SPRING SEMESTER 2025
Feb
9
Sun
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Mapping the History of the Vanishing Shanghai Jewish Refugee Quarter
9 February 2025 / 3:00pm
Via Zoom - Register ahead to receive Zoom Invite
Feb
10
Mon
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Jews in Space on Screen!
10 February 2025 / 7:00pm
Via Zoom - Register to Receive Zoom Invite
Feb
13
Thur
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Mar
10
Mon
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Mar
26
Wed
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The Souls of Jewish Folk Book Talk
26 March 2025 / 4:00pm
Dodd Center Konover Auditorium
Mar
27
Thur
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Ellen Litman: Literature of the Post-Soviet Jewish Diaspora
27 March 2025 / 5:30pm
Via Zoom
Apr
2
Wed
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Filthy, UnAmerican, and Dangerous in Their Habits: Antisemitism and the Emergency Quota Act, 1918-1921
2 April 2025 / 4:00pm
In-Person & Zoom
Apr
17
Thur
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Apr
29-30
Tues-Wed
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Black Jewish Scholars on Antiblack Racism and Antisemitism:
A Two-Day Public Conversation
29-30 April 2025 / 8:45am
Via Zoom
May
7
Wed
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Jewish-Catholic Relations: In the Shadow of the Passing of Pope Francis
A Conversation with Prof. Karma Ben-Johanan
7 May 2025 / 12:00 p.m.
Via Zoom
FALL SEMESTER 2024
Sep
16
Mon
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The Counterfeit Countess Book Discussion
16 September 2024 / 7:00pm
In-Person: Wilde Auditorium in the Harry Jack Gray Center at University of Hartford
Oct
14
Mon
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"Becoming Other, Losing A Mother, and Understanding One Another" with Dr. Joy Ladin
14 October 2024 / 3:30 pm
Via Zoom - Hosted By UConn Stamford
Oct
28
Mon
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Jewish Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
28 October 2024 / 7:00 pm
Via Zoom - Co-sponsored by UConn Center for Judaic Studies and University of Hartford Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies
Nov
6
Wed
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Impact of the Holocaust on the Jews of Greece
6 November 2024 / 4:00 pm
In Person and Via Zoom - Co-sponsored by UConn Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, Digital Media Design, Global Affairs, and Holocaust and Genocide Studies Program of Dodd Impact.
SPRING SEMESTER 2024
Mar
25
Mon
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YidLife Crisis - Yiddish, Kosherish, Blasphemish
25 March 2024 / 6:15 pm Doors Open 6:30 pm Show
In-Person: UConn Hillel
Apr
2
Tues
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The Ping Player and the Professor: A Conversation with the Author
2 April 2024 / 12:30 p.m.
In-Person: Babbidge Library, Level 4 - Heritage Room
Light kosher lunch served
May
2
Thurs
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Avinoam Patt: Book Launch and Farewell Reception
2 May 2024 / 12:30 p.m.
In-Person: Babbidge Library, Level 4 - Heritage Room
Light kosher lunch served
May
5
Sun
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Yom Hashoah Commemoration: Standing Together in Remembrance
5 May 2024 / 2:00 p.m.
In-Person: West Hartford Conference Center (Town Hall)
Light kosher lunch served
FALL SEMESTER 2023
SEPTEMBER
Sep
11
Mon
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Environmental Progress amidst Middle East Conflict
11 September 2023 / 12:30PM
with Tal Alon (Tel Aviv Univ.)
Oak Hall 438, Storrs
Sep
12
Tue
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The Jews of Summer - Book Talk with the Author
12 September 2023 / 7:00PM
with Sandra Fox (New York Univ.)
Mandell JCC, West Hartford
Sep
19
Mon
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Is Democracy in Israel Salvageable?
19 September 2023 / 12:30 PM
with Dahlia Scheindlin
Via Zoom
Registration [here]
OCTOBER
Oct
2
Mon
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Film Screening: The Secrets of the Great Synagogue of Vilna
2 October 2023 / 7:00 PM
with Loic Salfati and Sam Kassow
UHart Wilde Auditorium
Registration: mgcjs@hartford.edu
NOVEMBER
Nov
8
Wed
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Talk: Israel and Hamas at War - What's Next?
8 November 2023 / 7:00 PM
with Daniel C. Kurtzer (Princeton; former U.S. ambassador to Egypt and Israel)
Via [WebEx]
Nov
9
Thu
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World Poetry presents: A Bilingual Reading from Soul House
9 November 2023 / 3:30 PM
with Mireille Gansel and Joan Seliger Sidney
Konover Auditorium, Dodd Center
Nov
9
Thu
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Book Talk: Rain of Ash - Roma, Jews, and the Holocaust
9 November 2023 / 7:30 PM
with Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt)
Via Zoom
Registration [here]
Nov
16
Thu
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Talk: A Jewish Dante? Examining the cultural hybridity of Immanuel of Rome
16 November 2023 / 12:15 - 1:45 PM
with Dana Fishkin (Touro University in New York City)
In-Person: Oak Hall 236
Hybrid Option: [Zoom]
DECEMBER
Dec
5
Tue
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Talk: The Digital Age - Incubator of Far-Right Antisemitism and Conspiracy Theories
5 December 2023 / 12:30 PM
with Liram Koblentz-Stenzler (Yale)
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Acknowledgements
The Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life sponsors a number of event series designed to support both scholarship and the arts.
Each month, the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life sponsors a Faculty Colloquium that showcases the work of a scholar in Judaic Studies. The informal gathering provides an opportunity for scholars to present and discuss their current research projects. The discussions are open to all, and a kosher lunch is served.
The Yiddish Tish luncheon discussion, established in 1982 by founding Director Arnold Dashefsky, convenes monthly to speak and read in Yiddish. The group welcomes new members of any speaking level!
The Fierberg Lecture in Judaic Studies sponsors the annual Academic Convocation on the Holocaust. Guest speakers have included award-winning director Vassilis Loules and renowned Holocaust experts Timothy Snyder and Berel Lang.
Additional endowments such as the Ishier Jacobson Fund for Judaic & Middle Eastern Studies sponsors the Maria and Ishier Jacobson Lecture held annually at the UConn Stamford campus; and the Gene and Georgia Mittelman Lecture in Judaic Studies is held annually, featuring such speakers as Dr. Susannah Heschel.
Additionally, we have forged a partnership with Charter Oak Cultural Center in Hartford to collaborate on cultural and educational events. This relationship extends our capacity to support, sustain, and foster Jewish culture and the arts beyond the campus.
The Center for Judaic Studies partners with and receives program funding from Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford to continue the growth and vitality of our Jewish Community. The allocation of funds is used to sponsor transformative academic programs, support speakers and guest lecturers, engage students and community alike, and deepen connections among Jewish people locally and globally. To learn more about the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford please visit: www.jewishhartford.org.
In the spirit of our mission to provide support and enrichment, we also collaborate with many departments, centers, and institutes across the University to fund various lectures and projects of mutual interest.