Past Events

Past Events 2023-2024

May 21, 2024

CU 麻豆影院's Program in Jewish Studies and Jews of Color: Histories and Futures welcomed Dr. Helen Kim of Whitman College to join us for a conversation about Asian American Jewish experience. 

From Routine to Murder: Anatomy in Nazi Germany and its Legacies for Today

May 8, 2024

The Program in Jewish Studies, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, hosted Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, co-chair of the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust, for a discussion on the history of anatomy in Nazi Germany and its contemporary implications.

Unraveling the Past, Confronting the Present, and Charting an Ethical Future in Medicine: The History and Legacy of the Pernkopf Atlas

May 7, 2024

As part of the 2024 Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program, distinguished scholars, Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt and Dr. Howard Israel, led a discussion examining the intersection of medical education, ethics, and historical accountability. 

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 麻豆影院's Program in Jewish Studies.

2024 Undergraduate Research Showcase

Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU 麻豆影院 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).

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. This program was part of the international conference "In Between Violence, Sexualisation & Intimacy: Gender Perspectives on National Socialism and the Holocaust," organized by the , in cooperation with the Program in Jewish Studies, and the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History M眉nster. 

Schmooze-A-Palooza

March 20, 2024

A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public.

Heretics and crypto-Christians: the controversies of Rabbi Jonathan Eibeschuetz

March 6, 2024

Annual Sondra & Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture

The Conversion of Sabbatai Tsevi

March 6, 2024

A Faculty & Graduate Student Research Colloquium, led by Dr. Pawel Maciejko

February 29, 2024

A public talk by Prof. Shaul Magid, Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and the Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.

Bridge Over the Wadi

February 26, 2024

A film screening and Q&A with director Barak Heymann

The Zone of Interest

February 20, 2024

Film screening and panel discussion with CU Faculty.

 January 29, 2024

Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program public lecture, by Dr. Mark Roseman.

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.

January 24, 2024

Embodied Judaism Exhibit Opening & Reception

 

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.

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.

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. 

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. 

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.

2022-2023

2023 Undergraduate Research Showcase

Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU 麻豆影院 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 2023.

Wednesday, April 19 & 20, 2023

The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present On Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: from East West Street to the Rohingya and Ukraine, a discussion with Philippe Sands.

Hope and Grief in the Age of Climate Change: Queer Disability Politics and Ancient Jewish Story

Wednesday, March 22, 2023

2023 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Lecture by Dr. Julia Watts Besler 

Wednesday, March 15, 2023

A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. 

Thursday, February 2, 2023

A public lecture by Alan E. Steinweis, in honor of the 2023 International Holocaust Remembrance Day

Monday, November 14, 2022

A symposium bringing together scholars working on the significance of food for Jewish religious, cultural, national, and political identities, focusing on the United States and Israel/Palestine. 

Monday, September 19, 2022

An Evening of Learning and Conversation with Dr. Nick Underwood

2021-2022

2022 Undergraduate Student Research Showcase

Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU 麻豆影院 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 2022.

The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Legacies of the Holocaust and Health Equity Today with , on April 26, 2022. The event was moderated by CBH Director, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, with opening remarks by Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Don Elliman. Dr. Maybank is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading its Center for Health Equity. This was the keynote presentation for the 2022 Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program. 

The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Medical Racism and the American Jewish Experience on April 25, 2022. The program included presentations and discussions with Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Barron H. Lerner, Gregg Drinkwater, PhD, Alan M. Kraut, PhD, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and Shanta M. Zimmer, MD.

Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies at the 麻豆影院 presents a music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. During the past two years of social distancing, we have gathered together virtually to explore the Hebrew language, build community, and make memories. This year, we came together online to sing the classic Israeli song 鈥淗a-yeladim Koftzim鈥 (by Roi Levy and Avraham Tal of Shotei Hanevu鈥檃h). 

Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed 
Evil Spirits, Wayward Stars, and Scribal Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity 
Thursday, February 24, 2022

2022 Holocaust Remembrance Day


Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization & Racialization of Jews & Political Dissidents During the Third Reich
Thursday, January 27, 2022

Israel/Palestine Series

Hilary Falb Kalisman, Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies at CU 麻豆影院, in conversation with Ahmed Mansour & Dan Chyutin on the relationship between the United States, Israel, & Palestine.
Monday, October 18

Peak to Peak Webinar Concert Series: Middle Eastern/North African Jewish Poetic Songs (Piyyutim)鈥擣rom Pulpit to Pop Chart聽

A Conversation/Performance with Dr. Galeet Dardashti and Professor Yonatan Malin
Thu, Dec 02, 2021 

A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Cookie Segelstien and Josh Horowitz and Professor Yonatan Malin
Wednesday, November 17, 2021 

A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Zo毛 Aqua and Adah Hetko and Professor Yonatan Malin
Monday, September 20, 2021 

2020-2021

Rosenzweig for the Contemporary Moment: A (Zoom) Roundtable Celebration of Star of Redemption鈥檚 100th Anniversary

Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Co-facilitators: Elias Sacks and Sarah Pessin
Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Martin Kavka, Randi Raskhover, and Larisa Reznik

 

Monday, May 24th, 2021
Presented by Rebecca Wartell
Peak to Peak Series

April 6, 2021
Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program 

Thursday, March 18, 2021
Presented by Bruce Haynes, 2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar

Monday, December 14, 2020 
Presented by Yonatan Malin
Peak to Peak Series

Thursday, November 19, 2020
Presented by Hilary Falb Kalisman
Peak to Peak Series

Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Presented by Weeam Hammoudeh

Thursday, October 22, 2020
Presented by Rhona Seidelman

Monday, September 14, 2020
Presented by Nan Goodman

Thursday, August 20, 2020
Presented by David Shneer

Thursday, July 23, 2020
Presented by Samira K. Mehta

 

2016-2017

2014-2015

2013-2014

Sondra D. Bender Visiting Scholar: Shaul Magid
Little Failure: Gary Shteyngart
Media Wars and the Invisible Holocaust: Natascha Drubek
Between Jewish Liturgy, Arab Music and Israeli Hebrew: Almog Behar
Embodied Judaism: The Sound of Ecstacy

2012-2013

Inauguration of the Louis P. Singer Endowed Chair in Jewish History
What We Talk 麻豆影院 When We Talk 麻豆影院 Anne Frank: Nathan Englander
The Eichmann Trial: Deborah Lipstadt
On the Wings of the Shekhinah: Rabbi Leah Novick
How the Ari Created a Myth and Transformed Judaism: Howard Schwartz

2011-2012

Reb Zalman Shachter-Shalomi, Dr. Chava Weissler, and Rabbi Or Rose
When They Come For Us We'll Be Gone: Gal Beckerman
Augustine and the Jews: Paula Fredriksen
Yiddish Behind The Iron Curtain: Cantor Jalda Rebling
Everything is God: The Radical Path of Nondual Judaism: Jay Michaelson

2010-2011

Launch of the Brian E. Lebowitz Collection: Robert Atler
Speak Jewish?: Sarah Benor
Bar Kochba: Inventing Jewish Radicalism: Menachem Mor
Smashing the Idols: Rabbi Yisorel Wilhelm, Rabbi Victor Gross, Orly Halpern & Elissa Barrett

2009-2010

Radical Artists: Jewish Art in Diaspora: Carol Zemel
Untitled (L鈥橭rigine): Yael Kanerak
Obama, Sarah Silverman and Black-Jewish Relations: Daniel Itzkovitz
River Jordan: Myth of a Dividing Line: Rachel Havrelock
Paul Was Not a Christian: Pamela Eisenbaum
From Rebel to Rabbi: Matthew Hoffman
Hip Hop Sulha: Y-Love, Diwon, Yuri Lane and Sharif Ezzat

2008-2009

The Birth of American Jewish Pop Culture During the Jazz Age: Ted Merwin
Seriously Funny: Jews and Humor: Adam Rovner
Secular Humanistic Judaism: Rabbi Adam Chalom
Graphia: Comics, Graphic Novels and the Humanities on the Front Range: Art Spiegelman
The Nature of Self: Sarah Pessin