Bridging Legal Worlds: Jewish Women as Litigants before a German Imperial Supreme Court Guest Speaker: Tamar Menashe (Emory University) In 1495, Germany’s Imperial Chamber Court (Reichskammergericht) was founded as the institution that oversaw the adoption of Roman law as Germany’s imperial civil law. In 1511, a Jewish woman named Elena, who sued her husband and […]
Rudy Gerson is an artist and educator working across mediums of print, still and moving image, and performance. In this artist talk, Rudy will share his practice, which explores how the force of erotics is expressed in memory culture, social life, and historical inquiry. Recent film and video works will be screened and text works […]
How Women Changed American Religion: A Jewish Perspective 5th Annual Padnos Public Engagement Lecture on Jewish Learning Guest Speaker: Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) The 2025 Padnos Lecture, delivered by Professor Karla Goldman (University of Michigan) explores how American Judaism has been shaped by general societal expectations for women's religious behavior and by new active […]