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Past Events
2019-2020
April 30: Jews and Other Anti-Heroes in American Film and Television: A Conversation with Natasha Lyonne
October 22: “Writing History, Writing Biography: Capturing H.G. Adler’s Many Worlds,” Peter Filkins, Professor of Literature, Bard-Simon’s Rock College
October 2: “‘Thrice homeless?’ Gustav Mahler and Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna,” Leah Batsone, Hunter College
2018-2019
April 26: “Refiguring Loss: Jews Remembered through Arabic/Amazigh Cultural Memory,” workshop
April 11: Jill Soloway in Conversation: Portraying Jews, Gender, and Sexuality in American Popular Media
November 15: “Nazism has Conquered our Entire World: The Grey Zone of the Mind,” Amos Goldberg, Senior Lecturer, Hebrew University
October 28: “Song of Songs,” a workshop with the artists of Book of J
October 25: “Song, Sound, Symbol,” a workshop with the artists of Book of J
October 25: Book of J performance
September 27: “Critical Theories of Anti-Semitism: Israel, Racism, and Post-Holocaust Judeophobia,” Jonathan Judaken, Professor of History, Rhodes College
2017-2018
April 12: Marc Maron in Conversation: Jews, Comedy, and the Secular Jewish Art of Intimacy
March 6: “Protean Masculinity: Hitler’s Soldiers and Germany’s 20th Century,” Thomas Kühne, Director of Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Clark University
2016-2017
March 2: “The Photographic Heritage of Jews and Armenians in Framing Genocide,” Michael Berkowitz, Professor of History, University College, London
November 3: “Earth, Water, Fire: Classics Jewish Sources on Stewardship,” Jonathan Crane, Emory University’s Center for Ethics
November 3: “Arboreal Wisdom? Epistemology and Ecology in Judaic Sources,” Jonathan Crane, Emory University’s Center for Ethics
November 1: “Of Freedom, Fascists, and FDR: Ben Shahn’s Frescos for the New Deal,” Diana Linden, award-winning author and art historian
September 19: “Black Earth: The Ecological Politics of the Holocaust,” Timothy Snyder, Bird White Housum Professor of History, Yale University
2015-2016
May 12: “White City, Black City: Architecture and War in Tel Aviv and Jaffa,” Sharon Rotbard
April 19: “Why Religion No Longer Matters in American Politics,” Mark Oppenheimer, author and writer for the New York Times and The Nation
March 16: “Son of Saul,” a film by director László Nemes, with post-film discussion
March 15: “Remapping Survival: Jewish Refugees and Lost Memories,” Atina Grossman, Professor of History, The Cooper Union
October 19: “Siblings and Rivals: Muslims and Jews in France Since World War I,” Ethan B. Katz, Assistant Professor of History, University of Cincinnati