The Granovsky-Gluskin Graduate Program in Jewish Studies presents
The Schwartz-Reisman Graduate Student Conference
Sunday, April 26–Monday, April 27, 2015
Jackman Humanities Building, Room 100
170 St. George Street
All disciplines involve some manner of reading, whether the texts that we read are historical events, people, data, or documents. In the
various approaches used by graduate students in Jewish Studies, how do we read, and for what purposes? At this year’s Schwartz-Reisman
Graduate Student Conference, ten PhD students from our collaborative program in Jewish Studies will present their research as we explore
a variety of Jewish texts—specifically, identities, culture, the Jewish nation, and textbooks—and consider the ways in which we read them.
Sunday, April 26
4:00pm–6:00pm
Keynote Lecture
Prof. Hindy Najman (Yale University), “Philology, Philosophy, and Ancient Jewish Wisdom”
Monday, April 27
8:30am–9:00am
Breakfast
9:00am–9:15am
Welcoming Remarks
9:15am–10:45am
Panel I: Reading Identities
Chair: Amy Marie Fisher (Religion). Respondent: Prof. Ato Quayson (Diaspora & Transnational Studies,
English)
Michael Newmark (History), “A Successful Liberal Experiment: The Republic of Krakow and Jewish Civil
Rights”
Burin Yildiztekin (Sociology), “Reading New Distinctions, Hybrid Identities, and Emerging Practices in
Judaism and Islam”
David Belfon (Religion), “Living Texts: Narratively Constituted Identities of Formerly Hasidic Jews”
10:45am–11:00am Break
11:00am–12:30pm Panel II: Reading Culture
Chair: Laura Hare (Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations). Respondent: Prof. Angelica Fenner (German)
Yaniv Feller (Religion), “A Different Dialogue: Leo Baeck and Martin Buber”
Dan Deutsch (Music Theory), “The Non-Symphonic Symphony as Critique: Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde”
Jackie Rothstein (English), “Vital Living: Theatricality, Women, and Work in Edna Ferber and George S.
Kaufman’s Stage Door”
12:30pm–1:30pm
Lunch
1:30pm–2:30pm
Panel III: Reading the Jewish Nation
Chair: Noam Lemish (Jazz Performance). Respondent: Dr. Asaf Angermann (Philosophy)
David Polansky (Political Science), “To Make a Great Nation: The Jews and the Transformation of Political
Community in Early Modern Political Thought”
Nimrod Lin (History), “Zionist Attitudes towards the Legislative Council, 1922–1936”
2:30pm–2:45pm
Break
2:45pm–3:45pm
Panel IV: Reading Textbooks
Chair: Jon Neufeld (History). Respondent: Prof. Piotr Wróbel (History)
Liza Futerman (Comparative Literature), “Looking Back in Fear: Reasoning the Absence of Maus from the
Israeli Literary Canon”
Evan Dokos (History), “A Nation without a State: Jewish Representation in German Textbooks (1871–1918)”
3:45pm–4:00pm
Break
4:00pm–5:00pm
Roundtable and Discussion: Reading Together
Chair: Dr. John Screnock (Near & Middle Eastern Civilizations)
Panelists: Brigidda Bell (Religion), Joanna Krongold (English), Amir Lavie (Information),
Hannah Mayne (Anthropology), Josh Tapper (European, Russian & Eurasian Studies)
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