The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to host a variety of exciting events this 2020- 2021 academic year. 

Stay Tuned for More Spring 2021 Event Details

Then and Now: Genocide, Courage, and Complicity 
Rebecca Carter-Chand, PhD, Mandel Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum
Susannah Sirkin, M.Ed, Physicians for Human Rights
Week of April 5, 2021
In Partnership with CU Anschutz’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities 

"Better Widowed than Married”: Conversa Women in Early Modern Europe
Professor Rebecca Wartell
Spring 2021
Peak to Peak Webinar

Past Events

Peak to Peak Series

Eco-Kashrut: Food, Jews, and Justice

Samira Mehta, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Women and Gender Studies 

Thursday, July 23, 2020

Peak to Peak Series

Grief: The Biography of a Holocaust Photograph – A Conversation With David Shneer z'l

David Shneer, Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History z"l

Thursday, August 20, 2020

Peak to Peak Series

Jewish Messianic Heresy and the Right to Privacy: Louis Brandeis and the Sabbatian Origins of an American Legal Doctrine

Nan Goodman, Professor of Jewish Studies and English 

Monday, September 14, 2020

Israel/Palestine Series - Plague and Quarantine: Past and Present

Under Quarantine:  Immigrants and Disease at Israel’s Gate

Rhona Seidelman Schusterman Chair of Israel Studies and Assistant Professor of History, University of Oklahoma

Thursday, October 22, 2020

Israel/Palestine Series - Plague and Quarantine: Past and Present

"The End of the Tunnel is Dark": Reflections on the Covid-19 Pandemic Under Occupation

Weeam Hammoudeh Assistant Professor, Insitute of Community and Public Health, Birzeit University

Tuesday, October 27, 2020

Peak to Peak Series

Exams in Extremis: Standardized Testing, Politics, and Crisis in the Middle East

Hilary Falb Kalisman, Assistant Professor of History and Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies in the Program in Jewish Studies

Thursday, November 19, 2020

Peak to Peak Series

Klezmer Music as Jewish Dialogue and Jewish Discourse

Yonatan Malin, Associate Professor of Music and Jewish Studies

Monday, December 14, 2020