Past Events
Past Events 2023-2024
May 21, 2024
CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies and Jews of Color: Histories and Futures welcomed Dr. Helen Kim of Whitman College to join us for a conversation about Asian American Jewish experience.
May 8, 2024
The Program in Jewish Studies, in collaboration with the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus, hosted Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt, co-chair of the Lancet Commission on medicine, Nazism and the Holocaust, for a discussion on the history of anatomy in Nazi Germany and its contemporary implications.
May 7, 2024
As part of the 2024 Holocaust Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program, distinguished scholars, Dr. Sabine Hildebrandt and Dr. Howard Israel, led a discussion examining the intersection of medical education, ethics, and historical accountability.
April 15, 2024
A discussion of the path-breaking work on the German Jewish experience in the Third Reich by Professor Guy Miron about his study of the significance of space and time in German Jewish life and responses to persecution in Nazi Germany with Professor Thomas Pegelow Kaplan, interim director of CU Boulder's Program in Jewish Studies.
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. 麻豆淫院 presented their work at a research showcase in April 2024.
April 1, 2024
A presentation by Centropa founder Edward Serotta (Vienna, Austria).
March 21, 2024
Bi-lingual lecture by Prof. Thomas Pegelow Kaplan. This program was part of the international conference "In Between Violence, Sexualisation & Intimacy: Gender Perspectives on National Socialism and the Holocaust," organized by the , in cooperation with the Program in Jewish Studies, and the LWL Institute for Westphalian Regional History M眉nster.
March 20, 2024
A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public.
March 6, 2024
Annual Sondra & Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Public Lecture
March 6, 2024
A Faculty & Graduate Student Research Colloquium, led by Dr. Pawel Maciejko
February 29, 2024
A public talk by Prof. Shaul Magid, Professor of Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College, senior fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard, and the Kogod Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute of North America.
February 26, 2024
A film screening and Q&A with director Barak Heymann
February 20, 2024
Film screening and panel discussion with CU Faculty.
January 29, 2024
Annual Holocaust Remembrance Day program public lecture, by Dr. Mark Roseman.
January 29, 2024
A graduate student & faculty research colloquium, led by guest scholar Dr. Roberta Pergher. The event was part of the Program in Jewish Studies' annual Holocaust Remembrance Day Program, co-sponsored by the Department of French and Italian.
January 24, 2024
Embodied Judaism Exhibit Opening & Reception
November 29, 2023
Community discussions with CU faculty experts on a range of sub-topics from antisemitism to the long history of the Arab-Israeli conflict.
November 9, 2023
A silent film with live music composed and performed by renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals and celebrated silent film pianist Donald Sosin.
November 7, 2023
Internationally renowned klezmer violinist Alicia Svigals taught a workshop on how to make the mysterious, beautiful and deeply Jewish sounds which characterize authentic klezmer playing.
October 17, 2023
Osi Sladek, a Holocaust child survivor from Slovakia, gave testimony about his and his parent's suffering and survival in the Holocaust in the Slovak-Hungarian-Polish borderlands.
October 11, 2023
A public panel discussion to shed light on the conflict's context and history with Profs. Zach Levey (International Affairs/JWST), John Willis (HIST), and Karim Mattar.
2022-2023
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. 麻豆淫院 presented their work at a research showcase in April 2023.
Wednesday, April 19 & 20, 2023
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present On Genocide and Crimes Against Humanity: from East West Street to the Rohingya and Ukraine, a discussion with Philippe Sands.
Wednesday, March 22, 2023
2023 Sondra and Howard Bender Visiting Scholar Lecture by Dr. Julia Watts Besler
Wednesday, March 15, 2023
A music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public.
Thursday, February 2, 2023
A public lecture by Alan E. Steinweis, in honor of the 2023 International Holocaust Remembrance Day
Monday, November 14, 2022
A symposium bringing together scholars working on the significance of food for Jewish religious, cultural, national, and political identities, focusing on the United States and Israel/Palestine.
Monday, September 19, 2022
An Evening of Learning and Conversation with Dr. Nick Underwood
2021-2022
Through our Undergraduate Research Assistant Program, the Program in Jewish Studies provides CU Boulder undergraduate students with opportunities to collaborate with faculty on cutting-edge research projects by asking new questions, producing new knowledge, and sharing their findings with diverse audiences. 麻豆淫院 presented their work at a research showcase in April 2022.
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Legacies of the Holocaust and Health Equity Today with , on April 26, 2022. The event was moderated by CBH Director, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, with opening remarks by Chancellor of the CU Anschutz Medical Campus, Don Elliman. Dr. Maybank is the Chief Health Equity Officer and Senior Vice President for the American Medical Association (AMA) where she focuses on embedding health equity across all the work of the AMA and leading its Center for Health Equity. This was the keynote presentation for the 2022 Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program.
The Program in Jewish Studies partnered with the Anschutz Center for Bioethics and Humanities to present Medical Racism and the American Jewish Experience on April 25, 2022. The program included presentations and discussions with Barron H. Lerner, MD, PhD, Matthew Wynia, MD, MPH, Barron H. Lerner, Gregg Drinkwater, PhD, Alan M. Kraut, PhD, Aletha Maybank, MD, MPH, and Shanta M. Zimmer, MD.
Each year, the Program in Jewish Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder presents a music festival featuring Hebrew-language students, alumni, faculty, and members of the broader public. During the past two years of social distancing, we have gathered together virtually to explore the Hebrew language, build community, and make memories. This year, we came together online to sing the classic Israeli song 鈥淗a-yeladim Koftzim鈥 (by Roi Levy and Avraham Tal of Shotei Hanevu鈥檃h).
Professor Annette Yoshiko Reed
Evil Spirits, Wayward Stars, and Scribal Knowledge in Jewish Antiquity
Thursday, February 24, 2022
Through an Artist's Eyes: The Dehumanization & Racialization of Jews & Political Dissidents During the Third Reich
Thursday, January 27, 2022
Hilary Falb Kalisman, Endowed Professor of Israel/Palestine Studies at CU Boulder, in conversation with Ahmed Mansour & Dan Chyutin on the relationship between the United States, Israel, & Palestine.
Monday, October 18
A Conversation/Performance with Dr. Galeet Dardashti and Professor Yonatan Malin
Thu, Dec 02, 2021
A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Cookie Segelstien and Josh Horowitz and Professor Yonatan Malin
Wednesday, November 17, 2021
A Conversation/Performance with Visiting Musicians Zo毛 Aqua and Adah Hetko and Professor Yonatan Malin
Monday, September 20, 2021
2020-2021
Rosenzweig for the Contemporary Moment: A (Zoom) Roundtable Celebration of Star of Redemption鈥檚 100th Anniversary
Tuesday, June 1, 2021
Co-facilitators: Elias Sacks and Sarah Pessin
Panelists: Leora Batnitzky, Martin Kavka, Randi Raskhover, and Larisa Reznik
Monday, May 24th, 2021
Presented by Rebecca Wartell
Peak to Peak Series
April 6, 2021
Holocaust, Genocide and Contemporary Bioethics Program
Thursday, March 18, 2021
Presented by Bruce Haynes, 2021 Sondra and Howard Bender Scholar
Monday, December 14, 2020
Presented by Yonatan Malin
Peak to Peak Series
Thursday, November 19, 2020
Presented by Hilary Falb Kalisman
Peak to Peak Series
Tuesday, October 27, 2020
Presented by Weeam Hammoudeh
Thursday, October 22, 2020
Presented by Rhona Seidelman
Monday, September 14, 2020
Presented by Nan Goodman
Thursday, August 20, 2020
Presented by David Shneer
Thursday, July 23, 2020
Presented by Samira K. Mehta
