Term 2 Program Available for Winter 2023-2024 Sawchen & Ziegler Lecture Series



The Winter 2023-2024 Term 2 program for the Sawchen Lecture Series and Ziegler Lecture Series is now available. There will be both in-person and virtual events for 2023-2024.

Unless otherwise noted, the recording of each online lecture will be made available on cIRcle after the live virtual event.


Term 2 Sawchen and Ziegler Lectures:

January 18, 2024 | 12:30pm PST:
Online Sawchen Lecture by Sebastian Schulman (Yiddish Book Center)

Sawchen Lecture: Sebastian Schulman, “Am I My Brother’s Reader? The State of Yiddish Literary Translation”

February 28, 2024 | 11:00am PST:
Online Ziegler Lecture by Michelle Moyd (Michigan State University)

Ziegler Lecture: Michelle Moyd, “Askari, Gurnah’s Afterlives, and History: Some Reflections”

March 4, 2024 | 2:00pm PST:
Online Ziegler Lecture by Claudia Breger (Columbia University)

Ziegler Lecture: Claudia Breger, “Literary Dreaming (Under the Weight of Political Nightmares)”

March 11, 2024 | 11:00am PST:
Online Ziegler Lecture by Zavier Nunn (Duke University)

Ziegler Lecture: Zavier Nunn, “Trans liminality and the Holocaust”

March 22, 2024 | 1:00pm PST:
In-person Ziegler Lecture by Evan Torner (University of Cincinnati)
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Ziegler Lecture: Evan Torner, “Decolonizing Games and Games for Decolonization”