Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. Judaic Studies Open House (September 23, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86700 86700-21635600@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Stop by the Judaic Studies office, grab a snack, and say hello! Meet other students in the department and ask our advisor questions about degree programs and classes.

We have missed you!

Located on the second floor of the South Thayer Building, 202 S Thayer St., Suite 2111.

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Reception / Open House Fri, 17 Sep 2021 10:11:11 -0400 2021-09-23T09:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T16:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Reception / Open House Bagels
The Three Paths to Salvation of Paul the Jew (September 30, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85778 85778-21628986@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 30, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

What did Paul, as an apocalyptic Jew and follower of Jesus, think about the concept of Salvation? Paul did not convert nor break with his inherited traditions but was part of the lively diversity of Second Temple Judaism. Boccaccini’s ‘Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation’ is an attempt to reconcile the many facets of Paul’s complex Jewish identity while reclaiming him from accusations of intolerance. Boccaccini’s work in reestablishing Paul as a messenger of God’s mercy to sinners is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about Paul’s place in the contemporary pluralistic world.

This review panel includes an introduction by the author (Gabriele Boccaccini), review presentations by Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary), Isaac Oliver (Bradley University), Matthew Novenson (University of Edinburgh), Cecilia Wassen (Uppsala University), and Emma Wasserman (Rutgers University), followed by an open dialogue among participants.

Register for this virtual event here:https://tinyurl.com/a3szndvk

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 17 Sep 2021 14:14:15 -0400 2021-09-30T15:00:00-04:00 2021-09-30T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Gabriele Boccaccini's "Paul's Three Paths to Salvation"
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 3, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637059@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, October 3, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-03T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-03T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 4, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637060@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 4, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-04T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-04T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637061@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-05T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-05T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637062@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Conference. What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies (October 7, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/86877 86877-21637063@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, October 7, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

This interdisciplinary online conference, hosted by POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews, will bring together scholars in a wide range of fields: anthropology, sociology, history, memory studies, museology, art history, and political science, among others.

"What’s New, What’s Next? Innovative Methods, New Sources, and Paradigm Shifts in Jewish Studies" will explore new directions in the study of East and Central European Jews and the place of Jewish studies in the humanities today.

Conference participants will explore these questions: What constitutes Jewish studies today and in which direction should we be heading? Which paradigms are guiding the field today? How are theoretical and methodological developments in the humanities and social sciences shaping Jewish studies? How are scholars working in a broad range of disciplines – history, social sciences, literature, visual and performing arts, and other disciplines – contributing to the field? What are interdisciplinary approaches contributing to the field? What is the impact of studies of Jewish life in the former Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth on a wider understanding of world history?

The conference website including description and program, are at https://polin.pl/en/whats-new-whats-next-2021

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Conference / Symposium Mon, 13 Sep 2021 14:37:15 -0400 2021-10-07T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-07T16:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Conference / Symposium What's New What's Next conference
Abrahamic Vernaculars Fall Symposium in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby (October 11, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87177 87177-21639247@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 11, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join Dr. Richard Newton of The University of Alabama, speaking on “'Myths ‘that the Dark Past Has Taught Us’: Beyond Liberation in Black Religion" and Dr. Kayla Renée Wheeler of Xavier University discussing “The Return of Prairie Dress: YouTube as Site for Interreligious Dialogue and Mainstream Modest Fashion Trends” for a conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of The University of Michigan. This symposium is part of the Abrahamic Vernaculars series.

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Conference / Symposium Wed, 06 Oct 2021 13:19:31 -0400 2021-10-11T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-11T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Abrahamic Vernaculars
Ethiopian Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography (October 19, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/87178 87178-21639309@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 19, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Frankel Center for a symposium on "Ethiopean Jews: The Politics of Difference in Israeli Historiography." Efrat Yerday, PhD Candidate at Tel Aviv University, will examine the political struggle of Ethiopian Jewish activists for naturalization in Israel from 1955 up to 1975. Dr. Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh will be discussing the changing relations between ethnic culture and skin color among Ethiopian Israelis, from the early years of migration to today. He will focus on how categories of difference and group formation are linked to particular social spaces, networks, opportunities, and policing, as well as the social and political consequences of the changing classification structure. The talks will be in conversation with Dr. Bryan Roby of the University of Michigan.

Register at: https://myumi.ch/xmYNE

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Livestream / Virtual Fri, 15 Oct 2021 10:52:47 -0400 2021-10-19T16:00:00-04:00 2021-10-19T18:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Ethiopian Jews Symposium
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 25, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642274@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 25, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-25T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-25T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 26, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642275@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, October 26, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-26T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-26T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period (October 27, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/87463 87463-21642276@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 27, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Paul of Tarsus was born, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee, he then joined the early Jesus movement, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular), not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time.

The conference will not be aimed at a general audience, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion.

For more information, contact the conference secretary, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu).

Register for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5

Participation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration.



Schedule
** This schedule is based on Eastern Daylight Time/New York time **

MONDAY Oct 25, 2021:

9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism (chair Gabriele Boccaccini)

John J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists), Daniele Minisini & Hwankyu Kim (shorter contributions)

11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil, the Devil, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces”

Lisa Bowens, Matthew Goff, Kelly J. Murphy (panelists)

Discussants : Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Jamie Davies, David Burnett, Alexei Sivertsev, Mark Leuchter …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “

Loren Stuckenbruck, L. Ann Jervis, Alexandra Brown, James Waddell (panelists)

Discussants : Deborah Forger, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Anne Kreps, David Burnett, Benjamin Reynolds, Dereck Daschke, Joshua Scott, Clint Burnett, Ron Herms …

TUESDAY, Oct 26, 2021:

9:00am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective

Matthew Novenson, Mark Kinzer , Joshua Garroway (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Yael Fisch, Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Dereck Daschke, Jason Staples, David Rudolph …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification, Forgiveness, Judgment, and Salvation”

Magnus Zetterholm, Gabriele Boccaccini, Jamie Davies (panelists)

Discussants : J. Andrew Cowan, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, B.J. Oropeza, Jason Staples, Frantisek Abel …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek, slave or free, male or female: Gender, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective”

Joseph Angel, Laura Dingeldein, J. Thomas Hewitt (panelists)

Discussants : Thomas Kazen, Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Jeremiah Coogan, Anders Runesson, Jim Scott, Ron Herms …

WEDNESDAY, Oct 27, 2021

9:00am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee”

Gerbern Oegema, Mark Nanos, James Maston (panelists)

Discussants: Yael Fisch, Deborah Forger, Alexei Sivertsev …

11:30am-1:30pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen, chair)”

Jennifer Eyl, Stephen Young, Matthew Sharp, Matthew Thiessen (panelists)

Discussants : Stanley Stowers & Paula Fredriksen (respondents); Alexander Chantziantoniou, Anne Kreps, David Rudolph …

2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?


Participants:

Frantisek Abel, Comenius University Bratislava, Slovakia
Joseph Angel, Yeshiva University, USA
Daniel Atkins, PhD studies, University of Manchester, England
Lynne Bahr, Rockhurst University, USA
Lori Baron, Saint Louis University, USA
Kelley Coblentz Bautch, St Edwards University, USA
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Daniel Boyarin, University of California Berkeley, USA
Lisa M. Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alexandra Brown, Washington & Lee University, USA
Clint Burnett, Johnson University, USA
David Burnett, PhD studies, Marquette University, USA
Rodney Caruthers, Gustavus College, USA
Alexander Chantziantoniou, PhD studies, University of Cambridge, England
Carsten Claussen, Elstal Theological Seminary, Germany
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Ryan Collman, PhD studies, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Jeremiah Coogan, University of Oxford, England
J. Andrew Cowan, Georg-August-Universitat Gottingen, Germany
Dereck Daschke, Truman State University, USA
Jamie P. Davies, Trinity College, Bristol, England
Gail Dawson, Northern Virginia Community College, USA
Genevive Dibley, Rockford University, USA
Laura Dingeldein, University of Illinois Chicago, USA
Lorenzo DiTommaso, Concordia University, Canada
Kathy Ehrensperger, University of Potsdam, Germany
Yael Fisch, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Crispin Fletcher-Louis, University of Gloucestershire, England
Deborah Forger, Dartmouth College, USA
Paula Fredriksen, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Michele Freyhauf, PhD studies, Durham University, England
Joshua D. Garroway, Hebrew Union College, USA
Emily Gathergood, PhD Studies, University of Nottingham, England
Matthew Goff, Florida State University, USA
Matthias Henze, Rice University, USA
Ron Herms, Fresno Pacific University, USA
J. Thomas Hewitt, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
L. Ann Jervis, Wycliffe College at the University of Toronto, Canada
Thomas Kazen, Stockholm School of Theology, Sweden
Hwankyu Kim, PhD studies, Rice University
Mark S. Kinzer, rabbi and author, USA
Anders Klostergaard Petersen, Aarhus University, Denmark
Anne Kreps, University of Oregon, USA
Brent Landau, University of Texas at Austin, USA
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Mark Leuchter, Temple University, USA
Grant Macaskill, University of Aberdeen, Scotland
Jason Maston, Houston Baptist University, USA
Daniele Minisini, PhD studies, University of Rome La Sapienza, Italy
Kelly J. Murphy, Central Michigan University, USA
Natalie Mylonas, Macquaire University, Australia
Mark Nanos, University of Kansas, USA
Jared Neusch, PhD studies, King’s College London, England
Matthew Novenson, University of Edinburgh, Scotland
Gerbern Oegema, McGill University, Canada
Markus Oehler, University of Vienna, Austria
Isaac Oliver, Bradley University, USA
B.J. Oropeza, Azusa Pacific University, USA
Benjamin Reynolds, Tyndale University, Canada
Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel-Aviv University, Israel
David Rudolph, The King’s University, USA
Anders Runesson, University of Oslo, Norway
Joshua Scott, PhD studies, University of Michigan, USA
Joel Sienkiewicz, PhD studies, Westminster Theological Seminary
Alexei Sivertsev, DePaul University, USA
Jason Staples, North Carolina State University, USA
Loren T. Stuckenbruck, University of Munich, Germany
Matthew Thiessen, McMaster University, Canada
Ana Travessos Valdez, University of Lisbon, Portugal
James Waddell, Ecumenical Theological Seminary, USA
Meredith Warren, University of Sheffield, England
Emma Wasserman, Rutgers University, USA
Jim West, Trinity Western University, Canada
Robyn J. Whitaker, University of Divinity, Australia
Rebecca Wollenberg, University of Michigan, USA
Magnus Zettelholm, Lund University, Sweden
Philip Ziegler, University of Aberdeen, Scotland

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 23 Sep 2021 14:48:34 -0400 2021-10-27T09:00:00-04:00 2021-10-27T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Apocalyptic Paul
Edgefest: Steve Swell’s If Trains Could Speak (October 30, 2021 7:30pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88741 88741-21657249@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Saturday, October 30, 2021 7:30pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This is currently scheduled as the final set of the Grand Finale Evening of Edgefest at the Bethlehem United Church of Christ on 4th Ave. on Saturday evening (Oct. 30). The full program begins at 7 pm. All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask. Steve Swell is one of the finest composers/improvisers on the New York downtown scene and is internationally acclaimed for his trombone playing. He has performed regularly in Europe, often in Poland, where he has established important connections with local musicians. On one of his many trips to Kraków he decided to visit Auschwitz:

“The first time I tried to visit Auschwitz in 2007, there was no train. They had changed the track of the train that regularly departed for there. They announced the track change in Polish but not in English. There were about two very angry people yelling and screaming at the ticket sellers and railroad staff as to this oversight. Can you imagine, people yelling that they missed the train to Auschwitz and that it had ruined their day?”

Later he wrote: If “Trains Could Speak” is inspired by that ninety-minute train ride from Krakow to Auschwitz concentration camp. The ride itself is through some very beautiful, peaceful countryside and farmland in southeast Poland. The incongruity of my ride and the ride of those whose trip seventy years before was one of uncertainty and hopelessness prompted a multitude of thoughts and feelings as the train progressed to its destination. The journey and visit to the camp itself sparked a deeper understanding of the horrors that humans are capable of and
its juxtaposition to our ability to be brilliant, creative, and tolerant. Delving into the choice we have in either surrendering to our baser instincts or to transcend them, feeds my own lifelong curiosity of what it means to be alive, and to know that life is fragile, dangerous, and magnificent all at the same time.

In addition to the composer on trombone, the performance will feature Deanna Relyea, mezzo soprano, Jason Kao Hwang, violin, viola, Piotr Michalowski, bass clarinet, soprano saxophone, Steve Rush, piano, Ken Filiano, bass, and Michael TA Thompson, percussion.

All attendees must be fully vaccinated and wear a mask.

Visit https://www.kerrytownconcerthouse.com/edgefest/ for festival or single event tickets.

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Fair / Festival Thu, 28 Oct 2021 12:17:31 -0400 2021-10-30T19:30:00-04:00 2021-10-30T22:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Fair / Festival Steve Swell
The Band's Visit (November 4, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88559 88559-21655082@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 4, 2021 7:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Thursday, November 4
7-9pm
North Quad, Space 2435
105 S. State Street

This comedy-drama is about a band of the Egyptian police force heading to Israel to play at the inaugural ceremony of an Arab arts center, only to find themselves lost in the wrong town. Following the film, there will be a short faculty-led discussion. This event is free and open to the public and there will be popcorn!

If you are a person with a disability who requires an accommodation to attend this screening, please contact judaicstudies@umich.edu or 734-763-9047 in advance of the event.

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Film Screening Fri, 22 Oct 2021 16:24:18 -0400 2021-11-04T19:00:00-04:00 2021-11-04T21:00:00-04:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening The Band's Visit
“I Know Who Caused COVID-19": Pandemics and Xenophobia (November 8, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/88010 88010-21648525@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, November 8, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Sander Gilman, Emory University
Zhou Xun, University of Essex
with Alaa Murad, Brandeis University

One of the most evident manifestation of the present pandemic has been the blaming of traditional (and non-traditional) out-groups for causing or spreading the virus. The Chinese, Muslims, Ultra-Orthodox Jews, American White Nationalists among other groups have been blamed. Central to our recently published book “I Know Who Caused COVID-19": Pandemics and Xenophobia (Reaktion Press / University of Chicago Press) is the question of what happens when such groups are blamed and simultaneously at fault? Dr. Gilman and Dr. Zhou examined a series of case studies but closed our book on January 20, 2021. The story continues past that date to the present and they will address both the first year as well as the present Delta surge in the light of our model of xenophobia and pandemics in this symposium with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Jewish Muslim Research Network.

Advanced Registration Required: https://myumi.ch/Axw1y

Dr ZHOU, Xun is the reader in History at the University of Essex. Her research interests range from medicine, health intervention and delivery in modern China to nutrition, food and narcotics, and more broadly the political history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as questions of race and ethnicity. She also have a track record in trans-cultural/global studies and have built up a profile in the history of global health. She is the author of The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China, 1949-1983 (McGill-Queen University Press, 2020), the first systematic study on health care and medicine in Mao’s China. From the onset of the Covid-19 crisis, she has been regularly interviewed by major media outlets from the BBC to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the New York Times, and Aljazeera, to name a few, to comment on the outbreak in Wuhan and the Chinese health system as well as to speak on historical correlates of the global pandemic.



Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books. His “I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia (with Zhou Xun) appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2021; his most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body (with Youn Kim) published in 2019 with Oxford University Press. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years he was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he created the ‘Humanities Laboratory.’ During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences, Stanford, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; 2004-5 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University; 2007 to 2012 as Professor at the Institute in the Humanities, Birkbeck College; 2010 to 2013 as a Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong; and recently as the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University, Munich (2017-18). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000), an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007), and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016).

Alaa Murad is a PhD candidate in history at Brandeis University focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. Her current research focuses on the appropriation of classical and medieval Islamic texts in Arabic popular history and historical fiction during the19th-century. She is interested in the didactic aspects and socio-political characteristics of nahḍa intellectualism as well as in the competing historical claims over national and religious identities emergent during the same period. Murad holds a Joint MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Conflict and Coexistence Studies from Brandeis University.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 28 Oct 2021 15:50:44 -0400 2021-11-08T09:00:00-05:00 2021-11-08T11:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Graffiti on Calle del Doctor Luis Calandre in Cartagena (Spain), in which the pandemic is referred to as a "corona-mentira" ("corona-lie") and connects with Anti-Semitic and Anti-Chinese rhetoric through the inclusion of a Mogen Covid and a Chinese character. Taken 14 February 2021
Magic and its Malcontents: Historiography as Heresiology (November 11, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88011 88011-21648526@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, November 11, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Shaily Shashikant Patel, Virginia Tech

“Strange things circulate below our streets,” Michel de Certeau writes. For him, coherent historiographies elide incoherent realities and give the illusion of a past which can be tidily reconstructed. The study of “magic” in early Christian literature illustrates how such scholarly preference for coherence occludes ancient ambiguities. Prevailing methodologies emphasize the “constructedness” of magic, defining it as a polemical charge levied at theological outsiders. This methodology obtains in early Christian studies even as adjacent fields refine their ideas of ancient magic. Rather tellingly, this methodology also presupposes that theological insiders exist in our earliest sources.

In this talk, Dr. Shaily Patel, Virginia Tech, discuss how these polemical notions of “magic” make historians into heresiologists. Like our ancient counterparts, we dismiss what troubles the scholarly orthodoxy of nascent Christianity as opposed to magic. Perhaps we agree with de Certeau that history is never sure, but our methodologies yield the same illusory certainty adopted by heresiologists who helped ossify Christian orthodoxy. Ancient magic exposes our heresiological inclinations and forces us to contend with what lingers below our streets.

“A history that is never sure is not no history; rather, it is a history of possibility.”

Register here: https://myumi.ch/4pxv3

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 25 Oct 2021 15:27:41 -0400 2021-11-11T16:00:00-05:00 2021-11-11T18:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Image
Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event: “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” (November 17, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88653 88653-21656497@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, November 17, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The Stuart and Barbara Padnos Foundation has provided a gift to the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies to establish the Padnos Engagement on Jewish Learning fund. The initiative, which commenced last year, will facilitate annual public educational activities in Jewish Studies throughout the State of Michigan with a focus on the western part of the state.

The Padnos Public Engagement on Jewish Learning Event, to take place on November 17 at 7 pm, will feature Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld, Frankel Institute Fellow, University of Michigan, and Honorary Research Fellow, Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies (SIIBS). Dr. Sheinfeld will present a lecture called “When Patronage was ‘Matronage’: How Jewish Women’s Money Supported the Early Jesus Movement” at the Loosemore Auditorium at the Richard M. Devos Center on Grand Valley State University's Campus. The event will also be virtually simulcast. Immediately following the lecture at approximately 8:30 there will be a light reception in the adjacent Lubbers Exhibition Hall.

Dr. Sheinfeld prefaces her discussion: "From the beginning of his ministry, women were followers of Jesus. While his followers came from every strata of life, women were essential for the financial and social support that this early Jewish movement saw. The Gospel of Mark mentions Mary Magdalene and Salome who provided for Jesus; Luke talks about Martha who hosts Jesus and his disciples in her home; in Acts, Lydia welcomes the apostle Paul and his cohort to her home where they stay while in Thyatira. These women were not unusual, however, in their active financial and social support of causes they were committed to. This talk will explore and contextualize these women among other Jewish women as possessors of capital and as active actors in the social, political, and religious world in which they lived."

Register for the livestream here: https://myumi.ch/WQVjd

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 04 Nov 2021 09:09:37 -0400 2021-11-17T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-17T21:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Dr. Shayna Sheinfeld
Judaic Studies Hanukkah Cooking (November 30, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89359 89359-21662304@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, November 30, 2021 7:00pm
Location: South Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

You are invited to join the Judaic Studies Student Ambassadors for a Hanukkah cooking event! We are going to make different kinds of latkes with Chef Amanda, and learn from Professor Deborah Dash Moore about Hanukkah, Jewish foods, and Jewish traditions.

We’re going to meet at South Quad Dining Signature Room on Tuesday, November 30th at 7pm-9pm (don’t worry someone will be at the entrance to the South Quad Dining hall to show you where to go if you need!).

Spots are limited, so please RSVP HERE: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLScyzvnsSXNHaB2ZY8bHBLXyFLTBrhezqpXJ3SP0heOrMvNHqQ/viewform?usp=sf_link .

If you have any questions, please email js-student-services@umich.edu.

We’re looking forward to meeting you!

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Class / Instruction Thu, 18 Nov 2021 09:33:03 -0500 2021-11-30T19:00:00-05:00 2021-11-30T21:00:00-05:00 South Quad Judaic Studies Class / Instruction Hanukkah Cooking
WCEE Book Series. In The Midst Of Civilized Europe: The Pogroms Of 1918-1921 And The Onset Of The Holocaust (December 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/86156 86156-21631747@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, December 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

Between 1918 and 1921, over a hundred thousand Jews were murdered in Ukraine by peasants, townsmen, and soldiers who blamed the Jews for the turmoil of the Russian Revolution. In hundreds of separate incidents, ordinary people robbed their Jewish neighbors with impunity, burned down their houses, ripped apart their Torah scrolls, sexually assaulted them, and killed them. Largely forgotten today, these pogroms—ethnic riots—dominated headlines and international affairs in their time. Aid workers warned that six million Jews were in danger of complete extermination. Twenty years later, these dire predictions would come true.

Jeffrey Veidlinger is Joseph Brodsky Collegiate Professor of History and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. His books, which include *The Moscow State Yiddish Theater* and *In the Shadow of the Shtetl*, have won a National Jewish Book Award, the Barnard Hewitt Award for Theatre Scholarship, two Canadian Jewish Book Awards, and the J. I. Segal Award.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/zxQPx

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. 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 Wed, 27 Oct 2021 16:26:07 -0400 2021-12-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-08T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion In the Midst of Civilized Europe book cover
Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality (December 9, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/88886 88886-21658822@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, December 9, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Robert Phillips, Ball State University
Edwige Crucifix, Bryn Mawr College
Shanon Shah, King's College London
With Adi Saleem Bharat, University of Michigan

Register at: https://myumi.ch/qgDEy

This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical and contemporary representations and experiences of queer Jews and Muslims in a wide range of geographies. By placing the question of gender and sexuality at the heart—and not merely as a subsection—of (ethno-)religious identities and spiritualties, the speakers queer normative understandings of Jewishness/Judaism and Muslimness/Islam in order to broaden the horizon of Jewish and Muslim coexistence and, perhaps more importantly, co-resistance.

Katrina Daly Thompson (she/they) is Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, where she is also the Director of the Program in African Languages, and a core faculty member in Second Language Acquisition. She holds additional affiliations in Anthropology, Gender & Women’s Studies, Religious Studies, Folklore, and the Middle East Studies Program. Her research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse, with specific projects in Zimbabwe, Tanzania, North America, and online. Her third monograph, Misfits, Rebels, and Queers: An Ethnography of Muslims on the Margins, is under contract with NYU Press.

Robert Phillips is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Ball State University. He lectures on ethnographic methods and the anthropology of religion and technology with much of his empirical research conducted in India and Singapore. Most recently, Phillips has published Virtual Activism: Sexuality, the Internet, and a Social Movement in Singapore (University of Toronto Press, 2020). Currently, Phillips is looking at how queer and Jewish individuals are embracing alternative models in the healing of individual and collective trauma.

Dr. Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Francophone literature, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society in the works of French and North African women. Her research and teaching stems from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics, nineteenth-century bourgeois taste, and inter-war Jewish identity.

Dr. Shanon Shah conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform), based at King's College London, and is Tutor in Interfaith Relations at the University of London's Divinity programme. He is also the Director of Faith for the Climate, a faith-inspired network of climate justice activists, and an editor at Critical Muslim, the flagship quarterly publication of the Muslim Institute (a London-based educational fellowship).

Adi Saleem Bharat is an LSA Collegiate Fellow and, from Fall 2022, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester's Center for Jewish Studies. His research examines the intersection of race, religion, gender, and sexuality in contemporary France, with a focus on Jews and Muslims. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations, which examines and challenges the construction of a polarized, oppositional category of "Jewish-Muslim relations" in media and political discourse in France.

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 02 Nov 2021 10:19:19 -0400 2021-12-09T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-09T14:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Pride Flag
Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (January 10, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89370 89370-21662359@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Rodney Caruthers, Shayna Sheinfeld, with Gabriele Boccaccini, Amy-Jill Levine, John Collins

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Language: English

The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics, and Christian Origins are invited to attend.

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/n88bjyjj



Provisional Schedule (EST-New York Time Zone)

MONDAY, January 10, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Welcome & Introduction to the Conference

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 1 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Tupa Guerra

Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel, “Rethinking the Boundary between the Pre-Samaritan and Samaritan Layers in the Samaritan Pentateuch”

Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil, “Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose Among Modes of Existence”

Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA, “Apocalypse and Immigration: Cross-Reading the Apocalypse of John and U.S. Immigration History”

Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Discussants: Angela Kim Harkins, Daniele Minisini

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 2 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Cecilia Wassen

Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Tracing Travel in the Ancient World”

Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, “Tresses and Distresses: Literary and Social Aspects of Women’s Hair in Second Temple Jewish Literature”

Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina, “A Genealogy of Desire: Eve and Sexual Desire in Second Temple Judaism”

Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, “Leah and the Construction of Idealised Femininity in the Book of Jubilees”

Discussants: Vicente Dobroruka, Emily Gathergood

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 3 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Gregg Gardner

Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA, “The Luminous Bodies of God in Ancient Jewish Tradition”

Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada, “Didactic Authority in the Desert: Reading Matthew’s Temptation Narrative through the Lens of Scribal Culture”

Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, “Apocalyptic Reverberations in the Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Discussants: Joan Taylor, Gonzalo Alers

TUESDAY, January 11, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 4 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland, “Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter in its Different Traditions and their Chances for a Better Understanding of Early Christian Paradise Conceptions”

Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary, “Coping with Intrapersonal Religious Struggles in Early Judaism”

Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, “Wisdom and Her Children: A New Reading of the Sophia-Sayings in Synoptic Tradition in Light of the Parables of Enoch”

Sofanit Abebe

Discussants: Esther Chazon, Anthony Nwosu

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 5 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Giovanni Bazzana

Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel, with Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Jakub Zbrzeżny, and Dimid Duchovny, “Using Machine Learning for Detecting Babylonian Influence on the Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “The Greek Expression of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Era”

Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland, “A Stream of Exegetical Tradition in Mark’s Passion Narrative: Integration of Scripture with an Isaianic Hermeneutic”

Discussants: Melissa Harl Sellew, Chance McMahon

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 6 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: John Kampen

Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, “‘The lame I will make a remnant’ (Mic 4.7): Use and erasure of mobility impairments in postexilic pilgrimage imagery”

Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA, “From King Solomon to Tacitus: Jewish Tradition in Ethiopia during the Second Temple Period”
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica, “Rehabilitating Yhwh: Divine Masculinity in the Book of Ezra”

Patrick Pouchelle, “Interpreting Psalms during the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ericka Dunbar

WEDNESDAY, January 12, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 7 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Michael Langlois

Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México, “The Magdala settlement: Daily life in the 1st Century (Second Temple Period)”

Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Follow the Fibers: A Fresh Look on 4Qpap Ritual of Marriage (4Q502)”

Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College,“Class Conflict in Galilee Under Antipas”

Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar, “Jesus in Relation to Pharisaic Halakha, National and Religious Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Daniel Assefa, Ingrid Breilid Gimse

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 8 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Sylvie Honigman

Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland, “Ancient Intertextuality Beyond the Bible”

Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Cleopatra VII Philopator in Early Jewish Imagination”

Macarena García, Universidad Complutense, “Medical and Pharmacological Issues in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Joseph Scales, United Kingdom, “Women and Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature”

Discussants: Gerbern Oegema, Joshua Scott

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 9 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Judith H. Newman

JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, “Did Wisdom become Torah in the Hellenistic period?”

Liane Feldman, New York University, USA, “Sacrificing Torah: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Literature”

Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University, “4QReworked Pentateuch, Genre, and Authority: A Sydney Perspective”

M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA, “Beyond Religious Difference: Re-evaluating the Teleological Underpinnings of Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Joseph Marchal, Elena Dugan

THURSDAY, January 13, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 10 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Ananda Geyser-Fouche

Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, “Representation of Uriel as the Helper of Biblical and Ethiopian Intellectuals: the Case of Homiliary of Uriel“

Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, “Theological Framing in the Cognitive Context of Sirach: Mapping the Term κύριος and θεός”

Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg, “The Name of God and the Institution of the Sanctuary in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 85-90): An Intertextual Reading with the Priestly Pentateuch”

Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel, “Rewriting the Empire: Reinterpreting Anti-Imperial Narratives from the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Gabriella Gelardini, Iñaki Marro Sánchez

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 11 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Grant Macaskill

Federico Adinolfi, Italy, “John and Jesus: Glimpses into a Second Temple Jewish Purification Movement”

Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, “Pacifism as Leadership in Jewish Antiquity”

Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway, “‘Why Do You Transgress?’: Non-Binary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond”

Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada, “(Not) Intermingled with Shameful Bodies: Josephus and Philo on the Nondisability of Moses”

Discussants: Francis Borchardt, Jasmine Eleanor Foo

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 4:45pm — Wrap-Up Session (The Chairs and The Frankel Institute Fellows + general discussion)

4:45pm – 5:00pm — Conclusions (15 min.)

Confirmed Speakers:

Sofanit Abebe
Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel
Federico Adinolfi, Italy
Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina
Daniel Assefa, Ethopia
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Catherine Bonesho, UCLA, USA
Francis Borchardt, NLA Høgskolen, Norway
Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland
Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA
Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica
Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University
Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil
Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Vicente Dobroruka, Brazil
Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Liane Feldman, New York University, USA
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA
Macarena García, Universidad Complutense
Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar
JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA
Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada
Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México
Lerato Mokoena, North West University, South Africa
Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College
Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto
Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary
Patrick Pouchelle
Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Joseph Scales, United Kingdom
Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada
Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Joan Taylor, King’s College London, United Kingdom and New Zealand
Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA
Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark
Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:44:06 -0500 2022-01-10T09:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Global Enterprise
Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (January 11, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89370 89370-21662360@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, January 11, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Rodney Caruthers, Shayna Sheinfeld, with Gabriele Boccaccini, Amy-Jill Levine, John Collins

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Language: English

The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics, and Christian Origins are invited to attend.

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/n88bjyjj



Provisional Schedule (EST-New York Time Zone)

MONDAY, January 10, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Welcome & Introduction to the Conference

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 1 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Tupa Guerra

Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel, “Rethinking the Boundary between the Pre-Samaritan and Samaritan Layers in the Samaritan Pentateuch”

Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil, “Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose Among Modes of Existence”

Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA, “Apocalypse and Immigration: Cross-Reading the Apocalypse of John and U.S. Immigration History”

Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Discussants: Angela Kim Harkins, Daniele Minisini

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 2 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Cecilia Wassen

Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Tracing Travel in the Ancient World”

Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, “Tresses and Distresses: Literary and Social Aspects of Women’s Hair in Second Temple Jewish Literature”

Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina, “A Genealogy of Desire: Eve and Sexual Desire in Second Temple Judaism”

Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, “Leah and the Construction of Idealised Femininity in the Book of Jubilees”

Discussants: Vicente Dobroruka, Emily Gathergood

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 3 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Gregg Gardner

Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA, “The Luminous Bodies of God in Ancient Jewish Tradition”

Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada, “Didactic Authority in the Desert: Reading Matthew’s Temptation Narrative through the Lens of Scribal Culture”

Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, “Apocalyptic Reverberations in the Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Discussants: Joan Taylor, Gonzalo Alers

TUESDAY, January 11, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 4 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland, “Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter in its Different Traditions and their Chances for a Better Understanding of Early Christian Paradise Conceptions”

Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary, “Coping with Intrapersonal Religious Struggles in Early Judaism”

Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, “Wisdom and Her Children: A New Reading of the Sophia-Sayings in Synoptic Tradition in Light of the Parables of Enoch”

Sofanit Abebe

Discussants: Esther Chazon, Anthony Nwosu

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 5 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Giovanni Bazzana

Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel, with Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Jakub Zbrzeżny, and Dimid Duchovny, “Using Machine Learning for Detecting Babylonian Influence on the Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “The Greek Expression of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Era”

Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland, “A Stream of Exegetical Tradition in Mark’s Passion Narrative: Integration of Scripture with an Isaianic Hermeneutic”

Discussants: Melissa Harl Sellew, Chance McMahon

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 6 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: John Kampen

Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, “‘The lame I will make a remnant’ (Mic 4.7): Use and erasure of mobility impairments in postexilic pilgrimage imagery”

Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA, “From King Solomon to Tacitus: Jewish Tradition in Ethiopia during the Second Temple Period”
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica, “Rehabilitating Yhwh: Divine Masculinity in the Book of Ezra”

Patrick Pouchelle, “Interpreting Psalms during the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ericka Dunbar

WEDNESDAY, January 12, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 7 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Michael Langlois

Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México, “The Magdala settlement: Daily life in the 1st Century (Second Temple Period)”

Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Follow the Fibers: A Fresh Look on 4Qpap Ritual of Marriage (4Q502)”

Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College,“Class Conflict in Galilee Under Antipas”

Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar, “Jesus in Relation to Pharisaic Halakha, National and Religious Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Daniel Assefa, Ingrid Breilid Gimse

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 8 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Sylvie Honigman

Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland, “Ancient Intertextuality Beyond the Bible”

Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Cleopatra VII Philopator in Early Jewish Imagination”

Macarena García, Universidad Complutense, “Medical and Pharmacological Issues in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Joseph Scales, United Kingdom, “Women and Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature”

Discussants: Gerbern Oegema, Joshua Scott

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 9 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Judith H. Newman

JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, “Did Wisdom become Torah in the Hellenistic period?”

Liane Feldman, New York University, USA, “Sacrificing Torah: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Literature”

Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University, “4QReworked Pentateuch, Genre, and Authority: A Sydney Perspective”

M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA, “Beyond Religious Difference: Re-evaluating the Teleological Underpinnings of Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Joseph Marchal, Elena Dugan

THURSDAY, January 13, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 10 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Ananda Geyser-Fouche

Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, “Representation of Uriel as the Helper of Biblical and Ethiopian Intellectuals: the Case of Homiliary of Uriel“

Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, “Theological Framing in the Cognitive Context of Sirach: Mapping the Term κύριος and θεός”

Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg, “The Name of God and the Institution of the Sanctuary in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 85-90): An Intertextual Reading with the Priestly Pentateuch”

Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel, “Rewriting the Empire: Reinterpreting Anti-Imperial Narratives from the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Gabriella Gelardini, Iñaki Marro Sánchez

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 11 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Grant Macaskill

Federico Adinolfi, Italy, “John and Jesus: Glimpses into a Second Temple Jewish Purification Movement”

Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, “Pacifism as Leadership in Jewish Antiquity”

Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway, “‘Why Do You Transgress?’: Non-Binary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond”

Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada, “(Not) Intermingled with Shameful Bodies: Josephus and Philo on the Nondisability of Moses”

Discussants: Francis Borchardt, Jasmine Eleanor Foo

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 4:45pm — Wrap-Up Session (The Chairs and The Frankel Institute Fellows + general discussion)

4:45pm – 5:00pm — Conclusions (15 min.)

Confirmed Speakers:

Sofanit Abebe
Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel
Federico Adinolfi, Italy
Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina
Daniel Assefa, Ethopia
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Catherine Bonesho, UCLA, USA
Francis Borchardt, NLA Høgskolen, Norway
Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland
Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA
Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica
Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University
Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil
Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Vicente Dobroruka, Brazil
Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Liane Feldman, New York University, USA
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA
Macarena García, Universidad Complutense
Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar
JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA
Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada
Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México
Lerato Mokoena, North West University, South Africa
Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College
Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto
Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary
Patrick Pouchelle
Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Joseph Scales, United Kingdom
Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada
Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Joan Taylor, King’s College London, United Kingdom and New Zealand
Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA
Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark
Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:44:06 -0500 2022-01-11T09:00:00-05:00 2022-01-11T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Global Enterprise
Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (January 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89370 89370-21662361@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, January 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Rodney Caruthers, Shayna Sheinfeld, with Gabriele Boccaccini, Amy-Jill Levine, John Collins

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Language: English

The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics, and Christian Origins are invited to attend.

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/n88bjyjj



Provisional Schedule (EST-New York Time Zone)

MONDAY, January 10, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Welcome & Introduction to the Conference

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 1 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Tupa Guerra

Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel, “Rethinking the Boundary between the Pre-Samaritan and Samaritan Layers in the Samaritan Pentateuch”

Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil, “Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose Among Modes of Existence”

Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA, “Apocalypse and Immigration: Cross-Reading the Apocalypse of John and U.S. Immigration History”

Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Discussants: Angela Kim Harkins, Daniele Minisini

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 2 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Cecilia Wassen

Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Tracing Travel in the Ancient World”

Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, “Tresses and Distresses: Literary and Social Aspects of Women’s Hair in Second Temple Jewish Literature”

Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina, “A Genealogy of Desire: Eve and Sexual Desire in Second Temple Judaism”

Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, “Leah and the Construction of Idealised Femininity in the Book of Jubilees”

Discussants: Vicente Dobroruka, Emily Gathergood

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 3 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Gregg Gardner

Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA, “The Luminous Bodies of God in Ancient Jewish Tradition”

Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada, “Didactic Authority in the Desert: Reading Matthew’s Temptation Narrative through the Lens of Scribal Culture”

Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, “Apocalyptic Reverberations in the Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Discussants: Joan Taylor, Gonzalo Alers

TUESDAY, January 11, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 4 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland, “Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter in its Different Traditions and their Chances for a Better Understanding of Early Christian Paradise Conceptions”

Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary, “Coping with Intrapersonal Religious Struggles in Early Judaism”

Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, “Wisdom and Her Children: A New Reading of the Sophia-Sayings in Synoptic Tradition in Light of the Parables of Enoch”

Sofanit Abebe

Discussants: Esther Chazon, Anthony Nwosu

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 5 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Giovanni Bazzana

Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel, with Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Jakub Zbrzeżny, and Dimid Duchovny, “Using Machine Learning for Detecting Babylonian Influence on the Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “The Greek Expression of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Era”

Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland, “A Stream of Exegetical Tradition in Mark’s Passion Narrative: Integration of Scripture with an Isaianic Hermeneutic”

Discussants: Melissa Harl Sellew, Chance McMahon

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 6 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: John Kampen

Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, “‘The lame I will make a remnant’ (Mic 4.7): Use and erasure of mobility impairments in postexilic pilgrimage imagery”

Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA, “From King Solomon to Tacitus: Jewish Tradition in Ethiopia during the Second Temple Period”
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica, “Rehabilitating Yhwh: Divine Masculinity in the Book of Ezra”

Patrick Pouchelle, “Interpreting Psalms during the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ericka Dunbar

WEDNESDAY, January 12, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 7 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Michael Langlois

Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México, “The Magdala settlement: Daily life in the 1st Century (Second Temple Period)”

Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Follow the Fibers: A Fresh Look on 4Qpap Ritual of Marriage (4Q502)”

Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College,“Class Conflict in Galilee Under Antipas”

Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar, “Jesus in Relation to Pharisaic Halakha, National and Religious Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Daniel Assefa, Ingrid Breilid Gimse

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 8 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Sylvie Honigman

Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland, “Ancient Intertextuality Beyond the Bible”

Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Cleopatra VII Philopator in Early Jewish Imagination”

Macarena García, Universidad Complutense, “Medical and Pharmacological Issues in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Joseph Scales, United Kingdom, “Women and Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature”

Discussants: Gerbern Oegema, Joshua Scott

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 9 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Judith H. Newman

JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, “Did Wisdom become Torah in the Hellenistic period?”

Liane Feldman, New York University, USA, “Sacrificing Torah: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Literature”

Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University, “4QReworked Pentateuch, Genre, and Authority: A Sydney Perspective”

M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA, “Beyond Religious Difference: Re-evaluating the Teleological Underpinnings of Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Joseph Marchal, Elena Dugan

THURSDAY, January 13, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 10 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Ananda Geyser-Fouche

Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, “Representation of Uriel as the Helper of Biblical and Ethiopian Intellectuals: the Case of Homiliary of Uriel“

Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, “Theological Framing in the Cognitive Context of Sirach: Mapping the Term κύριος and θεός”

Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg, “The Name of God and the Institution of the Sanctuary in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 85-90): An Intertextual Reading with the Priestly Pentateuch”

Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel, “Rewriting the Empire: Reinterpreting Anti-Imperial Narratives from the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Gabriella Gelardini, Iñaki Marro Sánchez

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 11 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Grant Macaskill

Federico Adinolfi, Italy, “John and Jesus: Glimpses into a Second Temple Jewish Purification Movement”

Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, “Pacifism as Leadership in Jewish Antiquity”

Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway, “‘Why Do You Transgress?’: Non-Binary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond”

Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada, “(Not) Intermingled with Shameful Bodies: Josephus and Philo on the Nondisability of Moses”

Discussants: Francis Borchardt, Jasmine Eleanor Foo

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 4:45pm — Wrap-Up Session (The Chairs and The Frankel Institute Fellows + general discussion)

4:45pm – 5:00pm — Conclusions (15 min.)

Confirmed Speakers:

Sofanit Abebe
Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel
Federico Adinolfi, Italy
Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina
Daniel Assefa, Ethopia
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Catherine Bonesho, UCLA, USA
Francis Borchardt, NLA Høgskolen, Norway
Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland
Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA
Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica
Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University
Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil
Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Vicente Dobroruka, Brazil
Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Liane Feldman, New York University, USA
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA
Macarena García, Universidad Complutense
Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar
JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA
Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada
Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México
Lerato Mokoena, North West University, South Africa
Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College
Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto
Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary
Patrick Pouchelle
Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Joseph Scales, United Kingdom
Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada
Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Joan Taylor, King’s College London, United Kingdom and New Zealand
Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA
Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark
Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:44:06 -0500 2022-01-12T09:00:00-05:00 2022-01-12T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Global Enterprise
Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise (January 13, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/89370 89370-21662362@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 13, 2022 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch, Rodney Caruthers, Shayna Sheinfeld, with Gabriele Boccaccini, Amy-Jill Levine, John Collins

Secretary: Joshua Scott

Language: English

The study of Second Temple Jewish history, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies, Judaic Studies, Classics, and Christian Origins are invited to attend.

REGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/n88bjyjj



Provisional Schedule (EST-New York Time Zone)

MONDAY, January 10, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Welcome & Introduction to the Conference

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 1 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Tupa Guerra

Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel, “Rethinking the Boundary between the Pre-Samaritan and Samaritan Layers in the Samaritan Pentateuch”

Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil, “Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose Among Modes of Existence”

Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA, “Apocalypse and Immigration: Cross-Reading the Apocalypse of John and U.S. Immigration History”

Lerato Mokoena, University of Pretoria, South Africa
Discussants: Angela Kim Harkins, Daniele Minisini

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 2 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Cecilia Wassen

Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark, “Tracing Travel in the Ancient World”

Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel, “Tresses and Distresses: Literary and Social Aspects of Women’s Hair in Second Temple Jewish Literature”

Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina, “A Genealogy of Desire: Eve and Sexual Desire in Second Temple Judaism”

Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, “Leah and the Construction of Idealised Femininity in the Book of Jubilees”

Discussants: Vicente Dobroruka, Emily Gathergood

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 3 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Gregg Gardner

Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA, “The Luminous Bodies of God in Ancient Jewish Tradition”

Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada, “Didactic Authority in the Desert: Reading Matthew’s Temptation Narrative through the Lens of Scribal Culture”

Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA, “Apocalyptic Reverberations in the Writings of Martin Luther King, Jr.”

Discussants: Joan Taylor, Gonzalo Alers

TUESDAY, January 11, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 4 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Liv Ingeborg Lied

Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland, “Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter in its Different Traditions and their Chances for a Better Understanding of Early Christian Paradise Conceptions”

Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary, “Coping with Intrapersonal Religious Struggles in Early Judaism”

Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München, “Wisdom and Her Children: A New Reading of the Sophia-Sayings in Synoptic Tradition in Light of the Parables of Enoch”

Sofanit Abebe

Discussants: Esther Chazon, Anthony Nwosu

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 5 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Giovanni Bazzana

Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel, with Lee-Ad Gottlieb, Jakub Zbrzeżny, and Dimid Duchovny, “Using Machine Learning for Detecting Babylonian Influence on the Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom, “The Greek Expression of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Era”

Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven,
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland, “A Stream of Exegetical Tradition in Mark’s Passion Narrative: Integration of Scripture with an Isaianic Hermeneutic”

Discussants: Melissa Harl Sellew, Chance McMahon

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 6 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: John Kampen

Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University, “‘The lame I will make a remnant’ (Mic 4.7): Use and erasure of mobility impairments in postexilic pilgrimage imagery”

Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA, “From King Solomon to Tacitus: Jewish Tradition in Ethiopia during the Second Temple Period”
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica, “Rehabilitating Yhwh: Divine Masculinity in the Book of Ezra”

Patrick Pouchelle, “Interpreting Psalms during the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Annette Yoshiko Reed, Ericka Dunbar

WEDNESDAY, January 12, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 7 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Michael Langlois

Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México, “The Magdala settlement: Daily life in the 1st Century (Second Temple Period)”

Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, “Follow the Fibers: A Fresh Look on 4Qpap Ritual of Marriage (4Q502)”

Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College,“Class Conflict in Galilee Under Antipas”

Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar, “Jesus in Relation to Pharisaic Halakha, National and Religious Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period”

Discussants: Daniel Assefa, Ingrid Breilid Gimse

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 8 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Sylvie Honigman

Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland, “Ancient Intertextuality Beyond the Bible”

Catherine Bonesho, University of California, Los Angeles, USA, “Cleopatra VII Philopator in Early Jewish Imagination”

Macarena García, Universidad Complutense, “Medical and Pharmacological Issues in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls”

Joseph Scales, United Kingdom, “Women and Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature”

Discussants: Gerbern Oegema, Joshua Scott

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 9 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Judith H. Newman

JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland, “Did Wisdom become Torah in the Hellenistic period?”

Liane Feldman, New York University, USA, “Sacrificing Torah: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Literature”

Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University, “4QReworked Pentateuch, Genre, and Authority: A Sydney Perspective”

M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA, “Beyond Religious Difference: Re-evaluating the Teleological Underpinnings of Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Joseph Marchal, Elena Dugan

THURSDAY, January 13, 2022
8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session

8:45am – 9:00am — Break

9:00am – 11:00am — Session 10 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Ananda Geyser-Fouche

Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia, “Representation of Uriel as the Helper of Biblical and Ethiopian Intellectuals: the Case of Homiliary of Uriel“

Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa, “Theological Framing in the Cognitive Context of Sirach: Mapping the Term κύριος and θεός”

Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg, “The Name of God and the Institution of the Sanctuary in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 85-90): An Intertextual Reading with the Priestly Pentateuch”

Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel, “Rewriting the Empire: Reinterpreting Anti-Imperial Narratives from the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple Judaism”

Discussants: Gabriella Gelardini, Iñaki Marro Sánchez

11:00am – 12:00am — Break

12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 11 PANEL (4 papers, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion)

Chair: Grant Macaskill

Federico Adinolfi, Italy, “John and Jesus: Glimpses into a Second Temple Jewish Purification Movement”

Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom, “Pacifism as Leadership in Jewish Antiquity”

Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway, “‘Why Do You Transgress?’: Non-Binary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond”

Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada, “(Not) Intermingled with Shameful Bodies: Josephus and Philo on the Nondisability of Moses”

Discussants: Francis Borchardt, Jasmine Eleanor Foo

2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break

3:00pm – 4:45pm — Wrap-Up Session (The Chairs and The Frankel Institute Fellows + general discussion)

4:45pm – 5:00pm — Conclusions (15 min.)

Confirmed Speakers:

Sofanit Abebe
Oren Ableman, Israel Antiquities Authority, Israel
Federico Adinolfi, Italy
Magdalena Diaz Araujo, Argentina
Daniel Assefa, Ethopia
Gabriele Boccaccini, University of Michigan, USA
Mirjam Bokhorst, University of Halle-Wittenberg
Catherine Bonesho, UCLA, USA
Francis Borchardt, NLA Høgskolen, Norway
Lisa Bowens, Princeton Theological Seminary, USA
Alma Brodersen, Postdoctoral Researcher, Bern University, Switzerland
Esther Brownsmith, MF Norwegian School of Theology, Norway
Rodney Caruthers, University of Michigan, USA
Esther Chazon, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
John J. Collins, Yale University, USA
Elisabeth Cook, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana, Costa Rica
Kylie Crabbe, Australian Catholic University
Hila Dayfani, Oriel College, Israel
Paulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas, Brazil
Marieke Dhont, University of Cambridge, United Kingdom
Vicente Dobroruka, Brazil
Shlomi Efrati,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven
Liane Feldman, New York University, USA
Deborah Forger, University of Michigan, USA
Macarena García, Universidad Complutense
Asaf Gayer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Layang Seng Ja, Kachin Theological College and Seminary, Myanmar
JiSeong James Kwon, University of Lausanne, Switzerland
Amy-Jill Levine, Vanderbilt University, USA
Yii-Jan Lin, Yale University, USA
Atar Livneh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel
Fiodar Litvinau, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München
Jonathan Lo, Ambrose University, Calgary, Canada
Daniel Maier, University of Zurich, Switzerland
Marcela Zapata Meza, Universidad Anáhuac, México
Lerato Mokoena, North West University, South Africa
Robert Myles, Wollaston Theological College
Peter Nagle, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Judith H. Newman, University of Toronto
Anna Nürnberger, Australian Lutheran Seminary
Patrick Pouchelle
Eshbal Ratzon, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Joseph Scales, United Kingdom
Shayna Sheinfeld, The University of Sheffield, United Kingdom
Elizabeth Evans Shively, University of St Andrews, Scotland
Isaac Soon, Crandall University, Canada
Chontel Syfox, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
Joan Taylor, King’s College London, United Kingdom and New Zealand
Amsalu Tefera, Addis Ababa University, Ethiopia
M Adryael Tong, Interdenominational Theological Center, USA
Elisa Uusimäki, Aarhus University, Denmark
Gareth Wearne, Australian Catholic University

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 08 Dec 2021 14:44:06 -0500 2022-01-13T09:00:00-05:00 2022-01-13T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual A Global Enterprise
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. as a Black King of the Bible in Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Triptych “Three Black Kings” (January 27, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90238 90238-21668919@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, January 27, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

An ICAMus (The International Center for American Music) event, sponsored by MCECS (Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies), in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Dept. of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2022

Advanced Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/2zvsappv

Jazz composer, pianist, jazz orchestra leader, and symphonic orchestra conductor, Duke Ellington also composed some symphonic works of great complexity. Three Black Kings, a score for ballet, was his last major work. The first movement represents Balthazar, the Black king of the Nativity; the second portrays Solomon, King of Israel; and the third celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., Ellington's personal friend. Luca Bragalini will discuss Martin Luther King’s musical depiction in Three Black Kings, with an analysis of the implications of the Black King’s imagery in art history, political thought, and the importance that religion has had for the African American community.


EVENT PROGRAM:

3:00-3:15
Joshua Scott - Welcome
Jim Lepkowski, President of MCECS-Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies - Intro from MCECS
Karla Mallette, Director of MES-Middle East Studies Dept., University of Michigan - Intro from MES
Aloma Bardi, Director of ICAMus-The International Center for American Music - Intro from ICAMus; Aloma introduces Luca Bragalini
Luca Bragalini appears for a “hello”

3:15 – Video - duration: 51:12

4:10-4:30 – The Panel of Specialists discussing the video (max 3 mins. each) includes (in order of appearance):
Aloma Bardi - American-Music scholar, Founding Director of ICAMus

Rodney Caruthers II - New Testament scholar, Reseach Fellow at Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies

Stefano Zenni - Musicologist and jazz expert, Music Conservatory Bologna, Italy

Gabriele Boccaccini - Middle East Studies Dept. & Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Michigan

Bill Doggett - Historian, archivist, and African-American music expert, Director of Bill Doggett Productions

Marcello Piras - Musicologist and author, expert of jazz and Musics of the Americas, Puebla, Mexico

4:30-4:45 – Luca Bragalini replies to comments

4:45-5:00 – Q&A, general discussion

5:00 – End of event & announcement of upcoming webinar on Feb 1

In the website 4enoch.org edited by Professor Gabriele Boccaccini, a page provides further information and bibliography on the Black King in the history of Christian thought and in the arts:
https://4enoch.org/wiki5/index.php?title=Category:Black_King_(subject)



Luca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music.


Note on ICAMus

ICAMus-The International Center for American Music http://www.icamus.org/ is a Non-Profit Organization, established in Florence in 2002. ICAMus is committed to the study, performance, and teaching of American music and America’s musical life, with special attention to pre-Civil War Early American Music. The Center is led by an international Board of Directors and an Advisory Board of specialists in the field, and is active through concerts, university courses, lectures, conferences, publications, recordings, and radio broadcasts. ICAMus has carried out numerous initiatives in Europe and the United States. It has assembled a special library, which also includes rare books and manuscripts.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 26 Jan 2022 16:38:14 -0500 2022-01-27T15:00:00-05:00 2022-01-27T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Luca Bragalini
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-01T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Jewish Blues in 20th-Century Classical Music (February 1, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90240 90240-21668921@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 1, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

An ICAMus (The International Center for American Music) event, sponsored by MCECS (Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies), in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Dept. of Middle East Studies, University of Michigan

In honor of Martin Luther King Day 2022

Advanced Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/t77y66uh

The Blues, an expression of late 19th-century Southern African-American folklore, is a river with many tributaries. Jazz, gospel, pop music with all its branches ranging from Broadway songs to hard rock via rock'n’roll and funk, are some of them. But there is another stream, running through the classical music of the twentieth century. Many composers turned their attention to the blues, and the number of Jewish classical composers who wrote blues is striking. Just to name a few: Castelnuovo-Tedesco, Milhaud, Copland, Gershwin; and Ullmann and Schulhoff who perished in the Shoah. Along this journey significant connections will be discovered between the African American and Jewish musical traditions.

The panel of specialists discussing the video includes:

Aloma Bardi - American-Music scholar, Founding Director of ICAMus

Nicole Panizza - musicologist and concert pianist, University of Coventry, UK

Paolo Somigli - musicologist, University of Bozen-Bolzano, South Tyrol, Italy

Scott Hanoian - Music Director and Conductor of the UMS Choral Union

Stefano Zenni - musicologist and jazz expert, Music Conservatory Bologna, Italy

Marilyn Lester - author, editor, jazz critic, New York

Luca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music.

Note on ICAMus

ICAMus-The International Center for American Music http://www.icamus.org/ is a Non-Profit Organization, established in Florence in 2002. ICAMus is committed to the study, performance, and teaching of American music and America’s musical life, with special attention to pre-Civil War Early American Music. The Center is led by an international Board of Directors and an Advisory Board of specialists in the field, and is active through concerts, university courses, lectures, conferences, publications, recordings, and radio broadcasts. ICAMus has carried out numerous initiatives in Europe and the United States. It has assembled a special library, which also includes rare books and manuscripts.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 20 Jan 2022 15:59:25 -0500 2022-02-01T15:00:00-05:00 2022-02-01T17:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Luca Bragalini
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 2, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 2, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-02T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-02T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 3, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 3, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-03T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-03T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 4, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-04T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668674@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-07T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668675@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-08T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668676@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-09T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668677@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-10T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668678@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-11T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668681@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-14T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-14T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668682@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-15T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-15T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668683@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-16T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
WCEE Roundtable. From There to Here: The Yiddish Origins and Cultural Travels of *Fiddler on the Roof* (February 16, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90908 90908-21674687@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 16, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia

This roundtable discussion features scholars of the Jewish experience in Eastern Europe and specialists in Yiddish who will provide the historical context and geopolitical setting of *Fiddler on the Roof*, discuss the translation and adaptation of the original Yiddish text into the English-language play, explore the role of the play in representations of Jews and Jewish culture in North America and Europe, and analyze some of the key themes of the play.

Registration for this webinar is required at https://myumi.ch/5WJqA

Mikhail Krutikov is professor of Slavic languages and literatures and Preston R. Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. He is the author of *Yiddish Fiction and the Crisis of Modernity, 1905–1914*; *From Kabbalah to Class Struggle: Expressionism, Marxism, and Yiddish Literature in the Life and Work of Meir Wiener*; and *Der Nister’s Soviet Years: Yiddish Writer as Witness to the People*. He has co-edited nine collections on Yiddish literature and culture, most recently *Three Cities of Yiddish: St. Petersburg, Warsaw and Moscow*, co-edited with Gennady Estraikh. He has been a cultural columnist for the Yiddish *Forward* since 1999. A collection of his Yiddish essays came out in Israel in 2018 under the title *Tsvishn shures: notitsn vegn yidisher kultur (Between Lines: Notes on Jewish Culture)*.

Anita Norich is Tikva Frymer-Kensky Collegiate Professor Emerita of English and Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan. She is the translator of *Fear and Other Stories* by Chana Blankshteyn (forthcoming, 2022) and *A Jewish Refugee in New York* by Kadya Molodovsky (2019). She is also the author of *Writing in Tongues: Yiddish Translation in the 20th Century*; *Discovering Exile: Yiddish and Jewish American Literature in America During the Holocaust*; *The Homeless Imagination in the Fiction of Israel Joshua Singer*; and co-editor of *Languages of Modern Jewish Cultures: Comparative Perspectives* (2016), *Jewish Literatures and Cultures: Context and Intertext* (2008), and *Gender and Text in Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literatures* (1992).

Karolina Szymaniak is assistant professor in the Department of Jewish Studies at the University of Wrocław as part of the Fugue Program of the National Science Center, and an assistant professor at the Jewish Historical Institute. She is a researcher, editor, and translator from Yiddish and English, and a language instructor with a PhD in literary and cultural studies. She has been a consultant for, among others, the POLIN: Museum of the History of Polish Jews and the Museum of Art in Łódź. She co-authored the exhibition “Montage. Debora Vogel and the New Legend of the City” (Museum of Art in Łódź, 2017-18). Szymaniak has been an organizer and co-organizer of numerous national and international conferences, most recently “Yiddishism: Mythologies and Iconographies” (Jewish Historical Institute, 2015). She is a member of the audit commission of the Polish Society for Yiddish Studies. Her scholarly interests include modern Yiddish literature, the problems of modernism and avant-garde literature written by women, as well as the history and theory of Polish-Jewish cultural contacts.

Moderator: Geneviève Zubrzycki is professor of sociology and director of the Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia at the University of Michigan. Zubrzycki is a comparative-historical and cultural sociologist who studies national identity and religion, collective memory and national mythology, and the contested place of religious symbols in the public sphere.

If there is anything we can do to make this event accessible to you, please contact us at weisercenter@umich.edu. 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, 17 Feb 2022 09:09:49 -0500 2022-02-16T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-16T13:20:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Weiser Center for Europe and Eurasia Lecture / Discussion Pagowski_Skrzypek na Dachu
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668684@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-17T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-17T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668685@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-18T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-18T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668688@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-21T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-21T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668689@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, February 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-22T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-22T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668690@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, February 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-23T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-23T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668691@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-24T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Is Spinoza Still Salient? Are the Rabbis Really Relevant? Thinking in the Era of Instrumentalized Knowledge-Making (February 24, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91336 91336-21678237@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, February 24, 2022 12:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

The pressure to produce scholarship that’s relevant and publicly engaged comes as a welcome reproach and corrective to the elitism and insulation of academia. Yet, what is the cost of such a product-driven mindset with its embeddedness in market ideologies and neoliberal deliverables? How do the logics that subsidize this “Western” enterprise marginalize divergent voices and sideline alternative methods? Turning to the rabbis of late antiquity and early modern Spinoza, opens us to seeing our particular academic enterprises and, more broadly still, the state of being human, differently. This dares us to consider: what might it mean to think in the absence of teleology, anthropocentrism, and their supremacist rationales?

Register for the Zoom stream here: https://myumi.ch/y99w4

Gilah Kletenik, a scholar of philosophy and Jewish thought, is Postdoctoral Associate at the Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies at Boston University. Rafe Neis, an historian of ancient Judaism and rabbinic literature, is Associate Professor of History and Judaic Studies. They come together to talk about teleology, scholarship, being human, and the possibilities for meaning-making. Their discussion will be moderated by Scott Spector, Director, Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, and Rudolf Mrazek Collegiate Professor of History and German Studies.

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Lecture / Discussion Fri, 18 Feb 2022 08:19:50 -0500 2022-02-24T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-24T14:00:00-05:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion A discussion with Dr. Gilah Klentenik and Dr. Rachel Rafael Neis
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668692@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-25T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-25T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (February 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668695@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 28, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-02-28T08:00:00-05:00 2022-02-28T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668696@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 1, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-01T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-01T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 2, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668697@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 2, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-02T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-02T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 3, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668698@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 3, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-03T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-03T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668699@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 4, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-04T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-04T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668702@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-07T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-07T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668703@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-08T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-08T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 9, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668704@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 9, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-09T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-09T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 10, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668705@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-10T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 10, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678238@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 10, 2022 4:00pm
Location: North Quad
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-10T16:00:00-05:00 2022-03-10T18:00:00-05:00 North Quad Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668706@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-11T08:00:00-05:00 2022-03-11T17:00:00-05:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668709@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Below The Line: The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures Website Launch (March 15, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92674 92674-21694334@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 15, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

We are pleased to announce the launch of the new website of Below The Line: The Feuilleton and Modern Jewish Cultures (https://www.feuilletonproject.org/) and to invite you to mark the occasion. This is an important milestone in the collaborative research project, co-directed by Prof. Naomi Brenner (Ohio State University), Prof. Shachar Pinsker (University of Michigan), and Prof. Matthew Handelman (Michigan State University), with contributions from all over the world with many scholarly expertises.

The center of the new project website is a growing digital collection of feuilletons related to modern Jewish cultures in a variety of languages, published in newspapers and periodicals throughout the world, from the mid-19th century to the mid-20th century. Most of the texts in the collection are available in the original publication, in English translation, and with a commentary that provides important scholarly context. The website also features extensive metadata, a map with places of publication, and a timeline. Explore the digital collections at: https://feuilleton.judaic.lsa.umich.edu/s/below-the-line/page/explore

The event will feature the three co-directors and contributors who will discuss some of the exciting features of the new website and digital collection and the project’s future plans. Please register here: https://myumi.ch/G12b4

The project has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities, the American Academy of Jewish Research, and other sources.

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 23 Feb 2022 08:44:40 -0500 2022-03-15T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-15T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Below The Line Website
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 16, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668711@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 16, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-16T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-16T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 17, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668712@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-17T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 17, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678342@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 17, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-17T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-17T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21668713@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704632@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704633@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
The Society of Savage Jews: The Politics of Jewish Primitivism (March 22, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/90576 90576-21671710@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 22, 2022 4:00pm
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Around the beginning of the 20th century Jewish writers and artists across Europe depicted fellow Jews as “primitive.” Figures as diverse as Franz Kafka, Y. L. Peretz, Else Lasker-Schüler, Der Nister, and Moï Ver turned primitivism – the European fascination with and denigration of non-Western peoples – on to themselves. Jewish Primitivism uncovers this phenomenon and explains how it was used to explore the urgent political and aesthetic issues surrounding Jewish identity in Europe. Showing how Jewish primitivism troubles the boundary between insider and outsider, cultured and “primitive,” colonizer and colonized, Jewish Primitivism offers a new assessment of European modernism and of modern Jewish culture.

Hybrid Event
South Thayer Building Room 2022
Register for the Zoom webinar at: https://myumi.ch/844Z6

Samuel Spinner is the Zelda and Myer Tandetnik Assistant Professor of Yiddish Language, Literature, and Culture at Johns Hopkins University. His book Jewish Primitivism, on primitivism in modern Jewish literature, photography, and graphic art, was published in July 2021 by Stanford University Press. He is currently researching a book on the aesthetics of monumentality in Holocaust museums and literature. His work has appeared in PMLA, MLN, Prooftexts, and German Quarterly. Spinner is a co-editor of “German Jewish Cultures,” a book series published by Indiana University Press and serves as an editor of the Yiddish Studies journal In Geveb.

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Lecture / Discussion Mon, 14 Mar 2022 14:38:22 -0400 2022-03-22T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-22T17:30:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion Jewish Primitivism
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 23, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704634@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 23, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-23T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-23T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 24, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-24T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 24, 2022 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678343@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 24, 2022 4:00pm
Location: Chemistry Dow Lab
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-24T16:00:00-04:00 2022-03-24T18:00:00-04:00 Chemistry Dow Lab Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704636@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
“What Does It Mean to Keep a Secret?” Film Series (March 25, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91338 91338-21678344@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 25, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of "Secrets."

Documenting Secret Origins
Dr. Deborah Porter, University of Washington, Seattle
March 10, 4pm
Hybrid
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg
North Quad Room 2435

Drawing from her research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits' Blue Box and Shir Newman's How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films' tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films' palliative effect.


March 17, 4pm
Screening of "Blue Box" by Michal Weits
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9
The link will be available to stream March 17-20


March 24, 4pm
Screening of "How to Say Silence" by Shir Newman
Chemistry Building Room 1800
Virtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7
The link will be available to stream March 24-27


March 25, 12pm
Virtual Panel
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8
The film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films' directors, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman.



Trained as a Sinologist, Deborah Porter's interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography, including Early China, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022).

Michal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network), in charge of highly acclaimed films: "The Law in These Parts”, "5 Broken Cameras", "The Flat", and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded 'Tape Runners', an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners' titles include Production: "WALL" (director: Moran Ifergan), winner for the best documentary, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: "The Decent One", "No Place on Earth" and more. BLUE BOX is Weits' debut film as a director.

Shir Newman, 30, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.

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Film Screening Thu, 03 Mar 2022 16:44:45 -0500 2022-03-25T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-25T14:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Film Screening Deborah Porter, Michal Weits, and Shir Newman
Climate Justice and the Jewish Community: A Call to Action through Dialogue (March 27, 2022 1:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/93365 93365-21703969@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, March 27, 2022 1:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Jewish Communal Leadership Program

Join the Jewish Communal Leadership Program (JCLP) on Sunday, March 27th from 1-3:30pm EST via Zoom for Climate Justice and the Jewish Community: A Call to Action Through Dialogue, a facilitated panel discussion with a Q and A session where they will discuss the current action and movement within the Jewish community towards an environmentally-just future. The event will feature several panelists who will offer various perspectives on what the next steps can be. RSVP at https://ssw.umich.edu/r/jclpcc22 to receive the Zoom link.


Speakers include:

Rabbi Ellen Bernstein – Eco-theologian & Spiritual Leader

Rabbi Isaiah Rothstein – Rabbinic Scholar and Public Affairs Advisor at Jewish Federations of North America

Kristy Drutman –Founder of Brown Girl Green

Sophia Rich – National Leadership Board Member of the Jewish Youth Climate Movement

Vicki Kaplan – Director of Organizing at Dayenu

Ariel Mayse – Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University


This event is made possible through the generous support from: The Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies; U-M School for Environment and Sustainability Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion Office; U-M Hillel; U-M Trotter Multicultural Center; U-M School of Social Work Office of Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; U-M School of Social Work Student Union; Temple Beth Emeth of Ann Arbor; Beth Israel Congregation of Ann Arbor; The Jewish Federation of Greater Ann Arbor; Repair the World Detroit; U-M American Culture Department; Ann Arbor Reconstructionist Congregation; The Well; and The Amir Project.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 14 Mar 2022 10:31:33 -0400 2022-03-27T13:00:00-04:00 2022-03-27T15:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Jewish Communal Leadership Program Workshop / Seminar The title of the event "Climate Justice and the Jewish Community: A Call to Action Through Dialogue" is in navy blue lettering. There is a sage green background, with outlines of flowers and fruit in each corner of the image. Underneath the title it says "Join us Sunday, March 27th 1-3:30 PM EST on Zoom", followed by the link https://ssw.umich.edu/r/jclpcc22 to RSVP for the event. Underneath that is the Jewish Communal Leadership Program logo.
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704639@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 28, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-28T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704640@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, March 29, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-29T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 30, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704641@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, March 30, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-30T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-30T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (March 31, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704642@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-03-31T08:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Religion and Critical Theory: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin (March 31, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92364 92364-21690341@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 31, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In what ways can modern religious traditions come into constructive dialogue with critical theory? This Frankel Center lecture in collaboration with the Jewish-Muslim Research Network will seek to explore that question by looking at the concepts of time, history, and human agency in the thought of two 20th century thinkers, one Muslim and one Jewish: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin. Instead of focusing on questions of "compatibility," it will instead look to the generative ways in which creative (re)-interpretations of Muslim and Jewish themes and motifs can offer more capacious avenues for engaging religious traditions with critical theory in the pursuit of a better world.

Advanced registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Ek8AM

Asad Dandia is a student, teacher, and organizer with an abiding interest in religious thought, critical theory, and radical politics. He is currently Community Program Coordinator at the Council on American-Islamic Relations, New York (CAIR-NY), an urban studies student at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU), and teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR). He draws from his experience both as an academic and a community organizer to connect theory with praxis on a range of subjects. He graduated Columbia University with an MA in Islamic Studies with a thesis entitled, “Rethinking Islamic Studies: Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy as Decolonial Critique.”

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Livestream / Virtual Wed, 09 Mar 2022 09:06:04 -0500 2022-03-31T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-31T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Asad Dandia
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 1, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704643@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 1, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-01T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-01T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 4, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704646@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 4, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-04T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-04T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 5, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704647@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 5, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-05T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-05T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 6, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704648@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-06T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 7, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704649@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-07T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
32nd Belin Lecture: “'God Shed His Grace on Thee’: American and Jewish Exceptionalism in the Thought of Meir Kahane” (April 7, 2022 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92403 92403-21690853@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 7, 2022 7:00pm
Location: Palmer Commons
Organized By: Judaic Studies

This talk will explore notions of American exceptionalism and Jewish exceptionalism in the diasporic and Zionist thought of Meir Kahane. Magid will show how Kahane valued American democracy and viewed America as exceptional while at the same time felt that America could not ultimately protect the Jews. Alternatively, Jews had their own exceptional status that made them unique among collectives, and needed to express that status in a variety of ways, including the establishment of a non-democratic and thus abnormal state. Jewish exceptionalism demanded continued Jewish abnormality, the “normalization” of the Jew viewed as abandoning Jewish exceptionalism.

This is a hybrid event. Advanced registration is required for the virtual stream: https://myumi.ch/DJwAG

The Belin lecture series was established in 1991 through a generous gift from the late David W. Belin of Des Moines and New York to provide an academic forum for the discussion of contemporary Jewish life in the United States. Previous scholars to hold this honor include Deborah Lipstadt, Samuel Freedman, Ruth Messinger, Jim Loeffler, Beth Wenger, and Lila Corwin Berman among others. Each year, the lecture is also published in written form in collaboration with Michigan Publishing.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Mar 2022 10:45:09 -0400 2022-04-07T19:00:00-04:00 2022-04-07T20:30:00-04:00 Palmer Commons Judaic Studies Lecture / Discussion God Shed His Grace on Thee
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 8, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704650@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 8, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-08T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-08T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Film. *The Wedding Day (Wesele)* (April 10, 2022 2:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92566 92566-21692520@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Sunday, April 10, 2022 2:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

*The Wedding Day (Wesele),* by acclaimed director Wojciech Smarzowski, tackles the 1941 Jedwabne pogrom, during which Polish villagers tortured and murdered hundreds of Jewish neighbors. The story is set at a wedding celebration in a small town in northeastern Poland, and moves between past and present, with repressed memories of past violent events resurfacing in the present. In *The Wedding Day,* Smarzowski offers a stringent critique of current-day nationalism and the politics of denial in Poland.

In Polish with English subtitles (135 min., 2021). Free and open to the public. Tickets can be obtained in advance at https://myumi.ch/Nmr2M

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Film Screening Fri, 18 Feb 2022 09:30:08 -0500 2022-04-10T14:00:00-04:00 2022-04-10T16:15:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Film Screening Wedding Day film poster
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 11, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704653@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 11, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-11T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-11T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 12, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704654@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-12T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins: Retrospect and Prospects (April 12, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93586 93586-21706188@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 12, 2022 9:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Joshua Scott

Language: English

Location: Rackham East and West Conference Rooms (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and Zoom

The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies dedicated this year to the study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins. This two-day event is an opportunity to reflect as a community upon the past, present, and future of the field of Second Temple Judaism that is increasingly more complex (methodologies, geography, intergenerational) and its place within Judaic Studies. The hybrid event is organized in a seminar format and welcomes the 2022 Frankel Fellows, members of the University of Michigan community, and two special guests in the field of Second Temple Judaism, Prof. John Collins (Yale Divinity) and Prof. Amy-Jill Levine (Hartford International University/ Vanderbilt University – Emerita ). Each day will close with a public lecture by our distinguished guests.

Register for this hybrid event here: https://tinyurl.com/bde959zb


Provisional Schedule
Schedule is based on Eastern Standard Time (New York Time)

Tuesday, April 12:

9:00-9:15am Welcome (Scott Spector) – Introduction to the Year-End Event (Gabriele Boccaccini)
9:15-10:30am Session 1 – John J. Collins, ‘Second Temple Judaism: A Contested Field’ (pre-circulated paper)
10:45am-12pm Session 2 – AJ Levine, ‘Jesus and the Liberal Academy: From First Century Jew to Twenty-First Century Anti-Fascist’ (pre-circulated paper)
2-4pm Session 3 – Reading Session: The Similitudes of Enoch (Kelley Coblentz Bautch; Joshua Scott)
6-7:30pm Public Lecture: John Collins, ‘Varieties of Judaism and the Origin of Christianity’

Wednesday, April 13:

10-12pm Session 4 – Material culture (Michael Langlois; Cate Bonesho; Gregg Gardner; Oren Ableman)
2-4pm Session 5 – ‘Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins: Retrospect and Prospects,’ Frankel Fellows Roundtable Discussion (M. Tong, chair)
6-7:30pm Session 6 – Public Lecture: AJ Levine, ‘When the Bible becomes weaponized: Detecting and disarming Jew-hatred’

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:30:53 -0400 2022-04-12T09:00:00-04:00 2022-04-12T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 13, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704655@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-13T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins: Retrospect and Prospects (April 13, 2022 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/93586 93586-21706189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 13, 2022 10:00am
Location: Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.)
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini and Joshua Scott

Language: English

Location: Rackham East and West Conference Rooms (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor) and Zoom

The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies dedicated this year to the study of Second Temple Judaism and Christian origins. This two-day event is an opportunity to reflect as a community upon the past, present, and future of the field of Second Temple Judaism that is increasingly more complex (methodologies, geography, intergenerational) and its place within Judaic Studies. The hybrid event is organized in a seminar format and welcomes the 2022 Frankel Fellows, members of the University of Michigan community, and two special guests in the field of Second Temple Judaism, Prof. John Collins (Yale Divinity) and Prof. Amy-Jill Levine (Hartford International University/ Vanderbilt University – Emerita ). Each day will close with a public lecture by our distinguished guests.

Register for this hybrid event here: https://tinyurl.com/bde959zb


Provisional Schedule
Schedule is based on Eastern Standard Time (New York Time)

Tuesday, April 12:

9:00-9:15am Welcome (Scott Spector) – Introduction to the Year-End Event (Gabriele Boccaccini)
9:15-10:30am Session 1 – John J. Collins, ‘Second Temple Judaism: A Contested Field’ (pre-circulated paper)
10:45am-12pm Session 2 – AJ Levine, ‘Jesus and the Liberal Academy: From First Century Jew to Twenty-First Century Anti-Fascist’ (pre-circulated paper)
2-4pm Session 3 – Reading Session: The Similitudes of Enoch (Kelley Coblentz Bautch; Joshua Scott)
6-7:30pm Public Lecture: John Collins, ‘Varieties of Judaism and the Origin of Christianity’

Wednesday, April 13:

10-12pm Session 4 – Material culture (Michael Langlois; Cate Bonesho; Gregg Gardner; Oren Ableman)
2-4pm Session 5 – ‘Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins: Retrospect and Prospects,’ Frankel Fellows Roundtable Discussion (M. Tong, chair)
6-7:30pm Session 6 – Public Lecture: AJ Levine, ‘When the Bible becomes weaponized: Detecting and disarming Jew-hatred’

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 31 Mar 2022 09:30:53 -0400 2022-04-13T10:00:00-04:00 2022-04-13T19:30:00-04:00 Rackham Graduate School (Horace H.) Judaic Studies Conference / Symposium Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 14, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704656@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 14, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-14T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-14T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 15, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704657@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 15, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-15T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-15T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 18, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704660@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 18, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-18T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-18T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 19, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704661@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 19, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-19T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-19T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 20, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704662@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 20, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-20T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-20T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 21, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704663@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 21, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-21T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-21T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 22, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704664@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 22, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-22T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-22T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 25, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704667@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 25, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-25T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-25T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 26, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704668@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Tuesday, April 26, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-26T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-26T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 27, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704669@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-27T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-27T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
Jewish Issues in Wartime Ukraine (April 27, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/94687 94687-21760264@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 27, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Judaic Studies

In his talk, Vitaly Chernoivanenko, a Jewish Ukrainian researcher, will speak about the Ukrainian Jewish community and how, along with other Ukrainian communities, it has confronted recent Russian invasion and brutal aggression. What does it mean, both broadly and in this specific example, to decide to leave or stay in a country embroiled in war? Is there solidarity and assistance from other Jews worldwide, including Israel? What is the place of Ukrainian Jewish Studies and Ukrainian academics in these extreme times? Prof. Chernoivanenko will discuss these questions, and share his personal experiences and reflections during this war.

Register for the virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/wMZWG


Image Description: Ukrainian defenders Asher Joseph Cherkaskyi and his son David during Russia's war on Ukraine. Photo by Lars Berg, BILD. Courtesy of Asher Cherkaskyi.

Vitaly Chernoivanenko holds a PhD degree in History. He is a senior research fellow at the Judaica Department at the Vernadsky National Library of Ukraine. He also serves as a president of the Ukrainian Association for Jewish Studies and chief editor of Judaica Ukrainica. Prof. Chernoivanenko taught Jewish history and religion at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy for twelve years. In 2017 and 2018, he was a visiting professor at the Université de Montréal.

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Livestream / Virtual Thu, 21 Apr 2022 12:41:22 -0400 2022-04-27T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-27T13:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Judaic Studies Livestream / Virtual Ukrainian defenders Asher Joseph Cherkaskyi and his son David during Russia's war on Ukraine. Photo by Lars Berg, BILD. Courtesy of Asher Cherkaskyi.
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 28, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704670@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 28, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-28T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-28T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
CCPS Exhibition. Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters (April 29, 2022 8:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/90202 90202-21704671@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, April 29, 2022 8:00am
Location: Weiser Hall
Organized By: Copernicus Center for Polish Studies

Polish posters are known throughout the world for their creativity and originality, contributing to global modern visual culture. UMS and the Copernicus Center for Polish Studies are proud to present a collection of Polish posters of Fiddler on the Roof from the last four decades. Each creation, by some of the most significant artists of the Polish School of Poster Design, uniquely captures an aspect of this rich musical play.

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Exhibition Tue, 04 Jan 2022 16:01:01 -0500 2022-04-29T08:00:00-04:00 2022-04-29T17:00:00-04:00 Weiser Hall Copernicus Center for Polish Studies Exhibition Fiddler on the Roof: A Story Told on Polish Posters
The Breath of Every Living Thing: Zoocephali and the Limits of Alterity (September 16, 2022 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/97970 97970-21795408@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, September 16, 2022 3:00pm
Location: Michigan Union
Organized By: History of Art

Abstract: This paper focuses on the woefully understudied Hammelburg Mahzor (Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13), a Jewish festival book completed in Lower Franconia in the middle of the fourteenth century. The book’s most remarkable feature is perhaps the inclusion of carefully curated zoocephalic, or theriomorphic, figures: humans with beastly and bestial heads. By virtue of their alterity, the zoocephali call attention to themselves with emphatic force. The purpose of this talk is to explore the semiotics and phenomenology of this alterity, and to suggest that its presence lies at the intersection of language, philosophy, poetry, and history. In the Hammelburg Mahzor this visual idiom also signals distinction, albeit in a way that, conspicuously, collapses temporalities, tests the limits of alterity, and makes an argument about likeness and difference. By foregrounding linguistic elisions between words, images, and the celebrants, such an idiom establishes visceral connections with the community of the book’s users. Ultimately, theriomorphs stand as a fitting metaphor for medieval Jewish art as it has been viewed in mainstream scholarship.

Bio: Elina Gertsman, Professor of Medieval Art at Case Western Reserve University (where she is Archbishop Paul J. Hallinan Professor in Catholic Studies II), has authored an extensive series of field-changing, prize-winning publications. Her many books include The Dance of Death in the Middle Ages: Image, Text, Performance (2010), Worlds Within: Opening the Medieval Shrine Madonna (2015), and most recently The Absent Image: Lacunae in Medieval Books (2021), winner of the 2022 Charles Rufus Morey Prize. Her work has been supported by the Guggenheim, Kress, Mellon, and Franco-American Cultural Exchange Foundations as well as by the American Council for Learned Societies. In 2022 she was elected a Fellow of the Medieval Academy of America.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 01 Sep 2022 15:17:51 -0400 2022-09-16T15:00:00-04:00 2022-09-16T17:00:00-04:00 Michigan Union History of Art Lecture / Discussion Haman and His Sons Hanging from a Tree, The Hammelburg Mahzor, Hammelburg, 1347-1348. Darmstadt, HLH Cod. Or. 13, fol. 53v.
Judaic Studies Open House (September 19, 2022 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/98381 98381-21796582@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 19, 2022 9:00am
Location: 202 S. Thayer
Organized By: Judaic Studies

Please join Judaic Studies for our Open House next Monday, September 19 from 9am-3pm. Stop by our office to grab a snack, say hello and hangout with us! Meet other students and ask any questions you have about our degrees or about taking Judaic Studies courses. All are invited and we hope to see you there!

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Reception / Open House Fri, 09 Sep 2022 09:18:03 -0400 2022-09-19T09:00:00-04:00 2022-09-19T15:00:00-04:00 202 S. Thayer Judaic Studies Reception / Open House We will be serving bagels!