Full Schedule
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Breakfast & Registration | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Talk |
“Welcome” with Douglas Rosenberg |
| 9:30am - 11:00am | Keynote Speaker |
“Evaluating Visual Culture in Judaism, Then and Now” with Kalman Bland |
| 11:00am - 12:30pm | Keynote Speaker |
“Creation as a Daily Act: Jewish Identity in the 21st Century” with Liz Lerman |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 2:30pm | Talk |
“Visualizing Revelation — Some Thoughts on Seeing Sinai: Meditations on Exodus 33-34 by Jill Nathanson and Arnold Eisen” with Shalom Gorewitz |
| 2:00pm - 2:30pm | Talk |
“The Jewish Man and His Dancing Shtick: Stock Characterization and Jewish Masculinity in Postmodern Dance” with Rebecca Rossen |
| 2:30pm - 3:00pm | Break | |
| 3:00pm - 4:00pm | Talk |
“Camouflage and Representation: Jewish Women in the Arts” with Paula Birnbaum, Sharon Siskin |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Talk |
“Perfect Edge: Practice for a Tense Present” with Pier Marton |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Talk |
“Out of the Shadows: Uncovering the American Jewish Role in the Development of American Modern Dance” with Nina Spiegel |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner | |
| 7:30pm | Performance |
“Moving Bodies: Performing Jewish Identity” with David Dorfman, Liz Lerman, Nina HaftThis performance is located at the Overture Center, 201 State St. |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00am - 10:30am | Panel |
“The Art of Seeing: Envisioning Jewishness” with Matthew Baigell, Tobi Kahn, Elaine Raicheck, Mierle Ukeles |
| 10:30am - 10:45am | Break | |
| 11:00am - 11:30am | Talk |
“Jewish Vision and Echoes in American Cartoon Art” with Helena Schlam |
| 11:30am - 12:00pm | Talk |
” ‘Way beyond Zappa’s league’: The Naftule Brandwein and Dave Tarras Canon and the Formation of New Mythologies in the Contemporary Klezmer Movement” with Joel Rubin |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | Talk |
“Jewing the Canon” with Douglas Rosenberg |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Keynote Speaker |
“Ghosts of Ethnicity: Jewish Identities in American Feminist Art” with Lisa Bloom |
| 3:15pm - 4:45pm | Artists Panel |
“Simulated Spaces” with Paula Levine“Jewish/activist/feminist/transglobal citizen/midlife/minorityvoice/artist Pursuing Agency” with Karen Frostig“Farvos?” with Sharon Siskin |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner | |
| 7:30pm | Performance |
“The Hebrew Mamita” with Vanessa HidaryLocated at the Wisconsin Union Theater, 800 Langdon Street, Madison |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00am - 9:30am | Talk |
“The Jewishness/Diasporism of R.B. Kitaj” with Tamar Benzikry Stern |
| 9:30am - 11:00am | Keynote Speaker |
“Action-Abstraction…Reaction or, How Clement Greenberg and Harold Rosenberg Shaped Postwar American Art” with Norman Kleeblatt |
| 11:15am - 12:15pm | Artists Panel |
“Notes from the Decorative Zone: Embellishment and Meaning in Jewish Art” with Cynthia Beth Rubin“Widening the Chain of Equivalences: Some Contemporary Jewish Artists in Britain” with Rachel Garfield |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Talk |
“Yiddish: The First Thousand Years the Future for a Culture with a Past” with Henry Sapoznik |
| 2:30pm - 3:30pm | Panel |
“Between Exile and Irony: Modernism, Postmodernism and Jewish Modes of Thought” with Ruth Weisberg“You Should See Yourself: Jewish Identity in Postmodern American Film and Television” with Vincent Brook |
| 3:30pm - 4:00pm | Break | |
| 4:00pm - 4:30pm | Talk |
“Jewish Film Festivals and the Possibility of a Jewish National Cinema” with Matthew Sienkiewicz |
| 4:30pm - 5:00pm | Break | |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00am - 10:00am | Panel |
“Exploring the Postmodern Landscape of Jewish Music” with Judah Cohen“Joke-Work: The Construction of Jewish Postmodern Identity in Contemporary Theory and American Film” with Ruth Johnston |
| 10:00am - 11:30am | Panel (Theater) |
“Theatre de la Jeune Lune Tames a Jewish Monster” with Lauren Love“Theatrical Liberalism: Jews, Theatricality, and Death of a Salesman” with Andrea Most“Wrestling with Angels: Tony Kushner and the Struggle for the Soul of America” with Laura French |
| 11:30am - 12:30pm | Keynote Speaker |
“Racial Camp in ‘The Producers’ and ‘Bamboozled’” with Susan Gubar |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 3:00pm | Panel (Photo) |
“Milton Rogovin, Social Documentary Photography, and Jewish Identity” with Melanie Herzog“Rafael Goldchain’s ‘Familial Ground:’ Just Jewish Enough” with Jonathon Boyarin“Yom Kippur – East River, New York City in Robert Frank’s ‘The Americans’” with Susan Chevlowe |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Talk |
“Israel and American (US) Jewish Identity: A Cultural-Literary Perspective” with Rachel Feldhay Brenner |
| 4:00pm - 5:00pm | Film Screening |
“Young, Jewish and Left” Location: UW Cinamateque, 4070 Vilas Hall, 821 University Avenue. For More Information: |
| 5:00pm - 7:00pm | Dinner |
| 8:30am - 9:00am | Registration | |
| 9:00am - 9:45am | Talk |
“Clifford Odets and the Theatre of the ‘30s” with Robert Skloot |
| 9:45am - 10:15am | Talk |
“Justice, Justice, You Shall Pursue: Jewish Political Artists and American Popular Culture” with Paul Von Blum |
| 10:15am - 10:30am | Break | |
| 10:30am - 12:00pm | Panel |
“Practicing Jewish Women Writers” with Andrea Musher, Judith Strasser, Fran Zell |
| 12:00pm - 12:30pm | Talk |
“Performance of Antisemitism as Jewish Activist Art” with Marc Tasman |
| 12:30pm - 1:30pm | Lunch | |
| 1:30pm - 2:00pm | Talk |
“Seeing Elsewhere: After ‘Shimmer Bright’” with Julie Weitz |
| 2:00pm - 3:00pm | Panel (Dance) |
“The Identity Peddlers” with Judith Brin Ingber“Reappearing Acts: From Jewish Life to Jewish Dance Theater” with Karen Goodman |
| 3:00pm - 3:30pm | Talk |
“Building the Jewish Community One Artist at a Time: The Case of ‘Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council’” with David Jordan Harris |
| 3:30pm - 5:00pm | Wrap Up & Community Discussion | |
| 6:30pm | Dinner |
“Shabbat Dinner/Shabbaton” Location: Hillel, 611 Langdon Street Services begin at 6:30pm, Kosher Dinner, 7:30pm. Cost: $8, please register in advance at www.uwhillel.org/wishabbat Info: Join the UW Jewish community for student-led Reform, Conservative or Traditional services, and enjoy a delicious, kosher Shabbat dinner. Background: How do artists and creators of ritual make Shabbat for themselves and for the larger community? Shabbat celebrates being, not doing; it is a time of rest, of delight in each other’s company, a release from the demands of the rest of the week. It is time set apart and holy. “Practicing Shabbat: Being with the Creative” challenges you to consider how to create the space of our day of rest for yourself and others in music, dance, drama, performance, chant, art. Moreover, the Torah portion for the week (Achrei Mot-Kedoshim) encompasses many rules for living our lives—whom we can marry; how we treat the poor, the sick, the blind; and perhaps the best known commandment of all: love your neighbor as yourself. What better basis for connecting Madisonites and visitors, community members and students, ritual leaders and artists? All Conney Conference participants welcome! |
| 7:30pm | Film Screening |
“The Films of Jay Rosenblatt” In collaboration with the Practicing Jews: Art, Identity and Culture conference hosted by the Mosse/Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies, the Cinematheque presents a special evening of films by award-winning filmmaker Jay Rosenblatt. Rosenblatt is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Rockefeller Fellowship and his films have screened both theatrically and at festivals throughout the world. We will present several of Rosenblatt’s recent films, including King of the Jews (USA, 2000, 18 min., 16mm), I Used to be a Filmmaker (USA, 2003, 10 min., 35mm), and Afraid So (USA, 2006, 3 min., Beta SP), Phantom Limb (USA, 2005, 28 min., 35mm), and Nine Lives: the Eternal Moment of Now (USA, 2001, 1 min., 16mm). |
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