Events.
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2026: May 12
The Long Way Home: Key Themes in Sephardi and Mizrahi Diaspora Studies
Roy Shukrun Sasha (Utrecht University) and Goldstein-Sabbah (University of Groningen)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2026: April 16
Between Israel and Morocco: Jewish Moroccan Cultural Displays in the Homeland and the Diaspora
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2026: March 5
From Morocco, Elsewhere: Jewish–Muslim Entanglements Through the Lens of Cultural Intimacy
Andre Levy (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2026: February 23
Fashioning Diaspora: Moroccan Jewish Histories in Los Angeles
Aomar Boum (UCLA and the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2026: January 26
Thinking with Diaspora: A Multi-Rooted Approach to the Sephardic Jewish Experience
Devin Naar (University of Washington)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2025: May 8
Sephardic Public Figures in the Argentine and Brazilian Left: Revisiting an Entangled History
Silvina Schammah Gesser (Salti Institute, Bar-Ilan University, amd Truman Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem), and Michel Gherman (Federal University of Rio de Janeiro)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2025: April 24
Navigating Bourgeois Status, Socialism, and Nationalism: Comparing Armenian and Jewish “Repatriations” From Egypt
Aviad Moreno (Ben Gurion University of the Negev), and Ani Avetisyan (University of Cambridge)
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2025: April 3
Weaving Transnational Threads: Mizrahi Feminist Thought and Organizing at This Global Political Moment
Yali Hashash (Isha L’Isha Haifa Feminist Research Center) and Shirly Bahar (Columbia University
Sephardi Modernities Seminar Series 2025: February 11
The Colonized Outsiders: Reflections on Fanon, Memmi and North African Jews
with Gabriel Abensour (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Leftist Arabised Jews, Arab Nationalism and the Question of Individual and Collective Rights
with Moshe Behar (University of Manchester)