Events Spring 2023

Apr
28
Fri

 

Revisiting Bubonic Plague in the Middle Ages: A New Research Workshop

April 28, 2023 / 2:00PM 

With Susan Einbinder (UConn), Tyler Franconi (Brown), Brian Lander (Brown)

Brown University, Pembroke Hall 202

Details [here]

Apr
27-28
Thu-Fri

 

Tree of Life Conference square

The Tree of Life: Interconnecting Religions, Artistic Traditions, and Scientific Knowledge

April 27-28, 2023 

Conference with Yossi Chajes, Nyoman Sedana, William Friedman, and others

UConn Humanities Institute Conference Room, 4th Floor Babbidge Library

Details [here]

Apr
19
Wed

 

Remembering the Shoa event 2023

Remembering the Shoah, Remembering the Survivors

April 19, 2023 / 4:15-7:00PM

With Nina Jacobs, Lacey Schauwecker, Rachel Sasiene, William Tong, and others

Konover Auditorium at the Dodd Center for Human Rights

Registration and livestream [here]

Apr
18
Tue

 

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Eli's Story: A Holocaust Remembrance Lecture

April 18, 2023 / 5:30-7:00PM

Meri-Jane Rochelson (Professor Emerita, Florida Int. Univ.)

UConn Stamford, GenRe Auditorium, Room A1 (109)

Details on the speaker [here]; livestream [here]

Mar
26
Sun

 

Dead Sea Guardians movie poster

Hartford Jewish Film Festival 2023: "Dead Sea Guardians" (2021)

Live: March 26, 2023 / 4:00PM
Streaming: March 27 - April 3

Mandell JCC

Details [here]; streaming [here]

Mar
25
Sat

 

Song Searcher movie poster

Hartford Jewish Film Festival 2023: "Song Searcher" (2021)

Live: March 25, 2023 / 8:00PM

Mandell JCC

Details [here]

Mar
19
Sun

 

Reckonings movie poster

Hartford Jewish Film Festival 2023: "Reckonings" (2022)

Live: March 19, 2023 / 2:00PM
Streaming: March 27 - April 3

Mandell JCC

Details [here]; streaming [here]

Mar
7
Tue

 

Kwiatkowski headshot

A Conversation with the Polish Poet Grzegorz Kwiatkowski

March 7, 2023 / 3:30PM

Grzegorz Kwiatkowski and Peter Constantine (Professor of Translation Studies, UConn)

Zoom Event

Registration [here]

Jan
31
Tue

 

Head shot Brinn

Advice Columns and the Making of the American Yiddish Press

January 31, 2023 / 7:30PM

Ayelet Brinn, PhD (Univ. of Hartford)

Zoom Lecture

Registration [here]

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Most Center events are free and are always open to the public.  We hope to see you there!