The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies
1155 East 60th Street, Room 302A
Chicago, IL 60637
773.702.7108
ccjs@uchicago.edu

 

Event Archive 2016 - Present

Grappling with the Global Ethic: Multi-Religious Perspectives on Global Issues

Description: 
Join us for a two-part conference—one academic, the other practical—tackling global social issues using the resources of numerous religious traditions and of the Global Ethic (the signature document of the Parliament of the World's Religions). Part 1: Academic Conference April 23: 9 AM – 5:30 PM | April 24: 9 AM – 6:00 PM | Reception 6:00-7:30 PM The University of Chicago Divinity School | Swift Hall, 3rd floor Part 2: Practicum April 25: 9 AM – 5:00 PM Chicago Theological Seminary (room TBA) | 1407 E 60th Street All programs are free, including the reception on April 24 Academic Conference: This academic conference brings together leading scholars of several faith traditions. Each scholar will explore a contemporary social issue like human trafficking or Hinduism’s caste system, bringing to bear the unique resources of their traditions as well as the moral directives of the signature document of the Parliament of the World’s Religions, “Towards a Global Ethic: An Initial Declaration,” also known as the Global Ethic. Members of the faculty or graduate students from the University of Chicago will offer responses. Practicum: A day of practical break-out sessions that will take, for inspiration, the academic conference’s conversations about the Global Ethic and social issues (attendance at the conference is not required). Together, participants will identify three social-justice issues in the Chicago area of greatest concern and develop concrete, interfaith plans to address them. The Parliament of the World’s Religions will take up these ideas and bring participants together for future action. Academic Conference Presenters Keynote Lecture by Sumner B. Twiss (Global Ethic and human rights), Distinguished Professor of Human Rights, Ethics, and Religion, Florida State University Presenters: Hille Haker (Catholicism), Richard A. McCormick, S.J. Chair of Catholic Moral Theology, Loyola University Chicago Martin Nguyen (Sunni Islam), Assoc. Professor of Islamic Religious Traditions and Faculty Chair for Diversity, Fairfield University Hsiao-Lan Hu (Engaged Buddhism), Assoc. Professor of Religious Studies, and Women’s and Gender Studies, University of Detroit Mercy Scott R. Paeth (Protestant Christianity), Assoc. Professor of Religious Studies, Peace, Justice & Conflict Studies, DePaul University Amanda Mbuvi (Judaism), Asst. Professor of Religion, High Point University Teresia Hinga (African religions), Assoc. Professor of Religious Studies Santa Clara University Huaiyu (Henry) Wang (Confucianism; Chinese philosophy), High Point University Samaneh Oladi Ghadikolaei (Shi'i Islam), Asst. Professor of Islamic Studies, Virginia Commonwealth University Anantanand Rambachan (Hinduism), Professor of Religion, Philosophy and Asian Studies, Saint Olaf College Rosalyn LaPier (Native American), Assoc. Professor of Environmental Studies, University of Montana
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Monday, April 23, 2018

New Budapest Orpheum Society: Making Sacred All the Whispers of the World

Description: 
Making Sacred All the Whispers of the World In this performance complementing Eduard Freudmann’s April 23rd performance of “ e White Elephant Archive, Setting No. 3” (Bond Chapel, 7:30 pm), the New Budapest Orpheum Society (Humanities Division, ensemble-in-residence) re-sounds the songs of struggle, survival, and sacri ce from the tragic history of twentieth-century Jewish modernity. During the course of the evening the audience will journey through the Yiddish songs created by Mordechai Gebirtig for the Cracow Ghetto and bear witness to the message of songs from the Golden Age of Yiddish film. Milestones of metaphor and allegory give meaning to a historical path that passes through cities as disparate as East European shtetls and the cosmopolitan cities of the Duchess of Chicago. Repertories gathered through the research of the ensemble—works by Viktor Ullmann and Leo Strauss from the concentration camp at Theresienstadt/Terezín, Hebrew songs circulating on postcards between Berlin and Jerusalem and composers such as Stephan Wolpe and Kurt Weill, newly-composed Russian songs by Ilya Levinson—will be experienced in all their staggering beauty. The New Budapest Orpheum Society pays homage to the past, present, and future, seeking the sacred within the whispers still audible for us in the twenty-first century when we listen. Co-sponsored by the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies.
Date: 
Sunday, April 22, 2018

Jewish Studies Undergraduate Colloquium

Description: 
College fourth-year students Corbin Allardice (Jewish Studies), Brendan Kahn (Germanic Studies/Political Science), and Julia Ullman (Jewish Studies/NELC) will present their senior research projects. The colloquium will take place at the Harris School Building, 1155 East 60th Street, Room 319. All are invited and refreshments will be served. For information, contact the Greenberg Center at 773-702-7108 or ccjs@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Tuesday, April 10, 2018

UChicago Presents: Philharmonia Baroque with Sherezade Panthaki, soprano

Description: 
Conductor Nicholas McGegan and soprano Sherezade Panthaki join Italian Jewish scholar Francesco Spagnolo with singers and instrumentalists of the Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra & Chorale to lead a multimedia tour highlighting the music of Jewish composer Salamone Rossi and some of his contemporaries, including Claudio Monteverdi. A reception with the artists will follow the 80-minute performance.
Date: 
Sunday, April 8, 2018

Chloe Blackshear - ' 'I, Grete' and 'Surtext': Weil and Kalisky'

Description: 
Chloe Blackshear, PhD candidate in the Department of Comparative Literature, will deliver a lecture for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The respondent will be Aslan Cohen, a PhD student at the Divinity School. The paper will be available at https://voices.uchicago.edu/jst_hb/. For information, contact Matt Johnson at mjohnson26@uchicago.edu or David Cohen at davidc1@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, March 12, 2018
Category: 
Workshops

Baruch J. Schwartz - “The Splitting of the Sea Narrative: Exodus 14 Parted and Reunited”

Description: 
Baruch J. Schwartz, Associate Professor of Hebrew Bible at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Joyce Z. Greenberg Visiting Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Chicago will give a public lecture entitled, “The Splitting of the Sea Narrative: Exodus 14 Parted and Reunited.” Prof. Schwartz’s research centers on biblical religion and law, the composition of the Torah, the classical prophetic literature, and medieval biblical exegesis. He is the author of The Holiness Legislation (Jerusalem: Magnes Press, 1999) and of the commentary on Leviticus in The Jewish Study Bible (New York: Oxford University Press, 2004; second edition 2014) as well as numerous scholarly articles on biblical topics. The lecture will be followed by a light kosher reception. For further information, contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Thursday, March 8, 2018
Category: 
Lectures

New Budapest Orpheum Society: Transylvania Transit – A Musical Journey through Modernism's Mirror

Description: 
Transylvania Transit – A Musical Journey through Modernism's Mirror The New Budapest Orpheum Society, the Jewish cabaret and ensemble-in-residence for the Humanities Division, journeys to the Transylvanian world in which György Ligeti grew up and which he explored in his early career as a Romanian ethnomusicologist of Hungarian-Jewish heritage. In the course of the evening the ensemble will travel through the shtetls to the urban ghettos of the Carpathians, searching out the confluence of post-Shoah Polish cabaret with Hebrew songs in the new settlements of modern Israel. Passing through modernism's mirror, as did Ligeti in his early years, listeners will experience twentieth-century music in new and unexpected ways. This performance is presented in conjunction with the conference Dislocations: Reassessing Ligeti’s Many Worlds in the 21st Century held at the University of Chicago, March 6-8, 2018. Sponsored by the Division of the Humanities, the Franke Institute, the Logan Center, the Arts Council, and the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies.
Date: 
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

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