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Cultured Jews

The Art and Science of

Jewish Ethnography


 

April 5-7, 2009
Brown University

~ Free and Open to the Public ~

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CONFERENCE SCHEDULE

 

 

Sunday, April 5, 2009 - Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall


12:00 pm
"Welcome to Brown": David I. Kertzer, Provost and Paul Dupee Professor of Social Science, Brown University,
- and -
Marcy Brink-Danan, Dorot Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies and Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

12:30 - 1:30 pm
Introductory Lecture: Jack Kugelmass, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Jewish Studies, University of Florida
"Pushing the Limits: A Yiddish Travelogue to Peru as Pseudoethnography"

2:00 - 4:00 pm
Session I:
Position Papers: Thinking Theoretically about Jews

Session Chair: Marcy Brink-Danan

  • Andrew Buckser, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Purdue University: On Secularism and Religiosity

  • Matti Bunzl, Professor of Anthropology, Director of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign: On Ethnographic Comparisons

  • AndrĂ© Levy, Senior Lecturer in Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University: On Diaspora and Locality

  • Discussant: Tamar El-Or, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew University

 

Monday, April 6, 2009 - Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

Session IIa and IIb:
New Directions in the Ethnography of Jews

9:00 am - 12:00 pm
Session II a: "Time Travels in Jewish Ethnography"

Session Chair: Mary Gluck, Professor of History and Comparative Literature, Brown University

  • Erica Lehrer, Assistant Professor and Canada Research Chair in Post-Conflict Memory, Ethnography & Museology, Concordia University

  • Respondent: Joelle Bahloul, Professor of Anthropology and Jewish Studies, Indiana University

 

Session II a, continued: "Language and Jewishness"
Session Chair: Paja Faudree, Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Brown University

  • Ayala Fader, Professor of Anthropology, Fordham University

  • Respondent: Tamar Katriel, Professor of Communication, Haifa University

 

1:30 - 3:00 pm
Session IIb: Judaism in Israel

Session Chair: Sam Lehman-Wilzig , Schusterman Visiting Israeli Scholar, Brown University, and Associate Professor, Department of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University

  • Yehuda Goodman, Lecturer of Anthropology and Sociology, Hebrew University

  • Respondent: Virginia Dominguez, Gutgsell Professor of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Co-Founder and Consulting Director, International Forum for U.S. Studies; and President-Elect, American Anthropological Association

 

Monday, April 6, 2009 - Wilson Hall, Room 102

 

7:00pm
An Armchair Conversation with Ruth Behar, Professor of Anthropology, University of Michigan
Discussion moderated by Marcy Brink-Danan

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Tuesday, April 7, 2008 - Crystal Room, Alumnae Hall

 

9:30am - 10:30am
Roundtable: Pedagogy and Practice: Jack Kugelmass, Professor of Anthropology, Director of Jewish Studies, University of Florida

 

Conference Sponsors

This conference was made possible with help from the ADVANCE Program at Brown University, which is sponsored by the National Science Foundation under Grant Number 0548331, the Ruth and Joseph Moskow Endowment in the Program in Judaic Studies, the Herbert Goldberger Lectureship, The Department of Anthropology,The Department of History, Cogut Center for Humanities, The Department of Religious Studies and the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies

~ Free and Open to the Public ~

Contact: Judaic@Brown.edu or 401 863 3912