Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan gave a lecture at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dec. 2, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan gave a lecture on November 14th, 2022 to Israeli faculty and PhD students as well as to guests from Germany at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. The title of his talk was “ Holocaust Studies in the 2020s. Agency Memory, and More Cultural Turns? ”

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's interview on anti-semitism is featured in CU Boulder Today

Nov. 22, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's interview on anti-semitism hate speech was featured in CU Boulder Today. You can read the November 16th article here .

Brian Catlos

Brian Catlos' work featured in the New York Times

Nov. 22, 2022

Brian Catlos' work was featured in the New York Times November 3, 2022. You can find the article, "In Search of a Lost Spain," here .

Maggie Rosenau

Maggie Rosenau contributes to DDGC Mutual Aid Teach-In

Nov. 22, 2022

Maggie Rosenau (they/she) contributed to the Diversity, Decolonization, and German Curriculum group teach-in on October 20, 2022, focusing on mutual aid in academia and how to build community, infrastructures, and solidarity. Maggie's contribution can be viewed here , and you can learn more about the DDGS Mutual Aid group here...

Sam Boyd

Samuel L. Boyd publishes an article on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah

Oct. 19, 2022

Samuel L. Boyd has recently published a new article in the Conversation on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah. You can find it here .

Hilary Kalisman

Professor Kalisman's new book featured in a Middle Eastern Studies online magazine

Oct. 7, 2022

Hilary Falb Kalisman's new book, Teachers as State-Builders: Education and the Making of the Modern Middle East (Princeton University Press, Princeton NJ, 2022), is featured in Jadaliyya, a Middle Eastern Studies online magazine. You can read Prof. Kalisman's interview here .

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan to moderate upcoming conference: The German Debate about the Holocaust, Colonialism & Genocide

Sept. 28, 2022

On October 21, Thomas Pegelow Kaplan will moderate a roundtable for the "Challenging Conversations" series, hosted by North Carolina German Studies. The title of the event is " Historikerstreit 2.0.”? The German Debate about the Holocaust, Colonialism & Genocide. For an overview of the program and a link to register,...

Rebecca Wartell

Rebecca Wartell will present “The Exiled Bride: Jewish and Converse Widows in Early Modern Sephardic Society"

Sept. 12, 2022

Rebecca Wartell will be presenting a work-in progress — entitled “The Exiled Bride: Jewish and Converse Widows in Early Modern Sephardic Society" — at a workshop hosted by the Mediterranean Studies Group. Dr. Wartell will be in conversation with faculty from UCCS and Boulder, including Brian A. Catlos, organizer of...

Brian Catlos

Brian A. Catlos publishes a new textbook and companion sourcebook

Sept. 12, 2022

Brian A. Catlos, Professor of Religious Studies, has published a new textbook and companion sourcebook, The Sea in the Middle: The Mediterranean World, 650-1650 and Texts from the Middle . Learn more about these incredible resources here: http://www.mediterraneanseminar.org/the-sea-in-the-middle

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences

Aug. 23, 2022

Thomas Pegelow Kaplan recently hosted two international Holocaust Studies conferences at Appalachian State: a symposium for educators on film and photography during the Holocaust, and an academic conference including panels on Yizker books, Yiddish women writers and the Shoah, children’s Holocaust literature, and teaching Holocaust studies. As part of these...

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