On April 18th, Dr. Philip Balma will speak at Temple Beth Sholom in Hamden, CT.
He will be presenting a Road Show lecture entitled “Jewish Identity in Italy Today: Which Stones Have Been Left Unturned?”
For more information about Road Show presentations, click here or email the Center at judaicstudies@uconn.edu.
On April 12th, Dr. Shoulson will speak at Congregation Or Shalom in Orange, CT.
He will be presenting a Road Show lecture entitled “Not Your Hebrew School Bible: Sex, Lies, and Love in the Torah.”
For more information about Road Show presentations, click here or email the Center at judaicstudies@uconn.edu.
On April 3rd, Dr. Shoulson will speak at Temple B’Nai Tikvoh-Sholom in Bloomfield, CT.
He will be presenting a Road Show lecture entitled “Not Your Hebrew School Bible: Sex, Lies, and Love in the Torah.”
For more information about Road Show presentations, click here or email the Center at judaicstudies@uconn.edu.
On March 27th, Dr. Shoulson will speak at Congregation Kol Haverim in Glastonbury, CT.
The Association for Jewish Studies is pleased to announce The Berman Foundation Early Career Fellowships in Support of Research in the Social Scientific Study of the Contemporary American Jewish Community. The Berman Early Career Fellowships aim to support the development and expansion of the field of the social scientific study of the North American Jewish community; enhance funding opportunities for early career scholars in the social sciences; encourage scholars in sociology, social psychology, social anthropology, demography, social work, economics, and political science to expand their research to include study of the North American Jewish community; and nurture a new generation of scholars in this critical area of research.
Specifically, the fellowship will provide funds to offset scholars’ expenses in turning their dissertations into monographs or refereed journal articles. Candidates will be eligible for up to $8,000 in funding for the 2016–2017 academic year. Awards will vary based on a variety of factors, including the project budget and the scope of the proposed research. The fellowship may fund research travel, equipment and materials, and fieldwork, or help subsidize living expenses during the writing phase of the project. In doing so, the fellowship will enable recent PhDs to make significant contributions to the field at an early point in their academic career, as well as help position recipients to secure a tenure-track position or achieve tenure once in such a position.
Deadline: February 26, 2016
For more information, click here.
The ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute is seeking scholars-in-residence for an intensive two-week workshop-based curriculum development program in interdisciplinary contemporary antisemitism studies.The program, dedicated to the development of antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline, will be held at St Antony’s College, in Oxford, United Kingdom from July 31, 2016 to August 12, 2016.
The program is intended primarily for professors with full-time college or university positions, though exceptional doctoral and post-doctoral students may also be considered.
Under the guidance of leading international academics, scholars-in-residence will be required to develop a course syllabus and curriculum in the interdisciplinary study of contemporary antisemitism, to be taught in their home university upon completion for course credit. Full and partial Fellowships will be awarded to successful applicants.
Deadline: March 1, 2016
For more information, click here.
Tikvah is offering an intensive six-week seminar for college students living in America, Canada, or elsewhere in the Diaspora. The summer fellowship will seek to address the core questions of social life—family, power, economics, and much else—by looking at foundational Jewish texts, the lessons of Jewish history, insights of modern Jewish thought, and the conversation between Jewish and Western ideas.
Deadline: February 15, 2016
For more information, click here.
Chris Clarke graduated with an MA in Judaic Studies in 2004 and is a Research, Teaching and Learning Services Specialist at the Library for the Claremont Colleges.
He is currently a PhD candidate focusing on the Hebrew Bible at Claremont Graduate University focusing his dissertation on a form-critical analysis of the encounters with the heavenly court in the Hebrew Bible and the Book of the Watchers.
He was also the recipient of an SCELC (Statewide California Electronic Library Consortium) grant for first-time conference goers and will be using the grant to attend the American Library Association’s Annual Conference in June 2016.
Ilana Cone Kennedy is the Director of Education at the Holocaust Center for Humanity in Seattle. For the past 12 years Ilana has worked with teachers throughout the region to provide and develop teacher trainings, community programs, exhibits, and classroom resources. Ilana received her BA from the University of British Columbia, MA at the University of Connecticut, and post-graduate studies at the University of Washington.
Ilana is a recipient of the Pamela Waechter award for Jewish Communal Service, an Alfred Lerner Fellow from the Jewish Foundation for the Righteous, a Jackson Leadership Fellow, and has participated in numerous Holocaust education programs nationally and internationally. Ilana has helped to plan and lead several international Holocaust study trips and in 2016 will be leading a trip to Vienna and Prague. Ilana lives in West Seattle and is the proud mom of two kids, ages 7 and 9.