UF Center for Latin American Studies
You are cordially invited to the Center for Latin American Studies’ 68th Annual Conference on Jews and the Americas.
December 14, 2018
You are cordially invited to the Center for Latin American Studies’ 68th Annual Conference on Jews and the Americas. The conference will take place at the University of Florida from February 24-26, 2019.
This multidisciplinary conference aims to explore various facets of the Jewish experience in the Americas from the 16th century until today. This experience has been shaped by intra-religious developments as well as through relations – actual, spiritual, and imaginary – with Jewish communities outside the Americas. It was, of course, likewise influenced by the same political, economic, cultural, and social forces that shaped the societies of the Americas more generally during the past five centuries.
The aim of the conference is to bring together the fields of Latin American and Jewish studies through different disciplinary approaches. At the same time, the organizers would also like to allow students, the academic community, and the broader public to gain new insights into the multidisciplinary research being conducted on the Jewish experience in the Americas. To this effect, we have invited over twenty scholars to present their research, including keynote speakers Tamar Herzog (Monroe Gutman Professor of Latin American Affairs, Harvard University) and Dana Rabin (Professor, Department of History, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign).
The conference is jointly sponsored by the UF Center for Latin American Studies, the Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies and the Isser and Rae Price Library of Judaica at the University of Florida. Funding is also provided by the U.S. Department of Education and the Bacardi Family Endowment.
For more information and to register for the conference, please visit the Center’s website at www.latam.ufl.edu/annual-conference/ or email the conference organizers at JewsandtheAmericasConference@uflib.ufl.edu.
We look forward to welcoming you at the Center’s 68th Annual Conference.
Best regards,
Lenny A. Ureña Valerio, Ph.D.
Assistant Director for Administration
Member of the 68th Annual Conference Organizing Committee
