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SUMMARY:HDS Zoom Sleep Success Event
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our Sleep Success Event with HaMorah Bartscht\, Certified Sleep Consultant via Zoom
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/hds-sleep-success-event/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20230108T160000
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SUMMARY:ORT Ann Arbor Movie Group
DESCRIPTION:The Ann Arbor Chapter of ORT America has a robust movie discussion group which meets on the afternoon of the second Sunday of the month\, Participants must be members of ORT and of the movie group. The movies to be discussed and membership information can be found on the ortannarbor.org website.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ort-ann-arbor-movie-group-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:ORT America, Ann Arbor Chapter
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221108T120000
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SUMMARY:New on the Mizrahi Bookshelf: Meet the Scholars
DESCRIPTION:Merav Alush-Levron\, Inbal Blau\, Yali Hashash\, Noa Hazan\, Naphtaly Shem-Tov \n \nThe interdisciplinary field of Mizrahi studies covers a wide array of issues\, approaches\, and methodologies\, illuminating in compellingly diverse ways the intricacies of the Mizrahi experience. This hybrid panel brings together scholars who published invaluable books over the past year\, thus contributing to the expansion of knowledge about the historical\, cultural\, and socio-political dimensions of the Mizrahi experience. The authors will present their new texts\, while also participating in a conversation with the audience about the significant issues raised by their books and the intellectual dialogue they hope to generate. Offering insight into this vital scholarly landscape\, the panel also aims to give a sense of the challenges faced by critical scholars engaging the Mizrahi story within fresh perspectives. \nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/7e8NN
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/new-on-the-mizrahi-bookshelf-meet-the-scholars/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20221025T130000
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Amina Boukail
DESCRIPTION:Jews of Algeria in Light of Modern Studies: Major Trends and New Horizons\nAmina Boukail\, University of Jijel-Algeria\n  \n \nRegister for this virtual event here: https://myumi.ch/RWq4G \nIn 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 languages (Arabic\, French\, Hebrew\, English\, and Spanish) in order to demonstrate how scholarship on the history of Algerian Jews has been impact by and has developed in relation to certain historical processes (French colonialism\, postcolonial French-Algerian relations\, the establishment of the State of Israel\, and the Palestinian cause). \nAmina Boukail addresses a number of questions: What are the trends in recent studies on the topic of Jews of Algeria? How do other factors impact the writing of Algerian Jewish history? What are some new interdisciplinary avenues of exploration on this topic? Are there sufficient studies compared to the studies that deal with the Jews of Tunisia or Morocco? What topics still remain taboo when it comes to the history of Jews in Algeria? \nHer review of the principal currents in the study of Algerian Jews is divided into two sections: First\, the study of Jews in Algeria in France\, the United States\, and Israel; second\, the study of Jews in Algeria in Algerian universities. \nAmina Boukail is an Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature in the Department of Arabic Language and Literature at the University of Jijel in Algeria. She received her Doctorate in Comparative Literature from the University of Annaba in 2016. Her current research interests include: Arabic Medieval literature; Cultural Contacts in Medieval Iberia; Cultural Minorities in the Arab world; Hebrew Cultures in North Africa; Sephardic Literature and Judeo-Arabic Heritage in Algeria; Muslim-Jewish relations in Algeria; Colonialism and Literature.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-amina-boukail/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:Mizrahi Prose and Poetry: Meet the Authors
DESCRIPTION:Tehila Hakimi\, Shlomi Hatuka\, Amira Hess\, Mati Shemuelof\, Yossi Sucary \n \nOffering a glimpse into the vital Mizrahi literary landscape\, this panel will gather several Mizrahi authors of different generations\, backgrounds\, and experiences. These well-known authors will be reading from their invaluable work and engaging the audience in a conversation about their specific texts as well as about their more general struggles and challenges. While aiming at giving a flavor of the wide-ranging aesthetics\, generic\, and stylistic scope of Mizrahi creativity\, the panel\, more broadly\, hopes to give a sense of the intricacies of the Mizrahi story. The reading will be accompanied with English translation to facilitate the discussion with the audience. \nThis is a virtual event.\nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/n8bxy
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/mizrahi-prose-and-poetry-meet-the-authors/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:PH Rosh Hashanah Day II Services
DESCRIPTION:Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEkc–hqjMtHdO9QTz8SZfS5wxBrJoXEhUn \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-rosh-hashanah-day-ii-services/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
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SUMMARY:PH Elul Integrative Practice Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvf-iupjopH9yJzzKiWt-3ZsJWjb6ZFFz7
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-elul-integrative-practice-workshop-4/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Pescador":MAILTO:pescadorarte@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:PH Elul Integrative Practice Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvf-iupjopH9yJzzKiWt-3ZsJWjb6ZFFz7
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-elul-integrative-practice-workshop-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Pescador":MAILTO:pescadorarte@gmail.com
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SUMMARY:PH Shabbat Morning Services
DESCRIPTION:Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZArdu-tpzwrG9OaV6NfnMUAzjYxOA9f5XhW \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the meeting.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-shabbat-morning-services-6/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220906T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220906T203000
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SUMMARY:PH Elul Integrative Practice Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Register in advance for this meeting:\nhttps://us06web.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZEvf-iupjopH9yJzzKiWt-3ZsJWjb6ZFFz7
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-elul-integrative-practice-workshop-2/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Pescador":MAILTO:pescadorarte@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220830T193000
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SUMMARY:PH Elul Integrative Practice Workshop
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-elul-integrative-practice-workshop/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Pescador":MAILTO:pescadorarte@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220828T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220828T203000
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SUMMARY:PH Rosh Chodesh Elul Circle
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-rosh-chodesh-elul-circle/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Lucinda Kurtz":MAILTO:lucinda@lucindakurtz.com
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SUMMARY:PH Rosh Chodesh Elul Online Minyan
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-rosh-chodesh-elul-online-minyan/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Gabrielle Pescador":MAILTO:pescadorarte@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220819T183000
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SUMMARY:PH Kohenet Kabbalat Shabbat
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-kohenet-kabbalat-shabbat-3/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
ORGANIZER;CN="Jane Blumenthal":MAILTO:janeblum@pardeshannah.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220813T100000
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SUMMARY:PH Shabbat Morning Services
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ph-shabbat-morning-services-5/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Pardes Hannah
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220510T193000
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SUMMARY:Life & Legacy Year 2 Training 3
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URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/fed-life-legacy-training/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220331T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220331T133000
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SUMMARY:Frankel Center Religion and Critical Theory: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin
DESCRIPTION:Asad Dandia\n \nIn 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 one Jewish: Muhammad Iqbal and Walter Benjamin. Instead of focusing on questions of “compatibility\,” it will instead look to the generative ways in which creative (re)-interpretations of Muslim and Jewish themes and motifs can offer more capacious avenues for engaging religious traditions with critical theory in the pursuit of a better world. \nAdvanced registration is required: https://myumi.ch/Ek8AM \nAsad Dandia is a student\, teacher\, and organizer with an abiding interest in religious thought\, critical theory\, and radical politics. He is currently Community Program Coordinator at the Council on American-Islamic Relations\, New York (CAIR-NY)\, an urban studies student at CUNY School of Labor and Urban Studies (SLU)\, and teaches at the Brooklyn Institute for Social Research (BISR). He draws from his experience both as an academic and a community organizer to connect theory with praxis on a range of subjects. He graduated Columbia University with an MA in Islamic Studies with a thesis entitled\, “Rethinking Islamic Studies: Muhammad Iqbal’s Philosophy as Decolonial Critique.”
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/religion-and-critical-theory-muhammad-iqbal-and-walter-benjamin/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220325T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220325T140000
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SUMMARY:Frankel Center Event - Secrets Film Series
DESCRIPTION:Join the Jean and Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies for a hybrid film series on the topic of “Secrets.” \nDocumenting Secret Origins\nDr. Deborah Porter\, University of Washington\, Seattle\nMarch 10\, 4pm\nHybrid\nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/G11Qg\nNorth Quad Room 2435 \nDrawing from my research on the impact of family secrets on psychological functioning and organization\, Dr. Porter approaches Michal Weits’ Blue Box and Shir Newman’s How to Say Silence as cultural objects that have much to offer researchers interested in human behavior and motivation. She calls attention to the films’ tacit illumination of a cultural psychology that lies at the foundation of Israelite self-construal and expression. Situating these remarkable films within a broader context of transgenerationally transmitted trauma and a psychology of secrets enhances and deepens our appreciation of the films’ palliative effect. \nMarch 17\, 4pm\nScreening of “Blue Box” by Michal Weits\nChemistry Building Room 1800\nVirtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/UMbR5kqQyYEvz5ay9\nThe link will be available to stream March 17-20 \nMarch 24\, 4pm\nScreening of “How to Say Silence” by Shir Newman\nChemistry Building Room 1800\nVirtual stream registration: https://forms.gle/qPARJYoLajxT7jpL7\nThe link will be available to stream March 24-27 \nMarch 25\, 12pm\nVirtual Panel\nZoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/RWWR8\nThe film screenings will be followed by a virtual panel with Deborah Porter and both of the films’ directors\, Michal Weitz and Shir Newman. \nTrained as a Sinologist\, Deborah Porter’s interdisciplinary research on the impact of shameful family secrets on cultural production spans a wide swath of time and geography\, including Early China\, and fifteenth-and sixteenth-century Western Europe\, Russia and Korea. She has authored From Deluge to Discourse: Myth\, History and the Generation of Chinese Fiction (SUNY 1996); Collective Trauma and the Psychology of Secrets in Transnational Film (Routledge 2018); and most recently The Evolution of Chinese Filiality: Insights from the Neurosciences (Routledge 2022). \nMichal Weits is an Israeli documentary director and producer\, studied at the Sam Spiegel Film & Television School. Former head producer of the leading Israeli documentary Channel 8 (HOT network)\, in charge of highly acclaimed films: “The Law in These Parts”\, “5 Broken Cameras”\, “The Flat”\, and many more. In 2013 Weits Founded ‘Tape Runners’\, an independent production company. ‘Tape Runners’ titles include Production: “WALL” (director: Moran Ifergan)\, winner for the best documentary\, DocAviv film festival 2017. Distribution: “The Decent One”\, “No Place on Earth” and more. BLUE BOX is Weits’ debut film as a director. \nShir Newman\, 30\, is a director and photographer who graduated from Kibbutzim College in cinema. She is a founding member of “Bush” collective for queer-feminist art and works as a coordinator for community arts programs and gallery director.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/frankel-center-event-secrets-film-series-4/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220224T200000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220224T210000
DTSTAMP:20260501T132320
CREATED:20220208T030639Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220208T030639Z
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SUMMARY:Building Social Skills Amid a Pandemic
DESCRIPTION:Nearly two years into the pandemic\, parents are grappling with the monumental impact that Covid-19 has had on our children. Arguably the area hit hardest has been children’s social development.  Children have experienced loss and isolation\, and have been unable to experience many regular social interactions and opportunities to grow play skills that are typically acquired in the elementary years.  \nPlease join Beth Pearson\, consulting psychologist\, and Sara Goldshlack\, HDS resource specialist\, for a parent presentation exploring this topic. We will share details about HDS’ social-emotional curriculum\, which teaches strategies and supports to bolster students’ social skills and contribute to their emotional wellbeing.   \nTo register\, please email office@hdsaa.org
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/building-social-skills-amid-a-pandemic/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Hebrew Day School
ORGANIZER;CN="Hebrew Day School of Ann Arbor":MAILTO:office@hdsaa.org
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220201T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220201T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T132320
CREATED:20211223T182107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211223T182107Z
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SUMMARY:Jewish Blues in 20th-Century Classical Music
DESCRIPTION:Luca Bragalini\n \n\n\n\n\nAn ICAMus (The International Center for American Music) event\, sponsored by MCECS (Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies)\, in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Dept. of Middle East Studies\, University of Michigan \nIn honor of Martin Luther King Day 2022 \nAdvanced Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/t77y66uh \nThe Blues\, an expression of late 19th-century Southern African-American folklore\, is a river with many tributaries. Jazz\, gospel\, pop music with all its branches ranging from Broadway songs to hard rock via rock’n’roll and funk\, are some of them. But there is another stream\, running through the classical music of the twentieth century. Many composers turned their attention to the blues\, and the number of Jewish classical composers who wrote blues is striking. Just to name a few: Castelnuovo-Tedesco\, Milhaud\, Copland\, Gershwin; and Ullmann and Schulhoff who perished in the Shoah. Along this journey significant connections will be discovered between the African American and Jewish musical traditions. \nLuca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia\, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington\, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer\, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland\, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018\, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos\, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music. \nNote on ICAMus \nICAMus-The International Center for American Music http://www.icamus.org/ is a Non-Profit Organization\, established in Florence in 2002. ICAMus is committed to the study\, performance\, and teaching of American music and America’s musical life\, with special attention to pre-Civil War Early American Music. The Center is led by an international Board of Directors and an Advisory Board of specialists in the field\, and is active through concerts\, university courses\, lectures\, conferences\, publications\, recordings\, and radio broadcasts. ICAMus has carried out numerous initiatives in Europe and the United States. It has assembled a special library\, which also includes rare books and manuscripts.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/jewish-blues-in-20th-century-classical-music/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20220127T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20220127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T132320
CREATED:20211223T180811Z
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SUMMARY:Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr. as a Black King of the Bible in Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Triptych “Three Black Kings”
DESCRIPTION:Luca Bragalini\n \n\n\n\n\nAn ICAMus (The International Center for American Music) event\, sponsored by MCECS (Michigan Center for Early Christian Studies)\, in collaboration with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and Dept. of Middle East Studies\, University of Michigan \nIn honor of Martin Luther King Day 2022 \nAdvanced Registration Required: https://tinyurl.com/2zvsappv \nJazz composer\, pianist\, jazz orchestra leader\, and symphonic orchestra conductor\, Duke Ellington also composed some symphonic works of great complexity. Three Black Kings\, a score for ballet\, was his last major work. The first movement represents Balthazar\, the Black king of the Nativity; the second portrays Solomon\, King of Israel; and the third celebrates Dr. Martin Luther King\, Jr.\, Ellington’s personal friend. Luca Bragalini will discuss Martin Luther King’s musical depiction in Three Black Kings\, with an analysis of the implications of the Black King’s imagery in art history\, political thought\, and the importance that religion has had for the African American community. \nLuca Bragalini is Professor of Jazz History at the Music Conservatory of Brescia\, Italy. He has discovered unpublished works by Duke Ellington\, Chet Baker and Luciano Chailly; some of them he has had premièred and recorded. A published author and lecturer\, Professor Bragalini was Distinguished Scholar at Reed College (Portland\, OR) where he offered a series of lectures on Ellington. His book Duke Ellington’s Symphonic Visions—published in Italy in 2018\, with an accompanying CD of première recordings and previously unpublished archival photos\, all contents discovered by Bragalini—is the first volume entirely dedicated to Ellington’s symphonic music. \nNote on ICAMus \nICAMus-The International Center for American Music http://www.icamus.org/ is a Non-Profit Organization\, established in Florence in 2002. ICAMus is committed to the study\, performance\, and teaching of American music and America’s musical life\, with special attention to pre-Civil War Early American Music. The Center is led by an international Board of Directors and an Advisory Board of specialists in the field\, and is active through concerts\, university courses\, lectures\, conferences\, publications\, recordings\, and radio broadcasts. ICAMus has carried out numerous initiatives in Europe and the United States. It has assembled a special library\, which also includes rare books and manuscripts.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/dr-martin-luther-king-jr-as-a-black-king-of-the-bible-in-duke-ellingtons-symphonic-triptych-three-black-kings/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20220110
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20220114
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SUMMARY:Studies in Second Temple Judaism: A Global Enterprise
DESCRIPTION:An International Online Conference (January 10-13\, 2022)\n\n\n\n\nChairs: Kelley Coblentz Bautch\, Rodney Caruthers\, Shayna Sheinfeld\, with Gabriele Boccaccini\, Amy-Jill Levine\, John Collins \nSecretary: Joshua Scott \nLanguage: English \nThe study of Second Temple Jewish history\, practice and belief is a global enterprise. The Frankel Institute for Advanced Studies and the Enoch Seminar have invited 44 scholars from across the globe to present their work and engage in a conversation about the present status and the future prospects of the field. Specialists and students in Biblical Studies\, Judaic Studies\, Classics\, and Christian Origins are invited to attend. \nREGISTER FOR THE EVENT HERE: https://tinyurl.com/n88bjyjj \nProvisional Schedule (EST-New York Time Zone) \nMONDAY\, January 10\, 2022\n8:00am – 8:45am — Welcome & Introduction to the Conference \n8:45am – 9:00am — Break \n9:00am – 11:00am — Session 1 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Tupa Guerra \nHila Dayfani\, Oriel College\, Israel\, “Rethinking the Boundary between the Pre-Samaritan and Samaritan Layers in the Samaritan Pentateuch” \nPaulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira\, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas\, Brazil\, “Apocalypse beyond Dualism: Connectivity and Metamorphose Among Modes of Existence” \nYii-Jan Lin\, Yale University\, USA\, “Apocalypse and Immigration: Cross-Reading the Apocalypse of John and U.S. Immigration History” \nLerato Mokoena\, University of Pretoria\, South Africa\nDiscussants: Angela Kim Harkins\, Daniele Minisini \n11:00am – 12:00am — Break \n12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 2 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Cecilia Wassen \nElisa Uusimäki\, Aarhus University\, Denmark\, “Tracing Travel in the Ancient World” \nAtar Livneh\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, Israel\, “Tresses and Distresses: Literary and Social Aspects of Women’s Hair in Second Temple Jewish Literature” \nMagdalena Diaz Araujo\, Argentina\, “A Genealogy of Desire: Eve and Sexual Desire in Second Temple Judaism” \nChontel Syfox\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, USA\, “Leah and the Construction of Idealised Femininity in the Book of Jubilees” \nDiscussants: Vicente Dobroruka\, Emily Gathergood \n2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break \n3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 3 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Gregg Gardner \nDeborah Forger\, University of Michigan\, USA\, “The Luminous Bodies of God in Ancient Jewish Tradition” \nJonathan Lo\, Ambrose University\, Calgary\, Canada\, “Didactic Authority in the Desert: Reading Matthew’s Temptation Narrative through the Lens of Scribal Culture” \nLisa Bowens\, Princeton Theological Seminary\, USA\, “Apocalyptic Reverberations in the Writings of Martin Luther King\, Jr.” \nDiscussants: Joan Taylor\, Gonzalo Alers \nTUESDAY\, January 11\, 2022\n8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session \n8:45am – 9:00am — Break \n9:00am – 11:00am — Session 4 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Liv Ingeborg Lied \nDaniel Maier\, University of Zurich\, Switzerland\, “Lost in Transmission: The Apocalypse of Peter in its Different Traditions and their Chances for a Better Understanding of Early Christian Paradise Conceptions” \nAnna Nürnberger\, Australian Lutheran Seminary\, “Coping with Intrapersonal Religious Struggles in Early Judaism” \nFiodar Litvinau\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\, “Wisdom and Her Children: A New Reading of the Sophia-Sayings in Synoptic Tradition in Light of the Parables of Enoch” \nSofanit Abebe \nDiscussants: Esther Chazon\, Anthony Nwosu \n11:00am – 12:00am — Break \n12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 5 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Giovanni Bazzana \nEshbal Ratzon\, Tel Aviv University\, Israel\, with Lee-Ad Gottlieb\, Jakub Zbrzeżny\, and Dimid Duchovny\, “Using Machine Learning for Detecting Babylonian Influence on the Aramaic of the Dead Sea Scrolls” \nMarieke Dhont\, University of Cambridge\, United Kingdom\, “The Greek Expression of Jewish Identity in the Hellenistic Era” \nShlomi Efrati\,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven\,\nElizabeth Evans Shively\, University of St Andrews\, Scotland\, “A Stream of Exegetical Tradition in Mark’s Passion Narrative: Integration of Scripture with an Isaianic Hermeneutic” \nDiscussants: Melissa Harl Sellew\, Chance McMahon \n2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break \n3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 6 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: John Kampen \nKylie Crabbe\, Australian Catholic University\, “‘The lame I will make a remnant’ (Mic 4.7): Use and erasure of mobility impairments in postexilic pilgrimage imagery” \nRodney Caruthers\, University of Michigan\, USA\, “From King Solomon to Tacitus: Jewish Tradition in Ethiopia during the Second Temple Period”\nElisabeth Cook\, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana\, Costa Rica\, “Rehabilitating Yhwh: Divine Masculinity in the Book of Ezra” \nPatrick Pouchelle\, “Interpreting Psalms during the Late Second Temple Period” \nDiscussants: Annette Yoshiko Reed\, Ericka Dunbar \nWEDNESDAY\, January 12\, 2022\n8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session \n9:00am – 11:00am — Session 7 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Michael Langlois \nMarcela Zapata Meza\, Universidad Anáhuac\, México\, “The Magdala settlement: Daily life in the 1st Century (Second Temple Period)” \nAsaf Gayer\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, “Follow the Fibers: A Fresh Look on 4Qpap Ritual of Marriage (4Q502)” \nRobert Myles\, Wollaston Theological College\,“Class Conflict in Galilee Under Antipas” \nLayang Seng Ja\, Kachin Theological College and Seminary\, Myanmar\, “Jesus in Relation to Pharisaic Halakha\, National and Religious Judaism in the Late Second Temple Period” \nDiscussants: Daniel Assefa\, Ingrid Breilid Gimse \n11:00am – 12:00am — Break \n12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 8 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Sylvie Honigman \nAlma Brodersen\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Bern University\, Switzerland\, “Ancient Intertextuality Beyond the Bible” \nCatherine Bonesho\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, USA\, “Cleopatra VII Philopator in Early Jewish Imagination” \nMacarena García\, Universidad Complutense\, “Medical and Pharmacological Issues in Jewish Pseudepigrapha and the Dead Sea Scrolls” \nJoseph Scales\, United Kingdom\, “Women and Elders in Late Second Temple Period Literature” \nDiscussants: Gerbern Oegema\, Joshua Scott \n2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break \n3:00pm – 5:00pm — Session 9 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Judith H. Newman \nJiSeong James Kwon\, University of Lausanne\, Switzerland\, “Did Wisdom become Torah in the Hellenistic period?” \nLiane Feldman\, New York University\, USA\, “Sacrificing Torah: The Myth of Cultic Centralization in Second Temple Literature” \nGareth Wearne\, Australian Catholic University\, “4QReworked Pentateuch\, Genre\, and Authority: A Sydney Perspective” \nM Adryael Tong\, Interdenominational Theological Center\, USA\, “Beyond Religious Difference: Re-evaluating the Teleological Underpinnings of Second Temple Judaism” \nDiscussants: Joseph Marchal\, Elena Dugan \nTHURSDAY\, January 13\, 2022\n8:00am – 8:45am — Recap Session \n8:45am – 9:00am — Break \n9:00am – 11:00am — Session 10 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Ananda Geyser-Fouche \nAmsalu Tefera\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\, “Representation of Uriel as the Helper of Biblical and Ethiopian Intellectuals: the Case of Homiliary of Uriel“ \nPeter Nagle\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\, “Theological Framing in the Cognitive Context of Sirach: Mapping the Term κύριος and θεός” \nMirjam Bokhorst\, University of Halle-Wittenberg\, “The Name of God and the Institution of the Sanctuary in the Animal Apocalypse (1 En. 85-90): An Intertextual Reading with the Priestly Pentateuch” \nOren Ableman\, Israel Antiquities Authority\, Israel\, “Rewriting the Empire: Reinterpreting Anti-Imperial Narratives from the Hebrew Bible in Second Temple Judaism” \nDiscussants: Gabriella Gelardini\, Iñaki Marro Sánchez \n11:00am – 12:00am — Break \n12:00pm – 2:00pm — Session 11 PANEL (4 papers\, 20 min. each + 5–7 min. discussants + discussion) \nChair: Grant Macaskill \nFederico Adinolfi\, Italy\, “John and Jesus: Glimpses into a Second Temple Jewish Purification Movement” \nShayna Sheinfeld\, The University of Sheffield\, United Kingdom\, “Pacifism as Leadership in Jewish Antiquity” \nEsther Brownsmith\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Norway\, “‘Why Do You Transgress?’: Non-Binary Biblical Readings of Mordecai and Beyond” \nIsaac Soon\, Crandall University\, Canada\, “(Not) Intermingled with Shameful Bodies: Josephus and Philo on the Nondisability of Moses” \nDiscussants: Francis Borchardt\, Jasmine Eleanor Foo \n2:00pm – 3:00pm — Break \n3:00pm – 4:45pm — Wrap-Up Session (The Chairs and The Frankel Institute Fellows + general discussion) \n4:45pm – 5:00pm — Conclusions (15 min.) \nConfirmed Speakers: \nSofanit Abebe\nOren Ableman\, Israel Antiquities Authority\, Israel\nFederico Adinolfi\, Italy\nMagdalena Diaz Araujo\, Argentina\nDaniel Assefa\, Ethopia\nGabriele Boccaccini\, University of Michigan\, USA\nMirjam Bokhorst\, University of Halle-Wittenberg\nCatherine Bonesho\, UCLA\, USA\nFrancis Borchardt\, NLA Høgskolen\, Norway\nLisa Bowens\, Princeton Theological Seminary\, USA\nAlma Brodersen\, Postdoctoral Researcher\, Bern University\, Switzerland\nEsther Brownsmith\, MF Norwegian School of Theology\, Norway\nRodney Caruthers\, University of Michigan\, USA\nEsther Chazon\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Israel\nJohn J. Collins\, Yale University\, USA\nElisabeth Cook\, Universidad Bíblica Latinoamericana\, Costa Rica\nKylie Crabbe\, Australian Catholic University\nHila Dayfani\, Oriel College\, Israel\nPaulo Augusto de Souza Nogueira\, Pontificia Universidade Católica de Campinas\, Brazil\nMarieke Dhont\, University of Cambridge\, United Kingdom\nVicente Dobroruka\, Brazil\nShlomi Efrati\,Katholieke Universiteit Leuven\nLiane Feldman\, New York University\, USA\nDeborah Forger\, University of Michigan\, USA\nMacarena García\, Universidad Complutense\nAsaf Gayer\, Hebrew University of Jerusalem\nLayang Seng Ja\, Kachin Theological College and Seminary\, Myanmar\nJiSeong James Kwon\, University of Lausanne\, Switzerland\nAmy-Jill Levine\, Vanderbilt University\, USA\nYii-Jan Lin\, Yale University\, USA\nAtar Livneh\, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev\, Israel\nFiodar Litvinau\, Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München\nJonathan Lo\, Ambrose University\, Calgary\, Canada\nDaniel Maier\, University of Zurich\, Switzerland\nMarcela Zapata Meza\, Universidad Anáhuac\, México\nLerato Mokoena\, North West University\, South Africa\nRobert Myles\, Wollaston Theological College\nPeter Nagle\, Stellenbosch University\, South Africa\nJudith H. Newman\, University of Toronto\nAnna Nürnberger\, Australian Lutheran Seminary\nPatrick Pouchelle\nEshbal Ratzon\, Tel Aviv University\, Israel\nJoseph Scales\, United Kingdom\nShayna Sheinfeld\, The University of Sheffield\, United Kingdom\nElizabeth Evans Shively\, University of St Andrews\, Scotland\nIsaac Soon\, Crandall University\, Canada\nChontel Syfox\, University of Wisconsin-Madison\, USA\nJoan Taylor\, King’s College London\, United Kingdom and New Zealand\nAmsalu Tefera\, Addis Ababa University\, Ethiopia\nM Adryael Tong\, Interdenominational Theological Center\, USA\nElisa Uusimäki\, Aarhus University\, Denmark\nGareth Wearne\, Australian Catholic University
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/studies-in-second-temple-judaism-a-global-enterprise/
LOCATION:Online
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211209T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211209T140000
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Queer Jews and Muslims: A Roundtable on Race\, Religion\, Gender and Sexuality
DESCRIPTION:Katrina Daly Thompson\, University of Wisconsin – Madison\nRobert Phillips\, Ball State University\nEdwige Crucifix\, Bryn Mawr College\nShanon Shah\, King’s College London\nWith Adi Saleem Bharat\, University of Michigan \n JMRN \nRegister at: https://myumi.ch/qgDEy \n  \nThis roundtable brings together scholars from a range of disciplinary backgrounds in the humanities and social sciences to reflect on historical and contemporary representations and experiences of queer Jews and Muslims in a wide range of geographies. By placing the question of gender and sexuality at the heart—and not merely as a subsection—of (ethno-)religious identities and spiritualties\, the speakers queer normative understandings of Jewishness/Judaism and Muslimness/Islam in order to broaden the horizon of Jewish and Muslim coexistence and\, perhaps more importantly\, co-resistance. \nKatrina Daly Thompson (she/they) is Professor of African Cultural Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison\, where she is also the Director of the Program in African Languages\, and a core faculty member in Second Language Acquisition. She holds additional affiliations in Anthropology\, Gender & Women’s Studies\, Religious Studies\, Folklore\, and the Middle East Studies Program. Her research uses critical ethnography and critical discourse analysis to examine African and Muslim discourse\, with specific projects in Zimbabwe\, Tanzania\, North America\, and online. Her third monograph\, Misfits\, Rebels\, and Queers: An Ethnography of Muslims on the Margins\, is under contract with NYU Press. \nRobert Phillips is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program at Ball State University. He lectures on ethnographic methods and the anthropology of religion and technology with much of his empirical research conducted in India and Singapore. Most recently\, Phillips has published Virtual Activism: Sexuality\, the Internet\, and a Social Movement in Singapore (University of Toronto Press\, 2020). Currently\, Phillips is looking at how queer and Jewish individuals are embracing alternative models in the healing of individual and collective trauma. \nDr. Edwige Crucifix is a scholar of Modern and Contemporary Francophone literature\, specializing in gender studies and postcolonial theory. Her current book project explores mechanisms of identity construction in colonial society in the works of French and North African women. Her research and teaching stems from an interdisciplinary interest in modes of cultural resistance\, explored in previous publications dedicated to modernist aesthetics\, nineteenth-century bourgeois taste\, and inter-war Jewish identity. \nDr. Shanon Shah conducts research on minority religions and alternative spiritualities at the Information Network Focus on Religious Movements (Inform)\, based at King’s College London\, and is Tutor in Interfaith Relations at the University of London’s Divinity programme. He is also the Director of Faith for the Climate\, a faith-inspired network of climate justice activists\, and an editor at Critical Muslim\, the flagship quarterly publication of the Muslim Institute (a London-based educational fellowship). \nAdi Saleem Bharat is an LSA Collegiate Fellow and\, from Fall 2022\, an assistant professor in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan. He is also an Honorary Research Fellow at the University of Manchester’s Center for Jewish Studies. His research examines the intersection of race\, religion\, gender\, and sexuality in contemporary France\, with a focus on Jews and Muslims. He is currently working on a manuscript tentatively titled Beyond Jewish-Muslim Relations\, which examines and challenges the construction of a polarized\, oppositional category of “Jewish-Muslim relations” in media and political discourse in France.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-queer-jews-and-muslims-a-roundtable-on-race-religion-gender-and-sexuality/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211112T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211112T170000
DTSTAMP:20260501T132320
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Religion and Materiality: Re-thinking a Complex Relation from the Angle of Food
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Birgit Meyer \nThe concern of the material turn in the study of religion is to allow for fresh\, detailed and conceptually challenging empirical research that lends itself to comparison. Compared to objects\, images or buildings\, so far food has received little attention in this research strand. Exploring Feuerbach’s ideas about the stomach as the basis for his materialist philosophy\, I argue that food is a material form that allows us to throw new light on the physical and corporeal dimensions of religion. I explore the possibilities for research that arise from a focus on food by turning to a collection of legba-figures that were taken from their site of origin among the Ewe in Ghana and Togo to the Übersee-Museum Bremen\, Germany. My main concern is to explore how food – as a material form at the core of how humans relate to and are part of the world – is a key focus for research aiming to fold materiality back into our understanding of religion. \n  \nBirgit Meyer (PhD in Anthropology\, 1995) is Professor of Religious Studies at Utrecht University\, the Netherlands. Trained as a cultural anthropologist\, she studies religion from a material and postcolonial angle\, seeking to synthesize grounded fieldwork and theoretical reflection in a multidisciplinary setting. Recent book publications include Figuration and Sensations of the Unseen in Judaism\, Christianity and Islam: Contested Desires (2019\, coedited with Terje Stordalen)\, and Refugees and Religion. Ethnographic Studies of Global Trajectories (2021\, coedited with Peter van der Veer). She directs the research program Religious Matters in an Entangled World (www.religiousmatters.nl). \nRegister at https://umich.zoom.us/j/96568104186
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-religion-and-materiality-re-thinking-a-complex-relation-from-the-angle-of-food/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211111T180000
DTSTAMP:20260501T132320
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event - Magic and its Malcontents: Historiography as Heresiology
DESCRIPTION:Shaily Shashikant Patel\, Virginia Tech \n“Strange things circulate below our streets\,” Michel de Certeau writes. For him\, coherent historiographies elide incoherent realities and give the illusion of a past which can be tidily reconstructed. The study of “magic” in early Christian literature illustrates how such scholarly preference for coherence occludes ancient ambiguities. Prevailing methodologies emphasize the “constructedness” of magic\, defining it as a polemical charge levied at theological outsiders. This methodology obtains in early Christian studies even as adjacent fields refine their ideas of ancient magic. Rather tellingly\, this methodology also presupposes that theological insiders exist in our earliest sources. \nIn this talk\, Dr. Shaily Patel\, Virginia Tech\, discuss how these polemical notions of “magic” make historians into heresiologists. Like our ancient counterparts\, we dismiss what troubles the scholarly orthodoxy of nascent Christianity as opposed to magic. Perhaps we agree with de Certeau that history is never sure\, but our methodologies yield the same illusory certainty adopted by heresiologists who helped ossify Christian orthodoxy. Ancient magic exposes our heresiological inclinations and forces us to contend with what lingers below our streets. \n“A history that is never sure is not no history; rather\, it is a history of possibility.” \nRegister here: https://myumi.ch/4pxv3
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-magic-and-its-malcontents-historiography-as-heresiology/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20211108T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Detroit:20211108T230000
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SUMMARY:UM Frankel Center Event – “I Know Who Caused COVID-19":  Pandemics and Xenophobia
DESCRIPTION:  \nSander Gilman\, Emory University \nZhou Xun\, University of Essex \nwith Alaa Murad\, Brandeis University \nOne of the most evident manifestation of the present pandemic has been the blaming of traditional (and non-traditional) out-groups for causing or spreading the virus. The Chinese\, Muslims\, Ultra-Orthodox Jews\, American White Nationalists among other groups have been blamed. Central to our recently published book “I Know Who Caused COVID-19″: Pandemics and Xenophobia (Reaktion Press / University of Chicago Press) is the question of what happens when such groups are blamed and simultaneously at fault? Dr. Gilman and Dr. Zhou examined a series of case studies but closed our book on January 20\, 2021. The story continues past that date to the present and they will address both the first year as well as the present Delta surge in the light of our model of xenophobia and pandemics in this symposium with the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies and the Jewish Muslim Research Network. \nAdvanced Registration Required: https://myumi.ch/Axw1y \nDr ZHOU\, Xun is the reader in History at the University of Essex. Her research interests range from medicine\, health intervention and delivery in modern China to nutrition\, food and narcotics\, and more broadly the political history of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) as well as questions of race and ethnicity. She also have a track record in trans-cultural/global studies and have built up a profile in the history of global health. She is the author of The People’s Health: Health Intervention and Delivery in Mao’s China\, 1949-1983 (McGill-Queen University Press\, 2020)\, the first systematic study on health care and medicine in Mao’s China. From the onset of the Covid-19 crisis\, she has been regularly interviewed by major media outlets from the BBC to the Financial Times\, the Guardian\, the New York Times\, and Aljazeera\, to name a few\, to comment on the outbreak in Wuhan and the Chinese health system as well as to speak on historical correlates of the global pandemic. \nSander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian\, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books. His “I Know Who Caused COVID-19”: Pandemics and Xenophobia (with Zhou Xun) appeared with Reaktion Press (London) in 2021; his most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body (with Youn Kim) published in 2019 with Oxford University Press. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill\, Seeing the Insane\, pu \nblished by John Wiley and Sons in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred\, the title of his Johns Hopkins University Press monograph of 1986\, which is still in print. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties at Cornell University where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago. For four years he was a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine at the University of Illinois at Chicago where he created the ‘Humanities Laboratory.’ During 1990-1991 he served as the Visiting Historical Scholar at the National Library of Medicine\, Bethesda\, MD; 1996-1997 as a fellow of the Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences\, Stanford\, CA; 2000-2001 as a Berlin prize fellow at the American Academy in Berlin; 2004-5 as the Weidenfeld Visiting Professor of European Comparative Literature at Oxford University; 2007 to 2012 as Professor at the Institute in the Humanities\, Birkbeck College; 2010 to 2013 as a Visiting Research Professor at The University of Hong Kong; and recently as the Alliance Professor of History at the Ludwig Maximilian University\, Munich (2017-18). He has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America\, South Africa\, The United Kingdom\, Germany\, Israel\, China\, and New Zealand. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He has been awarded a Doctor of Laws (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997\, elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin (2000)\, an honorary member of the American Psychoanalytic Association (2007)\, and made a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2016). \nAlaa Murad is a PhD candidate in history at Brandeis University focusing on the Middle East and North Africa. Her current research focuses on the appropriation of classical and medieval Islamic texts in Arabic popular history and historical fiction during the19th-century. She is interested in the didactic aspects and socio-political characteristics of nahḍa intellectualism as well as in the competing historical claims over national and religious identities emergent during the same period. Murad holds a Joint MA in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies and Conflict and Coexistence Studies from Brandeis University.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-i-know-who-caused-covid-19-pandemics-and-xenophobia/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Educational,UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:“Was Paul an Apocalyptic Jew? A Case in Jewish Diversity in the Second Temple Period”
DESCRIPTION:Conference Chairs: Gabriele Boccaccini; Lisa Bowens; Emma Wasserman; Loren Stuckenbruck \nSecretary: Joshua Scott \nPaul of Tarsus was born\, lived and died a Jew. Raised as a Pharisee\, he then joined the early Jesus movement\, a first-century Jewish apocalyptic and messianic group. Paul became one of the most vocal leaders of the new movement and promoted its expansion among the gentiles. The conference\, organized by the Enoch Seminar and the Frankel Institute for Advanced Judaic Studies\, aims to move Pauline research to a further stage\, beyond reclaiming Paul to Second Temple Judaism and proving that “he was not Lutheran.” By taking Paul’s Jewishness as a shared starting point\, the conference explores the figure of Paul within Second Temple Judaism in a line of continuity with the Jewish apocalyptic tradition (and the Enochic tradition in particular)\, not as an apostate of Judaism but as part of the vibrant Jewish diversity of the time. \nThe conference will not be aimed at a general audience\, but will instead bring together a group of selected specialists. It will be a workshop with discussion sessions introduced by oral presentations by specialists\, more than a series of papers. The goal is to gather all major specialists working in the field and have plenty of time for discussion. \nFor more information\, contact the conference secretary\, Joshua Scott (scottjos@umich.edu). \nRegister for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/p6kr29j5 \nParticipation is limited to members of academia. As this meeting is closed to the general public\, the registration process is not automatic; please be patient if there is a delay in the receipt of your registration. \n  \nSchedule\nMONDAY Oct 25\, 2021: \n9am-11am — Opening session: Paul & Apocalypticism \nJohn J. Collins & Emma Wasserman (panelists)\, Gabriele Boccaccini (respondent) \n11:30am-1:30pm — Session One: “The Origin of Evil\, the Devil\, and the Triumph of God on Evil Forces” \nLisa Bowens\, Matthew Goff\, Kelly J. Murphy\, Jamie Davies (1)\, Maston (2) \n2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Two: ” Paul’s Apocalyptic Messianism “ \nLoren Stuckenbruck\, L. Ann Jervis\, Alexandra Brown\, James Waddell\, J. Thomas Hewitt (1)\, Joshua Garroway (2) \n  \nTUESDAY\, Oct 26\, 2021: \n9:30am-11:00am — Session Three: Paul and the Torah in an Apocalyptic Perspective \nMatthew Novenson\, Mark Kinzer (1)\, Joshua Garroway (1)\, Maston (3) \n11:30am-1:30pm — Session Four: “Justification\, Forgiveness\, Judgment\, and Salvation” \nMagnus Zetterholm\, Matthias Henze\, Davies (2)\, Maston (4) \n2:30pm-4:30pm — Session Five: “No longer Jew or Greek\, slave or free\, male or female: Gender\, ethnicity and social status in apocalyptic perspective” \nJoseph Angel\, Laura Dingeldein\, Ishay Rosen-Zvi (respondent). J. Thomas Hewitt (2)\, Mark Kinzer (2) \n  \nWEDNESDAY\, Oct 27\, 2021: \n9:30am-11:00am — Session Six: “Paul’s ‘Conversion’ within Judaism: an Apocalyptic Jew and a (Former?) Pharisee” \nGerbern Oegema\, Mark Nanos\, James Maston\, Joshua Garroway (3) \n11:30am-1:00pm — Session Seven: “Paul within Paganism (Paula Fredriksen\, chair)” \nJennifer Eyl\, Stephen Young\, Matthew Sharp\, Matthew Thiessen \nRespondents: Stanley Stowers\, Paula Fredriksen \n2:30pm-4:30pm — Wrap-up session: what’s next?
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/was-paul-an-apocalyptic-jew-a-case-in-jewish-diversity-in-the-second-temple-period/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:The Three Paths to Salvation of Paul the Jew
DESCRIPTION:A Virtual Book Review of Gabriele Boccaccini’s Paul’s Three Path’s to Salvation \nWhat did Paul\, as an apocalyptic Jew and follower of Jesus\, think about the concept of Salvation? Paul did not convert nor break with his inherited traditions but was part of the lively diversity of Second Temple Judaism. Boccaccini’s ‘Paul’s Three Paths to Salvation’ is an attempt to reconcile the many facets of Paul’s complex Jewish identity while reclaiming him from accusations of intolerance. Boccaccini’s work in reestablishing Paul as a messenger of God’s mercy to sinners is an important contribution to the ongoing conversation about Paul’s place in the contemporary pluralistic world. \nThis review panel includes an introduction by the author (Gabriele Boccaccini)\, review presentations by Lisa Bowens (Princeton Theological Seminary)\, Isaac Oliver (Bradley University)\, Matthew Novenson (University of Edinburgh)\, Cecilia Wassen (Uppsala University)\, and Emma Wasserman (Rutgers University)\, followed by an open dialogue among participants. \nRegister for this virtual event here: https://tinyurl.com/a3szndvk \nContact judaicstudies@umich.edu for further information.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/um-frankel-center-event-the-three-paths-to-salvation-of-paul-the-jew/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:UM Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ORGANIZER;CN="University of Michigan Frankel Center for Judaic Studies":MAILTO:JudaicStudies@umich.edu
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SUMMARY:JCC: Annual Meeting & Year in Review
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Ann Arbor JCC for its annual meeting and year in review. We will reflect on an innovative year of programming that pivoted online as in person was still not possible\, as well as celebrate the success of opening our ECC and Camp\, and more! \nClick here at 7pm on June 29th to join the event.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/jcc-annual-meeting-year-in-review/
LOCATION:Online
CATEGORIES:Jewish Community Center of Greater Ann Arbor
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Detroit:20210623T183000
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SUMMARY:ORT Book Group Book Selection
DESCRIPTION:The ORT Book Group is open to all women who are members of ORT America. The group generally meets at the JCC at 7:30\, but is convening via zoom at this time. Members are asked to pay a $25 fee to belong\, a portion of which supports the chapter. Checks for book group membership should be sent to Hanna Goodstein\, 635 Ridgewood Ct.\, Ann Arbor 48103.\nFor more information\, write Gretta Spier at a2gretta@mac.com. \nBooks will be chosen for the 2021-22 academic year at this annual meeting. In the past\, this has been a potluck. Only members can vote on selections. Note the earlier starting time.
URL:https://www.jewishannarbor.org/event/ort-book-group-book-selection/
LOCATION:Online
ORGANIZER;CN="Gretta Spier":MAILTO:Gretspier@gmail.com
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