May 15, 2023 (UC Irvine):
- Panel on Antisemitism in the MENA, with Susan Miller (UC Davis), Aron Rodrigue (Stanford), and Ethan Katz (UC Berkeley)
- Jacob Daniels (Stanford), “Introduction: Borderland Central: Edirne and its Jewish Community from the Late Ottoman Empire to the Early Turkish Republic”
- Sarah Levin (UC Berkeley), “T’halalit, Permissible (or Not): Ambiguous Boundaries”
- Roy Marom (UC Berkeley), “The Moshavot: Early Jewish-Arab Encounters in Rural Palestine, 1878-1914”
November 3, 2022 (UCLA):
- Panel on multidirectional memory with Michael Zalta (USC) and Rebecca Gross (UCSC)
- Rebecca Glasberg (UCLA), “The Many Iterations of Henriette Gozlan: Tracing the Evolution of Rachid Boudjedra’s recurring Jewish-Muslim figure”
- Olivia Harrison (USC), “When does an Indigenous Jew become a French Native?”
- Ethan Katz (UC Berkeley), “Freeing the Empire: The Uprising of Jews and Antisemites that Helped Win World War II,” Excerpts
November 3, 2022 (UCLA):
- Panel on multidirectional memory with Michael Zalta (USC) and Rebecca Gross (UCSC)
- Rebecca Glasberg (UCLA), “The Many Iterations of Henriette Gozlan: Tracing the Evolution of Rachid Boudjedra’s recurring Jewish-Muslim figure”
- Olivia Harrison (USC), “When does an Indigenous Jew become a French Native?”
- Ethan Katz (UC Berkeley), “Freeing the Empire: The Uprising of Jews and Antisemites that Helped Win World War II,” Excerpts
May 10-11, 2022 (UC Davis):
- Visualizing Scholarship on the Jews of the Middle East and North Africa in the Next Decade
- Panelists: Aomar Boum (UCLA), Emily Gottreich (UC Berkeley), Alma Heckman (UC Santa Cruz), Oren Kosansky (Lewis & Clark), Matthias Lehmann (UC Irvine), Lital Levy (Princeton), Jessica Marglin (USC), Susan Miller (UC Davis), Chris Silver (McGill), and Sarah Stein (UCLA)
December 3, 2021 (Zoom):
- Rachel Smith (UCLA), “Superstition and the Haunting of Sephardic Modernity.”
- Brendan Goldman (University of Washington), “‘A People Plundered and Despoiled’ (Isaiah 42:22): Mass Incarceration, Minorities and Carceral State Logic in Medieval Egypt.”
March 5, 2021 (Zoom):
- Daniella Farah (UCLA), “Forming Iranian Jewish Identities: Education, National Belonging, the Jewish Press, and Integration, 1945-1981.”
- Max Modiano Daniel (UCLA), “A Sephardic Century: Relational Formation of a Los Angeles Community, 1893-1992.”
November 13, 2020 (Zoom):
- Roundtable discussion on pedagogy: teaching Jews in the Middle East and North Africa
March 31, 2019 (USC):
- Liran Yadgar (UCLA), “The Hebrew Bible in the Writings of Ibn Taymiyya.”
- Robin Buller (UC Berkeley), “Sephardi Immigrants in Paris: Navigating Community, Culture, and Citizenship in Interwar and Wartime France.”
- Ethan Pack (UCLA), Routes of Displacement: The Representation of Exile Between Germany, Turkey, Israel and Palestine, selected chapters.
October 28, 2018 (UC Berkeley):
- Jacob Daniels (Stanford), “Prospects from the Edge of Empire: The Jews of Ottoman Edirne before the Balkan Wars”
- Shira Klein (Chapman University), “Italian Jewish Encounters with the Jews of Libya and Ethiopia”
- Susan Gilson Miller (UC Davis), The Undesirables: Nelly Benatar and the Refugee Crisis in Morocco During World War II
March 25, 2018 (USC):
- Mostafa Hussein (USC Society of Fellows), Islam and the Construction of a Jewish Culture in the Holy Land
- Marie-Pierre Ulloa (Stanford),“California Dreaming: North African Jews, out of North Africa, out of France”
October 27, 2017 (UC Berkeley):
- Sarah Levin (UC Berkeley), “Narrative Remembrance: Close Encounters Between Muslims and Jews in Morocco’s Atlas Mountains”
- Francesco Spangolo (UC Berkeley, Curator of the Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life), tour of the exhibition “The Invisible Museum: History and Memory of Morocco”
November 4, 2016 (UC Berkeley):
- Lia Brozgal (UCLA), “An Arab Massacre, a Jewish Story: October 17, 1961”.
- Chris Silver (UCLA), “‘Where were you, mademoiselle? Every day I ask about you’: Popular music, mixed company, and its discontents in the interwar Maghrib”
- Emily Gottreich (UC Berkeley), “Jewish Morocco: From Pre-Islamic to Post-Colonial Times”
April 1, 2016 (USC):
- Reuven Firestone (HUC), “The ‘Other’ Ishmael in Islamic Sripture and Tradition”
- Aomar Boum (UCLA), “The Righteous Sultan: Mohammed V in Post-Colonial Holocaust Geographies”
November 13, 2015 (USC):
- Alma Heckman (UC Santa Cruz), “‘I was hoping to leave it with less brutality’: Vichy and the Politicization of Moroccan Jewry.”
- Susan Slyomovics (UCLA), “Abraham Serfaty: Moroccan Jew and Conscious Pariah.”