10:00 to 11:30am

Eliezer Schweid as Jewish Thinker and Scholar

11:45am to 1:15pm

The Numbers Controversy and American Jewry: Discerning the Trends and Their Meaning

10:00 to 11:30am

Social Justice Pedagogies – an Interdisciplinary Discussion

11:45am to 1:15pm

Jews and Muslims in France Before and After Charlie Hebdo and Hyper Cacher

2:30 to 4:00pm

The Poetic Legacy of Yehuda Amichai (1924-2000)

4:30 to 6:00pm

Getting It Published: Turning Your Dissertation into a Book

10:00 to 11:30am

Religion and Society in Israel

11:45am to 1:15pm

Mystical Motifs and Techniques in Kabbalah and Hasidism

2:30 to 4:00pm

The Pitch of Jewish Voices in America

4:30 to 6:00pm

The ASSJ Marshall Sklare Award: Prof. Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett

10:00 to 11:30am

Lost shared future? Russian-speaking Jews in contemporary Russia and Ukraine

11:45am to 1:15pm

Jews and Ukrainians in the Interwar Era and during World War II

2:30 to 4:00pm

Inner Dimensions of Medieval Jewish Philosophy

4:30 to 6:00pm

Early Modern Letters and Transregional Jewish History

10:00 to 11:30am

Beyond parenting and into retirement: Multi-faceted engagement in Jewish life during the next chapter of life

11:45am to 1:15pm

EATING EMPIRES – narrative discourses on body, fasting, diet and regimen in Late Antique Judaism

2:30 to 4:00pm

Rabbinization In Late Antiquity: New Approaches

4:30 to 6:00pm

Teaching Palestine in the Context of Jewish Studies

10:00 to 11:30am

Cultural Narratives in the Yishuv: Hebrew Literature, Satire, Humor, & Nation Building

11:45am to 1:15pm

Hebrew at American Jewish Summer Camps: The Role of Israel and Israelis

2:30 to 4:00pm

Israeli Domesticity & the Fissures of National Belonging

4:30 to 6:00pm

Martin Buber and the Postwar Quest for a Renewal of Judaism

10:00 to 11:30am

“Fievel Goes West”: Jewish Literature in the American West

11:45am to 1:15pm

Beyond Freedom Summer: Complicating Narratives of American Jewish Involvement in the Civil Rights Movement at Mid-Century

2:30 to 4:00pm

Boundaries of Text, Gender, and Space in Mishnah Bikkurim

4:30 to 6:00pm

Can the Mediterranean be a category of analysis for Jewish history and literature?

10:00 to 11:30am

“Before the Storm: Filming the Chracter and Fate of Europe’s Jews in 1940-1941”

11:45am to 1:15pm

The Sounds of Silence? New Perspectives on Holocaust Commemoration in Postwar European Culture

2:30 to 4:00pm

Migration, Relief, and Aid in the Postwar World: Defining a New Transnational JDC Mission

4:30 to 6:00pm

The Rise of Holocaust Consciousness

10:00 to 11:30am

Beyond the Assimilation Thesis : New Work on German Jewish Culture

11:45am to 1:15pm

Engaging the Secular: Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, and Muhammad Asad

2:30 to 4:00pm

Intermarriage and Jewish American Culture

4:30 to 6:00pm

Biblical and Legal Interpretation in the Dead Sea Scrolls

10:00 to 11:30am

Does Family Matter? The Role of Parents and Grandparents in Jewish Education

11:45am to 1:15pm

Gender, Sexuality, and Commerce

2:30 to 4:00pm

Rethinking Jewish Petitions During the Holocaust. Towards Integrated Histories of Collective and Individual Acts of...

4:30 to 6:00pm

Some of My Best Friends are Nones: Understanding Secular and Cultural Dimensions of Jewish Identity

10:00 to 11:30am

Eco-Criticism and Eco-Judaism

11:45am to 1:15pm

German Jewish Political Philosophy

2:30 to 4:00pm

Icons of Emancipation and Modernization 1750-1900

4:30 to 6:00pm

Jewish Languages and Logic

10:00 to 11:30am

The Originality of Joseph Ibn Kaspi?

11:45am to 1:15pm

Fartaytsht un farbesert? Translating Yiddish in the 21st Century

2:30 to 4:00pm

Menasseh ben Israel (1604–1657), Exegete, Mystic, and Millenarian

4:30 to 6:00pm

Law and Philosophy in the Middle Ages

10:00 to 11:30am

Migration and Memory

11:45am to 1:15pm

Seeing Israeli Culture Through the Archive

2:30 to 4:00pm

Sin, Punishment, and Atonement in Biblical and Second Temple Literature

4:30 to 6:00pm

Jews on the Move

10:00 to 11:30am

The Rabbis in Early Roman Palestine

11:45am to 1:15pm

Constructing and Challenging Gender Norms and Binaries

2:30 to 4:00pm

The Many Genres of Kadia Molodowsky

4:30 to 6:00pm

A Writer of Many Facets: A Celebration of Isaac Bashevis Singer’s Work

10:00 to 11:30am

Revisiting the Early Medieval Period

11:45am to 1:15pm

Lions, Angels, and Labyrinths: Images in Different Settings

2:30 to 4:00pm

Rescue, Survival, Memory

4:30 to 6:00pm

New Perspectives on the Rabbis and the Synagogue

10:00 to 11:30am

Seminar: The Practice and Materiality of Jewish Death, Part 1

11:45am to 1:15pm

Seminar: Intersectionalities in Jewish Thought, Part 1

2:30 to 4:00pm

Seminar: New Perspectives on Home and Homeland in Contemporary Israeli Literature, Part 1

4:30 to 6:00pm

Seminar: The Jerusalem Temple and Priesthood in History, Memory, and Liturgy, Part 1

11:45am to 1:15pm

Seminar: Counter Histories. Modern Jewish Scholarship in Context—Responding to Challenges from Within and Without, Part 1

2:30 to 4:00pm

Seminar: The Hasidic Rebbe as Boundary Crosser, Part 1

4:30 to 6:00pm

Seminar: New Voices in Israeli Culture, Part 1

11:45am to 1:15pm

Take that Journalist’s Call!: A Media Training Workshop for Scholars