Join us for the 2025 Conference on the Jewish Left Date: February 28, 2025 Location: Agganis Arena, Boston University Visit The Jewish Left 2025 Page Jewish Left Sponsorship 121 Bay State Road, Boston, MA 02215 Email: cura@bu.edu Phone: 617-353-5241
About Magid Ensemble “Extraordinary, Suspenseful, Mesmerizing” – Shterna and the Lost Voice transports audiences into the rich world of Yiddish folklore. This immersive storytelling production follows Shterna on an epic hero’s journey, accompanied by live original klezmer music and an exquisite papercut crankie. The Magid Ensemble (“magid” meaning “storyteller” in Yiddish) is a multidisciplinary […]
Candace Lukasik: Assistant Professor of Religion & faculty Affiliate in Anthropology & Middle Eastern Cultures, Mississippi State Univ Date: February 14, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Abstract: In 2014, ISIS took control over large swaths of land in Iraq […]
Dylan Renca, PhD Candidate in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University Date: February 7, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 1:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Abstract: Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork in south-central Java with Muslim members of communities called paguyuban (devoted to Sufi-styled recitations and […]
Date: February 13, 2025 | 4:30-6:00 PM Location: Howard Thurman Center, 808 Commonwealth Avenue, Brookline, MA ABOUT THE PANELISTS Kerice Doten-Snitker is a social scientist and Complexity Postdoctoral Fellow at the Santa Fe Institute. She received a PhD in Sociology from the University of Washington and previously held positions at the Carlos III – […]
Date: February 11, 2025 | 3:00 PM – 4:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Prof. Michael Zank, Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies & Medieval Studies at BU Respondent: Prof. Thomas Meyer, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich Event Description: Description: Part II of Arendt’s Origins of Totalitarianism […]
Date: January 31, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Warren S. Goldstein, Executive Director, Center for Critical Research on Religion Abstract: The creation the Jewish state of Israel in 1948 triggered an ongoing conflict that over seventy-five […]
Date: January 24, 2025 | 12:00 PM – 01:30 PM Location: Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Keynote Speaker: Syeda Rumana Mehdi, PhD Student in the Department of Anthropology, Boston University Abstract: Almost 1400 years later, the tragic death of Imam Hussain and his male relatives on […]
Date: Friday, December 13, 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location:Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Presenter: Merav Shohet, Associate Professor of Anthropology, Boston University Abstract: This paper examines some of the narrative repetitions and silences of several octogenarian and nonagenarian elders who live(d) in kibbutzim near Israel’s northern borders with […]
Date: Friday, November 22 , 2024; 12:00-1:30 PM Location:Pardee School of Global Studies, 154 Bay State Road, 2nd floor (Eilts Room) Presenter: Callid Keefe-Perry, Assistant Professor of Public Theology, Boston College Abstract: Christian Nationalism (CN) has emerged as a significant force in contemporary American society, shaping public discourse, political agendas, and cultural conflicts. Existing measures […]