Jewish Studies Public Programs Calendar

All times MST (Arizona) unless otherwise noted. Schedules subject to change.

Pre-registration is required for all events via the links provided, so we may easily notify you of any unplanned schedule adjustments.

This year’s programming is offered in partnership with the Martin Pear JCC. Together, we are building connections, enhancing accessibility to ASU programs, and advancing the social and cultural well-being of the local community.

2021-2022 Public Conferences

Jewish-Muslim relations through the ages: co-existence and conflict

The Lowe Family Conference

Sunday, October 17, 2021
10 a.m.–6 p.m. (MST) via Zoom
free and open to all

info and registration

Since the rise of Islam in the seventh century, Jews and Muslims have lived in close proximity, collaborating, interacting and cross-influencing each other. This conference examines the development of Jewish-Muslim interaction over time, with special attention to the difference between pre-modern and modern periods, and highlighting the confluence of social, economic, political, cultural, and religious dimensions. The conference contends that understanding the past is conducive to addressing the challenges of the present and the future. World-renowned historians, sociologists and scholars of religious studies will examine the past and present of Jewish-Muslim relations.

Judaism and public health: living in the shadow of pandemics

Judaism, Science and Medicine Group

Sunday, March 27, 2022
9 a.m.–5:30 p.m. (MST) via Zoom
free and open to all

info and registration

The COVID-19 pandemic, which has upended the life of all people worldwide, is still raging, despite the invention of a vaccine against the virus. The annual Judaism, Science, and Medicine Group (JSMG) conference will reflect on the COVID-19 pandemic from historical, sociological, legal, philosophical, and ethical perspectives. Special attention will be paid to clinical and practical lessons learned since the beginning of the pandemic, and the diverse responses of the Jewish community to the pandemic. Through interdisciplinary examination of accumulated data, the conference will reflect on the past and future of living in the shadow of pandemics.

2021 Public Programs

Religion and science: religion and trust

series | Religion and science

Adam Cohen
Psychology, ASU

October 5 | 7 p.m.
via Zoom | registration required

Jewish Studies Public Programs Calendar

2021-2022 Public Conferences

Jewish-Muslim relations through the ages: co-existence and conflict

Judaism and public health: living in the shadow of pandemics

2021 Public Programs

Religion and science: religion and trust

Religion and science: religion’s role in human evolution

Campus antisemitism: where, when, and why Jews are targeted

Conscious history: Polish Jewish historians before the Holocaust and today

The impossible art of survival: the poetry of Paul Celan

Ghost writing: Phillip Roth, Franz Kafka and Bruno Schulz

Poetry and prose after Auschwitz: a roundtable

They changed my name: immigration myths and mythologies

Challenges in Jewish Ancestral Research

2022 Public Programs

Rabbis of the Talmud

Rabbis of the Middle Ages

Down from our pedestal and up from the laundry room: Jewish women and the feminist revolution

Rabbis of Early Modernity

Reading the Bible with ancient Jews and Christians

Toward Judaism and Christianity: processes of separation

Identities and Categories in Jewish Antiquity

Why do people discriminate against Jews?

The silence of the Pope: Pius XII and the SS roundup of Rome’s Jews

New perspectives on dancing Jewish

Purim revenge fantasy

Drunk with Genocide. Drinking Rituals and the Intoxication of Mass Murder in Nazi Germany

Gender, genocide, and White Supremacy

From Samarkand to the Valley of the Sun: the history and culture of the Bukharan Jews