In the Fall of 2011, Vanessa Ochs was a Visiting NEH Scholar in the Huamnities at Colgate University in Hamilton, New York.
February: Tufts University ”New Jewish Ritual”
upcoming presentations:
March 18-20: University of Michigan, Frankel Institute
“130 Kilograms of Matza, 3,000 Hard-boiled Eggs, 100 Kilograms of Haroset and 2,000 Balls of Gefilte Fish”: Hyperbolic Reckoning on Passover
April 16, 2012: University of North Carolina, Jewish Studies Program
Material Culture and Jewish Identity: Or, What Makes a Jewish Home Jewish?
Monday, April 16, 2112, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking map
VANESSA OCHS, an anthropologist of contemporary Jewish life and professor at the University of Virginia, will explore the ways that different
kinds of things make homes Jewish, and how things found in the home facilitate Jewish living, creating, maintaining and transmitting Jewish identities.
Co-sponsored by the Department of American Studies.
This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ’58.
May 6, 2012: University of Chicago Center for Jewish Studies, in collaboration with the Divinity School and Special Collections of the Libraries of the University of Chicago