George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein 2011 Conney Conference Schedule
Schedule for all four days of the 2011 Conney Conference.
Tue. April 5
| Time | Presenter | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|
| 5:00-6:30 | Reception | Hillel |
Wed. April 6
| Time | Presenter | Form | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | Douglas Rosenberg | Speaker | Opening Remarks | Hillel |
| 9:00-9:30 | Nancy Peidelstein | Speaker | Kosher Continuum Painting Series: Portraying Wisconsin Reflections on Dietary Traditions Historically Related to Judaism | Hillel |
| 9:30-10:00 | Gideon Klionsky | Speaker | Comments on Yankev Krakovski’s “Dos Lid Fun Leo Frenk” | Hillel |
| 10:00-10:30 | Sarah Young | Speaker | Making it Meaningful: Feminism, Body Art and Talmudic Text Study | Hillel |
| 10:30-11:00 | Phillip Katz | Speaker | LITURGICAL AND SACRED SPACE DESIGN | Hillel |
| 11:00-11:15 | Break | |||
| 11:15-11:45 | Marsha Plafkin | Speaker | Artist Reflections on The Hidden Order of Art by Anton Ehrenzweig | Hillel |
| 11:45-12:15 | Marc Tasman | Speaker | A Jewish Body: Soylent Green reframed as a Holocaust narrative | Hillel |
| 12:15-1:30 | Laura Silver | Workshop | Knish Baking Workshop | Hillel |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30-2:30 | Connie Wolf | Speaker | Come with Answers, Leave with Questions: Changing Dynamic of Jewish Life | Hillel |
| 2:30-2:45 | Break | |||
| 2:45-3:00 | Plenery Session: TBA | |||
| 3:00-3:30 | Tara Kohn | Speaker | “In the Penumbra: Reflections on Jewish Identity in and between the Pages of Camera Work 36” | Hillel |
| 3:30-4:00 | Pamela Potter | Speaker | The Problem of Jewish Music: Popular Perceptions, Scholarly Enigmas | Hillel |
| 4:00-4:30 | Laurie Silverberg | Speaker | Exodus and Exile: Paul Dessau’s Oratorio Haggadah shel Pessach | Hillel |
| 4:30-5:00 | Karen Goodman | Speaker | Dancing With the Stars: Considering Jewish Dance Meditation | Hillel |
| 5:00-7:00 | Dinner | |||
| 7:30 | Karen Goodman / Sara Felder | Performance | Gates of Heaven |
Thu. April 7
| Time | Presenter | Form | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-9:00 | Laura Silver | Speaker/Performance | Remembrance of Knishes Past: Food, Folklore and Fetishism | Hillel |
| 9:00-10:30 | Judith Brin Ingber | Speaker | “A Look at The Forthcoming Book “”Seeing Israeli and Jewish Dance”": Three Authors Talk about their Researching and Writing.” | Hillel |
| 9:00-10:30 | Yehuda Hyman | Speaker | Three Hasidic Dances | Hillel |
| 9:00-10:30 | Dawn Lille | Speaker | Ethiopian Dance in Israel | Hillel |
| 10:30-10:45 | Break | |||
| 10:45-11:15 | Lisa Bloom | Speaker | Contemporary Art and Climate Change: Jewish “Ghosts” within Judit Hersko’s “Pages from the Book of the Unknown Explorer.” | Hillel |
| 11:15-12:00 | Anya Liftig | Speaker | JEWBILLY | Hillel |
| 12:00-12:30 | Plenery Session | Discussion | Extending the Reach of the Conney Project | Hillel |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch | |||
| 1:30-2:00 | Paul Von Blum | Speaker | Last Links: The Jewish Connection to American Social Realism | Hillel |
| 2:00-2:30 | Paula Levine | Speaker | On Common Ground | Hillel |
| 2:30-3:00 | Cynthia Rubin/Maya Escobar | Speaker | Jewish History for All: An Innovative Approach to Telling our Stories in a Multi-Cultural World | Hillel |
| 3:30-4:30 | Howard Libov | Film Screening | Fourteen Stations (aka New Jersey 40.76N x 74.42W ) | Hillel |
| 4:30-5:00 | Arie Galles | Speaker | DRAWING WITH ASHES | Hillel |
| 5:00-7:00 | Dinner | |||
| 7:30 | Yehuda Hyman | New/Old World | The Mad 7 | Morphy Hall |
Fri. April 8
| Time | Presenter | Form | Title | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 8:30-11:30 | Laurie Beth Clark | Speaker | What the Jews do | Hillel |
| 8:30-11:30 | Sara Felder | Speaker | Juggling Tradition | Hillel |
| 8:30-11:30 | Lauren Love | Speaker | Performing Jewish Nationhood in The Romance of a People at the 1932 Chicago World’s Fair | Hillel |
| 8:30-11:30 | Stephanie M. Halpern | Speaker | Kate Bateman: Sanitizing the Beautiful Jewess | Hillel |
| 8:30-11:30 | Jonathan Freedman | Speaker | Graves and Images: *Once Upon a Time in America* and the Deconstruction of the Jewish-American Immigrant Narrative | Hillel |
| 11:30-12:30 | Community Discussion | Discussion | Where Are We At? Future Directions | Hillel |
| 12:30-1:30 | Lunch |
