• UM Frankel Center Event – Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race, Religion, Gender and Sexuality

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    Katrina Daly Thompson, University of Wisconsin – Madison Robert Phillips, Ball State University Edwige Crucifix, Bryn Mawr College Shanon Shah, King's College London With Adi Saleem Bharat, University of Michigan  JMRN Register at: https://myumi.ch/qgDEy   This roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical […]

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  • Frankel Center Religion and Critical Theory: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin

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    Asad Dandia In what ways can modern religious traditions come into constructive dialogue with critical theory? This Frankel Center lecture in collaboration with the Jewish-Muslim Research Network will seek to explore that question by looking at the concepts of time, history, and human agency in the thought of two 20th century thinkers, one Muslim and […]

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  • UM Frankel Center Event – Amina Boukail

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    Jews of Algeria in Light of Modern Studies: Major Trends and New Horizons Amina Boukail, University of Jijel-Algeria   Register for this virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/RWq4G In this talk, Amina Boukail outlines the development of contemporary scholarship on Algerian Jews. In doing so, she offers a critical examination of contemporary research on Algerian Jews in several […]

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