Greenfield Summer Institute: Jews and Popular Culture

July 14-17, 2025

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

Early-Bird Registration Rates

Full registration package (in-person): $235

A la carte registration (in-person): $65 daily for Monday-Wednesday programming, $45 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 on July 1st. 

 

Schedule of Events

For more information about each event, please see the full schedule of events here.

Monday, July 14

8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:00am | “Yiddish as a Comic Foil in American Comedy” | Eddy Portnoy (YIVO Institute for Jewish Research)

10:45 a.m. | “The Story of Nittel Nacht: A Jewish Christmas Tradition” | Rebecca Scharbach Wollenberg (University of Michigan)

1:30pm | Film Screening: A Serious Man (2009) | Directed by Joel & Ethan Coen

3:15pm | “Serious Men: The Coen Brothers' A Serious Man in Conversation with the Book of Job” | Jeremy M. Hutton (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Tuesday, July 15

8:00am | Continental Breakfast and Registration

9:00am | “‘Beyond Driving Miss Daisy: Southern Jews and the Long Civil Rights Movement” | Shari Rabin (Oberlin College)

10:45am | “Reading Jewish Films as Jewish Texts” | Mark Leuchter (Temple University)

1:30pm | “Poetry of the Periphery: Mizrahi & Ethiopian Israeli Poetry of Contemporary Israel” | Bryan K. Roby (University of Michigan)

3:15pm | Film Screening: Hollywoodism: Jews, Movies and the American Dream (1997) | Directed by Simcha Jacobovici & Stuart Samuels

Wednesday, July 16

8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:00am | “Building Paradise: Jewish Developers in the Making of South Florida's Leisure Landscape” | Anna Andrzejewski (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:45am | “Ancient Popular Culture? Jews and Graffiti in the Mediterranean and Beyond” | Karen Stern-Gabbay (CUNY Graduate Center)

1:30pm | “‘The Cabaretesque in Jewish Music” | Philip V. Bohlman (University of Chicago)

3:15pm | A Special Performance at the Hamel Music Center: "When We Remembered Zion: Jewish Songs of Love, Loss, and Life” | Philip V. Bohlman, with Musicians from the UW-Madison School of Music

Thursday, July 17

8:00am | Continental Breakfast & Registration

9:00am | “Recycling Recipes and Jewishness in the 1980s” | Jonathan Z.S. Pollack (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

10:45am | “Why Do Jewish Dogs Prefer Gaines-Burgers” | Kerri P. Steinberg (Otis College of Art and Design)

12:00pm | 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.

Group Members

Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

Contact Details

Attendee Information

Hometown

Please write the city and state that you would like listed on your nametag to identify where you are from (or where you currently live, whichever you prefer). If you do not want your hometown listed on your nametag, write N/A and we will leave this information off your nametag. Note: this is for in-person attendees only.

Would you like your contact information to be included on the Greenfield contact sheet that is circulated among attendees?

The contact sheet is circulated among all attendees so that you can contact one another after the Institute should you wish to.

Dietary Restrictions

Please list any dietary preferences or restrictions (kosher, vegan, etc). We will do our best to accommodate.

Accommodations

Please let us know if there's anything we can do to make the presentations or the physical space of the Institute more accessible to you (i.e. amplified hearing device, sign language interpreter, large text handouts, wheelchair access, etc).

Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

Registration

The full registration package for the Greenfield Summer Institute is $235 for all programming, including the daily continental breakfasts and closing lunch.

If you cannot attend the entire institute, you can register a la carte for individual days of the conference. Please note that if you are registering with the a la carte options, you will need to register for any provided meals separately (e.g. registering for Thursday's programming does not include the closing lunch).

A la carte pricing (early-bird rates)

$65 to attend lectures and activities on Monday, Tuesday, or Wednesday

$45 to attend lectures and activities on Thursday

$20 to attend closing lunch (Thursday)

If you cannot attend the Institute in person, there is also an online option to attend the Institute via Zoom. The fee for online attendance is $175 for all programming. If you have questions about the online option, please call or email us.

Registration on or after July 1st will be subject to a fee increase.

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Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

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Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

Summary

Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

Payment

Please make all checks payable to:
Conference Management – Greenfield Institute

Mail Check Payments to:

Memorial Union
Conference Management
800 Langdon St
Madison, WI 53706

Doing Business As: The charge will appear on your credit card statement as WU-Conference Management.

Privacy Statement: The University of Wisconsin does not sell, rent, trade or distribute any personally identifiable information obtained from clients to a third party, except in cooperation with government agencies or as required by law.

For questions about your payment, please contact us at Wisconsin Union Conference Management 608-265-6534 or conferences@union.wisc.edu 

If you will be traveling to Madison for the Institute, you can find information about hotel accommodations and parking here: https://cjs.wisc.edu/greenfield/

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.

Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

Thank your for registering for the Greenfield Summer Institute! You will receive an email shortly with a confirmation of your registration.

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.

Website Hosted by Wisconsin Union Conference Management

conferences@union.wisc.edu | 800 Langdon St. | Madison, WI 53706 | (608) 265-6534

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