Jewish Studies Luncheon Workshops
The highly successful Jewish Studies Program Luncheon Workshop Series is now entering its fourth year. The workshops, which are generally held 2-3 times a semester on a Wednesday from noon to 1:30 in Newcomb Hall, have become a signature event of Jewish Studies at UVa. It draws faculty and students from across the University and from very different departments. A vegetarian or kosher box lunch is available to participants who register in advance.
2008-2009 Academic Year Luncheon Workshops
September 24, 2008
Alison Weber, Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
“‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do’: Jesuits and Conversos in Sixteenth-Century Spain”
November 12, 2008
Daniel Weiss, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Religious Studies
"The Novelistic Side of the Religion of Reason: Re-reading Hermann Cohen through Bakhtin"
February 4, 2009
Greg Schmidt Goering, Department of Religious Studies
"Visual and Aural Modes of Perception in Jewish Wisdom Literature"
March 11, 2009
Manuela Achilles, Department of German Languages and Literatures and Department of History
"Democrat, Martyr, Jew: Walther Rathenau in the Weimar Republic"
April 1, 2009
Anat Helman, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor
"Fashion, Anti-Fashion, and Ideology in 1950s Israel"
2007-2008 Academic Year Luncheon Workshops
Wednesday, September 19, 2007
Joel Rubin, Assistant Professor of Music and Director of Music Performance
“‘It Sounded Greek to Me’: Naftule Brandwein, Dave Tarras, and the Shifting Aesthetics
of the Contemporary Klezmer Movement”
Wednesday, October 17, 2007
Jennifer Geddes, Research Associate Professor of Religious Studies and
Co-Program Director and Permanent Fellow, Institute for Advanced Studies in Culture
“Holocaust Testimony and the Ethics of Scholarly Response”
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Tal Alon Mozes, The Technion, Israel, Visiting Scholar at the School of Architecture
“Between Rural Ethos and Urban Development: The Emergence of the first Hebrew Town
in Modern Palestine”
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Johanna Drucker, Robertson Professor of Modern Media Studies
“Alphabet Origins: Myths and Misperceptions”
Wednesday, March 19, 2008
James Loeffler, Assistant Professor of History
“Richard Wagner's Jewish Music: Reflections on Anti-Semitism
and Aesthetics in Modern Jewish Culture”