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from 9:30am to 11:00am

“Evaluating Visual Culture in Judaism, Then and Now”

with Kalman Bland
from 11:00am to 12:30pm

“Creation as a Daily Act: Jewish Identity in the 21st Century”

with Liz Lerman
at 7:30pm

“Moving Bodies: Performing Jewish Identity”

with David Dorfman, Liz Lerman, Nina Haft
from 3:15pm to 4:45pm

“Simulated Spaces”

with Paula Levine
from 3:15pm to 4:45pm

“Jewish/activist/feminist/transglobal citizen/midlife/minorityvoice/artist Pursuing Agency”

with Karen Frostig
from 3:15pm to 4:45pm

“Farvos?”

with Sharon Siskin
from 9:00am to 10:30am

“The Art of Seeing: Envisioning Jewishness”

with Matthew Baigell, Tobi Kahn, Elaine Raicheck, Mierle Ukeles
at 7:30pm

“The Hebrew Mamita”

with Vanessa Hidary
from 1:30pm to 3:00pm

“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art”

with Lisa Bloom
from 9:30am to 11:00am

“Action-Abstraction…Reaction or, How Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg Shaped Postwar American Art”

with Norman Kleeblatt
from 11:15am to 12:15pm

“Notes from the Decorative Zone: Embellishment and Meaning in Jewish Art”

with Cynthia Beth Rubin
from 11:15am to 12:15pm

“Widening the Chain of Equivalences: Some Contemporary Jewish Artists in Britain”

with Rachel Garfield
from 2:30pm to 3:30pm

“Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism and Jewish Modes of Thought”

with Ruth Weisberg
from 2:30pm to 3:30pm

“You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Film and Television”

with Vincent Brook
from 9:00am to 10:00am

“Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music”

with Judah Cohen
from 9:00am to 10:00am

“Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film”

with Ruth Johnston
from 10:00am to 11:30am

“Theatre de la Jeune Lune Tames a Jewish Monster”

with Lauren Love
from 10:00am to 11:30am

“Theatrical Liberalism: Jews, Theatricality, and Death of a Salesman”

with Andrea Most
from 10:00am to 11:30am

“Wrestling with Angels: Tony Kushner and the Struggle for the Soul of America”

with Laura French
from 11:30am to 12:30pm

“Racial Camp in ‘The Producers’ and ‘Bamboozled’”

with Susan Gubar
from 1:30pm to 3:00pm

“Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photography, and Jewish Identity”

with Melanie Herzog
from 1:30pm to 3:00pm

“Rafael Goldchain’s ‘Familial Ground:’ Just Jewish Enough”

with Jonathon Boyarin
from 1:30pm to 3:00pm

“Yom Kippur – East River, New York City in Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’”

with Susan Chevlowe
from 10:30am to 12:00pm

“Practicing Jewish Women Writers”

with Andrea Musher, Judith Strasser, Fran Zell
from 2:00pm to 3:00pm

“The Identity Peddlers”

with Judith Brin Ingber
from 2:00pm to 3:00pm

“Reappearing Acts: From Jewish Life to Jewish Dance Theater”

with Karen Goodman
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