The Michigan Anthropology Colloquia Series: "Copts and Christian-Muslim Mediation: The Social Life of Theology in Egypt"
Angie Heo. Assistant Professor, Anthropology and Sociology of Religion, University of Chicago, Divinity School and the College
"For Egypt's Coptic Orthodox, image theology is central to mediating human-divine relations. From the Arab uprisings to...
CCPS Lecture. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Politics of History in Today’s Poland
Dariusz Stola, professor of history, Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences
POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its core exhibition less than five years ago, but it has already attracted millions of...
The Art of Leaving: Language, Longing, and Belonging
Ayelet Tsabari, Author
Author of the award-winning The Best Place on Earth and The Art of Leaving, Ayelet Tsabari will speak of growing up Mizrahi in Israel, about...
Yiddish In and Out of Context
Fellows: Justin Cammy, Eve Jochnowitz, Mikhail Krutikov, Saul Zaritt and Guest Scholar Sunny Yudkoff
Despite rumors of its demise, Yiddish continues to exert a powerful influence on Jewish culture and consciousness. Yiddish today performs a...
Author's Forum Presents: "Moment of Reckoning: Imagined Death and Its Consequences in Late Ancient Christianity"
A Conversation with Ellen Muehlberger and Deborah Dash Moore
Ellen Muehlberger (history, classical studies, Middle East studies) and Deborah Dash Moore (Judaic studies, history) discuss...
The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity
David Brakke, Ohio State University
As leading Christians sought to define the New Testament in the fourth and later centuries, they fashioned Christians as people, not of a...
Ghetto: The History of a Word
Dan Schwartz, George Washington University
Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in...
Frankel Speaker Series: Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny
Dennis Ross, Diplomat and Author
Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to...
Jews, Genetics and the Search for Lost Ancestors
Steve Weitzman, University of Pennsylvania
Genetic breakthroughs have created a newly scientific way to reveal one's distant ancestors, and spawned a multi-billion dollar...
Engaging with the Public: Approaches and Concerns for Public Scholars
Bryan Roby, University of Michigan
This talk will discuss various ways scholars in the Humanities can engage with the public. Themes addressed will include differences between...
Teaching Jewish American Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the State of the Field in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education
Rachel Rubinstein, Hampshire College
Drawing from her experience co-editing a volume on pedagogy and Jewish American literature, Rachel Rubinstein discusses new frameworks for...
Padnos Lecture: The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature
Rachel Rubinstein, Hampshire College
This talk introduces Jacobo Glantz’s 1939 Mexican Yiddish epic poem Kristobal Kolon, arguing that Glantz’s poem is a point of origin for...
Yiddish in Poland: Past, Present, and Future
Frankel Institute Fellows: Karolina Szymaniakl Guest Scholars: Genevieve Zubrzycki, Benjamin Paloff
Poland has witnessed a resurgence of interest in things Jewish, including a renewed attention to the history and culture of Yiddish. This...
The Navel of the Dream: Freud and/in Yiddish
Naomi Seidman, University of Toronto
This lecture will explore the role of Yiddish in Freud's writings and in their translational afterlife. It will address the question...
Author's Forum Presents: "The Center of the World: Regional Writing and the Puzzles of Place-Time"
A Conversation with June Howard and Joshua Miller
June Howard (English, American culture, women's studies) and Joshua Miller (English, Judaic studies) discuss Howard's latest book,...
Translating from Yiddish: New Approaches in Theory and Practice
Fellows: Anita Noirch, Yaakov Herskovitz, Julian Levinson
What unique challenges confront the translator from Yiddish into another language? How is Yiddish translation affected by phenomena such as...
