[Uwhistory] BOUNDARIES OF JEWISH IDENTITY -- SYMPOSIUM (fwd)

[Lori Anthony]

Announcement of Upcoming Symposium
All events are free and open to the public

BOUNDARIES OF JEWISH IDENTITY
A 2 day symposium bringing together perspectives from literature, Jewish law, 
medical anthropology, the social sciences, and popular culture to explore 
ongoing debates about who and what is "Jewish"

May 13 & 14, 2007
University of Washington

Co-Chairs: UW Professors Susan Glenn, (History) & Naomi Sokoloff, (NELC)

Opening Session:
Sunday, May 13, 7:00 - 9:00 PM
UW Hillel,  4745 - 17th Ave. NE

Who Is A Jew? Creating and Contesting Boundaries

Presenters:
Susan Martha Kahn, (Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard)
Are Genes Jewish? Conceptual Ambiguities in the
Genetic Age

Gad Barzilai, (Law, Society, & Justice and JSIS, UW)
"Who is a Jew? Categories, Boundaries, Communities, and Citizenship Law

Respondents: Joel Migdal, (JSIS, UW)
              Janelle Taylor, (Anthropology, UW)
Reception following


Monday, May 14, 9:30 AM - 4:00 PM
University of Washington Club, Lower Level
UW Campus

Session I. What is "Jewish"?
9:30 am-12:00 pm.

Chair:  Richard Block (Germanics, UW)

Presenters:
Erica Lehrer (Cole Fellow, Jewish Studies UW)
"Jewish Like an Adjective": Confronting Jewish
Identities in Contemporary Poland

Jonathan Freedman (English, University of Michigan)
Conversos, Marranos, and Crypto-Latinos: Jewish and
Hispanic Crossings in the American Southwest and the Boundaries of Ethnic 
Identity

Respondents: Laada Bilaniuk (Anthropology UW)
             Michelle Habell-Pallan (American Ethnic Studies, UW)



Session II:  How "Jewish" Are Jews?
1:30-4:00 p.m.

Chair:  Paul Burstein (Sociology, UW, Chair of Jewish Studies)

Presenters:
  Shulamit Magnus (History, Oberlin)
Good Bad Jews: Converts, Conversion, and the
Dialectics of Modern Jewish Identity

Lila Corwin Berman (History, Penn State University)
Intermarriage, Children, and the Limits of Jewishness

Calvin Goldscheider (Sociology, Brown)
Boundary Maintenance and Jewish Identity: Historical
and Comparative Perspectives

Respondent:  Noam Pianko, (Jewish Studies, UW)

Reception following in the Music Room





FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC



SYMPOSIUM SPONSORS: Jewish Studies Program of the JSIS, The Samuel & Althea
Stroum Endowment, Walter Chapin Simpson Center for the Humanities,
Department of History, Department of Near Eastern Languages & Civilization,
UW College of Arts & Sciences Divisions of Humanities and Social Sciences,
UW Hillel



INFORMATION: Loryn Paxton, UW Jewish Studies Program

lpaxton at u.washington.edu or Rochelle Roseman (206) 543.0138