Happening @ Michigan https://events.umich.edu/list/rss RSS Feed for Happening @ Michigan Events at the University of Michigan. 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
COVID-19 and Re-Enchanting Medicine (February 11, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/91006 91006-21675422@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Friday, February 11, 2022 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

Lydia Dugdale, MD, MAR (Ethics), Dorothy L. and Daniel H. Silberberg Associate Professor of Medicine, Director, Center for Clinical Medical Ethics, Associate Director of Clinical Ethics, New York Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia Vagelos College of Physician and Surgeons

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Workshop / Seminar Fri, 14 Jan 2022 07:23:59 -0500 2022-02-11T12:00:00-05:00 2022-02-11T13:00:00-05:00 Off Campus Location The University of Michigan Medical School Program on Health, Spirituality and Religion Workshop / Seminar Seminar announcement
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
Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy (March 14, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/89834 89834-21665912@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Monday, March 14, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Institute For Social Research
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

Good Bureaucrats and God: Ethical Labor in an Irrigation Bureaucracy
Maira Hayat, Notre Dame University

Monday, Mar. 14 via Zoom: Open Talks will be held noon to 1pm, and the Grad Workshops will be held 1 to 3pm.

Abstract:
Bureaucracies tend to feature in political and social theory as sites of structural violence, patriarchy, sovereign excess, or foils to ethical enterprise. This talk, however, argues for the unique importance of studying bureaucracy as a site of ethical laboring. Tracing the specific, surprising and sophisticated ways in which God participates in everyday bureaucratic practice in an Irrigation Department in Pakistan, it shows how bureaucrats’ attempts to be “good Muslims” can produce “good bureaucrats.” The yield is a deeper understanding of how state officials experience and navigate the pull of the ‘private’ in everyday ‘public’ waterswork, and how this in turn determines the service they provide. In foregrounding ethical laboring, the talk brings together the anthropology of bureaucracy, ethics, and secularity towards newer configurations.

This is a part of the Research Center for Group Dynamics (RCGD) Winter 2022 Series - "Water Ways: New Social Science, Science Studies, and Environmental Approaches to Water"

This is also a part of the class Anthrcul 558 section 002

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Presentation Thu, 10 Mar 2022 09:16:28 -0500 2022-03-14T12:00:00-04:00 2022-03-14T15:00:00-04:00 Institute For Social Research Institute for Social Research Presentation event flyer
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
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations (April 6, 2022 12:00pm) https://events.umich.edu/event/92209 92209-21688189@events.umich.edu Event Begins: Wednesday, April 6, 2022 12:00pm
Location: Off Campus Location
Organized By: Institute for Social Research

ISR Inclusive Research Matters
Giving Rare Populations a Voice in Public Opinion Research: Pew Research Center’s Strategies for Surveying Muslim Americans, Jewish Americans, and Other Populations
April 6, 2022, noon ET via Zoom

Speaker: Courtney Kennedy, Director of Survey Research at Pew Research Center

Abstract:

A typical public opinion survey cannot provide reliable insights into the attitudes and experiences of relatively small and diverse religious groups, such as adults identifying as Jewish or Muslim. Not only are the sample sizes too small, but adults who speak languages such as Russian, Arabic, or Farsi (and not English) are excluded from interviewing. This presentation discusses how Pew Research Center has sought to address this research gap by fielding large, multilingual probability-based surveys of special populations. Examples include the Center’s 2017 Survey of Muslim Americans and the 2020 Survey of Jewish Americans. These studies present numerous challenges in sampling, recruitment, crafting appropriate questions, and weighting. The presentation will also discuss the Center’s methods for studying racial and ethnic populations with the goal of reporting on diversity within these populations, as opposed to treated them as monolithic groups.

Bio:

Courtney Kennedy is director of survey research at Pew Research Center. Her team is responsible for the design of the Center’s U.S. surveys and maintenance of the American Trends Panel. Kennedy conducts experimental research to improve the accuracy of public opinion polls. Her research focuses on nonresponse, weighting, modes of administration and sampling frames. Her work has been published in Public Opinion Quarterly, the Journal of Survey Statistics and Methodology and the Journal of Official Statistics. She has served as a co-author on five American Association for Public Opinion Research (AAPOR) task force reports, including chairing the committee that evaluated polling in the 2016 presidential election. Prior to joining Pew Research Center, Kennedy served as vice president of the advanced methods group at Abt SRBI, where she was responsible for designing complex surveys and assessing data quality. She has served as a statistical consultant for the U.S. Census Bureau’s decennial census and panels convened by the National Academies of Science, Engineering, and Medicine. Kennedy has a doctorate from the University of Michigan and a master’s degree from the University of Maryland, both in survey methodology. She received bachelor’s degrees from the University of Michigan in statistics and political science. Kennedy has served as AAPOR standards chair and conference chair.

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Lecture / Discussion Tue, 22 Feb 2022 09:21:45 -0500 2022-04-06T12:00:00-04:00 2022-04-06T13:10:00-04:00 Off Campus Location Institute for Social Research Lecture / Discussion flyer
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