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