2024-2025 Events Schedule
Please join us for our upcoming community event series.
Most events will be held at the Sonja Haynes Stone Center starting at 5:30pm but please check back in early September for final event details (start time, room location.)
These events are free and open to the public, and we very much hope you will join us.
Fall 2024
Kaplan Brauer Lecture in Jewish Studies
Sept 16, Molly Zahn, Yale University
Scribes as Authors in the Dead Sea Scrolls
Note: start time might change, check back in early September for updates.
Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Oct 28, Derek Penslar, Harvard University
Decentering the 1948 Palestine War
Spring 2025
Emerging Scholar Talk
Feb 3, Alison Curry, dept. of history
Title TBA
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience
Feb 13, James Loeffler, Johns Hopkins University
A Pogrom in Chicago: Antisemitism and Free Speech in Modern America
Emerging Scholar Talk
Feb 24, Seong Choi, dept. of religious studies
Title TBA
Kalimian Family Lecture in Sephardic Judaism
Mar 3, 6:00pm, Tabea Linhard, Washington University in St. Louis
Beautiful Friendships: Jewish Refugee Writers in Mexico
Note: start time is 6pm
Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lecture in Jewish Studies
Mar 24, Anna Hájková, University of Warwick
The Last Ghetto: An Everyday History of Theresienstadt
Additional events, including our remote Emerging Scholars lectures, will be scheduled for this upcoming academic year.