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Hannah Mayne/ University of Toronto

 

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Hannah is a doctoral student in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Toronto, and in the collaborative program in Jewish Studies. Her dissertation work focuses on the politics of contemporary Jewish women’s prayer practices in Jerusalem. A current key site of her research is the ongoing public debate surrounding gender and ritual at the Western Wall

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Yotam Popliker/ Ben Gurion University

 

I am on my fourth year as a PhD student in the Hebrew Literature Department, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. I wright my thesis on the poetry of Gabriel Preil, a modern Hebrew and Yiddish poet who leaved in the American Diaspora.

 

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Catherine Power/ University of Toronto

 

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Catherine R. Power is currently working toward a PhD in political theory within the department of political science at the University of Toronto. She received a BAH from the University of Toronto and MA in political science from McGill University. Her MA thesis, On the Problem of Ethnicity in Multicultural Theory: Patriotism and Diaspora Reconsidered explored some of the ways that we can better theorize how minorities negotiate belonging within nation-states. Her doctoral research focuses on the ways that figural “judaism” has served as a locus of critical philosophical conjecture and discussion in modern political thought. She has also previously published work examining Jewish responses to modernity and nationalism. Catherine is the recipient of numerous undergraduate and graduate awards

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Eliyahu Rosenfeld/ Ben Gurion University

 

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Eliyahu Rosenfeld is a Ph.D. Student in the department of literature at Ben Gurion University. He wrote his

thesis on the function of silence in discussions concerning virginity claims in the Babylonian Talmud. His current research deals with the poetics of Halachic Sugyot in Babylonian Talmud focusing on the role of the narrator and the intended reader.

 

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Lesley Simpson/ York University

 

Lesley is a former Canadian journalist who worked for Canadian daily newspapers and public broadcasting. she is now a third year PHD candidate at York University in Canada, and she interested in Jewish ethical wills, memory, and narrative.

 

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Shai Zamir/ University of Michigan

 

 
I am a history graduate student at the University of Michigan working on late medieval and early modern Spain and the Mediterranean. My research interests include Christian-Jewish relations, Sephardi literary production, and the history of gender and sexuality.