Past Events
SPRING 2016
April 25, 2016
“The Abandoned Muslim Consistory: Religion, Rule, and Legal Identity in French Algeria”
Speaker: Rachel Schley (History, Harvard University)
Respondent: Elizabeth Foster (History, Tufts University)
FALL 2016
September, 16, 2016
“Converting Spain: Muslim Converts and the Contemporary Renewal of the Moorish Mediterranean”
Speaker: Mikaela Rogozen-Soltar (Anthropology, University of Nevada)
Respondent: Janet McIntosh (Anthropology, Brandeis University)
Moderator: Adam Seligman (Religion, Boston University)
October 6, 2016
“Parité, Politics, and Judaism: The Politics of Equality in Non-Consistorial French Synagogues”
Speaker: Béatrice de Gasquet (Sociology, Université de Paris – Diderot)
Respondent: Susannah Heschel (Jewish Studies, Dartmouth College)
Moderator: Abigail Gillman (World Languages & Literatures, Boston University)
November 14, 2016
“Conversion, Citizenship, and the Pragmatics of Jewish Inclusion in Contemporary Spain”
Speaker: Charles McDonald (Anthropology, New School for Social Research)
Respondent: Marcy Brink-Danan (Anthropology, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
FALL 2017
October 2, 2017
“Jewish Futures in the Mediterranean World”
Speakers: Naomi Davidson (History, University of Ottawa): “Our Beautiful Algerian Communities: Imagining Jewish Futures in the Mediterranean, 1962-1972″ and Abigail Jacobson (History, MIT): “Living together, Living apart: Imagining Jewish and Arab Lives in Mandatory Palestine”
Respondents: Mary Lewis (French History, Harvard) and Michelle Campos (Modern Middle Eastern History, University of Florida)
November 17, 2017
“Catholic Pasts and Futures in France”
Speaker: Elayne Oliphant (Anthropology, NYU): “The Infrastructure of Catholic Privilege in Paris”
Respondent: Camille Robcis (History, Cornell University)