Fierce as Death (lecture) & Bent Like a Question Mark (performance): Jewlia Eisenberg in Memoriam
- Starts: 5:00 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2022
- Ends: 7:15 pm on Tuesday, October 18, 2022
Jeremiah Lockwood and Ricky Gordon present:
“Fierce as Death”: Agadelkha and Jewlia Eisenberg in Memoriam
and
“Bent Like a Question Mark:” Performing the Celia Dropkin Archives
5pm Lecture by Dr. Jeremiah Lockwood on the queer erotics of piyutim, a Jewish devotional poetry form proposed by Jewlia Eisenberg
Intermission with refreshments
6:15pm Musical Performance by Lockwood and Ricky Gordon of the Celia Dropkin, a Yiddish poet whose archive of poetry was set to music by Lockwood and Jewlia Eisenberg
Of interest to people invested in Jewish Studies, queer studies, gender and sexuality, music, poetry, disability studies, Yiddish Studies, archival research, and more
VIRTUAL AND IN-PERSON
- Speakers:
- Jeremiah Lockwood and Ricky Gordon
- Audience:
- public
- Address:
- Howard Thurman Center for Common Ground, 808 Comm Ave
- Room:
- FLR 104
- Fees:
- free
- Registration:
- Sponsored by the Jewish Cultural Endowment, African American Studies, Musicology and Ethnomusicology, Religion, Elie Wiesel Center for Jewish Studies, English, Learn More Series, Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies
- Contact Organization:
- African American Studies
- Contact Name:
- Ianna Hawkins Owen