Thayer Building – Room 2022

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 […]

Queer Belongings and the Jewish “Homeland”: Israeli and Jewish American Lives Between Home and Away Dr. Hila Amit (Thomas Mann House Fellow) in conversation about intersections of queerness, migration, and identity in the context of Israel/Palestine and the Jewish diaspora. Through a blend of fiction and academic inquiry, Amit examines the ways queer Jewish lives […]