Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. The Role of Narrative in the Development of a Jewish End of Life Ethic (February 8, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80912 80912-20822887@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, February 8, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents Alan Jotkowitz, MD, MHA

Dr. Jotkowitz is a Professor of Medicine and Director, Medical School for International Health at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. His main academic interest is in the field of medical ethics and has published more than a 100 peer reviewed papers in such prestigious journals as the American Journal of Medicine, The European Journal of Medicine, The Journal of Medical Ethics, The American Journal of Bioethics and others. He is a member of the World Mizrachi's Speakers' Bureau and serves as the Associate Editor of The European Journal of Internal Medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 19 Jan 2021 06:08:44 -0500 2021-02-08T12:00:00-05:00 2021-02-08T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
International Institute Conference on Arts of Devotion (March 4, 2021 9:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/81757 81757-20951378@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 4, 2021 9:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: International Institute

Free and open to the public; register at http://myumi.ch/wleGk

The phrase “Arts of Devotion” typically brings to mind traditional ritual objects used as part of religious practices, or evokes items like costumes, masks, dances, songs, poetry, and literature. Arts of Devotion can tend to be conflated with only those items that are understood as “traditional,” rather than those that emerge from the contemporary moment, as if modern and contemporary art can only be associated with the purely secular world.

Yet there are numerous contemporary artists who have incorporated elements of the devotional into their works, and devotional arts have changed with the advent of modern technologies and changing socio-political contexts. We might also consider Arts of Devotion as potentially extending beyond the usual association with the religious to other “devotional” relationships, such as those for political or revolutionary leaders, or individuals’ loved ones.

This year’s conference explores both contemporary and traditional Arts of Devotion by bringing together scholars from across disciplines and temporal and regional contexts, to engage with one another and a broader audience of faculty, students, and the general public.

Free and open to the public.
This conference is funded in part by five (5) Title VI National Resource Center grants from the U.S. Department of Education

Co-sponsors: African Studies Center, Center for Armenian Studies, Center for Japanese Studies, Center for Middle Eastern and North African Studies, Kenneth G. Lieberthal and Richard H. Rogel Center for Chinese Studies, Nam Center for Korean Studies, Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Center for South Asian Studies, Center for Southeast Asian Studies, Program in International and Comparative Studies, History of Art, University of Michigan Museum of Art

For schedule and panel information:
https://ii.umich.edu/ii/news-events/all-events/ii-conference.html

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Conference / Symposium Thu, 25 Feb 2021 14:00:09 -0500 2021-03-04T09:00:00-05:00 2021-03-04T16:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location International Institute Conference / Symposium II Conference on Arts of Devotion poster
A History of Christianity (March 5, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/79956 79956-20519518@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, March 5, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This series of lectures offers a glimpse of the world’s largest religion and the most influential religion of western culture. The topics are origins, Jesus, Paul, Augustine, Orthodox Christianity, the Reformation, the Enlightenment, and modern versions of the faith. This is a personal interpretation and your personal views are welcome.

Study group leader Ken Phifer is the Senior Minister Emeritus of the First Unitarian Universalist Congregation of Ann Arbor, where he served for 25 years. He is a graduate of Harvard College and the Divinity School of the University of Chicago. He has authored three books and several dozen articles. Ken is the father of five, the grandfather of 17, and newly a great grandfather.

The study group will meet Fridays from March 5 through May 7. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Fri, 11 Dec 2020 19:30:39 -0500 2021-03-05T10:00:00-05:00 2021-03-05T12:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents (March 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82727 82727-21169586@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, March 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents

Christian Alch, MD, House Officer, Department of Internal Medicine, "Barriers to Addressing the Spiritual and Religious Needs of Patients and Families in the Intensive Care Unit: A Qualitative Study of Critical Care Physicians"

Abbass Berjaoui, Third Year Medical Student, Ruth Bishop, Third Year Medical Student, Elie Ellenberg, Fourth Year Medical Student, "Assessing the Spiritual Needs of Patients Awaiting Heart Transplantation" (Ruth Bishop to present)

Nabeel Salka, Fourth Year Medical Student, "Exploring Physician Identity from an Islamic and Contemporary Western Perspective"

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 04 Mar 2021 09:14:06 -0500 2021-03-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-03-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Freedman Lecture Panel (March 22, 2021 3:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/82862 82862-21203326@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 22, 2021 3:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Who was the historical John the Baptist? The New Testament authors portrayed him as the forerunner of Jesus of Nazareth and claimed that he played a significant part in shaping the early Jesus Movement and Christian Origins. The 2021 Freedman Lecture hosted specialists of the New Testament to reflect on the person and tradition of John the Baptist: Joel Marcus, Joan Taylor, Albert Baumgarten, Edmondo Lupieri, Rivka Nir, and Gabriele Boccaccini. Each panelist responded to the question, ‘Who is my John the Baptist?’

Join us on Zoom from 3-5pm on March 22 for a showing of the Freedman Lecture Panel followed by lively discussion with four additional New Testament specialists who will reflect on the presentations and the recent Enoch Nangeroni Meeting dedicated to John the Baptist (http://enochseminar.org/online-2021).

The live discussion is chaired by Gabriele Boccaccini (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

Discussants include James McGrath (Butler University), Clare K. Rothschild (Lewis University/Stellenbosch University), Shayna Sheinfeld (Sheffield Institute for Interdisciplinary Biblical Studies), and Joshua Scott (University of Michigan-Ann Arbor).

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 16 Mar 2021 15:14:54 -0400 2021-03-22T15:00:00-04:00 2021-03-22T17:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual Freedman Lecture Panel: Who was the Historical John the Baptist?
2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture (April 14, 2021 4:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/80657 80657-20769635@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 14, 2021 4:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Objects form the critical deposits of museums and archives. This becomes obviously true in the case of biblical museums and archives that desperately rely upon material remains to bring the Bible to life. These archives have been central to Biblical Studies and the maintenance of the Bible as a product of imperial modernity. The Bible as a text and archive plays a critical role in the production and maintenance of the narratives of racial capitalism, a central aspect of Western modernity. By examining the language and ephemera of contemporary readers, who have been racialized by imperial logics that produce Bible translations and narrativize objects in archives, this presentation situates the geography of contemporary racialized readers as the site from which to develop an archive of the Bible. Local geographies, both the specific geography of the context of the Bible and the geography of a modern reader, are seen as productive challenges to the universalizing myths of modernity. Greater attention to contextual languages and experiences offer opportunities to unmask the cultural and geographical boundedness of stories, objects, and lives that form the core deposit of the Bible.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_d4hdv79nRRO1MpB0zbNDCQ

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Livestream / Virtual Tue, 09 Mar 2021 12:25:37 -0500 2021-04-14T16:00:00-04:00 2021-04-14T17:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual 2021 David Noel Freedman Lecture
The Past, Present, and Future of Christianity in Science Fiction (April 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83208 83208-21312499@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Department of Middle East Studies

Science fiction has engaged with religious ideas and topics throughout its history. It also has unique ways of approaching a religion such as Christianity with its strong historical focus. On the one hand, time travel technology means that one can visit the first century to look for Jesus or attempt to witness the resurrection. On the other hand, stories of humanity’s distant future among the stars allows reflection on where our past and present trajectories might take our religious traditions. Stories set in the very near future also provide opportunities to explore possible reactions to new technologies or alien encounters. This presentation will provide a survey of treatments of these topics as we consider how the history of science fiction provides insights on the history of Christianity.

Join us on Thursday, April 15 from 7-8:30pm EDT.

Please register here: https://umich.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_QyDBm-8uRV67pLu8EDIfKA

*Co-sponsored by the Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies and the UM Department of Middle East Studies*

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Livestream / Virtual Mon, 22 Mar 2021 11:19:43 -0400 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T20:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Department of Middle East Studies Livestream / Virtual The Past, Present, and Future of Christianity in Science Fiction
The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents "An Evening with Health, Spirituality and Religion: A Multi-disciplinary Conversation on a Challenging End-of-Life Clinical Scenario (April 15, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83261 83261-21328371@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 15, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Join us for a discussion with a panel of experts from a variety of disciplines as we unpack a recent challenging case at our own institution. Our panel will navigate the complexity of caring for an elderly patient presenting after suicide attempt who requested DNAR status.

Kunal Bailoor, MD, House Officer, Internal Medicine, Ethics

Lori-Jean Brazier, M.Div., CPE, Spiritual Care

Sara Didoszak, BSN, RN, Clinical Nursing Supervisor, CCMU

Thomas Valley, MD, MSc, Assistant Professor of Internal Medicine, Division of Pulmonary and Critical Care

Scott Winder, MD, Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Associate Professor of Surgery

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:13:57 -0400 2021-04-15T19:00:00-04:00 2021-04-15T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Health, Spirituality & Religion Program
"A Relationship Based Model of Care: Combining a great compassion and a great commission ministry for better health outcomes" (April 19, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83262 83262-21328372@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, April 19, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents Sherie Garrison, RN and Brad Garrison, BS, RPH, M.Div.

The launch of the Luke Project 52 Clinic of Flint will combine a Great Compassion ministry to provide free prenatal care to the uninsured or under-insured in an effort to address the high infant mortality rate there with a Great Commission ministry to provide a mobile asset to local congregations to help them connect with and begin to serve again the communities that they are in. Connecting our Moms with the community support system of a church will enhance their ability to get the care they need.

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Workshop / Seminar Wed, 24 Mar 2021 07:22:00 -0400 2021-04-19T12:00:00-04:00 2021-04-19T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Health, Spirituality & Religion Program
Religion in Central America After 1960 (April 29, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/82950 82950-21227218@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, April 29, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

This lecture will be live streamed.

Our speaker will first discuss Catholicism after 1960. Next, he will discuss the boom of Protestantism, especially Pentecostalism, from 0 to 20, 30, or even 40% in some countries. The he will briefly discuss the spectacular membership explosion of Mormonism, which he studied firsthand in Costa Rica, Nicaragua, and Guatemala. In the final segment of his lecture, Dr. Gooren will discuss the major change in the Central American religious landscape is the rise of the no religion category, going up from near 0 to 4-10% in only 40 years.

Henri Gooren (PhD Anthropology, Utrecht University, the Netherlands) is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Director of Religious Studies at Oakland University in Rochester MI. His books are Rich Among the Poor (1999), Religious Disaffiliation and Conversion: Tracing Patterns of Change in Faith Practices (2010), and the Encyclopedia of Latin American Religions (ed. 2019). Dr. Gooren publishes extensively on conversion models and on multiple religions in Latin America: 12 encyclopedia entries, 17 book chapters, and 19 journal articles.

This is the third a six-lecture series. The subject of the series is Central America: Coffee to Caravans. The next lecture will occur May 6, 2021. The title is: Tracking Hemispheric Violence through the Experiences of Nicaraguan Refugees. Learn from well-known experts about an array of interesting subjects, with an interactive Q&A period following each lecture.

Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the lecture will be e-mailed to you approximately one week prior to the first session.

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Lecture / Discussion Thu, 11 Mar 2021 13:52:10 -0500 2021-04-29T10:00:00-04:00 2021-04-29T11:30:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Lecture / Discussion Thursday lecture image
From Medical Image to Icon: How Art Can Heal a Broken Body (May 10, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/83790 83790-21530352@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, May 10, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Devan Stahl is an Assistant Professor of Bioethics in the Department of Religion at Baylor University. Her research interests include disability ethics, medicine and the visual arts, and theological bioethics. Dr. Stahl’s last book, Imaging and Imagining Illness: Becoming Whole in a Broken Body is an edited volume examining the power of medical images on the experience of chronic illness and disability.

Abstract: Many people will first learn they have an illness through a medical image such as an MRI, but these images often deny the messiness, ambiguities, and the identity of the patient who is represented in them. In this presentation, Devan Stahl explores how medical images have historically revealed the implicit theology of the culture in which they are produced. Today, a growing number of artists with disabilities are transforming their medical images into works of art, which raise deeply theological questions concerning what it means to be embodied and how our bodies relate to a transcendent God.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 19 Apr 2021 07:45:19 -0400 2021-05-10T12:00:00-04:00 2021-05-10T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
Please join us for an evening conversation between Emma Green and Charlie Camosy on Dr. Camosy's new book Losing Our Dignity: How Secularized Medicine is Undermining Fundamental Human Equality. (September 13, 2021 7:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/84807 84807-21625037@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, September 13, 2021 7:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Emma Green - Staff Writer at The Atlantic

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Charles Camosy, PhD
Associate Professor of Theology, Fordham University

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 29 Jul 2021 10:28:46 -0400 2021-09-13T19:00:00-04:00 2021-09-13T20:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
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
Holocaust and Medicine Education for Resilient Professional Identity Formation: A Holocaust Survivor's Daughter Teaches German Medical Students at Auschwitz (September 23, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85430 85430-21626417@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Thursday, September 23, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Dr. Hedy Wald is Clinical Professor of Family Medicine at the Alpert Medical School of Brown University and Faculty, Harvard Medical School Pediatrics Leadership Program. She is a Gold Humanism Foundation Harvard Macy Scholar, was a Fulbright Specialist Scholar in medical education for Ben Gurion University of Health Sciences, Israel, and has been a Visiting Professor at over 90 healthcare professions schools and healthcare organizations world-wide, presenting lectures and workshops on using interactive (guided) reflective writing to enhance reflective practice and support professional identity formation, promoting resilience and wellbeing, and Holocaust and Medicine in health professions education. Dr. Wald holds an appointment as a Commissioner for the international Lancet Commission on Medicine and the Holocaust.  She publishes and presents on family cancer caregiver survivorship, including for the National Cancer Policy Forum of the National Academies of Medicine in Washington, DC. Her creative writing, reviews, and poetry have appeared in literary and medical journals and her work has been cited in the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, Medical Independent (Ireland), and Jerusalem Post. Dr. Wald has been cited on Twitter as a medical educator to follow, on #WomeninMedicine Day as a “woman who lifts others up,” and “a voice of conscience and compassion.” Follow her on Twitter: @hedy_wald “Mind/Body/Spirit of MedEd”

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Workshop / Seminar Thu, 19 Aug 2021 08:47:58 -0400 2021-09-23T12:00:00-04:00 2021-09-23T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar
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"
Religious Traditions of India (October 6, 2021 10:00am) https://events.umich.edu/event/85547 85547-21626837@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, October 6, 2021 10:00am
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+)

The primary Indian religious tradition, the Hinduism originated in the unknown antiquity of the past, evolved over thousands of years and remains as the major faith in India. Buddhism, Jainism and Sikhism grew out of Hinduism and spread over Asia.

The lectures will discuss the concept of divinity (God), mortal life (karma and cycle of rebirth) and afterlife (moksha) within these traditions and how they differ from the Abrahamic faiths (Judaism, Christianity and Islam). The discussions will be on the philosophy and historic evolution along with the contemporary Indian religious and social landscape.

Instructor Venkat Lakshminarayanan identifies with the Hindu religion, was born in India and has lived in the United States for the last fifty years. He worked for Ford Motor Company as an Automotive Engineer.

This study group will meet on Wednesdays for seven weeks beginning on October 6. Preregistration is required via the OLLI website or phone. A link to access the study group will be e-mailed prior to the first session.

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Class / Instruction Tue, 24 Aug 2021 11:01:53 -0400 2021-10-06T10:00:00-04:00 2021-10-06T12:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (50+) Class / Instruction OLLI Study Groups
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
"No Cure for Being Human with Kate Bowler" (October 18, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/85152 85152-21625637@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, October 18, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

The world loves us when we are good, better, best, but what about when we get sick, lose someone we love, or life hasn't turned out like we thought is should? Duke Professor Kate Bowler offers a richer understanding of hope in the face of uncertainty, despair, and suffering as we being to understand that life is a chronic condition and there is no cure for being human.

Kate Bowler is a New York Times bestselling author, host of a podcast Everything Happens, and Duke University professor. After being unexpectedly diagnosed with Stage IV cancer at age 35, she wrote Everything Happens for a Reason (and Other Lies I've Loved), which tells the story of her struggle to understand the personal and intellectual dimensions of the American belief that all tragedies are tests of character. Her latest book, No Cure For Being Human (and Other Truths I Need to Hear), grapples with her diagnosis, her ambition, and her faith as she tries to comes to terms with limitations in a culture that says anything is possible.

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Workshop / Seminar Mon, 11 Oct 2021 07:31:40 -0400 2021-10-18T12:00:00-04:00 2021-10-18T13:00:00-04:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Kate Bowler, PhD
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
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
The Woll Family Speaker Series on Health, Spirituality and Religion presents Emman Dabaja, MD, MPH, Sara Journey, Reni Forer and Meridith Pensler (December 3, 2021 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89478 89478-21663263@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, December 3, 2021 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

This session will be our yearly session dedicated to hearing from our own Michigan Medicine students and trainees on work they've done at the intersection of spirituality, religion, and medicine.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 23 Nov 2021 07:39:06 -0500 2021-12-03T12:00:00-05:00 2021-12-03T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Health, Spirituality and Religion
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
It's All About Life and Dignity (January 10, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89288 89288-21661819@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, January 10, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion

Sister Helen Prejean is known around the world for her tireless work against the death penalty. She has been instrumental in sparking national dialogue on capital punishment and in shaping the Catholic Church’s vigorous opposition to all executions.

Born in Baton Rouge, Louisiana, in the 1930s, Sister Helen grew up in the segregated Jim Crow South. At the age of 18 she joined the Sisters of St. Joseph. She worked as a high school teacher and religious education director in New Orleans before moving into the St. Thomas Housing Project in the early ’80s.

In 1982, Sister Helen began corresponding with Patrick Sonnier, who had been sentenced to death for the murder of two teenagers. Two years later, when Patrick Sonnier was put to death in the electric chair, Sister Helen was there to witness his execution. In the following months, she became spiritual advisor to another death row inmate, Robert Lee Willie, who was to meet the same fate as Sonnier.

After witnessing these executions, Sister Helen realized that this lethal ritual would remain unchallenged unless its secrecy was stripped away, and so she sat down and wrote a book, Dead Man Walking: An Eyewitness Account of the Death Penalty in the United States. That book ignited a national debate on capital punishment and spawned an Academy Award winning movie, a play, and an opera.

Sister Helen’s second book, The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions, was published in 2004; and her third book, River of Fire: My Spiritual Journey, in August, 2019. She is currently collaborating on a graphic retelling of Dead Man Walking, to be published by Random House.

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Workshop / Seminar Tue, 16 Nov 2021 07:03:03 -0500 2022-01-10T12:00:00-05:00 2022-01-10T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Sr. Helen Prejean