Reimagining Sephardic Studies: Provocations from Outside the Fold
A Columbia-UCLA Virtual Symposium
Graduate Student Organized Webinar
To register, please visit: https://bit.ly/Sephardic2022
Monday, May 9, 2022
Relational Approaches to History in Ottoman Studies
9:00 AM PST // 12:00 PM EST
Panel Description: This panel examines new methodological approaches within Ottoman Studies that seek to expand how historians conceptualize social and economic processes of difference-making both within and across religious groups.
Panelists:
- Canan Bollel, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
- Kaleb Herman Adney, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA
- Oya Aktaş, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
- Nancy Ko, Ph.D. Student, Columbia University
Respondents:
- Andreas Guidi, Fellow at the German Historical Institute
- Devin Naar, Associate Professor in History and Sephardic Studies Program Chair, University of Washington
Ethnic Studies, Jewish Studies, and Palestine
12:00 PM PST // 3:00 PM EST
Panel Description: This panel examines how the concept and histories of Jews of Color have been politicized across varying contexts, including within historic activist networks like the Black Panthers in Israel-Palestine and recent debates around Ethnic Studies at the university and beyond.
Panelists:
- Vincent Calvetti, Ph.D. Student, University of Washington
- Ryan Zohar, Librarian, Middle East Institute and MA/MLS Student, New York University
- Jessie Stoolman, Ph.D. Candidate, UCLA and Maxwell Greenberg, Friedman Postdoctoral Fellow in Jewish Studies and Jewish, Islamic, and Middle Eastern Studies, Washington University in St. Louis
Respondents:
- Evyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi, Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies, UCLA
- Keith Feldman, Associate Professor of Comparative Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley
UCLA Graduate Student Conveners: Rachel Smith (History) & Jessie Stoolman (Anthropology)
Columbia Graduate Student Conveners: Nancy Ko (History)