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Eleven UMass Amherst faculty and students will present papers or chair panels at the upcoming Association for Jewish Studies 50th Annual Conference

(Boston, Seaport Hotel & World Trade Center)

December 16-18, 2018

 

Information on their sessions is below.

 

The full program is found here:

AJS 50th Annual Conference

 

Sunday, December 16

 

10am - 11:30am

 

1.1 Teaching the Holocaust in the Age of Trump

Jonathan Skolnik (discussant)

 

1.12 Aharon Applefeld’s “Secret” Languages

James E. Young (chair)

 

1.14 Fragmented Experience: Toward a Poetics of Trauma

Susan Ellen Shapiro (chair)

 

4:15pm - 5:45pm

 

3.12 Teaching Through Film: Jewish Humor

Olga Gershenson (discussant)

Catherine Portuges (discussant)

 

Monday, December 17

 

10:30am - 12pm

 

5.3 Jewish Music: Engaging With the Past: Looking Into the Future

Olga Gershenson (chair)

 

5.5 Trauma Between Remembering and Forgetting in Israeli Literature and Culture

Rachel E. Green (presenter, “Filiation as Promise and Peril: Transcultural Memory and Ambivalent Intersubjectivity in Shira Geffen’s Boreg”)

 

1:15pm - 2:45pm

 

6.1 The Past, Present, and Future of American Jewish Studies

Joshua Lambert (moderator)

 

6.17 Communal, Rabbinic, and Judicial Authority in Flux: Law as Lived in the Early Modern Kehillah

Jay R. Berkovitz (respondent)

 

3pm - 4:30pm

7.5 Questioning Redemptive Narratives in Artistic Productions of the Holocaust

James E. Young (chair)

 

7.12 Racial, Ethnic, and National Identity Construction Among Latin American Jews

Gina Malagold (discussant)

 

9pm - 10:30pm

 

Film Screening: Svetlana Boym: Exile and Imagination (Directed by Judith Wechsler, 2017)

Catherine Portuges (presenter)

 

Tuesday, December 18

 

8:30am - 10am

 

9.13 Perspectives on Israel/Palestine as Academic Framework

Rachel E. Green (discussant)

 

9.15 Jews, Inheritance, and Postwar American Literature

Joshua Lambert (presenter, “Knopf and Atheneum: A Jewish Family Story”)

 

9.18 Toward 1948

Alon Confino (presenter, “Jews, Palestinians, and the Coming of the 1948 War”)

 

10:15am - 11:45am

 

10.4 Graduate Student Lightning Session: Modern Jewish History in Europe and Israel

Lara Curtis (respondent)