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SUMMARY:Happy Jews in the Roman Diaspora? The Case of Asia Minor (Anatolia) – Seth Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:A dominant trend in scholarship about Jews in the Roman Imperial diaspora emphasizes the Jews’ achievement of a successful balance between integration and separation\, and regards this happy equilibrium as essentially stable for centuries. I will argue that this view rests on a fundamental misreading of the sources. Asia Minor (modern Turkey) provided the richest evidence for the dominant view but when disentangled tells a story of conflict\, instability and\, above all\, poverty. This rather gloomy picture changed for the better only in the fourth century CE\, before a steady decline starting in the fifth. \nSeth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University\, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. He received his PhD in History at Columbia in 1985. Before returning to Columbia in 2009\, Schwartz taught at Cornell\, the University of Rhode Island and the Jewish Theological Seminary\, had research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, the Harvard Society of Fellows and King’s College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (Atlanta: Scholars Press\, 1987)(with Roger Bagnall\, Alan Cameron and Klaas Worp)\, Josephus and Judaean Politics (Leiden: Brill\, 1990)\, Imperialism and Jewish Society\, 200 BCE to 640 CE (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2010)\, and The Ancient Jews From Alexander to Muhammad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2014). The Jews of Asia Minor\, 215 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality\, will be published by University of Chicago Press in November. \nTuesday\, June 2\, 2026 • 314 Royce Hall • 4 PM\nHappy Jews in the Roman Diaspora? The Case of Asia Minor (Anatolia)\nSeth Schwartz (Columbia University)\nModerator: Catherine Bonesho (UCLA) \nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence Lecture \nRSVP to Happy Jews in the Roman Diaspora
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/happy-jews-in-the-roman-diaspora-the-case-of-asia-minor-anatolia-seth-schwartz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 314\, 314 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence
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SUMMARY:Jews and Godfearers: Sardis and Aphrodisias\, 400 CE – Seth Schwartz
DESCRIPTION:The phenomenon of “Godfearing”—adoption by gentiles\, usually supposed to have been pagan—of Jewish practices including support for local Jewish communities and attendance in synagogues—has loomed larger in scholarship than it does in the sources. But the phenomenon surely existed. Some ancient writers suggest that in the first century most diaspora jewish communities had a “fringe” of gentile sympathizers who functioned for Jewish communities as protectors and mediators with local governments. Godfearing comes to the fore again in major texts of the early fifth century CE. How much of the traditional picture can be salvaged? (Spoiler: some) How continuous was fifth-century Godfearing with first-century Godfearing? (Second spoiler: not very). \nSeth Schwartz is the Lucius N. Littauer Professor of Classical Jewish Civilization in the Departments of History and Classics at Columbia University\, where he also chairs the Graduate Program in Classical Studies. He received his PhD in History at Columbia in 1985. Before returning to Columbia in 2009\, Schwartz taught at Cornell\, the University of Rhode Island and the Jewish Theological Seminary\, had research fellowships at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, the Harvard Society of Fellows and King’s College Cambridge. He wrote Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (Atlanta: Scholars Press\, 1987)(with Roger Bagnall\, Alan Cameron and Klaas Worp)\, Josephus and Judaean Politics (Leiden: Brill\, 1990)\, Imperialism and Jewish Society\, 200 BCE to 640 CE (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2001)\, Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in Ancient Judaism (Princeton: Princeton University Press\, 2010)\, and The Ancient Jews From Alexander to Muhammad (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, 2014). The Jews of Asia Minor\, 215 BCE to 500 CE: Text and Materiality\, will be published by University of Chicago Press in November. \n  \nWednesday\, June 3\, 2026 • 306 Royce Hall • 2 PM\nJews and Godfearers: Sardis and Aphrodisias\, 400 CE \nSeth Schwartz (Columbia University)\nModerator: Carol Bakhos (UCLA) \nEtta and Milton Leve Scholar in Residence Seminar \nRSVP to Jews and Godfearers
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/jews-and-godfearers-sardis-and-aphrodisias-400-ce-seth-schwartz/
LOCATION:Royce Hall\, 306\, 306 Royce Hall\, 10745 Dickson Plaza\, Los Angeles\, 90095\, United States
CATEGORIES:Etta and Milton Leve Scholar-in-Residence
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SUMMARY:Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Organized by Professors Joseph Bristow\, University of California\, Los Angeles\, and Deaglán Ó Donghaile\, Liverpool John Moores University \nA central figure in the literary and cultural spheres of the late nineteenth century\, Oscar Wilde (1854–1900) was also the originator of Irish modernism. Still\, literary scholarship has largely sidelined his powerful influence over this movement. Regarded by his contemporaries as an outstanding artist\, critic\, and public intellectual until his imprisonment in 1895\, current research on Wilde tends to confine his leading presence within the late Victorian aesthetic and decadent movements. By highlighting this overlooked aspect of Wilde’s legacy\, “Oscar Wilde’s Modernist Legacies” will raise critical and theoretical awareness of his influence over modernist innovation not only within the field of literary production but also in related artistic areas in Ireland and beyond. \nThe literary revival of the 1890s has been cited as the launching ground for experimental modernism in Ireland\, with the publication and staging of works by William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)\, John Millington Synge (1871–1909)\, and Augusta Gregory (1852–1932) that celebrate rural or Celticist versions of modernity. The revival’s longer-term origins\, however\, can be traced to the metropolitan and radical aesthetes\, feminists\, queer artists\, anarchists\, and Irish separatists who belonged to the milieus in which Oscar Wilde moved.  This conference will draw on the Clark Library’s imposing archive\, the “Oscar Wilde and His Literary Circle Collection\,” to explore the dialogues that these figures established\, along with their interactions with traditions of Irish and\, more broadly\, American and European modernism. \nThe list of speakers\, the conference schedule\, and the registration form are available on our website. \n\nThis event is free to attend with advance registration and will be held in person at the Clark Library. \nRegistration will close on Monday\, June 1 at 5:00 p.m. \nCapacity is limited at the Clark Library; walk-in registrants are welcome as space permits.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/modernist-legacies/
LOCATION:William Andrews Clark Memorial Library\, 2520 Cimarron Street\, Los Angeles\, CA\, 90018\, United States
CATEGORIES:Center for 17th & 18th Century Studies,William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
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SUMMARY:Bilingual Lecture Series: Pooyan Tamimi Arab
DESCRIPTION:Woman Life Freedom in the Mirror of Scholarship: Responses from the Arts\, Humanities\, and Social Sciences\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPooyan Tamimi Arab \nUtrecht University \nEnglish Lecture \nMonday\, June 8\, 2026 at 11:00 am Pacific Time \nOnline via Zoom \nRegistration Required: \nhttps://ucla.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_y6a-WJxYTX-wwqBuhAYndg \n\nThis presentation will survey scholarship in the arts\, humanities\, and social sciences responding to the Woman\, Life\, Freedom uprising in Iran. Drawing on a bibliography of over one hundred publications—books\, journal articles\, and edited volume chapters published since the death of Jina (Mahsa) Amini in September 2022—it will outline four main thematic clusters: Chronologies\, Culture\, Aesthetics\, and Nation. These will serve to map shifting interpretations of women’s emancipation\, cultural change and resistance\, visual activism\, and national belonging. The presentation will also reflect on how to research a protest movement from exile and draw attention to under-cited sources\, including scholarship produced in Iran. \n  \nPooyan Tamimi Arab is Associate Professor of Secular and Religious Studies at Utrecht University\, a member of the Young Academy of the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences\, and a member of GAMAAN—the Group for Analyzing and Measuring Attitudes in Iran. Between 2025 and 2030\, he is the principal investigator of Iran’s Secular Shift\, a mixed-methods project on non-religion and demands for political secularism funded by the Dutch Research Council.
URL:https://humanities.ucla.edu/event/bilingual-lecture-series-pooyan-tamimi-arab/
CATEGORIES:Iranian,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures
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