shares stories from his memoir "Little Failure."

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-09-03T13:45:39+00:00August 3rd, 2018|Categories: Our Events, Video|Tags: Immigrants, Literature, Russia, Soviet Union, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Author Gary Shteyngart to debut new novel in Seattle at 2018 Stroum Lectures

Shteyngart will read from his new novel "Lake Success" and share thoughts on humor, immigration and the Jewish experience.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-06-11T11:39:30+00:00March 16th, 2018|Categories: News|Tags: Book Talk, Literature, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

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.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2018-05-11T14:30:34+00:00January 27th, 2018|Categories: Our Events|Tags: American Jewish Community, Culture, Russia, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Video: Jonathan Israel on Spinoza as a Revolutionary

Professor Jonathan Israel explores Spinoza's role as a revolutionary thinker and precursor to the modern human rights movement in the 2017 Stroum Lectures in Jewish Studies.

By Kara Schoonmaker|2017-09-25T16:29:17+00:00July 20th, 2017|Categories: Digital Jewish Studies, Jewish History & Thought, Our Events, Video|Tags: Enlightenment, Europe, History, Jonathan Israel, Philosophy, Spinoza, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Spinoza, Industrialization, and the Nineteenth-Century Ethos of Repose

Professor Tracy Matysik traces philosophers' early critiques of capitalism and its breakneck pace, and finds a surprising remedy in Spinoza's ideas about God.

By Stroum Center for Jewish Studies|2017-09-04T22:41:00+00:00May 17th, 2017|Categories: Jewish History & Thought, Spinoza & Modern Jewish Philosophy|Tags: Europe, Germany, Philosophy, Spinoza, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments

Hebrew and the Humanities Symposium offers views on the future of Hebrew

How does Hebrew study reflect the position of the humanities in higher education? Watch (and read) 2016 conference participants' answers to this and other questions about Hebrew's place in the United States and in higher ed.

By Hannah Pressman|2017-12-29T13:23:39+00:00June 25th, 2016|Categories: Digital Jewish Studies, Israel & Hebrew Studies, Our Events, Video|Tags: Hannah Pressman, Hebrew, Naomi Sokoloff, Our Events, Stroum Lectures, Video|0 Comments

Dara Horn and Ilan Stavans in Seattle for May Stroum Lectures

Don't miss celebrated authors Dara Horn and Ilan Stavans on May 23 & 24!

By Hannah Pressman|2017-09-04T22:41:26+00:00May 14th, 2016|Categories: News, Our Events|Tags: Hebrew, Stroum Lectures|0 Comments