The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Every year, we honor Helen Diller, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar.
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Events
April 9, 2024: Dr. Shamam Waldman: “What Can Genomics Teach Us About Jewish History”
February 8, 2023: Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War against the Nazis for the Middle East
May 24, 2022: Twelve Tribes – A Conversation with Ethan Michaeli
February 17, 2021: Family Papers – A Conversation with Sarah Stein
March 19, 2020: The Future of Jewish Food – Cancelled
February 20, 2019: James Loeffler: “The Right to Be Heard: Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy”
November 2, 2017: Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
April 19, 2017: Mitchell Duneier: “Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of an Idea”
February 24, 2016: Todd Presner: “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
May 18, 2015: Maurice Samuels: “French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference”
February 24, 2014: Steven J. Zipperstein: “How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History”
May 8, 2013: Ari Kelman: “Learning to be Jewish”
April 25, 2012: ChaeRan Freeze: “Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova”
February 16, 2011: Robert Alter: “Translating the Bible: The Wisdom Books”