The 16th Lavy Colloquium on Jewish Monumentality

Description

The Leonard and Helen R. Stulman Program in Jewish Studies will host the 16th Lavy Colloquium on Jewish Monumentality.

Monday:

• Monumental Meanings Aviva Ben-Ur (UMass Amherst): "Rethinking Monuments After Black Lives Matter: A View From the Graveyard" | Elizabeth Bloch-Smith (Princeton Theological Seminary): "The Jerusalem Temples: Physical Monuments as Textual Tableaus"
• Monumental Forms Timothy Hogue (U Pennsylvania): "The Monumentality of the Shema" | Alana M. Vincent (Umeå University): "Memory Palaces or Castles in the Air: The Monumentality of Jewish Museums"
• Monumental Words Jeremy Smoak (UCLA): "A Priestly Monument of Blessing in the Pentateuch: The Literary Architecture of Numbers 6:22-27" | Lisa Cleath (Princeton Theological Seminary): "Aramaic Curse Traditions in Monumental Impact" | Samuel J. Spinner (Johns Hopkins): "Monuments of Books: Yiddish Literature and the Beginnings of Holocaust Memory"
• Monumental Alternatives Karen B. Stern (Brooklyn College, CUNY): "Big Feelings: Monumentality Through the Senses in Late Ancient Synagogues" | Michael Meng (Clemson U): "Non-Monumentality: Epicurus's Forgotten Forgetting" | Bernadette Wegenstein (Johns Hopkins): "Jewish Monumentality in the Documentary the Archives"

Tuesday:

• Monumental Identities Alice Mandell (Johns Hopkins): "You Are (Not) My People: 'Thinking Through' Israel's Identity Crises" | Eric Jarrard (Wellesley): "Jewish Textual Memorial in Ptolemaic Egypt: 3 Maccabees 6–7 in the Shadow of Empire" | Emily Gottreich (UC Berkeley): "Jewish Monumentality in Contemporary Islamic Contexts"
• Monumental Monuments Lisa Saltzman (Bryn Mawr College): "Small Things" | Elaine T. James (Princeton Theological Seminary): "The Literary Gigantic in the Hebrew Bible: Experiencing Time in Imaginary Space"