Dear All,
Meetings will occur virtually (hopefully for the last time!) from 5:30 – 7:00 pm CST on Mondays. Generally, the workshop meets every other Monday, but **please note that the two first meetings are scheduled for consecutive weeks.**
Advanced copies of papers and Zoom links will be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv and made available on our website here. If you would like to be added to our listserv, you can do so here, or email us at telem@uchicago.edu or barenstein@uchicago.edu.
Jewish Studies Workshop Schedule – Spring 2021
April 12
The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity
Nurit Siegal (MAPSS Student in Political Science, University of Chicago)
April 19
W(h)it(e)ness: Judaism, Race and Religion in Postwar France
Kirsten Collins (PhD Student, Divinity School, University of Chicago)
May 3
Creole Ambivalence: The Politics of Jewishness in Caribbean Suriname, 1939-1959
Eli Rosenblatt, PhD (Visiting Researcher, Northwestern University)
May 17
From Prophetic to Postcolonial Witnessing: Poetry of the First Lebanon War and Ravikovitch’s Representation of “the Other”
Stephanie Kraver (PhD Candidate, Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations, University of Chicago)
May 24
A Bundist and a Zionist? Liebmann Hersch on Cultural Autonomy and Minority Rights
Elena Hoffenberg (PhD Student, History, University of Chicago)