MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013
10:30 am – 12:45 pm
SESSION 6, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013 10:30 AM – 12:00 PM 6.1
DIGITAL
Grand Ballroom
DIGITAL MEDIA WORKSHOP Join AJS members for an informal and interactive presentation of research projects, research tools, teaching tools, and other born-digital projects.
SESSION 7, MONDAY, DECEMBER 16, 2013 7.1
Monday
An Open Source Semantic Annotation Tool for Jewish Studies: Pundit and the Judaica Europeana Vocabularies Dov (Bernardo) Winer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem / EAJC-Judaica Europeana) An Online Resource: The Phantom Holocaust: Soviet Cinema and Jewish Catastrophe Olga Gershenson (University of Massachusetts Amherst) Jews and the Struggle for Social Justice in the United States Gail T. Reimer (Jewish Women’s Archive) Mapping Jewish Resources: Engaging Students and the Community in Jewish Studies Research and Service Learning Jennifer Thompson (California State University, Northridge) Playing Jigsaw Puzzle with the Cairo Genizah Fragments Roni Shweka (The Friedberg Genizah Project)
11:00 AM – 12:45 PM Constitution A
HISTORIANS AND PHILOSOPHERS IN JEWISH STUDIES: INDIFFERENT? COOPERATIVE? ADVERSARIAL? Sponsored by the American Academy for Jewish Research Moderator: Christine Hayes (Yale University) Discussants: Elisheva Carlebach (Columbia University) Berel Lang (Wesleyan University) David Novak (University of Toronto) David J. Sorkin (The Graduate Center, CUNY)
7.2
Backbay A NEW CHALLENGES CONFRONTING JEWISH STUDIES PROGRAMS AND CENTERS Moderator: Ellen M. Umansky (Fairfield University) Discussants: Lila Corwin Berman (Temple University) Jonathan M. Hess (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill) Noam F. Pianko (University of Washington) Maeera Shreiber (University of Utah)
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