TRANSNATIONAL TRANSFORMATIONS: HOW THE CIRCULATION OF POPULATIONS, IDEAS, AND TEXTS HAS SHAPED JEWISH LIFE IN THE AMERICAS

Email para Contato
menkis@mail.ubc.ca
Local
University of British Columbia - Vancouver, Canada. Peter Wall Institute for Advanced Studies, University Centre, 6331 Crescent Road, Room 307.
Descrição
This interdisciplinary conference, to be held July 16 and 17, 2019 at the University of British Columbia, will explore the usefulness of a transnational perspective on all aspects of Jewish life in the Americas. Through individual papers and group discussion, we will discuss such questions as: What new research methods can be used to illuminate Jewish life in the Americas from a transnational and multidisciplinary perspective? How should we consider the interplay of socioeconomic, political, religious and cultural frameworks in determining the settlement patterns and nature of Jewish-associated life in the various cultures of the Americas, North and South? How do Jewish institutions in the Americas interact across national borders as well as with regional and world systems?

Organizing Committee:
Robert H. Abzug
Judit Bokser Liwerant
Sergio DellaPergola
Naomi Lindstrom
Richard Menkis (Chair)
Nathan Lucky (Graduate assistant)

Schedule Day 1: Tuesday July 16, 2019

0945 Welcome
Prof. Eagle Glassheim, Head, Department of History (UBC)

1000-1200 Opening keynotes
Bokser Liwerant, Judit (Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Mexico City) “Jews in the Americas: globalization, diasporas and transnationalism”
DellaPergola, Sergio (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) “Jewish migrations and identities in the Americas: the shared and the particular”

1245-1400 Populations in motion
Waldinger, Roger (University of California, Los Angeles) “The transnational turn in migration studies and its implications for the study of Jewish life in America”
Phillips, Bruce (Hebrew Union College, Los Angeles) “Left behind? Jews and inner ring suburbs”

1415-1600 Transnational texts
Anctil, Pierre (University of Ottawa) “Yiddish literature in the Americas after the 1905 Russian insurrection”
Gordan, Rachel (University of Florida, Gainesville) “What the Bible means for Jews”
Ringuet, Chantal (Research Associate at the Hadassah-Brandeis Institute) “Reflections, including work-in-progress”

1615-1730 Politics and citizenship
Rom, Michael (Yale University, New Haven CT) “Bahia is not Prague: Brazilian Jewish politics and the transnational cold war”
Weinfeld, Morton (McGill University, Montreal) “Transnationalism and suspect minorities: Canadian Jews, Israel, and the challenges of dual identities”

Schedule Day 2: Wednesday July 17, 2019

0900-1015 Religion
Fainstein, Daniel (Universidad Hebraica, Mexico City) “Transnationalism, religious mutations and Jewish life in the Americas: the tensions between particularism and universalism”
Limonic, Laura (State University of New York Old Westbury) “Transnational Chabad: Chabad across the Americas”

1030-1145 Cultural creativity
Lindstrom, Naomi (University of Texas at Austin) “Ariel Dorfman: the trajectory of a transnational and Inter-American Jewish intellectual”
Wassner, Dalia (Hadassah-Brandeis Institute, Brandeis University, Waltham MA) “Mexican art by Jewish American women: the transnational Mexican Renaissance”

1245-1415 Conclusions and discussions
Abzug, Robert H. (University of Texas at Austin) “Reflections on the conference and the way forward”
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