2020 - 2021
10/19/2020 - Roots and Routes: History and Heritage of Ethiopian Jews and Cultural Diversity in Israel
10/05/2020 - Israel Studies Project: Elad Wexler, Bringing Ethiopian-Israelis to the Screen: A Tale of Love and Passion
08/31/2020 - On a Personal Note: A Conversation with Violinists Joseph Deninzon and Yulia Ziskel
2019/20
5/7/2020 - Unorthodox Virtual Panel
April 21 - Virtual Kallah Zoom Session: Etgar Keret and 21C. Jewish Writing
March 2 - Jennifer Grayson (Hebrew Union College/Xavier University), “'At the King's Gate': Jewish Government Officials and Rabbinic Authority in Abbasid Baghdad"
March 1 - CHICAGO EVENT: Jennifer Grayson (Hebrew Union College/Xavier University), "At the Heart of Islamic Empire: The Jews of Abbasid Baghdad and the Cairo Geniza"
Jan 27 - Liberation Heroes: The Last Eyewitnesses (documentary screening and discussion) Advisory Council member Scott Gendell
Jan 21 - CHICAGO EVENT: Lecture by Jennifer Grayson (Hebrew Union College/Xaviery University)
Dec 3 - CHICAGO EVENT: Israel on the Screen: Between Fauda and Shtisel Dr. Liat Maggid Alon
Nov 14 - Anti-Semitism: Historical Perspectives Peter Fritzsche (History) and Mark Roseman (Indiana University)
Sept 23 - HGMS Student Performance: grandma's medicine, iraganeko zuloahttps Ethan Madarieta, Performer, CWL and HGMS Ph.D. Candidate
Sept 9 - Etgar Lefkovits, "Reflections of a Jerusalem Correspondent" .
2018/19
May 1 - Primo Levi, upon the Centenary of his Birth
April 30 - Historians in Action: How and Why We Reclaim an Armenian Feminist Past
March 4 - David Myers: The Importance of Jewish History: An Impassioned Plea
Various Dates: 21st Century Jewish Writing and the World
Various Dates: HGMS Faculty Seminar Series
Fall 2018, Various Dates: Mad Creative
2017/18
4/23-25/18 - Book Launch Week
Spring 2018 - Dialogue: A Polish-Jewish film series, various dates
Fall 2017 - Hebrew and Yiddish film series, various dates, featuring: The Singing Blacksmith, Arab Labor and The Writer, and The Wandering Jew
Fall 2017 - Dialogue: A Polish-Jewish Film Series, various dates, featuring: Korczak, Aftermath, and The Return
11/6/17 - "12 Nazi Concentration Camps" - Panel discussion with James Friedman, Gary Weissman, and Brett Kaplan. More info on the project here.
10/9/17 - The Destruction of Memory - film screening
2016/17
5/4/17 - Finding Oscar
4/24/17 - Screening of Vita Activa – The Spirit of Hannah Arendt
4/3/17 - Radical Right and Remembering Part II
2/16/17 - Strauss/Warschauer Duo, A Klezmer event. For more information about the duo and more event dates check out these links: http://www.klezmerduo.com/ http://tinyurl.com/klezmerduoitinerary, 7 p.m
1/23/17 - Sayed Kashua, Film screening and Q & A: The Writer, 5:30 p.m. in Lucy Ellis Lounge
Spring 2017 - Dialogue: A Polish-Jewish Film Series, various dates, featuring: Ida, The Innocents, The Hourglass Sanatorium, Little Rose, and Austeria
Spring 2017 - Hebrew and Yiddish film series, various dates, featuring: Motel the Operator, Shtisel, and Mamele.
12/9/16 - SUBmersion Remember: A Performance of Memory
11/4/16 - Radical Right and Remembering in Recent Political History
10/25-26/16 - Masha Gessen lectures
10/21/16 - Luncheon with author, illustrator, painter and conceptual artist, Eugene Yelchin, Noon
10/19/16 - Maxime Decout Workshop, 9:00 a.m.
10/10/16 - Dov Weiss book release event, 5:30 p.m.
10/4/16 - Panel discussion and film screening "The People vs. Fritz Bauer"
9/26/16 - Jewish Studies Workshop with Josh Lambert and evening lecture.
Fall 2016 - Yiddish and Hebrew film series, various dates, featuring: The Light Ahead, Green Fields, The Cantor's Son, and Sallah-Shabati.
Fall 2016 - Israeli film series - "Zohar", various dates
2015/16
4/18/16 - Peter Balakian