2016-2017

  • September 9-10: "Aesthetic Afterlives: Memory, Transfiguration and the Arts," 9:30am - 6:30pm,  219 Aaron Burr Hall, Poster
  • September 26: Shlomo Avineri, Hebrew University, "Karl Marx’s Jewish Question(s)" Kwartler Lecture,4:30pm, McCormick 101, Poster 
  • September 30-October 1: "Ceux Qui Restent" (The Ones Who Remain)
  • November 15: "The Holocaust and Photography: New Perspectives from Eastern, Central and Western Europe, Michael Berkowitz, University College London, 12:00pm, 333 Wallace Hall
  • November 30: "Three Bodies of God in the Hebrew Bible, March Smith, Princeton Theological Seminary, 12:00pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
  • February 7: The 'Yemenite Babies' Affair, screening and discussion with Shlomo Hatuka, 4:30pm, E. Pyne 010
  • February 16: Francesca Bregoli, Queens College, "Your Father's Interests: Emotions, Business, and Judaism in the Eighteenth-Century Mediterranean," Biderman Lecture, 4:30pm McCormick 101
  • February 19: The 2nd Annual Undergraduate Judaic Studies Conference (UJSC). Details and Registration
  • February 27: A Walk in the Land: A Photographic Tour of Israel's National Trail," Udi Goren, 4:30pm, Center for Jewish Life
  • March 7: "From the Bible to the Beach: The 3,000-year Story of Hebrew," Lital Levy and Philip Zhakevich, Princeton University, 102 Jones Hall, 4:30pm
  • March 15: "What to Do When Everything is Untrue: American Jewish Myths about the Civil War," Adam Mendelsohn, University of Cape Town, 12:00pm, Chancellor Green 105
  • March 16: "Why Not Fight?: Awkward Truths about Jews and the Civil War," Adam Mendelsohn, University of Cape Town, 4:30pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
  • March 28: "Looking for Early Composite Sugyot," Robert Brody, Hebrew University, 4:30pm, 203 Scheide Caldwell House
  • March 29: "Aspects of Literacy and Orality among Medieval Jews and Their Neighbors," Robert Brody, Hebrew University, 4:30pm, 1879 Hall
  • April 5: "Building a Back-story: Archaeology and the Crafting of Israel's Conquest Narratives," Elizabeth Bloch-Smith, Princeton Theological Seminary, 12:00pm, Green Hall
  • April 12: "Poetry During the Holocaust and the Adornean Discourse of 'Poetry after Auschwitz'," Sven-Erik Rose, 4:30pm, 010 E. Pyne, Poster
  • April 19: "Theater of History: Encountering the Past in American Jewish Museums," Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett, 4:30pm, McCormick 101, Poster
  • May 8-9: "Balfour Declaration: 100 Years in History and Memory," 203 Scheide Caldwell House, Poster

Events from past years