The Program in Jewish Studies is delighted to host a variety of exciting events this 2023-2024 academic year.
Past Events 2023-2024
War in Israel and Gaza: Analysis, Explanations, Memories
October 11, 2023
A public panel discussion to shed light on the conflict's context and history with Profs. Zach Levey (International Affairs/JWST), John Willis (HIST), and Karim Mattar.
Holocaust Child Survivor Osi Sladek at CU Boulder
October 17, 2023
Osi Sladek, a Holocaust child survivor from Slovakia, gave testimony about his and his parent's suffering and survival in the Holocaust in the Slovak-Hungarian-Polish borderlands.
Community Klezmer Workshop with Alicia Svigals
November 7, 2023
Internationally renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals taught a workshop on how to make the mysterious, beautiful and deeply Jewish sounds which characterize authentic klezmer playing.
Cine-Concert: "The Man Without a World"
November 9, 2023
A silent film with live music composed and performed by renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin.
Explaining Conflict and War in Israel, Gaza, and the West Bank: Community Discussions with CU Faculty
November 29, 2023
Community discussions with CU faculty experts on a range of sub-topics from antisemitism to the long history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
Know Your Nosh: Food, Jewishness & Identity
January 24, 2024
Embodied Judaism Exhibit Opening & Reception
Reimagining Citizenship in Fascist Italy
January 29, 2024
A graduate student & faculty research colloquium, led by guest scholar Dr. Roberta Pergher. The event was part of the Program in Jewish Studies' annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Program, co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.
How Ordinary Were the Ordinary Men: The Puzzle of Perpetration in the Holocaust
January 29, 2024
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program public lecture, by Dr. Mark Roseman.
The Zone of Interest
February 20, 2024
Film screening and panel discussion with CU Faculty.
Bridge Over the Wadi
February 26, 2024
A film screening and Q&A with director Barak Heymann
What Does It Mean to Be in Exile, and Why Has Judaism Been So Obsessed with it? What is Diaspora and How is it Different from Exile? And Why Is All This so Important?
February 29, 2024
A public talk by the renowned Jewish Studies scholar Prof. Shaul Magid
The Conversion of Sabbatai Tsevi
March 6, 2024
A Faculty & Graduate Student Research Colloquium, led by Dr. Pawel Maciejko
Heretics and crypto-Christians: the controversies of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz
March 6, 2024
Annual Sondra & Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture
Schmooze-A-Palooza
March 20, 2024
A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public.
Love, Marriage, Sexuality: An Everyday History of Intimacy and Partnership under National Socialism (1930-1950)
March 21, 2024
Bi-lingual lecture by Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan in the Erbdrostenhof, Muenster. This program was part of the international conference "In Between Violence, Sexualisation & Intimacy: Gender Perspectives on National Socialism and the Holocaust," organized by the Memorial and Museum Villa ten Hompel, Muenster, Germany, in cooperation with the Program in Jewish Studies, and the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History Münster.
2024 Undergraduate Research Showcase
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. Students presented their work at a research showcase in April 2024.
Collecting Testimonies, Facing War and Genocide in Ukraine
April 1, 2024
A presentation by Centropa founder Edward Serotta (Vienna, Austria).
Discussion and Book Signing with Professor Guy Miron (Open University, Israel)
April 15, 2024
A discussion of the path-breaking work on the German Jewish experience in the Third Reich by Professor Guy Miron about his study of the significance of space and time in German Jewish life and responses to persecution in Nazi Germany with Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, interim director of CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies.
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