Events
Maymester 2020: Caesarea with Professors Phillip Lieberman and Joseph Rife
From Professor Lieberman: This year, we’re returning for a third season to Caesarea and beginning by re-opening the 13 trenches that we expanded last year. We discovered a horde of gold coins and a rather remarkable early Islamic cistern in…
2/10 Lecture from Fulbright fellow Allyson Gonzalez: “Performing the Sephardic in Modern Spain, 1914-1968”
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese and Program in Jewish Studies welcome Allyson Gonzalez, a Brandeis University graduate and current Fulbright Fellow to Israel. She is one of two recipients of the New Voices in Jewish Studies from Columbia University…
Seeing as Believing: A Lunch Talk with Dr. Jeffrey Shandler
***Please note that this event will be held in Alumni Hall 202 on Vanderbilt’s main campus, not Memorial Hall on Peabody Campus. The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Jeffrey Shandler of Rutgers University for his talk “Seeing…
Speaking Hebrew Freely: Conversation Outside the Classroom with Professor Haim
Jewish Studies Cosponsored Event: A Short History of Anger – the Destruction of Smyrna
Jewish Studies sponsors “Sefarad” as part of the Nashville Jewish Film Festival
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Jonathan Sarna, “That Obnoxious Order: Ulysses S. Grant and the Jews”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Julia Watts Belser, “Reading Noah’s Ark in the Age of Climate Change: Jewish Stories on Gender, Disability, and the Politics of Survival”
Jewish Studies Lecture Series: Jeffrey Shandler, “Seeing As Believing: Watching Videotaped Interviews with Holocaust Survivors.”
JS Lecture Series: Chana Kronfeld, “The Land as Woman: The Afterlife of a Poetic Metaphor in Women’s Modern Hebrew Poetry”
JS Lecture Series: Miriam Frenkel, “India in Medieval Jewish History and Imagination”
JS Lecture Series: Art is My Weapon
JS Lecture Series: Michelle Campos, “Rethinking Jewish-Arab Relations in Palestine and Israel: Lessons from the Archives and the Streets”
Steven Zipperstein at the JCC Jewish Book Series
JS Lecture Series: Barry Trachtenberg, “The United States and the Holocaust: Race, Refuge, and Remembrance”
Lecture: Jean Silk, “Community Resettlement of Refugees”
JS Lecture Series – Steven Zipperstein, “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History”
The Program in Jewish Studies is pleased to welcome Steven Zipperstein from Stanford University speaking on “Pogrom: Kishinev and the Tilt of History,” also the title of his new book. The event will take place on Thursday, October 11 at…