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SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Thinking With\, About\, and Against “Jewish Reproduction”
DESCRIPTION:Over the past four decades legal scholars\, ethicists\, historians\, anthropologists\, sociologists\, and demographers have laid bare the centrality of reproduction to social life\, power\, and politics. At this convening\, we will think together about how Jewish reproduction shapes kinship structures\, ritual life\, imaginations of Jewish pasts and futures\, concepts of personhood\, and communal boundaries.\n\nSchedule:\n\nWednesday\, May 7\n\n11:30 AM - 1:00 PM - Session 1: Bodies of Knowledge\nChair: Rafe Neis (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nLaura Yares (Michigan State University)\, Reproduction as a Preoccupation in Jewish Engagement Education:  Domesticity\, Continuity\, and Instagram\n\nBen Kasstan-Dabush (University of Edinburgh and London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine)\, “Vaccines\, Jewish reproduction and (un)certain bodies of knowledge”\n\nRespondent: Cara Rock-Singer (University of Michigan)\n\n\n2:30 - 4:00 PM - Session 2: Futurity\nChair: Lauren Gwin (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nMara Benjamin (Mount Holyoke College)\, Resurrection/compost\n\nTiarra Maznick (Holocaust Educational Foundation of Northwestern University (HEFNU))\, “Nana Didn’t Survive the Camps for Nothing”: The Holocaust and Jewish Reproductive Futurities\n\nRespondent: Lea Taragin-Zeller (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)\n\n\n4:30 - 6:00 PM - Session 3: Repro Images and Imaginaries\nChair: Deborah Dash Moore (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nSari Fein (Smith College)\, “‘If Only with a Womb for Bearing I Was Create’: The Image of Sarah’s Womb in Late Antique Jewish Literature”\n \nGabriel Chazan (University of Wisconsin-Madison)\, Between Shteynberg and Steinberg: Leo Steinberg's Translations\n\nRespondent: Deborah Forger (University of Michigan)\n\n\n\nThursday\, May 8\n\n9:00 - 10:30 AM - Session 4: Bio-Theologies of Reproduction\nChair: Seda Saluk (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nSara Ronis (St. Mary’s University)\, Pregnant with Possibilities\n\nCara Rock-Singer (University of Michigan)\, Birthing a Body Politic: From Reptilian Sovereignty to Amphibious Ecologies\n\nRespondent: Elliot Ginsburg (University of Michigan)\n\n\n11:00 AM - 12:30 PM - Session 5: Making Jewish Families\nChair: Iris Rachamamov (Tel Aviv University/University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nLilach Rosenberg-Friedman (Bar Ilan University)\, “Single Motherhood in Mandatory Palestine: Challenging the Normative Family Model”\n\nCassandra Euphrat Weston (University of Michigan)\, Jewish Socialist Women Parenting Without Marriage: Matilda Robbins\, Pauline Newman\, and Radical Comradeship in the First Red Scare\n\nJordan Katz (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\, Beyond Bloodlines: Adoptive Reproduction and the Forging of Alternative Jewish Families in Early Modern Europe\n\nRespondent: Anna Bonnell Freidin (University of Michigan)\n\n\n2:00- 3:30 PM - Session 6: Rituals\, Rites\, and Rights\nChair: Karla Goldman (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nVanessa Paloma Elbaz (Virtual\, Cambridge University)\, Women and Astronomical Cycles of Sound: Singing for Fertility in Northern Morocco\n\nRachel Kranson (University of Pittsburgh)\, Spiritual Resistance: Making Abortion Sacred Through Communal Jewish Ritual\n\nRespondent: William Calvo-Quirós (University of Michigan)\n\n\n4:00- 5:30 PM - Session 7: (Re)producing Judaism through Activism\nModerator: Melynda Price (University of Michigan)\n\nPresenters:\nLisa Fishbayne-Joffe (Brandeis University)\, Antisemitism in the Struggle for Abortion Rights in Canada\n\nAlice Mishkin (University of Michigan)\, We Will Be the Generation:' Jewish Continuity and Palestine\n\nRespondent: Michal Raucher (Rutgers University)
UID:134338-21876735@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134338
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Religion,LGBT,Jewish Studies,Inclusion,Humanities,Gender,Anthropology,Activism,social justice,LGBTQ Graduate Student,Rackham,Middle East Studies
LOCATION:Michigan League - Koessler Room
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DTSTAMP:20250421T113230
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T160000
SUMMARY:Exhibition:Bloody Work: Lexington and Concord 1775
DESCRIPTION:The William L. Clements Library is pleased to announce a forthcoming exhibition in recognition of the 250th Anniversary of the military hostilities that began the American Revolutionary War. The Battles of Lexington and Concord are firmly established in American memory as the culmination of a range of governmental\, political\, economic\, and social tensions that amplified in the decade leading up to 1775. In this exhibit\, visitors will have the opportunity to see original historical manuscript letters\, documents\, newspapers\, and artwork that reveal aspects of the bloody work of Empire and individual alike in April 1775.\n\nAmong the items on display will be Commander in Chief of the British Army\, General Thomas Gage's draft orders for the Concord Expedition\, April 18\, 1775\; a bundle of letters collected by former Sons of Liberty supporter Dr. Benjamin Church\, which he secretly turned over to British Army intelligence\; letters by Silas Deane\, John Hancock\, and Rachel Revere\; and much more.\n\nOpen weekdays from 12-4 pm.
UID:134875-21875524@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/134875
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,american culture,american history,Americana,Ann Arbor,Exhibit,Exhibition,history,libraries,Library
LOCATION:William Clements Library
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DTSTAMP:20260605T103907
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T130000
SUMMARY:Well-being:Learn to Meditate in 3 days
DESCRIPTION:Make meditation part of your goal to strengthen your mental well-being. Discover three core practices—meditation\, rejuvenation\, and inner connect in just three session.\n\nMeditation is a mindful journey for regulating your mind. It’s like a mental workout\, training the mind to focus on a single thought amid the 60\,000 that pass through daily. With 3 core practices it cultivates effortless concentration\, heightened awareness\, and presence in the moment\, allowing a shift from thinking to feeling. Meditation also leads to a deeper state of relaxation\, regulating the stress response and promoting numerous health benefits.\n\nThe session will be guided by a trainer via Zoom meeting for all 3 days from noon to 1 p.m. All U-M students\, faculty\, and staff are welcome to join at no cost. No prior experience with meditation is required.\n\nEvent Details\n*When: Every month for 3 days (attending all 3 sessions is recommended)*\n\nThe session is Remote over Zoom and upon registration you will have the Zoom MeetingId and Passcode\nSee Related Links for registration\n\nThis wellness program is coordinated by Information Technology and Services (ITS) Teaching & Learning\, and is provided at no cost by heartfulness.org.\n\nJoin the MCommunity group for email updates – Meditation for wellness
UID:128708-21865138@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/128708
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Free,Well-being,Virtual
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
CONTACT:
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DTSTAMP:20250328T143700
DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20250507T143000
SUMMARY:Workshop / Seminar:Leadership and Culture: Creating a Positive Work Environment
DESCRIPTION:Course details and registration are available on the Organizational Learning website.
UID:133540-21873218@events.umich.edu
URL:https://events.umich.edu/event/133540
CLASS:PUBLIC
STATUS:CONFIRMED
CATEGORIES:Self Development,Discussion,Culture
LOCATION:Off Campus Location
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