Faculty
- Festo! Festo! is a monthly Klezmer, Balkan, and World music concert and community jam session. This month’s Festo Festo will be held at The Velvet Elk Lounge in 91PORN, CO. The evening will be full of talent from Colorado
- Nir Evron published a piece in the Chronicle of Higher Education about how teaching and scholarship are inescapably political. Click here to read his article, "The University Has Always Been ‘Liberal.’ That’s a Good Thing:
- Elias Sacks has signed a contract with Yale University Press to produce the first English translation of The Guide of the Perplexed of the Time (Moreh Nevukei Ha-zeman), the unfinished Hebrew magnum opus of the Eastern
- Prof. Gregory Grobmeier will be doing a two-part lecture series for Trinity Academy at Trinity United Methodist Church in downtown Denver on 3/16 and 3/23. The talk is titled, "Philosophy in Dark Times." More details at:
- Prof. Yonatan Malin recently collaborated Daniel Shanahan (Northwestern University) to produce the website Modes in Klezmer Music: A Corpus Study Based on Beregovski’s Jewish Instrumental Folk Music. A companion article will be
- Nir Evron will give a talk at the Center of American West on January 29, 2025. Register by January 21 to attend Prof. Evron's talk: "Owen Wister's The Virginian: The Western Genre and the Shaping of the Modern Human-Animal
- Samira Mehta has joined the advisory board of the Jewish of Color Collecting Project at the Smithsonian-affiliated Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
- Prof. Yonatan Malin is presenting a paper at the Annual Meeting of the Association for Jewish Studies this week. The title of his paper is “The Musical Tapestry of Klezmer: A Computational Approach to Beregovski’s Jewish
- Thomas Pegelow Kaplan's latest publication, a chapter on "Reexamining the Transatlantic Scholarship on Jewish History” was just published in German Migrant Historians in North America: Transatlantic Careers and Scholarship