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ONLINE EVENTS
MON 27 FEB 10.30–14.30
The Disrupted Mind
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Noga Arikha | Chair: Lisa Appignanesi
Poet and painter Noga Arikha spent 18 months at the Pitié-Salpêtière
hospital in Paris, studying what happens when the mind goes
wrong – and how our physical experiences inform our identities.
Weaving together stories of her subjects’ troubles, from Vanessa
who wakes from a coma having forgotten ten years of her life to
Thomas, who no longer knows how to answer questions, in The
Ceiling Outside Arikha draws on cutting-edge research and insights
from neuroscience philosophy and psychology as she attempts to
understand how deeply interconnected are our minds and bodies. In
conversation with author Lisa Appignanesi.
Online
10.30–11.30
FREE
Jews & the Diamond Trade
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Saskia Coenen Snyder
From proposals and galas to James Bond and Uncut Gems, diamonds
hold an indelible place in our culture. In A Brilliant Commodity:
Diamonds and Jews in a Modern Setting historian Saskia Coenen
Snyder shows how diamonds travelled from South African mines
to processing factories in Amsterdam to the necks of high society
women in New York. She reveals the contributions made by Jewish
buyers, brokers, cutters, financiers and retailers to modern and global
industrial enterprise, highlighting how it sparked labour movements,
increased consumer demand for luxury goods and formed the basis of
harmful stereotypes that persist today.
Online
12.00–13.00
£7.50
Bad Jews:
American Jewish Politics & Identities
In Association with the Rabin Chair Forum
of The George Washington University
Emily Tamkin | Chair: Zoe Strimpel
You can be called a ‘Bad Jew’—by the community or even yourself—if
you don’t keep kosher, don’t send your children to Hebrew school, or
enjoy Christmas music; if your partner isn’t Jewish, or you don’t call
your mother enough. But today, amid rising antisemitism, what makes
a Good or Bad Jew is a particularly fraught question.
There is no answer, New Statesman US editor Emily Tamkin argues,
as she reflects on the complex, conflicting and evolving story of
American Jewishness. In conversation with fellow journalist and
author Zoe Strimpel.
Online
13.30–14.30
£7.50
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