Alternative Teleologies: The Mediterranean and the Modern World(s)
This exciting conference was organized by the Mediterranean Seminar at UC-Santa Cruz. Many of the talks will explore aspects of the Jewish experience in the Mediterranean region, including the construction of a pan-Sephardi identity, the creation of the Donmeh community, and the emergence of diasporic Andalusian musical traditions.
Concert and Symposium at the Museo ItaloAmericano and UC Santa Cruz
Join an international gathering of scholars on Italian Jewish history and culture for a weekend of events. Italian Jewish Culture in the Age of the Ghetto presented in association with the exhibit Il Ghetto: Forging Italian Jewish Identities, 1516 – 1870.
UCSC Receives $150,000 Grant for Jewish Studies Program
UC Santa Cruz has been awarded a $150,000 grant from the David B. Gold Foundation to support a new project in the campus’s Jewish Studies Program. Titled “Crossing Boundaries and Building Bridges,” the project will integrate contemporary issues that are most important to students, faculty, and the community—including the environment, science and technology, the arts, […]