Registration

Greenfield Summer Institute: Food & Drink in Jewish Culture

July 20-23, 2026

Wisconsin Institute for Discovery, UW-Madison | 330 N Orchard St, Madison, WI 53715

Registration Rates

• Full registration package (in-person): $245
• A la carte registration (in-person): $70 daily for Monday-Wednesday programming, $50 for Thursday programming, $20 for Thursday’s closing lunch
• Online attendance registration package (Zoom): $175

Note that the rates for the in-person options increase after July 1st. 

Schedule of Events

For more information about each event, please see the full schedule of events here: https://cjs.wisc.edu/greenfield/

Monday, July 20

8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. | “Kosher USA: How Coke Became Kosher and Other Tales of Modern Food”| Roger Horowitz (Hagley Museum and Library)

10:45 a.m. | “Jewish Community Farming in the Era of Climate Change” | Adrienne Krone (Allegheny College)

1:30 p.m. | “Dinner with the Goldbergs” | Mitchell Hart (University of Florida)

3:15 p.m. | Film Screening: The Sturgeon Queens (2014) | Directed by Julie Cohen

Tuesday, July 21

8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. | Family, Friends, and Smoked Fish: Reminiscences about Life with Russ & Daughters | Mark Federman and Niki Russ Federman in conversation with Andy Bachman

10:45 a.m. | “Preserving Your Family Recipes and Stories with Jewish Food Society” | Yael Raviv (Jewish Food Society)

1:30 p.m. | “Hunger and Food in Holocaust Ghettos” | Helene Sinnreich (University of Tennessee, Knoxville)

3:15 p.m. | Film Screening: In Search of Israeli Cuisine (2016) | Directed by Roger Sherman

Wednesday, July 22

8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. | “Speaking Yiddish to Chickens: Holocaust Survivors Turned Poultry Farmers” | Seth Stern (Journalist and Author)

10:45 a.m. | “Chicken Soup in a Pot: The Art of Sholem Aleichem's Monologue” | Sunny Yudkoff (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

1:30 p.m. | “Kosher Crossroads: Food, Trade, and Identity in the Colonial Caribbean” | Hilit Surowitz-Israel (Rutgers University)

3:15 p.m. | “Diasporic Kitchens: Jewish-Mexican Recipes and Stories” | Margaret E. Boyle (Bowdoin College)

Thursday, July 23

8:00 a.m. | Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00 a.m. | “Jews, Liquor, and Life in Poland” | Glenn Dynner (University of Virginia)

10:45 a.m. | “Something’s Not Kosher: Jewish Food Controversies Through the Ages” | Jordan D. Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

12:00 p.m. | Closing Lunch

Please select how many participants you would like to include in the group registration, including yourself in the count if appropriate.

You will be taken through the registration process for each participant in the order listed below.

Confirmation emails will be sent to each individual participant.

If you chose to pay by check, please remember to promptly mail your check (with a printout of your confirmation email) to the following address:

Mail Check Payments to:

Memorial Union
Conference Management
800 Langdon St
Madison, WI 53706

Checks can be made payable to: Conference Management - Greenfield Institute

If you will be traveling to Madison for the Institute, you can find information about hotel accommodations and parking here. Please note that parking needs to be purchased in advance of the Institute. Guest parking near the Wisconsin Institute for Discovery is limited, so please book early to secure this.

If you registered for the online participation option, you will receive an email from us shortly before the first day of the conference with the Zoom link and other information on how to join the sessions remotely.

For any questions or concerns, please contact us at greenfield@cjs.wisc.edu or (608) 890-3572.