Polin Seminar: Current Topics in Jewish Studies 

Welcome to the Polin Seminar on May 12th at 12:00-15 in the Auditorium Theologicum, Piispankatu 16. This seminar will be held in English.

The title of the seminar is “Current Topics in Jewish Studies”. The presenters are guest researcher within the Vetenskapsrådet’s International Postdoc framework Dr. Magdalena Dziaczkowska (Lund University), Dr. Emma Polyakov (University of Helsinki and Merrimack College), Polin Project Researcher Dr. Mercédesz Czimbalmos, Doc., Head of Research at the Society of Swedish Literature in Finland (SLS) Ruth Illman and the Polin Monograph Fellow Dr. Alana Vincent (Umeå University).

Program

12.00-12.25 Magdalena Dziaczkowska: Mixedness and the Holocaust: Jewish-Catholic Couples Navigating the Nazi Necropolitics

12.25-12.50 Emma Polyakov: The Antisemitic Roots of Hebrew Catholicism

12.50-13.15 Mercédesz Czimbalmos: A Zionist and an anti-Zionist Jew walk into the bar

13.15-13.45 Coffee break

13.45-14.05 Ruth Illman: Women Visiting the Mikveh: Ethnographic Viewpoints from Four Nordic Cities

14.05-14.30 Alana Vincent: The Lives and Afterlives of the Mourner’s Kaddish: Ritual Authority and the Assertion of Difference

14.30-15 Final Panel Discussion