The Jewish Studies Colloquium
The Jewish Studies Colloquium is an active intellectual space at UVA that brings together Jewish Studies faculty and graduate students for monthly conversations over lunch. At each colloquium a Jewish Studies faculty member or visiting scholar gives a presentation on current research, followed by a lively conversation.
February 3, 2025
Online/Offline Radicalization
Sophia Solomon, Politics and Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
March 19, 2025
Hermann Cohen and German Protestant Neo-Kantianism
Roderich Barth, University of Leipzig
April 23, 2025
Are There Great Houses in Jewish Fiction?
Caroline Rody, English
September 18, 2024
Jewish Women in America Comedy
Grace Kessler Overbeke, Columbia College Chicago
October 30, 2024
Heterotopic Hospitality: The Politics of a Hasidic Pilgrimage
Sam Shuman, Religious Studies
February 7, 2024
Why is This (K)night Different: Passover, Blood, War, and the Conflict Between Jewish and American Identity in Jo Sinclair's Wasteland and Dara Horn's All Other Nights
Ohad Reznick, Middle Eastern & South Asian Languages & Cultures
March 21, 2024
Multireligious Approaches to the Holocaust: Insights, Tensions, and Discoveries From 30 Years in the Field
Victoria Barnett, Holocaust Studies
April 19, 2024
Stanley Kubrick: Movies, Masculinity, Jewishness
David Mikics, University of Houston
September 20, 2023
To Honor Father and Mother: Filial Piety in a Hebrew Adaptation of the Tales of the Buddha
Jessica Andruss, Religious Studies
October 18, 2023
The Concept of Terror in the Writings of Paul Gilroy and Hannah Arendt
Isaac Ariail Reed, Political & Social Thought and Sociology
November 15, 2023
Second-Hand Modernism: The Janus-Faced Echo Chamber of Migrant Translation
Joshua Miller, English