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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
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
Tuesday, December 11, 2018
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:
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)