Events
Jewish Studies Colloquia
The Jewish Studies Colloquium, which has been meeting since 2001, provides a forum for graduate students and faculty from Brandeis University and other academic institutions around the world to discuss their current research and works-in-progress. The colloquium engages a wide range of topics in Jewish studies from history and thought to political and national identity.
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- "How to Draw German-Jewish History? The Graphic History Project 'Oberbrechen: A German Village Confronts its Nazi Past'"
April 12, 2022
Kim Wünschmann, Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg
- "From the 'Wretched' to the 'Bourgeoisie': Jews in Modern Iran" (video)
February 15, 2022
Daniella Farah, Rice University
- "Soul Food and Salvation in Medieval Ashkenaz: the Ambrosian Bible's 'Heavenly Banquet' Revisited" (video)
January 18, 2022
David Shyovitz, Northwestern University
- "Babyn Yar 80 Years Later: New Findings, Areas of Dispute, and Remaining Questions" (video)
November 16, 2021
Martin Dean, Babyn Yar Holocaust Memorial Center
- "Métis, Jews, and the Politics of Counting Difference in Canada" (video)
September 14, 2021
David Koffman, York University
- "God's Disability: Confronting the 'Euthanasia' Murders"
October 27, 2020
Dagmar Herzog, the Graduate Center at CUNY
- "From the Left and the Right: Campus Antisemitism and American Jewish Life"
September 22, 2020
Marc Dollinger, San Francisco State University
- "The Trouble with Medieval Conversion: Christendom and Christian Anxiety about Jewish Conversion"
January 21, 2020
Nina Caputo, University of Florida
- "The 'Question of the Pogroms' in a Paris Courtroom in the 1920s: the Trial of Sholem Schwartzbard"
September 17, 2019
Alexandra Garbarini, Williams College