02/17/2017 - Steven Weitzman, a professor in the University of Pennsylvania’s department of religious studies, will present a lecture titled “The Double Helix of Jewish History: Genetics and the Search for the...
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04/18/2016 - The Program in Jewish Culture and Society and the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies organized a special visit from Peter Balakian, a 2016 Pulitzer Prize-winning Armenian American...
02/11/2016 - The Krouse Family Visiting Scholars in Judaism and Western Culture Fund made another exciting visit possible this year. Dagmar Herzog a Distinguished Professor at the CUNY Graduate Center, and her...
09/23/2015 - A wonderful collaboration took place on September 21, 2015, at the Krannert Art Museum in Champaign-Urbana. The UIUC Program in Jewish Culture and Society teamed up with the Krannert Art Museum (and...
08/20/2015 - We are delighted to announce that Sayed Kashua, an Israeli writer of Palestinian descent and a singular presence in the world of literature and culture has agreed to stay at the University of...
09/06/2012 - Historians have long been interested in patterns of human movement. Throughout history, people have had to move to survive, either through regular circuits that bring them to communities and...
