CONTACT JUDAIC STUDIES TO REGISTER FOR THE CONFERENCE (520) 626-5758. 

DINNER WILL NOT BE INCLUDED FOR ANYONE REGISTERING AFTER APRIL 30.

• Sunday sessions - with the exception of the dinner - will be held in the Student Union Memorial Center 
  on the campus of The University of Arizona, Tucson. Suggested Parking: The 2nd Street Garage (AKA Admin garage)
• Dinner and keynote speaker will be held at the Marriott Hotel
  Keynote Speaker Prof. Theodore Sasson Suggested Parking: Main Gate Garage (hotel does not validate parking)
• Monday sessions will be held at the Marriott Hotel

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CAMPUS MAP   (Handouts - maps and schedule overview)

SATURDAY MAY 3, 2014 

6:30pm EARLY CHECK-IN

• The UA Student Union Memorial Center - STEWARD OBSERVATORY
• Refreshments will be served

8:00 - 9:00pm STARGAZING with UA Astronomer Thomas Fleming

• On the UA Campus CAMPUS MAP>>

SUNDAY MAY 4, 2014

8:00 - 9:00am CONFERENCE CHECK-IN

• The UA Student Union Memorial Center -  Ventana Room
• Coffee and pastries

9:00 - 10:45am CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• AGAVE ROOM - “Hollywood’s Response to Hitler: Collaboration, Commerce, or Censorship?”
  Moderator: Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University
  Panelists: Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University; Vincent Brook, University of California, Los Angeles; Joel Rosenberg, Tufts University
• COPPER ROOM - “Jews and Judaism in America” 
  Chair: Amy Hill Shevitz, Arizona State University
  Max Baumgarten, University of California, Los Angeles - “Race, Neighborhood, and the Rise of Jewish Identity in Politics”
  Mara W. Cohen Iaonnides, Missouri State University - “Cross Burning and Grave Desecration: Anti-Semitic Incidents in Springfield, MO”
• PRESIDIO ROOM - “European Jewish History & Culture”
  Chair: Fabian Alfie, The University of Arizona
  Anna Cichopek-Gajraj, Arizona State University  - “Continuity and Break in Postwar Jewish Communities in Poland and Slovakia”
  Deborah Kaye, University of Arizona - “The ‘Liberating’ Effects of Ghettoization in Italian Jewish History: Continuity and Change in the Acqui Ghetto, 1820-1824”
  Victoria Khiterer, Millerville University - “How Jewish was Jewish Culture in Kiev before World War I?”

11:00 - 12:15pm CONCURRENT SESSIONS

• AGAVE ROOM - “Conversion & Identity” 
  Chair: Thomas Kovach, University of Arizona
  Jonathan Katz, Oregon State University - “Conversion to Judaism in French Protectorate Morocco (or ‘Love in the Archives’)”
  Genevieve Okada Goldstone, University of California, San Diego - “American Jewish Diversity: Conversion, Race, and Cultural Change in Contemporary Los Angeles”
• COPPER ROOM - “Jewish Texts and Traditions” 
  Chair: Ellen Eisenberg, Willamette University
  Natalie Latteri, University of New Mexico - “Was I Unfaithful?: Teshuvah and a Projection of Whoredom in the Chronicle of Solomon bar Samson”
  Roberta Sabbath, University of Nevada, Las Vegas - “Anthropomorphic and Other Signs of Female Identity and Power in Jewish Sacred Texts”

12:15 – 12:45pm
PRESIDIO ROOM - “The Ukrainian Revolution and Anti-Semitism” with Victoria Khiterer, University of Millersville

12:45 - 2:00pm Lunch

2:00 - 5:30pm PLENARY SESSIONS -  AMERICAN JEWS AND THE 2013 PEW STUDY

2:00 - 3:30pm SESSION I

• AGAVE ROOM -  “Jewish Identity in the US: Getting the Conceptual Picture Right”
  Chair: Leonard Hammer, University of Arizona
  Panelists: David Graizbord, University of Arizona; Gil Ribak, American Jewish University; Gila Silverman, University of Arizona

3:30 - 4:00pm Break

4:00 - 5:30pm SESSION II

• AGAVE ROOM - “Assimilation and Cultural Loss in Light of Recent Research”
  Chair: Karen Seat, University of Arizona
  Panelists: Becka Alper, University of Arizona; David Graizbord, University of Arizona; Susan Kray, Indiana State University; Theodore Sasson, Brandeis University and Middlebury College

6:00 - 8:00pm Dinner & Keynote Speaker - “American Jews’ New Relationship to Israel” with Theodore Sasson, Brandeis University & Middlebury College

*LOCATION CHANGE*
Dinner and Monday Sessions will be held at The Marriott University Park Hotel

MONDAY MAY 5, 2014

7:30 - 9:00am EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE MEETING @ The Marriott

9:00 - 11:00am CONCURRENT SESSIONS @ The Marriott

• CANYON ROOM A - “Holocaust”
  Chair: Deborah Kaye, University of Arizona
  Paul Bartrop, Florida Gulf Coast University - “An Icelandic Jewish Saga: Tears of Stone and the Story of Jón and Annie Leifs”
  Shira Klein, Chapman University - “Italian Jews and Fascism: A Story of Trust and Betrayal”
  Naya Lekht, University of California, Los Angeles - “Before Auschwitz: Babii Iar and Holocaust Literature in the Soviet Union”
• CANYON ROOM B - “Israel and the Middle East”
  Chair: Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University
  Adam Howard, George Washington University and the US Department of State - “Contentious Peacemaking: President Jimmy Carter, the American Jewish Community, and the Arab-Israeli Dispute”
  Naomi Sokoloff, University of Washington -“Israel in Recent American Jewish Fiction”
  Seth Ward, University of Wyoming - “Tuesday Nights at the Movies: Teaching ‘Middle East and Israel in Film’ at the University of Wyoming”
  Aomar Boum, University of Arizona - “Soundtracks of Jerusalem: North African Hip Hop Artists and the Middle Eastern Conflict”
• CANYON ROOM C- “Jewish Identity, Gender and Education”
  Chair: Abigail Limmer, University of Arizona
  Stephen J. Stern, Gettysburg College - “That Hittite Woman, Jewish Americans and the Displacement of Place”
  Jonathan Sciarcon, University of Denver - “Pioneering Female Education: The Alliance Israelite Universelle Girls’ School in Baghdad in the 1890s”
  Holli Levitsky, Loyola Marymount University - “‘Something had to be done’: Holocaust Memory in the Catskill Mountains”