Greenfield Summer Institute: Jews and Resilience
July 22-25, 2024
Grainger Hall, UW-Madison | 975 University Avenue, Madison, WI 53706
Registration Rates
Full registration package (in-person): $235
A la carte registration (in-person): $65 daily for Monday-Wednesday programming, $45 for Thursday programming, $25 for Thursday's closing lunch
Online attendance registration package (Zoom): $175
Note that the rates for the in-person options increase after July 8th.
Schedule of Events
For more information about each event, please see the full schedule of events here.
Monday, July 22
8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00am | “In the Aftermath of Trauma: Risk, Resilience, and PTSD” | Valerie Maine (Madison VA Hospital)
10:45 a.m. | “Jews and Resilience: Stigma and Its Discontents” | Ken Koltun-Fromm (Haverford College)
1:30pm | “Russian Jews and the Cincinnati ‘Tamale Trust’ of the Early 20th Century” | Jonathan Z. S. Pollack (Madison Area Technical College & University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3:15pm | “From Yiddish to Hebrew: Holocaust Survivor Filmmakers” | Rachel S. Harris (Florida Atlantic University)
Tuesday, July 23
8:00am | Continental Breakfast and Registration
9:00am | “‘I Don’t Care What I Am Called:’ Mary Antin, Jewish Resilience, and the Boundaries of Religious Identity” | Rachel B. Gross (San Francisco State University)
10:45am | “Ethnicity and Resilience in 1950s Israel” | Aziza Khazzoom (Indiana University Bloomington)
1:30pm | “Jews and Revolution: Enchantment, Disappointment, and Hope” | Tony Michels (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
3:15pm | Film Screening: Black Honey (2018) | Directed by Uri Barbash
Wednesday, July 24
8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00am | “From ‘Haus Doranna’ to ‘The Woman in Gold’: The Restitution of Jewish Property in Austria after the Holocaust” | Lisa Silverman (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
10:45am | “Forbidden: A 3,000-Year History of Jews and the Pig” | Jordan Rosenblum (University of Wisconsin-Madison)
1:30pm | “‘Innovate or Die:’ Constructive Responses to Crisis in Jewish History” | Lauren B. Strauss (American University)
3:15pm | "Plague, Persistence, and Piety: Disease and Jewish Resilience in Early Modern Europe” | Joshua Teplitsky (University of Pennsylvania)
Thursday, July 25
8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration
9:00am | “Lost and Found: The Resilience of the Ten Lost Tribes in the Medieval Jewish Imagination” | David Shyovitz (Northwestern University)
10:45am | “Tenement Resilience” | Annie Polland (Tenement Museum)
12:00pm | Closing Lunch