Please join us for a 2-day conference on May 1-2, 2022 titled "Jewish Literatures and their Neighbors" in UC Irvine's School of Humanities, HG 1010 & HG 1002.
Schedule:
Sunday, May 1, 2022
Panel I: Mediations 1:30-3:30 pm, HG 1010
Chair: Nasrin Rahimieh
Shir Alon, University of Minnesota: “Neighborhood Watch: Hebrew Literature in the Middle East after the Abraham Accords”
Yuval Evri, Brandeis University: “Between Bordering to Neighboring: Tracing the Invention of Arab-Jews as Mediators”
Liron Mor, UC Irvine: “Zionism as Extractive Translation and the Role of Mizrahim”
Coffee break: 3:30-4 pm
Keynote I 4-6 pm, HG 1010
Lital Levy (Princeton University) “Global Haskalah: Translation and the Making of Modern Jewish Literatures."
MONDAY, MAY 2, 2022
Panel II: Limitations and Externalities - 10 am-12:30 pm, HG 1002
Chair: Matthias Lehmann
Almog Behar, Tel Aviv University (on Zoom): “A Jewish Quran: Islamic sources in Modern Jewish Literature in Hebrew and Arabic”
Ella Elbaz-Nir, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Routes of Unlikely Returns: Can Golah be a Motherland?"
Roni Masel, Ben-Gurion University: “Love Thy Neighbor: South African Yiddishists’ Romance with Afrikaans and the Limits of Universalism”
Lunch Break: 12:30-1:30
Panel III: Translations - 1:30-3:30 pm, HG 1002
Chair: Jane O. Newman
Elik Elhanan, CUNY: “Bringing our Neighbors to Mourn: Intertextuality and Work of Mourning in the Commemorations of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory”
Maya Barzilay, University of Michigan: “Love Thy Translation: Emotion and Empathy in Hebrew-German Literary Exchanges”
Danielle Drori, Universität Hamburg: “British Explorers and Other Neighbors: The First Hebrew Translations of Victorian Literature.”
Coffee break: 3:30-4 pm
Keynote II: 4-6 pm, HG 1010
Chana Kronfeld (UC Berkeley) “Beyond Untranslatability and the Monolingual Nation-State Model: The View from Jewish Literatures”
This event is presented by UCI Center for Jewish Studies with the support of UCI Humanities Center and UCI Department of Comparative Literature.
