Please join the Jewish Studies Workshop for our first virtual, socially-distanced event of the Spring 2020 quarter, a discussion led by
Na’ama Rokem
Associate Professor, Departments of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization and Comparative Literature and Director of the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies, University of Chicago
Jewish TV Right Now
To kick off the workshop in a quarantine-appropriate manner, we’re wondering: what are you watching? And why are there so many Jewishly-themed TV show right now? Join us for an informal chat about Jews on television right now with Prof. Na’ama Rokem, who will try to process her mixed feelings about Unorthodox and Hunters. To get your thinking going, you can look at this recent reflection. Or go back to a “classic,” Jill Soloway’s Transparent. Here’s a thinkpiece about it from 2016. We can’t promise there won’t be spoilers, but hopefully it will be a good start for our virtual workshop season.
Tuesday, April 28, 2020 at 5:00 PM (CST) on Zoom
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We hope you’re all doing well, and we’re looking forward to seeing you on Tuesday!