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Annual Lecture Series

  • Past Events
    • 2011-2012 Events
    • 2012 - 2013 Events
      • Arab and Jewish Women in Kentucky: Stories of Accomodation and Audacity
      • Comparative Perspectives on Minority-Majority Relations in Israel
      • Is Theory Good for the Jews? Jew Splitting in Judith Butler's Parting Ways
      • Looking Down from the 'Tip of the Yud': Judah Leib Gordon's Critique of Rabbinic” Culture in Late Imperial Russia.
      • My Pekar Years (2004-2012): Creating Comix and Exploring Judaism with "Our Man"
      • The Making of an Icon: Black Harlem and the Jewish Lower East Side
    • 2013 - 2014 Events
      • A History of Judaism Through Comix
      • A Night of American-American Jewish Culture
      • An Interview with Ron Leshem, Conducted by Tikva Meroz-Aharoni
      • Becoming Frum: How Newcomers Learn the Language and Culture of Orthodox Judaism
      • Hearing Jesus' Parables as Jewish Stories
      • How Jews and Christians Read Scripture Differently
      • Ladino Music Transformed from Yesterday to Today
      • Languages, Dialects, or Repertoires? Approaches to Ethnic Language with a Focus on Jewish English
      • Perelman's Dissociations: Double Fidelite, Fighting the Nazis, and the New Rhetoric Project's Canon of Invention
      • Reform Response and the Limits of "Acceptable" Reform Practice
      • Roman and the Unknown Holocaust
      • The Humility of God in Rabbinic Judaism
      • Visual Narratives in Illustration and Digital Media
    • 2014 - 2015 Events
      • Gefilte Fish & Couscous
      • Kosher / Soul? Black-Jewish Identity Cooking
      • Paradise Lost and Found
      • Pilgrimage in a Tourist Age: The Case of Birthright Israel and Shaping of Jewish Identity
      • Searching for Zion: The Quest for Home in the African Diaspora
      • Shepharad at the Tip of Africa
      • Start Up Army
      • The Israelite Samaritan Today: Past, Present and Looking to the Future
      • The Lisbon Workshop's Hispanic Society Bible: Jewish Art and Identity on the Cusp of Modernity
      • The Significance of Being First; Competing: Jewish and Arab Discourses
    • 2015 - 2016 Events
      • How and Why Did Jewish Art Flourish in Late Antiquity
      • Jews & Booze
      • Kentucky Synagogue Architecture in National Perspective
      • Kentucky's Jewish Profiles in Courage
      • Sacred Music Hits the Israeli Pop Charts
      • The Jewish Community of Zimbabwe
      • The Revolution Continues: Women Rabbis and the Future of Gender in Judaism
      • Wild American Things?
    • 2016 - 2017 Events
      • "Together Forever"?: Strange and Storied Alliances Between Hindus and Jews/India and Israel
      • A Preacher in Exile: Shemaryahu Levin and the Making of American Zionism 1914-1919
      • Arms & the Manosphere
      • Beyond Hebrew: Jews, Nationalism, and Language Diversity in Palestine and Israel
      • Black, White, and Jews All Over
      • Burn Your Blessings: Media, Immediacy in Jeiwhs Prayer in the Mishnaic and the Digital Era
      • Decency and Envy: Womanhood and Motherhood in the Israeli National Narrative
      • Discussion with Professor Reuven Firestone on Muslim-Jewish Relations
      • Distilling and Defining the Jewgrass
      • Imagining the Kibbutz
      • Make Your Own Siddur: Keeping Praxis Personal through Open-Source Prayerbooks
      • Why Can't I Be Somebody Else?: Jewish American Writing and Identity Politics
    • 2017 - 2018 Events
      • From Saving Soviet Jews to Being Saved by Them
      • The Politics of American Zionism, 1967 - 2017
      • We Shall Do and We Shall Understand: The Afterlives of a Biblical Verse and the Birth of Embodied Theology

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