The Program in Jewish Studies hosts several year-long research workshops and seminars for faculty members, postdocs, and students as well as one-time multi-day conferences that bring together scholars from around the world around topics of shared interest in the field.
Yale Jewish Studies Workshop
The Yale Jewish Studies Workshop, which meets regularly throughout the fall and spring semester, typically features pre-circulated works-in-progress by new faculty members, visiting professors, research scholars, and postdoctoral associates. This workshop provides an important opportunity for conversation across temporal and disciplinary boundaries within Jewish Studies. Regular attendance is expected of graduate students and faculty members in Jewish Studies. All members of the university community are warmly invited to join these workshops and learn together. Lunch is provided. For more information, please contact Jacob Morrow-Spitzer.
Yale Jewish Studies Seminar
The Modern Jewish History Colloquium and the Ancient Judaism Seminar have now been merged to form the Yale Jewish Studies Seminar. This seminar, co-organized by graduate students, typically invites junior and mid-career scholars to campus to present their research in a seminar setting and to meet with graduate students over lunch or dinner for continued conviviality and conversation. While the research presentations are usually open to the whole university community, there are also exclusive opportunities for graduate students to interact with the visiting scholars. For more information, please contact Tianruo Jiang and Gabriel Rom.
Yale Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium
The Yale Jewish Studies Graduate Colloquium, co-organized by and for graduate students, provides a forum for graduate students working in all areas in and adjacent to Jewish Studies to discuss their own research interests and writing endeavors together. This colloquium is meant to foster intellectual community and a collaborative spirit, and to scaffold students’ coursework-related papers, conference presentations, and dissertation writing. For more information, please contact Noah Avigan and Ruth Foster.
Conferences
The Program in Jewish Studies regularly hosts conferences in an array of disciplines of Jewish Studies, often co-organized by a team of faculty members and post-doctoral associates. Some past conferences include “Circulating Jews: Mobility, Cultural Transmission and Representation in Judaic Studies (November 2012), “Everyday Writing in the Medieval Near East: Documentary History and the Cairo Geniza” (November 2013), “Rabbis and Other Jews: Rabbinic Literature and Late Antique Judaism” (May 2014), “The Rise of Nationalism and the Nineteenth-Century Jewish Literary Imagination” (April 2015), “Sociality in Modern Jewish Philosophy and German Idealism” (June 2021), “The Aramaic Incantation Bowls in their Late Antique Jewish Contexts” (April 2022), “Talmudic Literature Conference” (April 2023), and “A Symposium in Celebration of Christine Hayes” (April 2024). The Program in Jewish Studies also hosts the Ancient Judaism Regional Seminar on a rotating basis, most recently in 2019 and 2024.