12:45 to 2:15pm

Teaching "Son of Saul"

3:00 to 4:30pm

Anthropological Approaches to Diversity in Global Jewish Communities

4:45 to 7:15pm

Marshall Sklare Award Lecture - SPONSORED BY THE ASSOCIATION FOR THE SCIENTIFIC STUDY OF JEWRY (ASSJ)

10:00 to 11:30am

Ancient Jewish Texts, Objects, and Documents

12:45 to 2:15pm

New Perspectives in Holocaust Studies

3:00 to 4:30pm

In the Heschel Archives: Material Culture and the Study of Jewish Social Justice Engagement

4:45 to 6:15pm

Israel & Other Societies: Tourism, Politics, Diplomacy

10:00 to 11:30am

Economics and Politics in the Premodern Sephardic World

12:45 to 2:15pm

Reframing Antisemitism in Educational Settings

3:00 to 4:30pm

The "Borders" of Identity: Jews and Others

4:45 to 6:15pm

The Sacred “on the Move”: Mobility and Liminality in the Making of Jewish Objects and Spaces

10:00 to 11:30am

Cantors and Jewish Sacred Sound: New Perspectives

12:45 to 2:15pm

Choreographing Identities, Expanding Jewish Studies

3:00 to 4:30pm

Constructing Identity Through the Performative Languages of Music and Theater

4:45 to 6:15pm

Jewish Respectability Politics

10:00 to 11:30am

Medieval Biblical Exegesis

12:45 to 2:15pm

Life as Journey: Russian/Soviet Jewish Refugees and Migrants

3:00 to 4:30pm

Minorities, Rights, & Belonging in Israel

4:45 to 6:15pm

New Light on the Mortara Affair: Victor Séjour and the Emergence of Transatlantic Emancipations

10:00 to 11:30am

Not for Children? Death, Desire and Identity in Children's Literature and Theater

12:45 to 2:15pm

Of Divided Minds: Conversion Conflicts and Identity Challenges

3:00 to 4:30pm

The Image of Paris in Post-War Jewish Literary Memory

4:45 to 6:15pm

Opposition from the Center to the Margins: New Readings of Yishuv and Early Statehood Literature

10:00 to 11:30am

Social and Scientific Challenges in Medieval Jewish Philosophy

12:45 to 2:15pm

Social Historical Approaches to Medieval Ashkenazic Literature

3:00 to 4:30pm

Spaces of Memory: Expressing ‘Inexpressible’ Trauma

4:45 to 6:15pm

Spatial Approaches to Israel/Palestine Studies

10:00 to 11:30am

Transatlantic Ramifications of the Holocaust Era

12:45 to 2:15pm

The Practice of Jewish Politics, 1492–1880

3:00 to 4:30pm

The Shadow of the Holocaust in South America

4:45 to 6:15pm

The Museum of the Bible as Mediator of Judaism

12:45 to 2:15pm

Jewish Marriage & Divorce in the United States in Transnational Perspective

10:00 to 11:30am

Jewish Languages In Contact

12:45 to 2:15pm

Kabbalah, Art, and Poetry in Contemporary Culture

3:00 to 4:30pm

Kosher Lesbians, Jewelers, Nannies and Brides: Women and Religious Judaism on the Silver Screen

4:45 to 6:15pm

Michael Feige: The Legacy of A Scholar, Colleague and Friend

10:00 to 11:30am

Race, Ethnicity, and Religion in the Study of American Jews

12:45 to 2:15pm

The Pathologies of Jewish Literature

3:00 to 4:30pm

Ottoman Jewish History: The State of the Field

4:45 to 6:15pm

Rabbis and the Rabbinate between Authority and Obedience:

3:00 to 4:30pm

Second Temple Literature and the Bible

4:45 to 6:15pm

Honoring Judith Hauptman: Transforming the Field of Rabbinics

12:45 to 2:15pm

Jewish Thought in America

3:00 to 4:30pm

Reassessing Maurice Samuel

4:45 to 6:15pm

Convert, Moneylender,…Pirate?: Jewish Figures in Romantic Literature and its Afterlives

4:45 to 6:15pm

Three Centuries of American Judaism

10:00 to 11:30am

The Art of Nostalgia in Ancient Jewish Literatures

12:45 to 2:15pm

Spain’s Recent Law of Sephardic Return: Refractions of Memory in Modernity

3:00 to 4:30pm

Yiddish Studies Beyond Borders

4:45 to 6:15pm

(Il)legal Dialogues: Jews and Law in a Global Perspective post-1945

10:00 to 11:30am

30+ Years of the Women's Caucus: Reflecting on Gender and the AJS

12:45 to 2:15pm

Interpreting the Bible: Text and Context

3:00 to 4:30pm

Wherefore Spinoza?

4:45 to 6:15pm

The Cosmic Body: human and divine

10:00 to 11:30am

Sephardi-Mizrahi Connections: Beyond Regional Borders

12:45 to 2:15pm

Interpreting Biblical Law

3:00 to 4:30pm

“Against the “Inarticulate Yes”: Revisiting Leo Strauss’ Search for Meaning in the Wake of German Nihilism”

4:45 to 6:15pm

Politics, Theology, and Community in Early Twentieth Century Jewish Thought

10:00 to 11:30am

Pogroms in Context: Reassessing Anti-Jewish Violence in Eastern and East Central Europe

12:45 to 2:15pm

Methodological Boundaries and the Field of Rabbinics: Interruptions from Philosophy**

3:00 to 4:30pm

Jews and Refugee Politics

4:45 to 6:15pm

Jews, Law and Trade in the Eighteenth Century