Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Guest Recital: Yuval Rabin, organ (July 10, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/63499 63499-15759483@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, July 10, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Hill Auditorium
Organized By: School of Music, Theatre & Dance

Israeli-Swiss concert organist Yuval Rabin will perform his own "Smirot Fantasy," works of Jewish composers Chajes, Lewandowski, Alexander and Sheriff, and works of German composers who influenced them.

Born in Haifa, Israel in 1973, Rabin has studied at the Dunie Weizmann Conservatory in Haifa, the Jerusalem Academy of Music and Dance, and the Musik Akademie der Stadt Basel and the Schola Cantorum Basiliensas in Switzerland. He participates in festivals and performs internationally with ensembles, orchestras and choirs. His compact discs include “Organ Music from Israel” and works of C.P.E Bach and Mendelssohn.

Rabin currently lives in Basel, Switzerland, but remains active in Israel’s musical life, holding master classes there and directing the annual Israel International Organ Festival under the auspices of the Israel Organ Association. He also composes and writes poetry.

Presented by the University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies

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Performance Tue, 07 May 2019 12:15:03 -0400 2019-07-10T20:00:00-04:00 Hill Auditorium School of Music, Theatre & Dance Performance Hill Auditorium
MEMS Fall Kick-off (September 4, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65055 65055-16509316@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, September 4, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Tisch Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

MEMS community members are invited to meet and catch up after the summer break. Presentations will feature our Summer Research Award recipients.

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Other Thu, 08 Aug 2019 12:57:59 -0400 2019-09-04T12:00:00-04:00 2019-09-04T14:00:00-04:00 Tisch Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Other Gathering in a garden
The Expulsion of Hagar (September 12, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64900 64900-16485242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In the book of Genesis, Hagar is an Egyptian, an enslaved woman, a surrogate, a wife, and a mother. As the wife of Abraham and the mother of Ishmael, she is a recognized figure in Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. At the request of Sarah, Abraham’s first wife and mother of Isaac, Abraham expels Hagar and Ishmael from his household. In this lecture, Nyasha Junior surveys how different religious and cultural traditions have understood Sarah’s motivations and actions. The lecture is based on Dr. Junior’s recent book Reimagining Hagar: Blackness and the Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019). Join us and follow the conversation on Twitter at #ReHagar.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 06 Sep 2019 11:33:36 -0400 2019-09-12T13:00:00-04:00 2019-09-12T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Expulsion_of_Ishmael_and_His_Mother
Gala Mukomolova Poetry Reading and Book Signing (September 12, 2019 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64358 64358-16332357@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 12, 2019 5:30pm
Location: Museum of Art
Organized By: Zell Visiting Writers Series

Gala Mukomolova’s full-length poetry book, Without Protection (Coffee House Press 2019), explores her complex identity―Jewish, post-Soviet, refugee, New Yorker, lesbian― through a Russian fable.

Mukomolova is a Moscow-born, Brooklyn-raised poet and essayist. She is the author of the chapbook One Above One Below: Positions and Lamentations (YesYes Books 2018). She received her MFA from the Helen Zell Writers’ Program at the University of Michigan. Her past residencies include Vermont Studio Center, Six Points Fellowship for Emerging Jewish Artists and The Pink Door. Her poems and essays have appeared in Poetry, PEN American, PANK and elsewhere. She writes articles on astrology for NYLON and is cohost of the podcast Big Dyke Energy.

This event is free and open to the public. Onsite book sales will be provided by Literati Bookstore.

The Zell Visiting Writers Series brings outstanding writers to campus each semester. UMMA is pleased to be the site for most of these events. The Series is made possible through a generous gift from U-M alumna Helen Zell (BA ’64, LLDHon ’13). For more information, please visit the Zell Visiting Writers Program webpage: https://lsa.umich.edu/writers

For any questions about the event or to share accommodation needs, please email asbates@umich.edu-- we are eager to help ensure that this event is inclusive to you. The building, event space, and restrooms are wheelchair accessible. Diaper changing tables are available in nearby restrooms. Gender-inclusive restrooms are available on the second floor of the Museum, accessible via the stairs, or in nearby Hatcher Graduate Library (Floors 3, 4, 5, and 6). The Hatcher Library also offers a reflection room (4th Floor South Stacks), and a lactation room (Room 13W, an anteroom to the basement women's staff restroom, or Room 108B, an anteroom of the first floor women's restroom). ASL interpreters and CART services are available upon request; please email asbates@umich.edu at least two weeks prior to the event.

U-M employees with a U-M parking permit may use the Church Street Parking Structure (525 Church St., Ann Arbor) or the Thompson Parking Structure (500 Thompson St., Ann Arbor). There is limited metered street parking on State Street and South University Avenue. The Forest Avenue Public Parking Structure (650 South Forest Ave., Ann Arbor) is five blocks away, and the parking rate is $1.20 per hour. All of these options include parking spots for individuals with disabilities.

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Presentation Thu, 01 Aug 2019 09:16:40 -0400 2019-09-12T17:30:00-04:00 2019-09-12T19:00:00-04:00 Museum of Art Zell Visiting Writers Series Presentation Gala.Mukomolova.headshot
Musical Performance: Borders & Ballads (September 26, 2019 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64902 64902-16485244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 26, 2019 8:00pm
Location: Earl V. Moore Building
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Detroit-born, Berlin-based singer, songwriter, translator and U-M alum Daniel Kahn returns to Ann Arbor for an intimate polyglot program in Yiddish, English, Russian, German, and French. Featuring images and surtitles designed and projected by co-translator and partner Yeva Lapsker, and acclaimed violist Jake Shulman-Ment, Kahn’s songscape traverses the borders of language, culture, history, and politics and draws on Kahn's own original songs and translations of Yiddish folksongs. In a time haunted by the specters of displacement and despotism, these are ballads without borders, anthems of solidarity and solitude, smuggled stories, forgotten futures.

For parking information:
https://smtd.umich.edu/admissions/explore-visit/travel-information/

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Performance Tue, 24 Sep 2019 12:23:38 -0400 2019-09-26T20:00:00-04:00 2019-09-26T22:00:00-04:00 Earl V. Moore Building Judaic Studies Performance Daniel Kahn
CANCELLED - Situating Vernacular Turkish Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia (14th & 15th Centuries) (October 2, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66517 66517-16744952@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 2, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

In this talk, I explore the attitudes of three prominent Turkish-speaking saintly figures of the 14th and 15th centuries towards Muslim religious scholars and other members of the learned elite, including “respectable” Sufis, who often owed their elite status to their proficiency in Arabic and/or Persian. The Turkish language works of Yunus Emre, Kaygusuz Abdal and the hagiography of Otman Baba allows us to situate saintly figures who functioned in the Turkish vernacular into the larger historical context of Islamic cultural history of Anatolia. In the process, I identify and describe in broad strokes the fault lines that ran between saintly figures/Sufis who expressed themselves primarily, even exclusively, in the Turkish vernacular and other Sufi and non-Sufi Muslim learned elites who foregrounded their expertise in Arabic and Persian instead, even when they composed their works in Turkish.

Ahmet T. Karamustafa is Professor of History at the University of Maryland, College Park. His expertise is in the social and intellectual history of Sufism in particular and Islamic piety in general from the tenth through the fifteenth century. His publications include God’s Unruly Friends(University of Utah Press, 1994) and Sufism: The Formative Period (Edinburgh University Press & University of California Press, 2007). He is currently working on a book project titled Vernacular Islam: Everyday Muslim Religious Life in Medieval Anatolia (co-authored with Cemal Kafadar) as well as a monograph on the history of early medieval Sufism titled The Flowering of Sufism.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Department of Middle East Studies at mlbthayerevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4465.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 02 Oct 2019 13:23:17 -0400 2019-10-02T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-02T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Situating Vernacular Turkish Sufism in Islamizing Anatolia (14th & 15th Centuries)
Queer Expectations: a Genealogy of Jewish Women's Poetry (October 16, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64903 64903-16485245@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 16, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Zohar Weiman-Kelman will be discussing their recently published book, Queer Expectations: a Genealogy of Jewish Women’s Poetry (SUNY Press, 2018). Bringing together Jewish women’s poetry in English, Yiddish, and Hebrew from late nineteenth century through the 1970s, this talk will explore how Jewish women writers turned to poetry to write new histories. Developing “queer expectancy” as a conceptual tool for understanding how literary texts can both invoke and resist what came before, Weiman-Kelman demonstrates how poets push back against heteronormative imperatives of biological reproduction and inheritance, opting instead for connections that twist traditional models of gender and history. Looking backward in queer ways thus enables new histories to emerge, intervenes in a troubled present, and gives hope for unexpected futures.

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The conference room is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 09 Oct 2019 10:10:13 -0400 2019-10-16T16:00:00-04:00 2019-10-16T17:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Zohar Weiman Kelman Event Image
CCPS Lecture. POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Politics of History in Today’s Poland (October 24, 2019 4:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/65640 65640-16627843@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 24, 2019 4:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews opened its core exhibition less than five years ago, but it has already attracted millions of visitors and massive and favorable media attention both in Poland and internationally, and earned the major European museum awards. However, since it opposed the so-called Holocaust complicity law in early 2018 and organized a large public program for the 50th anniversary of the 1968 “anti-Zionist campaign” in communist Poland, it has become an object of media attacks and criticism by the government. This lecture will present the processes that had led to the establishment of the museum and its remarkable success. It will examine how these processes have changed under a culture war dividing the country; a tendency for expansive government control; and a memory policy, which rejects critical coming to terms with difficult pasts as a “pedagogy of shame” and calls for a glorious vision of national history, focusing on heroism and victimhood.

Dariusz Stola is a historian and professor at the Polish Academy of Sciences. He has published ten books and more than 100 articles on the history of Polish-Jewish relations, the Holocaust, international migrations and communist regime, as well as on Polish debates about these pasts. In 2014-2019, he was the Polin Museum director.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to copernicus@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 09:42:40 -0400 2019-10-24T16:30:00-04:00 2019-10-24T18:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Lecture / Discussion Dariusz Stola
The Art of Leaving: Language, Longing, and Belonging (October 28, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64904 64904-16485246@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 28, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

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 re-finding and reclaiming that identity through writing and through extensive research into Yemeni culture and traditions. Tsabari will share some of the unique challenges she has faced as an immigrant author writing about Israel in English, her second language. This lecture will explore the many ways in which a writer's cultural background, mother tongue, and origins influence and inform her writing, in terms of both content and style.

Please note Literati Bookstore does not have an elevator. There is an accessible main floor entrance at our 4th avenue entrance. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstuies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 28 Oct 2019 08:12:56 -0400 2019-10-28T19:00:00-04:00 2019-10-28T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion The Art of Leaving
Yiddish In and Out of Context (October 29, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64966 64966-16499240@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 29, 2019 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Despite rumors of its demise, Yiddish continues to exert a powerful influence on Jewish culture and consciousness. Yiddish today performs a variety of new functions as a post- and trans-vernacular language in addition to its role as a language for daily communication. It is evoked, cited, and nostalgically remembered; it is used in art, music, theater, and literature; it is studied, theorized, spoken by enthusiasts, and admired by new generations who never spoke the language at home. In this symposium we explore Yiddish in both its traditional contexts and in these surprising new contexts. By considering Yiddish in and out context we hope to reach new understandings of how the role of Yiddish has changed and what these changes tell us about contemporary culture.

Symposium Schedule
Two panels that begin with the participants presenting their objects of analysis for around 10 minutes each, followed by a dialogue between all the panelists.
1:00 pm: First Panel with Eve Jochnowitz & Mikhail Kruitkov
3:00 pm: Second Panel with Justin Cammy, Sunny Yudkoff & Saul Zarrit

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The conference room is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 04 Oct 2019 13:04:03 -0400 2019-10-29T13:00:00-04:00 2019-10-29T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Molly_Picon_in_Di_Tsvey_Kuni_Lemels,_1926
The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity (November 4, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/66516 66516-16744951@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 4, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

As leading Christians sought to define the New Testament in the fourth and later centuries, they fashioned Christians as people, not of a book, the Bible, but of multiple books. The purportedly closed list of New Testament books generated new categories of Christian literature, such as “apocrypha” and “ecclesiastical writers,” which still shape how we understand the literary legacy of pre-modern Christians.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor of the building. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Department of Middle East Studies at mlbthayerevents@umich.edu or 734-763-4465.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:31:51 -0400 2019-11-04T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-04T18:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion The New Testament and Other Books: Mapping Christian Literature in Late Antiquity
Ghetto: The History of a Word (November 5, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64968 64968-16499242@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Few words are as ideologically charged as "ghetto." Its early uses centered on two cities: Venice, the site of the first ghetto in Europe, established in 1516; and Rome, where the ghetto endured until 1870, decades after it had been dismantled elsewhere. Over the nineteenth century, as Jews were emancipated and ghettos were dissolved, the word "ghetto" transcended its Italian roots and became a more general term for pre-modern Jewish life. It also came to designate new Jewish spaces—from voluntary immigrant neighborhoods like New York’s Lower East Side to the holding pens of Nazi-occupied Eastern Europe—as dissimilar from the pre-emancipation European ghettos as they were from each other. After World War Two, ghetto broke free of its Jewish origins and became more typically associated with African Americans than with Jews. Chronicling this sinuous transatlantic journey, this talk reveals how the history of ghettos is tied up with the struggle and argument over the meaning of a word.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:42:12 -0400 2019-11-05T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dan Schwartz Lecture Image
Jewish Community, Race, and Social Justice with Ilana Kaufman (November 5, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68611 68611-17105371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 5, 2019 7:00pm
Location: School of Social Work Building
Organized By: Trotter Multicultural Center

Ilana Kaufman’s talk, “Jewish Community, Race, and Social Justice” will be presented free and open to the public on Tuesday, November 5 from 7-9 pm. The event will be held in the Educational Conference Center of the School of Social Work (1080 S University Ave). She will discuss the intersection of U.S. Jewish identity and race, as animated by modern movements for social justice. Informed by community pain-points such as Jewish communal reactions to the Women’s March and the Movement for Black Lives Platform, Kaufman will explore notions of anti-Semitism, community and movement-building, and how to effectively partner with groups despite some fundamental disagreements and tensions.

Ilana Kaufman is the Executive Director of the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative. Kaufman’s work aims to draw attention to those in the Jewish community who have diverse racial and ethnic backgrounds, namely non-white and non-Ashkenazi heritage, or of multiple racial and ethnic identities. These individuals, many of whom identify as Jews of Color, have historically been underrepresented in our Jewish institutions and largely invisible in Jewish demographic studies. Through the Jews of Color Field Building Initiative, Kaufman develops more accurate demographic information about how many American Jews of Color there are and how to create more inclusive Jewish communities. She focuses on grantmaking to programs that support Jews of Color, research and field building, and community education.

The event is generously sponsored by the Jewish Communal Leadership Program in the School of Social Work, Trotter Multicultural Center, Michigan Hillel, The School of Social Work Office for Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, LSA Office of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion, and the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies.

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Presentation Wed, 23 Oct 2019 21:55:27 -0400 2019-11-05T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-05T20:30:00-05:00 School of Social Work Building Trotter Multicultural Center Presentation Ilana Kaufman Public Event Flyer
Frankel Speaker Series: Be Strong and of Good Courage: How Israel’s Most Important Leaders Shaped Its Destiny (November 6, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64971 64971-16499244@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 6, 2019 7:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Ambassador Dennis Ross is counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy. Prior to returning to the Institute in 2011, he served two years as special assistant to President Obama and National Security Council senior director for the Central Region, and a year as special advisor to Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton. For more than twelve years, Ambassador Ross played a leading role in shaping U.S. involvement in the Middle East peace process and dealing directly with the parties in negotiations. A highly skilled diplomat, Ambassador Ross was U.S. point man on the peace process in both the George H. W. Bush and Bill Clinton administrations.

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The amphitheater is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:13:41 -0400 2019-11-06T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-06T20:30:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dennis Ross
Meal with Middle East (November 7, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68403 68403-17077941@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 7, 2019 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

All undergraduate students are invited to enjoy lunch and conversation with the current students, prospective students, faculty, and staff of the Department of Middle East Studies. Join us on November 7, 2019, anytime between 12:00-2:00pm.

RSVP at bit.ly/mealmes

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Social / Informal Gathering Tue, 15 Oct 2019 09:31:34 -0400 2019-11-07T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-07T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Social / Informal Gathering Meal with Middle East Poster
Jews, Genetics and the Search for Lost Ancestors (November 12, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64975 64975-16499249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 12, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Genetic breakthroughs have created a newly scientific way to reveal one's distant ancestors, and spawned a multi-billion dollar ancestry testing industry in the process. What does such research reveal about the origin of the Jews? Can it trace their ancestry all the way back to the biblical past? This presentation will survey recent efforts to use genetics to illumine the ancestry of the Jews, weighing its insights against the criticisms and fears of skeptics.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:39:28 -0400 2019-11-12T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-12T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Blake_Jacobs_Ladder
Medieval Lunch. A Mediterranean Ecumene: Intellectual Contacts and Networks in the Late Medieval Mediterranean. (November 13, 2019 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68087 68087-17009816@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 12:00pm
Location: Angell Hall
Organized By: Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS)

The Turkish Mediterranean lived and breathed with the same rhythms as the Christian, that the whole sea shared a common destiny, a heavy one indeed, with identical problems and general trends if not identical consequences.
—Fernand Braudel, The Mediterranean

His theoretical concerns aside, Braudel’s conceptualization of the Mediterranean in the sixteenth century was based on geography, economy, and society in a path-breaking way. This presentation proposes a cultural and intellectual oecumene within the Eastern Mediterranean basin in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries. Although it seemed politically divided, the Eastern Mediterranean’s idiosyncratic commonalities within its intellectual context transcended all boundaries that were imagined in political spheres, including those of the Byzantines, Mamluks, and Ottomans as well as the Renaissance Italians.

This presentation will investigate the activities and oeuvre of scholars in the fourteenth and fifteenth centuries, and their networks across the Mediterranean. In line with this purpose, I will focus on three scholars, Gemistus Pletho (d. 1452), Abd al-Rahman al-Bistami (d. 1455), and Bedreddin of Simavna (d. 1420) who were representative of those complex and multivalent networks as well as members of clandestine scholarly organizations. While mapping out their scholarly network, this presentation also hopes to point to a textual relationship through intercommunal discussions, especially that between Platonism and Aristotelianism. In doing so, it aims to offer fresh insights on intellectual history that go beyond limitations imposed by traditional methodologies, unquestioned genres, and undisputed literary and linguistic traditions.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 05 Nov 2019 15:43:22 -0500 2019-11-13T12:00:00-05:00 2019-11-13T13:00:00-05:00 Angell Hall Medieval and Early Modern Studies (MEMS) Workshop / Seminar Pletho image
Teaching Jewish American Literature in the Twenty-First Century: Reflections on the State of the Field in the Changing Landscape of Higher Education (November 17, 2019 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/64980 64980-16499294@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, November 17, 2019 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Drawing from her experience co-editing a volume on pedagogy and Jewish American literature, Rachel Rubinstein discusses new frameworks for thinking about Jewish American literature, and provides a sense of a complex, vigorous and dynamic field that is absolutely relevant in today’s classroom.

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:39:01 -0400 2019-11-17T10:00:00-05:00 2019-11-17T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Teaching Jewish American Literature in the Twenty-First Century
Padnos Lecture: The Yiddish Columbus: Critical Counter-History and the Remapping of American Jewish Literature (November 18, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64982 64982-16499297@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 18, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk introduces Jacobo Glantz’s 1939 Mexican Yiddish epic poem Kristobal Kolon, arguing that Glantz’s poem is a point of origin for his daughter, historian and writer Margo Glantz’s later feminist reexaminations of the colonial histories of Mexico. Jacobo Glantz’s counter-canonical retelling of the Americas’ most iconic foundational myth relied on Columbus’s journals and the new, more critical histories of Columbus emerging in the 1930s. But Luis de Torres, not Columbus, is at the center of Glantz’s retelling. De Torres was the only Jew on Columbus’s crew, hired by Columbus to serve as an interpreter. Written in a deliberately multilingual Yiddish with Spanish, Taino, Latin and Hebrew borrowings, Glantz’s epic functions as critical counter-history, a wild re-imagining of a history he knew so well. This lecture explores the ways in which the myth of Columbus can be mobilized to unearth “underground” indigenous, African, Muslim and Jewish histories in the New World, and suggests a new geography for American Jewish literature that exceeds the boundaries of English and the United States.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:38:00 -0400 2019-11-18T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-18T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Padnos Lecture Image
Why President Trump’s decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel prejudiced its character and status (November 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69261 69261-17275358@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: Jeffries Hall
Organized By: University of Michigan Law School

President Trump's decision to recognize Jerusalem as the capital of Israel and to move the U.S. embassy to the city has been universally condemned, as it is contrary to a well-established rule of international law stipulating that states must not recognize the fruits of conquest. While the United States chose to exercise its right of veto in the UN Security Council to block a resolution criticizing the presidential decision, the remaining members of the council, including close U.S. allies, criticized it. Similarly, the UN General Assembly, the European Union, the Arab League, and the Organisation of Islamic Cooperation have all passed strongly worded resolutions saying that they would not recognize any changes to the pre-1967 borders, including in and around Jerusalem. This talk examines the legal standing of the U.S. decision in light of previous positions that the United States has historically adopted or endorsed.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 08 Nov 2019 11:03:51 -0500 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 Jeffries Hall University of Michigan Law School Lecture / Discussion
Yiddish in Poland: Past, Present, and Future (November 19, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64984 64984-16499298@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Poland has witnessed a resurgence of interest in things Jewish, including a renewed attention to the history and culture of Yiddish. This trend is visible in the creation of new museums and institutes, a newfound interest in Klezmer music, new translation initiatives, and new understandings of the place and politics of Yiddish in Polish history. This panel will explore various facets of this phenomenon, offering insights and raising questions about the implications of the “Yiddish turn” in Poland today.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:22:52 -0400 2019-11-19T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-19T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion POLIN Museum
The Privatization of Religion and the Rise of Ethno-Nationalism: Trends and Fluctuations in Israeli Jewish Identity (November 25, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/68145 68145-17018309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Over the last thirty years major changes have transformed Israeli Jewish Identity. Secular Zionism, which held undisputed hegemony, has receded through a crisis of identity and split into two major camps. Religious Zionism, at first evincing a triumphant Settler movement, has lost its ideological center, and now holds power without a vision, and the Ultra-Orthodox are going through a process of Israelization, making them more integrated and also more nationalistic. We shall analyze and understand the many and varied Jewish voices emerging today in Israel.

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Lecture / Discussion Wed, 13 Nov 2019 13:47:02 -0500 2019-11-25T16:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
Language, trauma and identity shifts: "Beit Avi" screening (November 25, 2019 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69703 69703-17384710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 25, 2019 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

A short but important film about identity shifts happening when you don't have a home or family anymore and you leave your whole world and your language behind, too. Everyone copes in their unique way. Snacks provided at 6:30. Discussion by Elena Luchina, Shachar Pinsker and representatives of student clubs and different fields of study.

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Film Screening Thu, 21 Nov 2019 14:31:50 -0500 2019-11-25T19:00:00-05:00 2019-11-25T21:00:00-05:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening BEIT AVI Poster
The Navel of the Dream: Freud and/in Yiddish (December 3, 2019 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64985 64985-16499299@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, December 3, 2019 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will explore the role of Yiddish in Freud's writings and in their translational afterlife. It will address the question not only about how much Yiddish Freud knew, but also about why this question persists, and what impulses and assumptions underlie it. In this regard, it will lay out the parallels between the psychoanalytic archeology of the stratified psyche and the linguistic structure of the modern Jewish self, recognizing this double structure in the hysteria and Yiddish translation work of Anna O./Bertha Pappenheim.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:37:09 -0400 2019-12-03T16:00:00-05:00 2019-12-03T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Freud
Translating from Yiddish: New Approaches in Theory and Practice (December 5, 2019 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/64986 64986-16499300@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 5, 2019 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What unique challenges confront the translator from Yiddish into another language? How is Yiddish translation affected by phenomena such as the rise of Zionism, the Holocaust, and changing relations between American Jews and the immigrant experience? How do we choose what and for whom to translate? How and why do writers translate their own work? Scholars and translators on this panel will grapple with these issues, while raising broader questions about the theory and practice of translation from any language. Examples from current translations-in-progress will be offered.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 02 Dec 2019 09:41:09 -0500 2019-12-05T13:00:00-05:00 2019-12-05T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Translating from Yiddish
How Yiddish Tales Are Told (January 14, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69844 69844-17474727@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 14, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This lecture will explore how first-generation tellers of tales in Eastern Yiddish learned to message their competing truth claims through dialogical means. The competing and contradictory voices within the stories, and the voices mediated by other voices became keys to their narrative poetics. The lecture will begin at the beginning, with Rabbi Nahman of Braslav, the teller of allegorical fairytales; will eavesdrop on the first Yiddish work by S. Y. Abramovitsh, alias Mendele the Bookpeddler. From there, it will proceed to I. L. Peretz, and Sholem Aleichem, who invented the modern Yiddish story, and will conclude by looking ahead to their greatest disciples, Der Nister and Isaac Bashevis Singer.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:39:30 -0500 2020-01-14T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-14T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Portraits of Aleichem & Peretz
Kibitz & Nosh: NYC’s Vanished Cafeterias (January 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/69848 69848-17474728@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The streets of New York City were filled with hundreds of cafeterias, self-service eating establishments, during the early to mid-20th Century. Their growth paralleled the rise of the office worker, women’s evolving roles in the work force, immigration, American love of efficiency and novelty, the growth of cities, the impact of Prohibition and the Depression, the labor movement, and American eating habits. Not one cafeteria from that era remains in New York City today. One particular restaurant, Dubrow’s Cafeteria in Brooklyn, was a legendary institution that served as a second home for many of the neighborhood’s elderly residents. Along with another Dubrow’s, a hub of the Garment Center, they provided a restaurant cum social club or “third place” for a generation of Jewish New Yorkers.
New York City-based photographer Marcia Bricker Halperin documented Dubrow’s and other cafeterias in their waning days, drawn to the memorable faces and the liveliness and sorrow of urban life in that vanished world.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 17 Dec 2019 13:39:26 -0500 2020-01-16T13:00:00-05:00 2020-01-16T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dubrow's Cafeteria, Brooklyn, NY 1975
Word and Deed: The Peripety of Logos in the New European Culture (January 21, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70020 70020-17499536@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 21, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The binary opposition of “word” (logos) and “deed” (ergon) underlay the development of European Civilization. This lecture will follow the birth of this opposition since Heraclitus and Aristotle to the Gospel of John and Early Rabbinic Literature (II-VII centuries). In the XVIII through XX centuries, this opposition modeled European aspiration to translate theory into practice, to embody philosophical logos into life.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 05 Dec 2019 14:06:56 -0500 2020-01-21T16:00:00-05:00 2020-01-21T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Cartoon Illustration
CREES Noon Lecture. Lethal Provocations: Anti-Jewish Violence in French Algeria and Ukraine (January 22, 2020 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70626 70626-17611207@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 22, 2020 12:00pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies

Jeffrey Veidlinger and Joshua Cole will discuss Prof. Cole's new book, *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria,* with Prof. Veidlinger offering his expertise on Ukrainian pogroms for a comparative perspective.

Part murder mystery, part social history of political violence, *Lethal Provocation* is a forensic examination of the deadliest peacetime episode of anti-Jewish violence in modern French history. It reconstructs the 1934 riots in Constantine, Algeria, in which tensions between Muslims and Jews were aggravated by right-wing extremists, resulting in the deaths of twenty-eight people.

Animating the unrest was Mohamed El Maadi, a soldier in the French army. Later a member of a notorious French nationalist group that threatened insurrection in the late 1930s, El Maadi became an enthusiastic supporter of France's Vichy regime in World War II, and finished his career in the German SS. The book cracks the "cold case" of El Maadi's participation in the events, revealing both his presence at the scene and his motives in provoking violence at a moment when the French government was debating the rights of Muslims in Algeria. Local police and authorities came to know about the role of provocation in the unrest and killings and purposely hid the truth during the investigation that followed. *Lethal Provocation* brings into high relief the cruelty of social relations in the decades before the war for Algerian independence.

Joshua Cole is professor of history at the University of Michigan, where he specializes in the social and cultural history of France in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He is the author of *Lethal Provocation: The Constantine Murders and the Politics of French Algeria* (2019) and *The Power of Large Numbers: Population, Politics, and Gender in Nineteenth-Century France* (2000), as well as articles on colonial violence and the politics of memory in France, Algeria, and Germany. He is also the author, with Carol Symes, of *Western Civilizations* (20th ed., 2019).

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies and director of the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of the award-winning books *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater: Jewish Culture on the Soviet Stage* (2000), *Jewish Public Culture in the Late Russian Empire* (2009), and *In the Shadow of the Shtetl: Small-Town Jewish Life in Soviet Ukraine* (2013). Prof. Veidlinger is a vice president of the Association for Jewish Studies, associate chair of the Academic Advisory Council of the Center for Jewish History, and a member of the Academic Committee of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. He is currently working on a book about the pogroms of the Russian Civil War.

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this event, please reach out to crees@umich.edu at least 2 weeks in advance of this event. Please be aware that advance notice is necessary as some accommodations may require more time for the university to arrange.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 19 Dec 2019 14:03:08 -0500 2020-01-22T12:00:00-05:00 2020-01-22T13:20:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Center for Russian, East European, and Eurasian Studies Lecture / Discussion Lethal Provocation book cover
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905475@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
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Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (January 23, 2020 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17905476@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 23, 2020 2:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-01-23T14:00:00-05:00 2020-01-23T15:00:00-05:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
In Commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day (January 27, 2020 8:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70992 70992-17766491@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 27, 2020 8:00pm
Location: East Quadrangle
Organized By: Residential College

Join retired RC Social Theory and Practice faculty member Hank Greenspan and friends for a reading and discussion of his new 15-minute play "Death / Play or Rubinstein, the Mad Jester of the Warsaw Ghetto"

"Death / Play" centers on a psychological duel between Rubinstein and Abraham Gancwaych, a notorious collaborator with the Gestapo. Both Rubinstein and Gancwaych were real people, famous within the ghetto.

Directed by RC Drama head faculty member, Kate Mendeloff
Performed by Hank Greenspan, Robby Griswold, and Isaac Ellis

Monday, January 27, 2020
East Quad classroom 1405
8pm
Free and open to the public

For information, contact Hank at hgreensp@umich.edu

Henry Greenspan, Ph.D., taught in the Residential College of the College of Literature, Science, and the Arts from 1987 to 2019, ultimately attaining a Lecturer IV title. Dr. Greenspan received his A.B. (1970) and M.Ed. (1973) from Harvard University and his Ph.D. (1985) from Brandeis University. He came to the University of Michigan as a Junior Fellow of the Michigan Society of Fellows (1977-80). He worked as a Senior Counselor at Counseling Services (now CAPS) from 1983 to 1988 and joined the faculty of the Residential College in 1987. Within the RC, Dr. Greenspan has been an Academic Advisor, Chair of the First-year Seminar and Social Theory and Practice programs, and a revered teacher.

Dr. Greenspan has been interviewing, writing about, and teaching about Holocaust survivors since the 1970s—now longer than anyone in the world. Both editions of his book—On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Recounting and Life History (1998) and the expanded On Listening to Holocaust Survivors: Beyond Testimony (2010)--are considered seminal texts in oral history and Holocaust studies. Along with numerous chapters and journal articles on survivors, Dr. Greenspan wrote the chapter on survivor testimony for the Oxford Handbook of Holocaust Studies (2010). He has worked closely with the U.S. Holocaust Memorial Museum since it opened in 1993. He was the museum’s sixth annual Weinmann Lecturer (2000) and co-led the annual Hess seminar for Professors of Holocaust Courses (2011). His interview methodology has been adopted by large oral history projects with genocide survivors—especially in Rwanda and Cambodia. He was the Fulbright Visiting Research Chair at the Centre of Oral History and Digital Storytelling at Concordia University in Montreal (2012). Dr. Greenspan continues to mentor, consult, and present his research internationally--most recently, in Jerusalem (2016), Berlin (2016), New Delhi (2018), London (2018), Toronto (2018), and Montreal (2019).

Dr. Greenspan is also a playwright whose “Remnants” was originally produced at WUOM-FM and distributed to NPR stations in 1991. “Remnants” became a stage play that has been performed at more 300 venues worldwide.

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Presentation Thu, 23 Jan 2020 15:04:08 -0500 2020-01-27T20:00:00-05:00 2020-01-27T21:00:00-05:00 East Quadrangle Residential College Presentation Rubinstein in the Warsaw Ghetto
Continuing Korematsu: Our Fight in the Trump Era (January 30, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72117 72117-17939981@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 30, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Hutchins Hall
Organized By: Asian Pacific American Law Students Association

January 30th is the Fred Korematsu Day of Civil Liberties and the Constitution. On February 19th, 1942, President Roosevelt signed Executive Order 9066, one of the most blatant forms of racial profiling in US history, which led to the forced removal and incarceration of over 120,000 American citizens and residents on the basis of being ethnically Japanese. Fred T. Korematsu was one of many who refused to be incarcerated, and was arrested. A national civil rights hero, Fred Korematsu appealed his case to the Supreme Court. Although the Supreme Court ruled against him in 1944, in 1983 his conviction was overturned in a coram nobis proceeding where Fred Korematsu addressed the court, saying, “I would like to see the government admit they were wrong, and do something about it so this will never happen again to any American citizen of any race, creed, or color.”

In 2014 and again in 2019, the US government attempted to reopen the Fort Sill camp to incarcerate migrant children from Latin America; Fort Sill was previously used as a concentration camp where Native Americans and Japanese Americans were detained. In June 2017, ICE agents raided and arrested Iraqi families in the Detroit area, leading to the ACLU’s lawsuit, Hamama v. Adducci. Raids on Iraqi families have continued into 2019.

On January 30th, APALSA's Political Action Committee, in partnership with the Michigan Asian Pacific American Affairs Commission and Stop Repeating History would like to invite you to attend a screening of the documentary Alternative Facts: The Lies of Executive Order 9066 by Jon Osaki, followed by a panel discussion and audience Q&A led by University of Michigan Law student Kevin Luong.

This event features incredible guest speakers: Dr. Karen Korematsu, Don Tamaki, Aamina Ahmed, Mary Kamidoi, and Michael Steinberg. Free and open to the public. Food from Curry On will be provided with RSVP: bit.ly/2tfDsnu

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 27 Jan 2020 12:49:48 -0500 2020-01-30T18:00:00-05:00 2020-01-30T20:00:00-05:00 Hutchins Hall Asian Pacific American Law Students Association Lecture / Discussion Korematsu Day Poster
Traditions Entwined: Writing Judeo-Persian Poetry in Fourteenth-Century Iran (February 3, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70129 70129-17538847@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 3, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In this talk Rubanovich will look into several episodes from the Bereshit-nāma with an aim to explore Shāhīn’s (fl. in the first part of the 14th century) retelling of the Biblical story from a comparative angle, vis-à-vis both Jewish and Muslim exegetical sources, in an attempt to reveal the pool of traditions which Shāhīn could have gleaned for his version as well as elucidating the working techniques and the interpretative strategies he enacted

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 09 Jan 2020 09:47:47 -0500 2020-02-03T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-03T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Rubanovich Lecture Image
From Cairo to the Cloud: The World of the Cairo Geniza (February 4, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70043 70043-17499538@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 4, 2020 4:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This compelling documentary tells the story of the Cairo Geniza, a vast treasure trove of manuscripts hidden for centuries in the geniza, or sacred storeroom, of an ancient synagogue in Cairo. After their scholarly discovery in the nineteenth century, these priceless documents, spanning nearly a thousand years of Jewish life, were dispersed to libraries around the world. Today, thanks to an unprecedented international effort, the Geniza archive has been digitally reunited in the “cloud,” freely accessible online to everyone, everywhere.

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The amphitheater is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Film Screening Wed, 29 Jan 2020 09:30:15 -0500 2020-02-04T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-04T18:00:00-05:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Film Screening From Cairo to the Cloud Movie Poster
What Ifs of Jewish History (February 11, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70132 70132-17538850@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 11, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What if the Jews of Spain had not been expelled in 1492? What if Adolf Hitler had been assassinated in 1939? What if a Jewish state had been established in Uganda instead of Palestine? In his talk, Gavriel D. Rosenfeld discusses how these and other counterfactual questions would have affected the course of Jewish history. Drawing on his edited volume, "What Ifs of Jewish History" (2016), he discusses why Jewish historians were historically slow to adopt the increasingly popular methodology of counterfactual reasoning in their work, and how they have finally begun to do so in recent years. He concludes with some reflections on the merits of speculating about how the course of Jewish history might have been different.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 10:57:31 -0500 2020-02-11T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-11T17:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion "New Judea" Stamp
Arabic Lecture Series - Jewish Representations in Contemporary Arabic Literature (February 12, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/72738 72738-18070543@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 12, 2020 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Although the overwhelming majority of Egyptian Jewry left the country in waves from 1948 to 1967, their presence continues to be noticeable in Egyptian culture. During the second half of the twentieth century, unfavorable portrayals of Jews appeared in a period of time marked by turmoil and conflict between Egypt and the nascent state of Israel. Representations of Jews in contemporary Egyptian literary works, however, mark a shift from portrayals influenced by the Arab-Israeli conflict which internalized negative Jewish stereotypes. Twenty-first century novelistic productions, however, invoked Jewish portrayals to shape Egypt as a multiethnic and multicultural society of which Jews were an integral part.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 11 Feb 2020 12:37:31 -0500 2020-02-12T16:00:00-05:00 2020-02-12T17:00:00-05:00 North Quad Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion Lecture Series Poster
Does Time Stop in the World of Talmud Torah? (February 20, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70134 70134-17538851@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 20, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Longtime Lower East Side resident and veteran anthropologist Jonathan Boyarin will present his autoethnography of study at the neighborhood's last yeshiva. His paper will focus on the qualities of time in a world where, as his brother Daniel Boyarin once wrote, "A question asked in the sixteenth century can be answered in the twelfth." With a response by Boyarin's mentor and longtime collaborator Jack Kugelmass.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:03:38 -0500 2020-02-20T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-20T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jewish New Year, Boy in Prayer Shawl
Work in Progress Screening & Discussion:(Ver Vet Blaybn?) Who Will Remain? (February 27, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70136 70136-17538852@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 27, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Christa Whitney will present a work-in-progress version of Ver Vet Blaybn? Who Will Remain?, an hour-long documentary following Israeli actress Hadas Kalderon as she retraces the extraordinary life journey of her grandfather, the renowned Yiddish writer Avrom Sutzkever. Drawing on archival footage, never-before-seen home videos, and interviews from the Yiddish Book Center's Wexler Oral History Project, Ver Vet Blaybn? Who Will Remain? is a personal and poetic tribute to one of our greatest and most courageous Yiddish writers.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Film Screening Thu, 30 Jan 2020 09:27:45 -0500 2020-02-27T13:00:00-05:00 2020-02-27T14:30:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Film Screening Film Poster
Yiddish and Trauma Studies (March 12, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70149 70149-17538853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 12, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Trauma studies is an interdisciplinary field exploring not only the psychological effects of traumatic experiences, but also the problem of representing these experiences in language. This panel explores the ways Yiddish culture responded to two definitive instances of collective trauma: the Holocaust and the Russian Civil War. Presenters will discuss Yiddish-language responses to these events and explore how they have shaped individual and cultural identities.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 10 Dec 2019 11:49:20 -0500 2020-03-12T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-12T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Installation by France-based artist Kliclo. “Partitions de vent” (Wind Partitions)
CANCELLED: Global Yiddish Networks (March 16, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70150 70150-17538854@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 1:00pm
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event is cancelled.

While it originated in Central and Eastern Europe, Yiddish has traveled throughout the world. Centers of Yiddish cultural activity have emerged in different places at different times, and speakers and texts have circulated among these centers, creating a rare case of a nationless language with a global reach. In this symposium, participants explore the global networks of Yiddish. Research will be presented on the presence of Yiddish in places such as Argentina, France, China, the Soviet Union, and the Caribbean.

The front entrance of Rackham, located on East Washington, is accessible by stairs and ramp. There are elevators on both the east and wends ends of the lobby. The amphitheater is on the fourth floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 16 Mar 2020 08:27:44 -0400 2020-03-16T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion "Jodensavanne" (Jew's Savannah), south of Paramaribo in Suriname: “View of the synagogue and cemetery seen from the military cordon path"
The Prophet as a ‘Sacred Spring' (March 16, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/71141 71141-17783440@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 16, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Along with the Prophet’s relics, verbal icons of Muhammad known as hilyes count among the most popular forms of devotional art during the late Ottoman period. While manuscript paintings and compositions mounted on wooden boards have been the subject of scholarly inquiry, an otherwise unknown type of hilye production involves the insertion of verbal icons into glass bottles. Today, three such “hilye bottles” are held in the Topkapı Palace Library in Istanbul, where they remain unstudied and unpublished. This talk aims to present these newly uncovered artworks and explore their possible meanings and functions, among them their acting as a new kind of prophetic pharmacon during the late nineteenth century, at which time Muhammad was concretized and ‘imbibed’ as the ultimate elixir vitae.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 16 Jan 2020 10:27:12 -0500 2020-03-16T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-16T18:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Department of Middle East Studies Lecture / Discussion 202 S. Thayer
CANCELED: "Translating the Holocaust" (March 17, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70151 70151-17540892@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 17, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In spring 1944 Yiddish poet Avrom Sutzkever, witness to the destruction of the Vilna Ghetto, was airlifted from the partisan forest to Moscow. At the urging of Soviet journalist Ilya Ehrenberg, Sutzkever wrote a memoir of the ghetto experience which was subsequently published in Moscow and Paris in 1945. How does Sutzkever's early account of Jewish destruction and heroism establish a particular Yiddish memoryscape? And what are the challenges of translating such a work for a 21st-Century readership?

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:07:10 -0400 2020-03-17T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-17T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion A. Sutzkever as Partisan
CANCELED: “Our Father”: The Medieval Abrahamic Religion(s) (March 24, 2020 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70152 70152-17540899@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 24, 2020 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In contemporary parlance, the term “Abrahamic religions” serves to indicate the common ground of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The designation of these three religions as “Abrahamic” is used as a shorthand for their supposed common ancestry as well as for their assumed shared religious principles and values. Since its very purpose is to highlight the commonality of the three religions, the term is always used in the plural. For medieval thinkers in the Islamicate world, however, the Abrahamic model of religion was radically different from the contemporary one.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:52 -0400 2020-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2020-03-24T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Abraham Lilien
CANCELED: "The Almighty Salad": Jewish Vegetarianism and the Backlash in the Yiddish Press (March 25, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70164 70164-17540920@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 25, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

In the first half of the twentieth century, the Yiddish speakers looked to vegetarianism as a way of creating better and more rational world. While some writers explicitly linked radical eating to radical thinking, many otherwise revolutionary journals and newspapers were more likely to look upon growing enthusiasm for vegetarianism as a threat to continuity in traditional Jewish cooking. Jochnowitz will examine serious articles addressing the perceived dangers of a vegetarian diet and biting satire poking fun at the ridiculousness of vegetarianism.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:22 -0400 2020-03-25T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-25T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Vegetable Poster
CANCELED: Orientalism and Monotheism: Renan on Judaism and Islam (March 26, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70165 70165-17540921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 26, 2020 1:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

Throughout the nineteenth century, the birth of what one may call philologia orientalis and the discovery of the linguistic similarities between Sanskrit and European languages radically transformed the perception of the East, much weakening the idea of a family relationship between Judaism, Christianity and Islam. The case of Ernest Renan (1823-1892) is here emblematic. The lecture will survey Renan’s conception of Judaism and Islam, through his invention of the category of “Semitic religions.” We shall reflect on its consequences on the study of monotheism among historians of religions, as well as on the development of anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in the last decades of the century.

There is both an accessible elevator and gender-neutral restroom on the first and second floor. If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:06:02 -0400 2020-03-26T13:00:00-04:00 2020-03-26T14:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Ernest_Renan_1876-84
CANCELED: 30th Belin Lecture: “It Can Happen Here”: Antisemitism, Gender, and the American Past (March 31, 2020 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70166 70166-17540922@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 31, 2020 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

30th David W. Belin Lecture in American Jewish Affairs
In 1942, an anonymous “Jewess,” looking across the ocean, wrote “It Can Happen Here.” Her cri de coeur, published in a New York women’s magazine, pled with its readers to bring to an end to the “ever-increasing prejudice” she and her family faced. With antisemitism rising today at home and abroad, American University Professor Pamela Nadell, author of the award-winning America’s Jewish Women: A History from Colonial Times to Today, discusses American Jewish women in the past facing antisemitism, how it affected their lives, and how they responded
Driving

From the parking lot, use the elevator at the east end of the parking structure (stairwell number 2), closest to Washtenaw Avenue and Palmer Field. Take the elevator to Plaza Level (PL on the key pad). Proceed north onto the walkway to the main entrance of Palmer Commons where the Washtenaw Avenue pedestrian bridge begins. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor). Using the stairs or elevator, continue to any floor.


Walking: From Central Campus (Michigan League)

From the Michigan League, access the walkway between the School of Dentistry and the University of Michigan Museum of Natural History. Proceed east, passing North Hall, the Undergraduate Science Building and the Life Sciences Institute. Continue east onto the walkway overlooking Washtenaw Avenue to the main entrance of Palmer Commons. Enter through the double doors to the main level of Palmer Commons (3rd floor).

If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:00 -0400 2020-03-31T19:00:00-04:00 2020-03-31T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion George W. Walling, Recollections of a New York Chief of Police (1887); rpt. Montclair, NJ: Patterson Smith, 1972
CANCELED: Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918-1939 (April 1, 2020 5:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70168 70168-17540924@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 1, 2020 5:30pm
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This event has been canceled.

Come celebrate the publication of "Crisis and Creativity between World Wars, 1918—1939" edited by Todd M. Endelman and Zvi Gitelman, Volume 8 of The Posen Library of Jewish Culture and Civilization.
This compilation of Jewish primary sources produced between the world wars examines what was simultaneously a tense and innovative period in modern Jewish history. During these decades, Jews vigorously fought over religion, politics, migration, and their relation to the state and to one another. Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman’s selections capture the variety, breadth, and depth of Jewish creativity in those tempestuous years. The texts, translated from many languages, span a wide range of politics, culture, literature, and art. Join Todd Endelman and Zvi Gitelman in a fascinating discussion of the volume and enjoy a sample of its riches.

For access to Elevators:
Enter through the main entrance (North side), make a left at the end of the hallway, and make another left. Elevators will be on both sides. Enter through the farthest south entrance, and there will be an elevator within the stairwell.
If you have a disability that requires an accommodation, contact the Judaic Studies office at judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 12 Mar 2020 11:05:38 -0400 2020-04-01T17:30:00-04:00 2020-04-01T19:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Crisis and Creativity Publicity Image
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-18543390@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 6, 2020 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-18543391@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 6, 2020 1:00pm
Location:
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-06T13:00:00-04:00 2020-04-06T14:00:00-04:00 A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work
CANCELLED: Raoul Wallenberg Lecture: Marina Tabassum (April 7, 2020 6:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/70922 70922-17753824@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 7, 2020 6:00pm
Location: Art and Architecture Building
Organized By: A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning

Marina Tabassum is the principal of Marina Tabassum Architects, a practice established in 2005 based in Dhaka, Bangladesh. MTA began its journey in the quest of establishing a language of architecture that is contemporary to the world yet rooted to the place. The practice consciously maintains an optimum size and projects undertaken are carefully chosen and are limited by number per year. The projects done and at hand are varied, ranging from community center, public school, museum and eco resort.

Ms. Tabassum graduated from Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology in 1995. The same year, she founded URBANA where she was a partner for ten years. Most important project of this partnership is the Independence Monument of Bangladesh and the Museum of Independence designed in 1997 and completed in 2013. She is the academic director of the Bengal Institute for Architecture, Landscapes and Settlements. She taught Design studio at Harvard University Graduate School of Design.

She taught Advanced Design Studio as visiting professor at the University of Texas in 2015 and in BRAC University from 2005 to 2010.

Marina Tabassum is a member of the Steering Committee of Aga Khan Awards for Architecture. She is also a member of the Board of Directors of Prokritee, a guaranteed Fare Trade organization that has empowered thousands of women artisans of Bangladesh through export of handcrafted objects.

Marina Tabassum won the Jameel Prize 5 in 2018. She is also a recipient of 2016 Aga Khan Award for Architecture for the Bait ur Rouf Mosque in Dhaka. Her project the Pavilion Apartment was shortlisted for Aga Khan Award in 2004. Ms. Tabassum received AYA Award from India in 2004 for the project NEK10 located in Dhaka. She is a recipient of 2005 Ananya Shirshwa Dash Award, which recognizes women of Bangladesh with exceptional achievements.

The Raoul Wallenberg Lecture was initiated in 1971 by Sol King, a former classmate of Wallenberg's. An endowment was established in 1976 for an annual lecture to be offered in Raoul's honor on the theme of architecture as a humane social art.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 06 Apr 2020 13:01:45 -0400 2020-04-07T18:00:00-04:00 2020-04-07T20:00:00-04:00 Art and Architecture Building A. Alfred Taubman College of Architecture + Urban Planning Lecture / Discussion Marina Tabassum work