The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to host a variety of exciting events this 2020- 2021 academic year.
Program in Jewish Studies Commencement
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
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
2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar
Blacks and the Jewish Experience
Bruce Haynes, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Davis
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
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
April 6, 2021
In Partnership with CU Anschutz’s Center for Bioethics and Humanities
Peak to Peak Series
"Better Widowed than Married”: Conversa Women in Early Modern Europe
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Rebecca Wartell, Instructor in Jewish Studies, University of Colorado Boulder
Rosenzweig for the Contemporary Moment: A (Zoom) Roundtable Celebration of Star of Redemption’s 100th Anniversary
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Co-facilitators: Elias Sacks and Sarah Pessin
Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Martin Kavka, Randi Raskhover, and Larisa Reznik