Workshops

2020/2021

• 03/01/2021 - HGMS: Kishinev D.C. with Professor Peter Fritzsche
• 11/09/2020 - PJCS & Krouse workshop: Sound Monument, Concentration Camp Plaszow, Poland with Karolinna Ozog
• 10/26/2020 - Book Launch with Rini Mehta
• 10/19/2020 - Lunch & Learn with Ashager Araro: Discussion of Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Movements in Israel
• 10/12/2020 - HGMS:  Key Words for an Intersectional Approach to Memory and Trauma Studies
• 09/14/2020 - Bryan Roby (Michigan) How Race Travels: Viewing Israel through a Colored Lens

2019/2020

• 03/09/20 - Michele Koven (Illinois) "Narrating the Legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul of Bordeaux in June 1940: Intersections of Personal, Familial, National, and International Memory Projects"
• 02/10/20 - Dr. Ioannis Tsekouras (Illinois) "Pastures of Love and Mountains of Sacrifice. Pontic Parakathi singing and the memory of violence."
• 02/03/20 - Akiva K. Segan  "From Metaphoric Wings to Allegorical Sea-monsters"
• 12/12/19 - Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham, UK) “A Nice Jewish Boy who Believes in Jesus:” Fear, Fury, and the Campaign against Messianic Judaism in Britain
• 12/09/19 - Dr. Maggid Alon (Israel) "Exodus or Expulsion: Reconstructing the past of the Jews of Egypt in the 20th Century"
• 11/04/19 - Leora Batnitzky (Princeton)  "Between Ancestry and Belief: 'Judaism' and 'Hinduism' in the Nineteenth-Century"
• 10/24/19 - Philippe Mesnard (Clermont Auvergne)  "Primo Levi: Between Testimony and Fiction"

2018/19

• 04/09/19 - Nicole Krauss (Author) "Radical Amazement," from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion and a fragment of her recent novel, Forest Dark.
• 04/01/19 - Adam Sutcliffe (King's College, London) "Thinking About the Politics of Jewish Purpose."
• 03/04/19 - David Myers (UCLA) Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York
• 02/18/19 - Jean-Philippe Mathy (Illinois)  "Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France." 
• 01/28/19 - Brett Kaufman (Illinois) "Israelite Technology and Trade in the Iron Age"
• 12/03/18 - Avital Livny (Illinois) Historical Diversity Predicts Contemporary Tolerance: The Cultural Legacy of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey
• 11/02/18 - Elli Stern (Yale) Anti-Semitism and Jewish Body Politics: An Analysis of Leon Pinsker's Auto-Emancipation  
• 10/29/18 - Beth Benedix (DePauw) Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story
• 10/01/18 - Ned O'Gorman (Illinois)  “Where is the Nuclear Sovereign?”
• 9/17/18 - Rick Esbenshade (Illinois) "'Pulp Memory'? The Holocaust in Hungarian Mass-Market Socialist Literature, 1956-70"

2017/18

• 04/16/18 - Mark Steinberg (Illinois)  "In the Shadow of Benya Krik? Jews, the Street, and Socialism in 1920s Odessa"
• 04/09/18 - Julia Cohen (Vanderbilt University) "The Past as a Foreign Country: Sephardi Jews and the Spanish Past"
• 02/12/18 - Anke Pinkert (German, Illinois)  "Public Memory Underground: Photographs of the 1953 Worker’s Uprising in East Germany"
• 01/25/18 - Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University) "'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria During WWI"
• 12/14/17 - Peter Frizsche (History, Illinois)  "Where was God?"
• 11/29/17 - Ariella Azoulay (Brown University) "Ariella Azoulay Workshop"
• 11/13/17 - Sara Feldman (Illinois)  "Pushkin in Jewish Culture"
• 11/09/17 - Mara Thacker (Illinois)  "Illustrating History: Maus, Memory, and Me"
• 10/30/17 - Tim Wedig (Global Studies, Illinois)  "The Use of Narrative in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"
• 10/02/17 - Seth Sanders (University of California, Davis)  "Ruin the Sacred Truth: The Problem of the Torah for Religion and Literature"
• 09/27/17 - Scott Spector (University of Michigan)   "Sigmund Freud Between 'Jewish Science' and Humanism"
• 09/19/17 - Psoy Korolenko and Daniel Kahn (Klezmer Musicians)  "The Unternationale: Dialectical Polyglot Klezmer Cabaret" 
• 09/11/17 -  Ranen Omer-Sherman (JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville) "The Crisis of the Individual and the Community in Kibbutz Narrative"

2016/17

• 9/19/16 - Susan Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• 9/26/16 - Josh Lambert (University of Massachusettes, Amherst)
• 1/17/17 - David Hadar (Freie Universitat Berlin)
• 2/6/17 - Karen Underhill (University of Illinois at Chicago)
• 2/13/17 - Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan)
• 2/20/17 - Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania)
• 2/27/17 - Maud Mandel (Brown University)
• 4/17/17 - Eric Calderwood (Illinois)

2015/16

• Sasha Senderovich (University of Colorado, Boulder)
• Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto)
• 2/8/16 - Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York Graduate Center)
• Jonathan Druker (Illinois State University)
• Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago)
• 11/17/15 - Shaul Magid (Indiana University)

2014/15

• 4/13/15 - Sara Blair (U of Michigan)
• 3/9/15 - Martin Kavka (Florida State University)
• Lisa Lampert-Wessig (UC San Diego)
• 10/28/14 - Nancy Miller (CUNY)
• 2/24/15 - Avinoam Naeh (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
• 2/17/15 - Vassili Schedrin (University of Florida)

2013/14

• 2/17/13 - Paul Mendes-Flohr (U of Chicago)
• Brett Kaplan (Illinois) 
• Harriet Murav (Illinois) 
• Dov Weiss(Illinois)    
• Bruce Rosenstock (Illinois)
• Jacqueline Vayntrub (Illinois) & Rob Jennings (U of Chicago)
• Na'ama Rokem (U of Chicago)
• Christine Hayes (Yale U)
• Grit Schorch (Tel Aviv U)
• Claudia Koonz (Duke U)
• Erica Lehrer (Concordia U) & Magda Waligórska (U of Bremen)
• Jonathan Druker (Illinois State U)
• Aziza Khazzoom (Indiana U)

2012/13

• Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford U)
• Alexander Etkind (Cambridge U) 
• Carol Zemel (Art History, York U) 
• Samuel Moyn (Columbia U)    
• Joseph Cedar (Filmmaker, Tel Aviv) 
• Matan Hermoni (Writer, Tel Aviv)
• Eric McKinley (History, Illinois) 
• Emanuel Rota (Italian, Illinois)
• David Kazanjian (English, U of Pennsylvania)
• Julie Cooper (Political Science, U of Chicago)
• Amir Eshel (German, Stanford U)
• David Anthony (English, Southern Illinois U)
• Guy Ben-Ner (Artist, Tel Aviv)
• Sara Horowitz (Jewish Studies, York U)    
• Anna Maria Lorusso (Philosophy, U of Bologna) 

2011/12

• Eugene Avrutin (History, Illinois) 
• Ron Leshem (Writer, Tel Aviv) 
• Azzan Yadin (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)    
• Susan Suleiman (Comparative Literature, Harvard U) 
• Ilan Troen (Israel Studies, Brandeis U)   
• Sharon Portnoff (Religion, Connecticut C) 
• Sigal Gooldin (Anthropology, Hebrew U) 
• Mia Spiro (Jewish Studies, Northwestern U) 
• Eitan Bar-Yosef (English, Ben Gurion U) 
• James Loeffler (History, U of Virginia) 
• Hasia Diner (History, NYU) 
• Steven Zipperstein (History, Stanford U)
• Yael Zerubavel (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U) 

2010/11

• Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Writers, Tel Aviv) 
• Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois) & Yasemin Yildiz (German, Illinois) 
• Sarah Stein (History, UCLA)    
• Judith Halberstam (English, USC) 
• Rhona Seidelman (History, Illinois)   
• Sam Fleischacker (Philosophy, UIC) 
• Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, NYU) 
• Christina Stanciu (English, Illinois) 
• Lauren Goodlad (English, Illinois) 
• Sidra Ezrahi (Comparative Literature, Hebrew U) 
• Peter Fritzsche (History, Illinois) 
• Todd Hasak-Lowy (Hebrew, U of Florida)
• Alon Confino (History, U of Virginia) 

2009/10

• Naomi Seidman (Graduate Theological Union & U of California at Berkeley)
• Andrew Demshuk (History, Illinois) 
• Rachel Harris (Comparative Literature, Illinois)    
• James Young (English & Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, U of Massachusetts at Amherst) & Shimon Attie (Artist, Brooklyn) 
• Irit Linur (Writer, Tel Aviv)    
• Elana Jakel (History, Illinois) 
• Zia Miric (English, Illinois)
• Jeffrey Shandler (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
• Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt U)
• Elisabeth Friedman (Art History, Illinois State U) 
• Issam Nassar (History, Illinois State U)
• Dalya Bilu (Translator, Jerusalem) 

2008/09

• Dale Bauer (English, Illinois)
• Margaret Ewing (Art History, Illinois) 
• Michael Rakowitz (Art, Northwestern U)    
• Asaf Ashery (Writer, Jerusalem) 
• Robert Pinsky (Poetry, Boston U)    
• Ethan Katz (History, U of Wisconsin, Madison) 
• Eugene Avrutin (History, Illinois) & Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Alaina Pincus (English, Illinois) 
• Jeffrey Lesser (History, Emory U)
• David Biale (History, U of California, Davis)
• George Gasyna (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Michael Berkowitz (Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London) 

2007/08

• Virginia Dominguez (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Yosef Gorny (History, Tel Aviv U)   
• Anna Kushkova (History, St. Petersburg U)
• Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)   
• Orly Castel-Bloom (Writer, Tel Aviv)
• Monique Balbuena (Comparative Literature, U of Oregon)
• Anna Parkinson (German, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) 
• Jack Hutchens (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)

2006/07

• Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
• Andrew Demshuk (History, Illinois)
• Gail Hareven (Writer, Tel Aviv)
• Valery Dimshits (Yiddish, Illinois Wesleyan U) 
• Gene Avrutin (History, Illinois)
• Hana Wirth-Nesher (Writer, Tel Aviv)
• Seth Wolitz (Yiddish, U of Texas)
• Lindsay Kaplan (English, Georgetown U)
• Gary Weissman (German, U of Cincinnati)
• Erica Lehrer (History, Concordia U)
• William Brustein (Sociology, Illinois)

2005/06

• Joshua Shanes (History, Illinois) 
• Rita Simon (Sociology, American U) 
• Rachel Havrelock (Jewish Studies, U of Illinois at Chicago) 
• Brett Kaplan (Comparative Literature, Illinois) & Luke Batten (Art + Design, Illinois)
• Erica Lehrer (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Jeffrey Mehlman (French, Boston U)
• Brad Prager (German, U of Missouri) 
• Yossi Halevi (Journalist, Jerusalem)
• Esther Benbassa & Jean-Christophe Attias (History, Sorbonne) 
• Peter Mark (History, Wesleyan)       
• Gary Porton (Religion, Illinois)
• Ruth Behar (Anthropology, U of Michigan) 
• Jennifer Young (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Margaret Olin (Art History, School of the Art Institute at Chicago)
• Hillel Halkin (Writer & Translator, Jerusalem) 
• Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois)
• Murray Baumgarten (English, U of California at Santa Cruz) 
• Dmitry Tartakovsky (History, Illinois)

2004/05

• Omer Bartov (History, Brown U)
• Matti Bunzl (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
• Frances Raday (Law, Hebrew U)
• Riv-Ellen Prell (American Studies, U of Minnesota)
• Ed Bruner (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Jonathan Druker (Italian, Illinois State University)
• Carsten Shapkow (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
• Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)
• Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
• Grit Schorch (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
• Richard Levy (History, U of Illinois at Chicago)
• Dana Rabin (History, Illinois)
• Rachel Shulman (History, Illinois)
• Ben Nathans (History, U of Pennsylvania)
• Aron Tugendhaft (Social Thought, U of Chicago)

2003/04

• Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth U)
• Dirk Moses (History, U of Sidney)
• Carsten Schapkow (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
• Dianne Harris (Landscape Architecture, Illinois) 
• Martin Przybilski (German, U of Würzburg)
• David Cohen (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
• Alena Heitlinger (Sociology, Trent U)
• Dan Rabinowitz (Anthropology, Tel Aviv U)     
• Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, NYU)
• David Nirenberg (History, Johns Hopkins U)
• David Shneer (History, U of Denver)
• Jonathan Weiss (History, Illinois)
• Yasemin Yildiz (German, Cornell U)
• Bob Markley (English, Illinois)  
• David Goodman (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Illinois)    
• Jonathan Druker (Italian, Illinois State University)
• James Hansen (English, Illlinois) 
• Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois)
• Amy Blau (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Ted Weeks (History, Southern Illinois University)

2002/03

• Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Miri Rubin (History, U of London) 
• Gil Anidjar (Middle Eastern Studies, Columbia U)
• Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies, NYU)
• Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, Oxford U)
• Zachary Lesser (English, Illinois) 
• Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)
• Desanka Schwara (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
• Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
• Alan Rosen (Literature, Bar Ilan U)
• Jeffrey Feldman (Museum Studies, NYU)
• Till van Rahden (History, U of Chicago/U of Cologne)
• Mahir Saul (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Dara Goldman (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Illinois)     
• Brett Kaplan (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• George Fredrickson (History, Stanford U)
• David Shneer (History, U of Denver)
• Yasemin Yildiz (German, Cornell U)

2001/02

• Dan Diner (History, U of Leipzig/ Ben Gurion U)      
• Peter Novick (Hisory, U of Chicago)
• Philip Bohlman (Music, U of Chicago)
• Warren Rosenberg (English, Wabash C)
• Amy Blau (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Albert Lichtblau (History, U of Salzburg)   
• Steven Zipperstein (History, Stanford U)
• Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
• Jean-Claude Kuperminc (Alliance Israelite Universelle, Paris)
• Carl Niekerk (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
• Henry Gerlach (Germanic Languages and Literatures, UIUC)
• Jeffrey Shandler (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
• Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
• Brett Kaplan (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
• Ania Loomba (English, Illinois)
• Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois) & Neil Levi (English, Drew U)
• Dean Bell (History, Spertus I)
• Nadia Valman (English, U of Southhampton)

2000/01

• Susannah Heschel (Religious Studies, Dartmouth C)
• Deborah Hertz (History, Sarah Lawrence C)
• Brett Kaplan (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
• Michael Shapiro & Elisabeth Shapiro (English, Illinois)
• Al Baumgarten (Sociology, Bar Ilan U)
• Hanne Trautner-Kromann (Jewish Studies, Lund U)
• Dagmar Lorenz (German, U of Illinois at Chicago)
• Doron Rabinovici (History, U of Vienna)
• Jonathan Skolnik (German, U of Oregon)
• Cliff Spargo (English, Marquette U)
• Susan Kahn (Anthropology, Brandeis U)
• Nancy Berg (Hebrew, Washington U)
• Jeffrey Grossman (German, U of Virginia)
• Rick Esbenshade (History, U of California at Santa Cruz)

1999/2000

• Willis Johnson (Jewish Studies, U of Chicago)
• Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
• Tamar Liebes (Communications, Hebrew U)
• Jack Kugelmass (Anthropology, Arizona State U)
• Jan Schwarz (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
• Tamar El-Or (Anthropology, Hebrew U)
• Gary Porton (Religion, Illinois)
• Achsah Guibbory (English, Illinois)
• Jose Faur (Jewish History, Bar-Ilan U)
• Fred Jaher (History, Illinois)
• Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
• Joel Beinin (History, Stanford U)
• Nina Warnke (Jewish Studies, Indiana U)
• Johannes Heil (Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical U Berlin) 

1998/99

• Sascha Goluboff (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Shelley Wright (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
• Beth Hawkins (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
• Dana Katz (Art History, Illinois)
• Daniel Boyarin (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkley)
• Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
• Dimitri Tartakovsky (History, Illinois)
• Matti Bunzl (Anthropology, Illinois)
• Jan Schwarz (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)