Yale Judaic Studies Program | Yale Department of Comparative Literature
Diasporism and Immigration in Modern Hebrew and Modern Jewish Literatures
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May 8th (Lectures, in English)
10:00-10:30 Gathering
10:30 Greetings: David Sorkin, Chair of the Judaic Studies Program, Yale University
10:45 Keynote Lecture: Immigrant from an Imagined Empire: Manfred Winkler’s Hebrew Poetry. Hannan Hever, Yale University
11:45-12:00 Coffee Break
12:00 Jews Tearing through Smooth Space: Podolia and its Alternate History. Henry Sussman, Yale University
13:00 Lunch Break
14:00 The Breakup: Rethinking American Jewish Literary History. Adam Rovner, University of Denver
15:00 Yiddishland in the Colony: An Episode from the Global Circulation of Yiddish Culture, Literature, and Philology. Roni Mazal, Berkeley University
May 9th (Workshops, in Hebrew)
09:00-09:30 Gathering
09:30-11:00 Workshop I: Weaponizing Disability: Debility in Palestinian Cinema. Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University
11:00-11:30 Coffee Break
11:30-13:00 Workshop II: Hebrew Poetry at the End of the 19 th Century, Beyond the National Narrative. Roni Mazal, Berkeley University
13:00-14:00 Lunch Break
14:00-15:30 Workshop III: Poetry of Jerusalem after the 1967 War: Nativism and Diaspora. Hannan Hever, Yale University
15:50-16:00 Concluding Gathering
