New Perspectives on Jewish Feminist Art in the United States: Conference Schedule
9:00-9:30 am Gathering and Breakfast
9:30-10:15 am Greetings and Opening Remarks
Eben Graves, Program Manager; Fellows Coordinator, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Opening Remarks
David Sperber, organizer of the conference,
Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Re-thinking Jewish feminism through time and space
Tanya Zion-Waldoks, Princeton University
10:15-11:45 am SESSION 1: The roles of Jewish identities in US feminist art practices
Chair: Professor Margaret Olin, Yale University
Beyond the Pale: Jewish-American Feminists and the Pall of Eastern-Europe
Gail Levin, The Graduate Center, CUNY
Jewish “Ghosts” in Antarctica and Germany: Feminist Art Practices and Disappearing Landscapes in the work of Judit Hersko and Susan Hiller
Lisa E. Bloom, UC Berkeley
Expanding Definitions of “Jewish Feminist Art” in the Age of #MeToo
Paula Birnbaum, University of San Francisco
11:45-12:00 pm Break
12:00-1:00 pm Artist Talk
Chair: Laura Worden, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Deconstructing God Through a Feminist Lens
Helène Aylon
1:00-2:00 pm Lunch Break
2:00-3:30 pm SESSION 2: American Jewish-themed Feminist Art
Chair: Professor Laura Wexler, Yale University
Jewish Religious-themed Feminist Art in the Generation Born Between c. 1930 and c.1960
Matthew Baigell, Rutgers University
A Seminal Feminist Holocaust Art Work – Judy Chicago’s Holocaust Project: From Darkness into Light
Mor Presiado, Bar-Ilan University
Jewish Women Artists: Unbound and Unbuttoned
Laura Kruger, Bernard Heller Museum at the Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion (HUC-JIR), New York
3:30-3:45 pm Break and Refreshments
3:45-4:30 pm Artist Talk
Chair: Bailey Sullivan, Yale Institute of Sacred Music
Making a Place as the Site of Transformation
Mierle Laderman Ukeles