The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
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Event Archive 2016 - Present

Adam Stern - “Survival: A Theological-Political Genealogy”

Description: 
“To write a genealogy of survival is not to write a history of survival but instead to ask where such a history might begin. What are survival’s limits? What are its archives? What are its languages? And what field of translations mediates its generalizations?” “Who is speaking about survival?” These are some of the questions that Adam Stern (University of Wisconsin–Madison) asks in Survival (2021), an exploration of the notion of “survival” in Christian and Jewish tradition and in contemporary political discourse. Prof. Stern will be joined by respondents Sam Catlin (PhD student, Divinity School and Dept. of Comparative Literature) and Kirsten Collins (PhD student, Divinity School) and the discussion will be moderated by Sarah Hammerschlag, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and History of Judaism, Divinity School. To register for this virtual event, go to https://uchicago.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJ0ofuqtpz8rHtAkYEhKaH-Zx6sNXp321MoV. This event is part of the series Greenberg Book Conversations, sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. For more information, contact the administrator of the Greenberg Center, Nancy Pardee, at npardee@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Category: 
Discussions

'Survival' - Adam Y. Stern

Description: 
“To write a genealogy of survival is not to write a history of survival but instead to ask where such a history might begin. What are survival’s limits? What are its archives? What are its languages? And what field of translations mediates its generalizations?” “Who is speaking about survival?” These are some of the questions that Adam Stern (University of Wisconsin–Madison) asks in Survival (2021), an exploration of the notion of “survival” in Christian and Jewish tradition and in contemporary political discourse. Respondents: Sam Catlin (PhD student, Divinity School and Dept. of Comparative Literature) and Kirsten Collins (PhD student, Divinity School). Moderator: Sarah Hammerschlag, Associate Professor of Religion and Literature, Philosophy of Religions, and History of Judaism, Divinity School. This is the first event in the series 'Greenberg Book Conversations' sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Seminary Co-op Bookstore. It is open to the public, but registration is required (at the link below).
Date: 
Tuesday, April 20, 2021
Category: 
Discussions

Kirsten Collins - “W(h)it(e)ness: Judaism, Race and Religion in Postwar France”

Description: 
Kirsten Collins, PhD student in the Divinity School, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The link for the zoom session and an advance copy of the paper will be available at the workshop website https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/. Papers and zoom links will also be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv. If you need further information or would like to be added to the workshop listserv, you can do so at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/subscribe/, or email the workshop coordinators, Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu or Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, April 19, 2021
Category: 
Discussions

Nurit Siegal - “The Origins of Modern Antisemitism: The Rise of the Nation-State and the Suppression of Jews’ Ethnic Identity”

Description: 
Nurit Siegal, MAPSS student in Political Science, will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The link for the zoom session and an advance copy of the paper will be available at the workshop website https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/. Papers and zoom links will also be pre-circulated via the Jewish Studies Workshop listserv. If you need further information or would like to be added to the workshop listserv, you can do so at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/subscribe/, or email the workshop coordinators, Ido Telem telem@uchicago.edu or Benjamin Arenstein barenstein@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, April 12, 2021
Category: 
Discussions

Portraiture in Visual and Literary Culture

Description: 
A two-day symposium on Portraiture in Visual and Literary Culture (Ancient to Medieval). Please see website for details and locations. Organizers: Karin Krause, Marion Meyer, Claudia Rapp, and Lioba Thesis This event is support by the Chicago - Vienna Faculty Grant Program, the Department of Art History and Department of Classics
Date: 
Thursday, November 12, 2020

Avraham Faust - 'Israel and Judah: Two Kingdoms or Two Peoples? Or, Are We Asking the Wrong Questions?'

Description: 
Professor and archaeologist Avraham Faust (Bar-Ilan University) and Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies for Spring 2020, will make an online (Zoom) presentation for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. This event is co-sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies. The meeting can be joined at https://uchicago.zoom.us/j/96481860283. For the Zoom password or for other information, please contact Justin Moses at jpmoses@uchicago.edu or Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Wednesday, May 20, 2020
Category: 
Workshops

Doren Snoek - 'Scribalism and Social Memory in the Book of Chronicles'

Description: 
Doren Snoek, PhD student in Hebrew Bible and the Ancient Near East (Divinity and Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations), will present a paper for the Hebrew Bible Workshop. The workshop will be held in Swift Hall, in the Martin Marty Center library on the second floor. For information, please contact the workshop coordinator, Justin Moses, at jpmoses@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Category: 
Workshops

Kirsten Collins - 'Examining the W(h)it(e)ness: The Jew and the Law in Maurice Blanchot's Critique of Sovereignty'

Description: 
Kirsten Collins (PhD Student, Religion, Literature & Visual Culture, University of Chicago Divinity School) will present a paper for the Jewish Studies Workshop. A response will be given by Paul Cato (PhD Candidate, Committee on Social Thought, University of Chicago). For information, contact the workshop coordinators, Mendel Kranz (mkranz@uchicago.edu) and Samuel Catlin (scatlin@uchicago.edu).
Date: 
Tuesday, March 10, 2020
Category: 
Workshops

Thinking Race In The Russian And Soviet Empires DAY 3

Description: 
THINKING “RACE” IN THE RUSSIAN AND SOVIET EMPIRES March 5-7 UIC and UChicago campuses This conference explores shifting conceptions of race and ethnicity through the transition from the Russian to the Soviet empires. It proposes an approach to race and ethnicity as discursive formations that emerge in a broad archive of ethnographic, linguistic, geographic, and popular media, which furnished both hegemonic discourses of scientific modernity and Russian/Eurasian exceptionalism. Exposing this interdisciplinary notion of “race sciences” and its intersections with related scientific, aesthetic, and political regimes, this conference will examine how race science came to be grounded in both the practical imagination and Imperial Russian and Soviet policies, which served in the ordering and management of the colonial population through diversity mandates, nation-building and border redistricting, as well as restructuring aesthetic and affective regimes of seeing and feeling. We will trace how conceptions of race and ethnicity shifted over the revolutionary transition and responded to specific local and global geopolitics. Working across the disciplines of history, history of science, anthropology, literature, as well as visual media and performing arts, this workshop will expose the ways in which shifting conceptions of race and ethnicity influenced the development of new scientific paradigms and contributed to the restructuring of the social, political and artistic imagination amidst the process of imperial expansion. DAY 3 LOCATION (Please see separate entries for Days 1 and 2): University of Chicago Classics Building, Room 110 1010 E. 59th Street 10am - 4:45pm
Date: 
Saturday, March 7, 2020

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