FRI: Rackham, Assembly Hall
Languages, Trends, Politics
Thursday, Dec. 9: 202 South Thayer Street, Room 2022
4 pm – 6 pm:
Graduate Students’ Presentations Alexandra Hoffman, Oren Segal, Orian Zakai, Sara Feldman
6 – 7 pm: Reception
7 pm: Keynote Lecture
Dan Miron, Columbia University
Comparing Modernisms: The Case of Hebrew and Yiddish
Respondents: Shachar Pinsker and Mikhail Krutikov, University of Michigan
Friday, Dec. 10: Rackham, Assembly Hall
8:45 am – 9:45 am
Kalman Weiser, York University
Vilna vs Warsaw: The Capital of Yiddishland?
Gennady Estraikh, New York University
Building Sites of Yiddishism: The Kultur-Lige in Kiev, Warsaw, and Paris
10:00 am – 11 am
Harriet Murav, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign
Bergelson, Bergson, and the Materialization of Memory
Allison Schachter, Vanderbilt University
The Gendered Address of Jewish Modernism: Dovid Bergelson in Berlin and Dvora Baron in Tel Aviv
11:15 am – 12:15 pm
Na’ama Rokem, University of Chicago
“With the changing of horizons comes the broadening of the horizon”: Multilingual Narrative Modes in M.Y. Berdichevsky’s Miriam
Maya Barzilai, University of Michigan
The Flowers of Shame: Avraham Ben Yitzhak and the Multilingualism of Language Revival
This event is co-sponsored by: CREES, the Department of Comparative Literature and the Department of Slavic Languages & Literatures.
For additional information please refer to:Kim Reick Kunoff, Public Relations Coordinator
Jean & Samuel Frankel Center for Judaic Studies
ph: 734.615.8503
http://www.lsa.umich.edu/judaic/
