Greenfield Summer Institute: The Jewish Family Across Time and Space
July 11-14, 2022
Grainger Hall, UW-Madison | 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706
Registration Rates
Full registration package (in-person): $215
A la carte registration (in-person): $55 daily for Monday-Wednesday programming, $35 for Thursday programming, $20-$30 per meal
Full registration for online only option: $155
Note that the rates for the in-person options increase after June 27th.
Schedule of Events
For more information about each event, please see the full schedule of events here.
Monday, July 11
8:00am | Coffee Service & Registration
9:00am | Opening Breakfast
10:30am | "Life and Death in the Israelite Household" | Kerry Sonia, Colby College
1:30pm | "Looking Below the Numbers: Race, Color, and Jewish Diversity | Bruce Haynes, University of California, Davis
3:15pm | "To Jewish Daughters: Yiddish Cookbooks and Recipes" | Annie Polland, Tenement Museum
Tuesday, July 12
8:00am | Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00am | "The/Jewish Families" | Jonathan Bovarin, Cornell University
10:45am | "We are Family: The Imagined Ancestries of Blacks, Jews, and Others on TV" | Shaina Hammerman, Stanford University
1:30pm | "Dear Editor: Finding Family through the American Yiddish Press" | Ayelet Brinn, Hadassah-Brandeis Institute
3:15pm | "Family Obligations in Rabbinic Literature" | Jordan Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Wednesday, July 13
8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00am | "Be Fruitful and Multiply: Dating, Marriage, and Sex in the Orthodox and Ultra-Orthodox World" | Joshua Shanes, College of Charleston
10:45am | "Jewish Birth Traditions" | Cara Rock-Singer, University of Wisconsin-Madison
1:30pm | "Myths of the Jewish Wedding" | Vanessa Ochs, University of Virginia
3:15pm | "Fifty Ways to Leave an Heirloom: Jewish American Families and Crafting" | Jodi Eichler-Levine, Lehigh University
5:30pm | Closing Dinner. Grainger Hall
Thursday, July 14
8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00am | "The Origins of Israeli Cinema and its New Jewish Family" | Rachel Harris, University of Illinois and Urbana-Champaign
10:45am | "Persian Jewish Music from My Family Tradition" | Galeet Dardashti, Indiana University
12:00pm | Closing Lunch
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