Derek Penslar – Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? February 13 @ 6:00 pm | Virtual Event Due to the atmospheric river event effecting Santa Cruz County, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP’d for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using […]
Events
Join the Center for Jewish Studies in hosting Joel Benin:
Understanding October 7, 2023 and Israel’s War on the Gaza Strip.
Thursday October 10 @ 12:30 pm – 1:30 pm | Humanities 1, Room 210
Due to the anticipated high demand and limited space for this event, in person attendance at this event will be reserved for the UC Santa Cruz campus community (staff, faculty, and students with a ucsc.edu email address). We will be requiring registration at the door in order to attend in person. A livestream of the event will be offered here
How should we speak about the shocking October 7, 2023 attack on Israel by Hamas and its allies which killed 1,139 people, 61% of them Israeli civilians, in a single day? What is the appropriate context for understanding the attack, Israel’s massive military, intelligence, and first response failure and its vengeful retaliation which has resulted in nearly 42,000 confirmed Palestinian deaths in the Gaza Strip, some 2/3 of them women and children with plausible estimates rising as high as 186,000? Is it possible to acknowledge the reality of the categories of “terrorism” and “genocide” while placing them in a broader historical context?
Joel Beinin is the Donald J. McLachlan Professor of History and Professor of Middle East History, Emeritus at Stanford University. His research and writing focus on the social and cultural history and political economy of modern Egypt, Palestine, and Israel, and the Palestinian-Israeli conflict. He received his A.B. from Princeton University in 1970, A.M. from Harvard University in 1974, and Ph.D. from the University of Michigan in 1982. He taught at Stanford from 1983 to 2019 with a hiatus as Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of History at the American University in Cairo in 2006-08. In 2002 he served as president of the Middle East Studies Association of North America.
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Israel/Palestine: Learn-In
Deeply concerned about Israel/Palestine? Grappling with Hamas’ attack on October 7 and Israel’s current bombardment and invasion of Gaza, as well as the broader historical context for both? Wonder how we got here and how we might imagine a better future together? Come with questions and a desire to learn with and from others. All […]
“Returning, Remembering, Forgiving” Talk by Prof. Roald Hoffmann
You are invited to attend a talk by Holocaust Survivor Prof. Roald Hoffmann winner of the 1981 Nobel Prize in Chemistry. He will present a talk entitled: “Returning, Remembering, Forgiving” Which will take place on April 25, 2022, at 10:40 a.m. PT. This lecture will take place in conjunction with Prof. Nathaniel Deutsch’s course “The […]
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies: A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
Please join us for The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, which promises to be a lively conversation between Ethan Michaeli, award-winning author of the new book, Twelve Tribes: Promise and Peril in the New Israel, and Nathaniel Deutsch, Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. Taking place on May 24 @ 6:00 pm […]
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture: Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany
We are excited to promote The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture: Debating Holocaust Memory: The Politics of Comparison in Contemporary Germany. Taking place on Monday, April 4th at 6:00 pm in the University Center, Bhojwani Room The event features Michael Rothberg, who is the 1939 Society Samuel Goetz Chair in Holocaust Studies, Chair of […]
May 19 @ 4:00 pm – 5:00 pm//A Fortress in Brooklyn, Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch
Join authors Michael Casper and Nathaniel Deutsch in conversation with Lila Corwin Berman about Casper and Deutsch’s new book A Fortress in Brooklyn.
Winter 2021 Class Lectures
View Winter 2020 class guest-lecture schedule here!
February 17, 2021 // Annual Diller Lecture: “Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family, Lived History, and Personal Letters” with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Prizewinning Sephardic historian, Sarah Abrevaya Stein, traces the lives of one Sephardic family in Salonica in her book: “Family Papers: a Sephardic Journey Through the Twentieth Century” on February 17th, 2020 5-6pm
Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes: Event Recap
On January 9, 2020, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz hosted ASEFA, led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. Blending vocals, oud, violin, nay, and plenty of percussion, with songs in Hebrew, Arabic, Spanish, and Ladino, this trio ensemble traversed several North African song traditions.