2020/2021
- 03/01/2021 - HGMS: Kishinev D.C. with Professor Peter Fritzsche
- 11/09/2020 - PJCS & Krouse workshop: Sound Monument, Concentration Camp Plaszow, Poland with Karolinna Ozog
- 10/26/2020 - Book Launch with Rini Mehta
- 10/19/2020 - Lunch & Learn with Ashager Araro: Discussion of Black Lives Matter and Social Justice Movements in Israel
- 10/12/2020 - HGMS: Key Words for an Intersectional Approach to Memory and Trauma Studies
- 09/14/2020 - Bryan Roby (Michigan) How Race Travels: Viewing Israel through a Colored Lens
2019/2020
- 03/09/20 - Michele Koven (Illinois) "Narrating the Legacy of Aristides de Sousa Mendes, Portuguese Consul of Bordeaux in June 1940: Intersections of Personal, Familial, National, and International Memory Projects"
- 02/10/20 - Dr. Ioannis Tsekouras (Illinois) "Pastures of Love and Mountains of Sacrifice. Pontic Parakathi singing and the memory of violence."
- 02/03/20 - Akiva K. Segan "From Metaphoric Wings to Allegorical Sea-monsters"
- 12/12/19 - Gavin Schaffer (University of Birmingham, UK) “A Nice Jewish Boy who Believes in Jesus:” Fear, Fury, and the Campaign against Messianic Judaism in Britain
- 12/09/19 - Dr. Maggid Alon (Israel) "Exodus or Expulsion: Reconstructing the past of the Jews of Egypt in the 20th Century"
- 11/04/19 - Leora Batnitzky (Princeton) "Between Ancestry and Belief: 'Judaism' and 'Hinduism' in the Nineteenth-Century"
- 10/24/19 - Philippe Mesnard (Clermont Auvergne) "Primo Levi: Between Testimony and Fiction"
2018/19
- 04/09/19 - Nicole Krauss (Author) "Radical Amazement," from Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel's Man is Not Alone: A Philosophy of Religion and a fragment of her recent novel, Forest Dark.
- 04/01/19 - Adam Sutcliffe (King's College, London) "Thinking About the Politics of Jewish Purpose."
- 03/04/19 - David Myers (UCLA) Satmar Hasidic community of Kiryas Joel, New York
- 02/18/19 - Jean-Philippe Mathy (Illinois) "Seeing is Disbelieving: The Contested Visibility of 9/11 in France."
- 01/28/19 - Brett Kaufman (Illinois) "Israelite Technology and Trade in the Iron Age"
- 12/03/18 - Avital Livny (Illinois) Historical Diversity Predicts Contemporary Tolerance: The Cultural Legacy of the Ottoman Empire in Turkey
- 11/02/18 - Elli Stern (Yale) Anti-Semitism and Jewish Body Politics: An Analysis of Leon Pinsker's Auto-Emancipation
- 10/29/18 - Beth Benedix (DePauw) Ghost Writer: A Story About Telling a Holocaust Story
- 10/01/18 - Ned O'Gorman (Illinois) “Where is the Nuclear Sovereign?”
- 9/17/18 - Rick Esbenshade (Illinois) "'Pulp Memory'? The Holocaust in Hungarian Mass-Market Socialist Literature, 1956-70"
2017/18
- 04/16/18 - Mark Steinberg (Illinois) "In the Shadow of Benya Krik? Jews, the Street, and Socialism in 1920s Odessa"
- 04/09/18 - Julia Cohen (Vanderbilt University) "The Past as a Foreign Country: Sephardi Jews and the Spanish Past"
- 02/12/18 - Anke Pinkert (German, Illinois) "Public Memory Underground: Photographs of the 1953 Worker’s Uprising in East Germany"
- 01/25/18 - Khatchig Mouradian (Columbia University) "'The Very Limit of Our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria During WWI"
- 12/14/17 - Peter Frizsche (History, Illinois) "Where was God?"
- 11/29/17 - Ariella Azoulay (Brown University) "Ariella Azoulay Workshop"
- 11/13/17 - Sara Feldman (Illinois) "Pushkin in Jewish Culture"
- 11/09/17 - Mara Thacker (Illinois) "Illustrating History: Maus, Memory, and Me"
- 10/30/17 - Tim Wedig (Global Studies, Illinois) "The Use of Narrative in Post-Conflict Peacebuilding"
- 10/02/17 - Seth Sanders (University of California, Davis) "Ruin the Sacred Truth: The Problem of the Torah for Religion and Literature"
- 09/27/17 - Scott Spector (University of Michigan) "Sigmund Freud Between 'Jewish Science' and Humanism"
- 09/19/17 - Psoy Korolenko and Daniel Kahn (Klezmer Musicians) "The Unternationale: Dialectical Polyglot Klezmer Cabaret"
- 09/11/17 - Ranen Omer-Sherman (JHFE Endowed Chair in Judaic Studies at the University of Louisville) "The Crisis of the Individual and the Community in Kibbutz Narrative"
2016/17
- 9/19/16 - Susan Bernstein (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- 9/26/16 - Josh Lambert (University of Massachusettes, Amherst)
- 1/17/17 - David Hadar (Freie Universitat Berlin)
- 2/6/17 - Karen Underhill (University of Illinois at Chicago)
- 2/13/17 - Adam Jones (University of British Columbia Okanagan)
- 2/20/17 - Steven Weitzman (University of Pennsylvania)
- 2/27/17 - Maud Mandel (Brown University)
- 4/17/17 - Eric Calderwood (Illinois)
2015/16
- Sasha Senderovich (University of Colorado, Boulder)
- Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto)
- 2/8/16 - Dagmar Herzog (City University of New York Graduate Center)
- Jonathan Druker (Illinois State University)
- Aaron Tugendhaft (University of Chicago)
- 11/17/15 - Shaul Magid (Indiana University)
2014/15
- 4/13/15 - Sara Blair (U of Michigan)
- 3/9/15 - Martin Kavka (Florida State University)
- Lisa Lampert-Wessig (UC San Diego)
- 10/28/14 - Nancy Miller (CUNY)
- 2/24/15 - Avinoam Naeh (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
- 2/17/15 - Vassili Schedrin (University of Florida)
2013/14
- 2/17/13 - Paul Mendes-Flohr (U of Chicago)
- Brett Kaplan (Illinois)
- Harriet Murav (Illinois)
- Dov Weiss(Illinois)
- Bruce Rosenstock (Illinois)
- Jacqueline Vayntrub (Illinois) & Rob Jennings (U of Chicago)
- Na'ama Rokem (U of Chicago)
- Christine Hayes (Yale U)
- Grit Schorch (Tel Aviv U)
- Claudia Koonz (Duke U)
- Erica Lehrer (Concordia U) & Magda Waligórska (U of Bremen)
- Jonathan Druker (Illinois State U)
- Aziza Khazzoom (Indiana U)
2012/13
- Charlotte Fonrobert (Stanford U)
- Alexander Etkind (Cambridge U)
- Carol Zemel (Art History, York U)
- Samuel Moyn (Columbia U)
- Joseph Cedar (Filmmaker, Tel Aviv)
- Matan Hermoni (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Eric McKinley (History, Illinois)
- Emanuel Rota (Italian, Illinois)
- David Kazanjian (English, U of Pennsylvania)
- Julie Cooper (Political Science, U of Chicago)
- Amir Eshel (German, Stanford U)
- David Anthony (English, Southern Illinois U)
- Guy Ben-Ner (Artist, Tel Aviv)
- Sara Horowitz (Jewish Studies, York U)
- Anna Maria Lorusso (Philosophy, U of Bologna)
2011/12
- Eugene Avrutin (History, Illinois)
- Ron Leshem (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Azzan Yadin (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
- Susan Suleiman (Comparative Literature, Harvard U)
- Ilan Troen (Israel Studies, Brandeis U)
- Sharon Portnoff (Religion, Connecticut C)
- Sigal Gooldin (Anthropology, Hebrew U)
- Mia Spiro (Jewish Studies, Northwestern U)
- Eitan Bar-Yosef (English, Ben Gurion U)
- James Loeffler (History, U of Virginia)
- Hasia Diner (History, NYU)
- Steven Zipperstein (History, Stanford U)
- Yael Zerubavel (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
2010/11
- Etgar Keret & Shira Geffen (Writers, Tel Aviv)
- Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois) & Yasemin Yildiz (German, Illinois)
- Sarah Stein (History, UCLA)
- Judith Halberstam (English, USC)
- Rhona Seidelman (History, Illinois)
- Sam Fleischacker (Philosophy, UIC)
- Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, NYU)
- Christina Stanciu (English, Illinois)
- Lauren Goodlad (English, Illinois)
- Sidra Ezrahi (Comparative Literature, Hebrew U)
- Peter Fritzsche (History, Illinois)
- Todd Hasak-Lowy (Hebrew, U of Florida)
- Alon Confino (History, U of Virginia)
2009/10
- Naomi Seidman (Graduate Theological Union & U of California at Berkeley)
- Andrew Demshuk (History, Illinois)
- Rachel Harris (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- James Young (English & Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, U of Massachusetts at Amherst) & Shimon Attie (Artist, Brooklyn)
- Irit Linur (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Elana Jakel (History, Illinois)
- Zia Miric (English, Illinois)
- Jeffrey Shandler (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
- Barbara Hahn (German, Vanderbilt U)
- Elisabeth Friedman (Art History, Illinois State U)
- Issam Nassar (History, Illinois State U)
- Dalya Bilu (Translator, Jerusalem)
2008/09
- Dale Bauer (English, Illinois)
- Margaret Ewing (Art History, Illinois)
- Michael Rakowitz (Art, Northwestern U)
- Asaf Ashery (Writer, Jerusalem)
- Robert Pinsky (Poetry, Boston U)
- Ethan Katz (History, U of Wisconsin, Madison)
- Eugene Avrutin (History, Illinois) & Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Alaina Pincus (English, Illinois)
- Jeffrey Lesser (History, Emory U)
- David Biale (History, U of California, Davis)
- George Gasyna (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Michael Berkowitz (Hebrew & Jewish Studies, University College London)
2007/08
- Virginia Dominguez (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Yosef Gorny (History, Tel Aviv U)
- Anna Kushkova (History, St. Petersburg U)
- Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)
- Orly Castel-Bloom (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Monique Balbuena (Comparative Literature, U of Oregon)
- Anna Parkinson (German, U of North Carolina, Chapel Hill)
- Jack Hutchens (Slavic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
2006/07
- Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
- Andrew Demshuk (History, Illinois)
- Gail Hareven (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Valery Dimshits (Yiddish, Illinois Wesleyan U)
- Gene Avrutin (History, Illinois)
- Hana Wirth-Nesher (Writer, Tel Aviv)
- Seth Wolitz (Yiddish, U of Texas)
- Lindsay Kaplan (English, Georgetown U)
- Gary Weissman (German, U of Cincinnati)
- Erica Lehrer (History, Concordia U)
- William Brustein (Sociology, Illinois)
2005/06
- Joshua Shanes (History, Illinois)
- Rita Simon (Sociology, American U)
- Rachel Havrelock (Jewish Studies, U of Illinois at Chicago)
- Brett Kaplan (Comparative Literature, Illinois) & Luke Batten (Art + Design, Illinois)
- Erica Lehrer (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Jeffrey Mehlman (French, Boston U)
- Brad Prager (German, U of Missouri)
- Yossi Halevi (Journalist, Jerusalem)
- Esther Benbassa & Jean-Christophe Attias (History, Sorbonne)
- Peter Mark (History, Wesleyan)
- Gary Porton (Religion, Illinois)
- Ruth Behar (Anthropology, U of Michigan)
- Jennifer Young (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Margaret Olin (Art History, School of the Art Institute at Chicago)
- Hillel Halkin (Writer & Translator, Jerusalem)
- Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois)
- Murray Baumgarten (English, U of California at Santa Cruz)
- Dmitry Tartakovsky (History, Illinois)
2004/05
- Omer Bartov (History, Brown U)
- Matti Bunzl (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
- Frances Raday (Law, Hebrew U)
- Riv-Ellen Prell (American Studies, U of Minnesota)
- Ed Bruner (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Jonathan Druker (Italian, Illinois State University)
- Carsten Shapkow (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
- Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)
- Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
- Grit Schorch (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
- Richard Levy (History, U of Illinois at Chicago)
- Dana Rabin (History, Illinois)
- Rachel Shulman (History, Illinois)
- Ben Nathans (History, U of Pennsylvania)
- Aron Tugendhaft (Social Thought, U of Chicago)
2003/04
- Marianne Hirsch & Leo Spitzer (Comparative Literature, Dartmouth U)
- Dirk Moses (History, U of Sidney)
- Carsten Schapkow (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
- Dianne Harris (Landscape Architecture, Illinois)
- Martin Przybilski (German, U of Würzburg)
- David Cohen (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
- Alena Heitlinger (Sociology, Trent U)
- Dan Rabinowitz (Anthropology, Tel Aviv U)
- Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, NYU)
- David Nirenberg (History, Johns Hopkins U)
- David Shneer (History, U of Denver)
- Jonathan Weiss (History, Illinois)
- Yasemin Yildiz (German, Cornell U)
- Bob Markley (English, Illinois)
- David Goodman (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
- Jonathan Druker (Italian, Illinois State University)
- James Hansen (English, Illlinois)
- Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois)
- Amy Blau (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Ted Weeks (History, Southern Illinois University)
2002/03
- Harriet Murav (Slavic Languages and Literatures & Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Miri Rubin (History, U of London)
- Gil Anidjar (Middle Eastern Studies, Columbia U)
- Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (Performance Studies, NYU)
- Gennady Estraikh (Yiddish, Oxford U)
- Zachary Lesser (English, Illinois)
- Bruce Rosenstock (Religion, Illinois)
- Desanka Schwara (Simon Dubnow Institute, U of Leipzig)
- Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
- Alan Rosen (Literature, Bar Ilan U)
- Jeffrey Feldman (Museum Studies, NYU)
- Till van Rahden (History, U of Chicago/U of Cologne)
- Mahir Saul (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Dara Goldman (Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Illinois)
- Brett Kaplan (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- George Fredrickson (History, Stanford U)
- David Shneer (History, U of Denver)
- Yasemin Yildiz (German, Cornell U)
2001/02
- Dan Diner (History, U of Leipzig/ Ben Gurion U)
- Peter Novick (Hisory, U of Chicago)
- Philip Bohlman (Music, U of Chicago)
- Warren Rosenberg (English, Wabash C)
- Amy Blau (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Albert Lichtblau (History, U of Salzburg)
- Steven Zipperstein (History, Stanford U)
- Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
- Jean-Claude Kuperminc (Alliance Israelite Universelle, Paris)
- Carl Niekerk (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
- Henry Gerlach (Germanic Languages and Literatures, UIUC)
- Jeffrey Shandler (Jewish Studies, Rutgers U)
- Michael Shapiro (English, Illinois)
- Brett Kaplan (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
- Ania Loomba (English, Illinois)
- Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois) & Neil Levi (English, Drew U)
- Dean Bell (History, Spertus I)
- Nadia Valman (English, U of Southhampton)
2000/01
- Susannah Heschel (Religious Studies, Dartmouth C)
- Deborah Hertz (History, Sarah Lawrence C)
- Brett Kaplan (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkeley)
- Michael Shapiro & Elisabeth Shapiro (English, Illinois)
- Al Baumgarten (Sociology, Bar Ilan U)
- Hanne Trautner-Kromann (Jewish Studies, Lund U)
- Dagmar Lorenz (German, U of Illinois at Chicago)
- Doron Rabinovici (History, U of Vienna)
- Jonathan Skolnik (German, U of Oregon)
- Cliff Spargo (English, Marquette U)
- Susan Kahn (Anthropology, Brandeis U)
- Nancy Berg (Hebrew, Washington U)
- Jeffrey Grossman (German, U of Virginia)
- Rick Esbenshade (History, U of California at Santa Cruz)
1999/2000
- Willis Johnson (Jewish Studies, U of Chicago)
- Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
- Tamar Liebes (Communications, Hebrew U)
- Jack Kugelmass (Anthropology, Arizona State U)
- Jan Schwarz (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
- Tamar El-Or (Anthropology, Hebrew U)
- Gary Porton (Religion, Illinois)
- Achsah Guibbory (English, Illinois)
- Jose Faur (Jewish History, Bar-Ilan U)
- Fred Jaher (History, Illinois)
- Adam Sutcliffe (History, Illinois)
- Joel Beinin (History, Stanford U)
- Nina Warnke (Jewish Studies, Indiana U)
- Johannes Heil (Center for Research on Anti-Semitism, Technical U Berlin)
1998/99
- Sascha Goluboff (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Shelley Wright (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)
- Beth Hawkins (Comparative Literature, Illinois)
- Dana Katz (Art History, Illinois)
- Daniel Boyarin (Rhetoric, U of California at Berkley)
- Lisa Lampert (English, Illinois)
- Dimitri Tartakovsky (History, Illinois)
- Matti Bunzl (Anthropology, Illinois)
- Jan Schwarz (Germanic Languages and Literatures, Illinois)