The Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies

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Event Archive 2016 - Present

Brauer Seminar: 'Roundtable on Religion, Gender and Sexuality'

Description: 
Religion, Gender and Sexuality Roundtable The Brauer Seminar Coordinated by Divinity School faculty members Sarah Fredericks, Sarah Hammerschlag, and Angie Heo With a roundtable event about theoretical, empirical, and methodological scholarship in religion,gender, and sexuality, we aim to foster discussion and scholarship at the nexus of these subjects among students and faculty in the Divinity School, University of Chicago as a whole, and the wider public. Speakers include: Amy Hollywood, Elizabeth H. Monrad Professor of Christian Studies at Harvard Divinity School, is a philosopher of medieval Christianity whose work examines mysticism and the psychoanalytics of sexual difference. Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California Santa Cruz, is an anthropologist of Islam, law and sexuality who explores the secular grounds of 'the Muslim question.' Béatrice de Gasquet, Assistant Professor of Sociology at the Université Paris Diderot, a sociologist of Judaism and Berber migrant communities whose work studies the politics of feminism, religious authority and ethnicity. Cosponsored by the Joyce Z. and Jacob Greenbery Center for Jewish Studies; the Center for the Study of Gender and Sexuality, the Franke Institute for the Humanities; and the France Chicago Center.
Date: 
Wednesday, March 7, 2018

Julia Elsky - 'Accents in Jean Malaquais' Carrefour Marseille'

Description: 
Julia Elsky, Assistant Professor of French at Loyola University, Chicago, will deliver a lecture for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The respondent will be Mandel Kranz, 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, February 26, 2018
Category: 
Lectures

Voices From a Changing Middle East

Description: 
Mosaic Theater Company of DC presents selections from its acclaimed Voices From a Changing Middle East Festival Tour, bringing works about the Israeli-Palestinian conflict to life as seen through Muslim, Christian, and Jewish lenses. The evening features excerpts from the adaptation of I SHALL NOT HATE, performed in Arabic and Hebrew with English surtitles by Palestinian actor Gasan Abbas, animating the story of Gaza doctor, Izzeldin Abuelaish, thrice nominated for the Nobel Peace Prize, whose deep relationships in Israel undergird a commitment to coexistence even as he experiences the unspeakable loss of his three daughters. The work is complemented by Sir David Hare’s VIA DOLOROSA, the play that launched the Festival and its trailblazing Peace Café forum in 2000, performed by British born actor Jonathan Tindle, as its plaintive query, “What is the way forward?” remains as urgent a guide star as when Hare first went on his journey through Israel/Palestine 20 years ago. The evening culminates with screened excerpts from Aaron Davidman’s internationally acclaimed solo performance travelogue, WRESTLING JERUSALEM, now an award-winning film directed by Dylan Kussman. The event will include discussion with the artists and Voices Festival founder, Ari Roth (U of C Lab HS, ’78), along with questions and conversation with the audience, modeling the Peace Café process of using food-for-thought menu selections from the plays to prompt sharing of personal narratives as predicate for building bonds of candor and understanding.
Date: 
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
Category: 
Discussions

Aslan Cohen - 'Ezekiel: A Man of Letters'

Description: 
Aslan Cohen, PhD student in the Divinity School, will deliver a lecture for a joint meeting of the Hebrew Bible Workshop and the Jewish Studies Workshop. The respondent will be Sam Catlin, a PhD student in the Department of Comparative Literature. 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, February 12, 2018
Category: 
Workshops

Hatred and Love: Jewish Conceptions of Personal Hatred and Public Love in Antiquity and Modernity

Description: 
‘Love’ or ‘friendship’ is a core theme of Jewish and Christian thought. Hence, the paramount significance of the commandment to “Love your neighbor” Lev 19:18b in the reception history of the Hebrew Bible. Indeed, as Franz Rosenzweig noted, it is the foundational principle of the Jewish and Christian ethos. At this critical juncture in history, when a plethora of “cultures of hate” have emerged to claim the public and political arena, it is of undoubted value to highlight the inviolable principle of Neighborly Love. Yet, at the same time it is also urgent to acknowledge that monotheistic faiths abound in tropes of personal hatred and political enmity. This conference posits that the Jewish and Christian ethic of love and friendship may only be fully appreciated against the backdrop of concepts and attitudes of personal ‘hatred’ and enmity within the respective religious cultures. Speakers include Jeffrey Stackert, Simeon Chavel, and Paul Mendes-Flohr, all of the University of Chicago Divinity School, Klaus-Peter Adam of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago, Dana Hollander of McMaster University, and Michael Moxter of the University of Hamburg. The conference is sponsored by the Greenberg Center for Jewish Studies and the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago through a grant by the Henri Luce Foundation. For information, contact Nancy Pardee at npardee@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Friday, February 9, 2018

Sam Baudinette - 'Sex and the Divine: Erotic Language and the Accounts of Union in Medieval Christian and Jewish Mysticism'

Description: 
Sam Baudinette, PhD student in the Divinity School, will deliver a lecture for the Jewish Studies Workshop. The respondent will be Tzvi Schoenberg, also 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, January 29, 2018
Category: 
Workshops

Naomi Seidman - 'Freud, Yiddish, and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self'

Description: 
The Jewish Studies Workshop and the Department of Comparative Literature are excited to announce a workshop with Naomi Seidman, the Koret Professor of Jewish Culture at the Graduate Theological Union in Berkeley. The workshop will take place on Monday, January 22, at 5:00pm in the Social Sciences Tea Room. Seidman's paper, entitled 'Freud, Yiddish, and the Linguistic Architecture of the Modern Jewish Self,' will be circulated in advance (more details forthcoming). A reception will follow. For information, contact Matt Johnson at mjohnson26@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Monday, January 22, 2018
Category: 
Workshops

Isaac Bleaman - 'Hasidic Yiddish Syntax on the Internet: Competing Trends in Language Change'

Description: 
The use of 'big data' from social media has allowed sociolinguists to investigate patterns of variation at unprecedented scales. However, researchers of minority languages — who stand the most to gain from increased sample sizes — have been slow to pursue projects incorporating online corpora. This talk, by Isaac Bleaman of New York University, presents an analysis of particle verb variation in Yiddish, using a 22-million-word corpus scraped from a popular Hasidic discussion forum, KaveShtiebel.com ('the Coffee Room'). Multivariate analysis of over 28,000 particle verbs reveals that writers favor the standard variant the longer their accounts remain open, even as newcomers bring about a forum-wide increase in the rate of the non-standard variant. These quantitative results support ethnographic evidence from offline interviews with forum users, highlighting the role of the internet in spreading norms of language use among Hasidic Jews. This lecture is sponsored by the Department of Comparative Literature and the Workshop on Language Variation and Change. For information, contact Ingrid Sagor at isagor@uchicago.edu.
Date: 
Friday, January 19, 2018
Category: 
Lectures

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