You are invited to the third annual conference of the Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College:
“Jewish Arts and Identity in the Contemporary World”
WHEN: May 7th, 12:00 PM-8:30 PM (Please see the times for each panel and the keynote address below)
WHERE: 55 Lexington, Engelman Recital Hall, Baruch Performing Arts Center
Entrance is on 25th Street, between Lexington and Third Avenue
This event is free and open to the public. Please make reservations (note the panel you are interested in attending) at: [email protected]
Panel 1: The Jew on Stage
12:00pm-1:45pm
Gordon Edelstein, Director of the New Haven Long Wharf Theater
Ari Brand, from Off-Broadway “My Name Is Asher Lev”
Lenny Wolpe, from Off-Broadway “Old Jews Telling Jokes”
Prof. Edna Nahshon, The Jewish Theological Seminary
Moderator: Prof. Elizabeth Wollman, Baruch College
Panel 2: Jewish Music: Listening to Its Worldly Influences
2:00pm-3:45pm
Bruce Adolphe, composer
Personal, Jewish, Universal: Authenticity in Composition”
Prof. Gil Harel, Baruch College
“What’s in a sticker? Israeli identity as depicted in Hadag Nahash’s ‘Sticker Song’ ”
Prof. Mark Kligman, Hebrew Union College
“The Liturgical Music of Syrian Jews in Brooklyn: Keeping Arab Traditions Alive”
Dr. Galeet Dardashti, New York University, lead vocalist on Divahn
“Money, Music, and Identity: The Case of the Mizrahi Piyut (Sacred Song) Craze in Israel”
Moderator: Dr. Howard Stern
Panel 3: Jewish Ways of Seeing: The Visual Arts and the Jewish Tradition
4:00pm-5:45pm
Prof. Vivian Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary
“Traditionalism in Sephardi Art”
Dr. Tom Freudenheim, Former deputy director and COO of Jüdisches Museum Berlin
“Seeing Art with Jewish Eyes”
Prof. Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University
“Everybody thought I was Catholic’: Audrey Flack’s Jewish Identity”
Audrey Flack, artist
“Audrey Flack in Conversation with Samantha Baskind”
Moderator: Dr. Brigitte Sion
5:45pm-6:15pm: Refreshments and book sales
6:15pm-6:45pm: Audrey Flack and the Art History Band
7:00pm-8:00pm: Keynote Address
Prof. Carol Zemel, York University
“New Jews\New Diasporas: Re-forming identity in the Visual Arts”
8:00pm-8:30pm: Reception
This event is sponsored by the Sandra Kahn Wasserman Jewish Studies Center at Baruch College, the American Sephardi Federation, and the Institute for Sephardic Studies, CUNY Graduate Center. We are grateful to the Edmond J. Safra Foundation for supporting this event.
