Future Events

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) 2021 Surjit Singh Lecture, "Navigating Topographies of Belonging and Difference: Contemporary Shared Sacred Sites in the Mediterranean"

Co-sponsored Event

April 05, 2021 / 12:00 pm / Add to Google

Online, to register for the event please visit the Graduate Theological Union event webpage

Karen Barkey, Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity, Professor of Sociology, University of California, Berkeley

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) is pleased to announce that Dr. Karen Barkey, Haas Distinguished Chair of Religious Diversity and Professor of Sociology at the University of California, Berkeley, will be presenting the 2021 Surjit Singh Lecture on April 5, 2021 at 12 pm PT. Dr. Barkey is the director of the Center for Democracy, Toleration […]

The Graduate Theological Union (GTU) 2021 Surjit Singh Lecture, "Navigating Topographies of Belonging and Difference: Contemporary Shared Sacred Sites in the Mediterranean"

In the Shadows of Whiteness: Race, Religion, and Radicalization in the Time of Pandemics

Public Forum on Religion and Pandemic

March 05, 2021 / 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm / Add to Google

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Terence Keel, Associate Professor in the Department of African American Studies and Institute for Society and Genetics, UCLA, and Osagie K. Obasogie, Haas Distinguished Chair and Professor of Bioethics in the Joint Medical Program and School of Public Health, UC Berkeley

While the recent January 6th insurrection at the Capitol can be seen as a culmination of a longer history of racialized violence and white nationalism in the United States, the failure to unilaterally condemn it at the top levels of government exposes a critical turning point in the state of U.S. politics and society today. […]

In the Shadows of Whiteness: Race, Religion, and Radicalization in the Time of Pandemics

Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora: The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir

Toleration in Comparative Perspective Conference

Marva Shalev Marom | Jews and Race Series

Co-sponsored Event

December 03, 2020 / 4:00 pm / Add to Google

Online, to register for the event please visit the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union event webpage

Marva Shalev Marom, PhD student, Stanford Graduate School of Education, concentration for Education and Jewish studies (EdJS) and Race Inequality and Language in Education (RILE)

Marva Shalev Marom is a PhD student at Stanford Graduate School of Education, in the concentration for Education and Jewish studies (EdJS) and Race Inequality and Language in Education (RILE). Since 2006, Marva created educational initiatives with marginalized youth in Israel. She founded a music center in Jaffa, near Tel Aviv, working predominantly with Jewish Ethiopian […]

Marva Shalev Marom | Jews and Race Series

Paul Nahme | Jews and Race Series

Co-sponsored Event

November 12, 2020 / 4:00 pm / Add to Google

Online, to register for the event please visit the Richard S. Dinner Center for Jewish Studies at the Graduate Theological Union event webpage

Paul E. Nahme, Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University

Paul E. Nahme is the Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Brown University. His areas of interest are modern Jewish thought, German-Jewish cultural and intellectual history, modern Rabbinic thought, French post-structuralism, theories of affect and emotion, and critical race theory. His research focuses on the relationships between identity, affect, race, religion, and nationalism. For […]

Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land

Co-sponsored Event

November 09, 2020 / 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm / Add to Google

Online, to register for the event please visit the UC Berkeley Center for Jewish Studies event webpage

Nurit Stadler (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) in conversation with Ron Hassner (UC Berkeley)

Voices of the Ritual, published with Oxford Universtiy Press is an analysis of the revival of rituals performed at female saint shrines in the Middle East. In the midst of turbulent political contention over land and borders, Nurit Stadler shows, religious minorities lay claim to space through rituals enacted at sacred spaces in the Holy Land. Using ethnographic […]

Voices of the Ritual: Devotion to Female Saints and Shrines in the Holy Land

Reimagining Nationalism: Yael Tamir In Conversation with Daniel Sargent

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