JuSt Lunch Brown Bag Lecture Series
First Wednesday of the Month at Noon

02/02/2022
JuSt Lunch: “Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich” with Stephen H. Norwood
Noon via Zoom. Email judaicstudies@ou.edu for Zoom info.
03/02/2022
JuSt Lunch: “The Imaginary Jew in Brazil/Brazilian Politics” with Misha Klein
Noon | OMU Scholars Room
04/06/2022
JuSt Lunch: “Homer and the Bible” with Jacob Howland
Noon | OMU Scholars Room
05/04/2022
JuSt Lunch: “Water sustainability in Israel: a model for the south-central US?” with Tom Neeson
Noon | OMU Scholars Room

Many of our JuSt Lunch speakers have graciously allowed their lectures to be recorded. These are archived on the Schusterman Center's YouTube channel. Click below to view a lecture. ___________________________________________________________
February 2022 | Stephen H. Norwood - "Prologue to Annihilation: Ordinary American and British Jews Challenge the Third Reich"
December 2021 | Karin Schutjer - "Jew in the Thorn: Antisemitism, Fairy Tales & the Brothers Grim"
November 2021 | Hadas Cohen - "Loyalty, Belonging and Treason: Questions of Israeli National Identity"
October 2021 | Alan Levenson - "The Cosmopolitan Jewish City"
September 2021 | Karlos K. Hill and Barry Roseman - "A Collaboration Between Scholarship and Design, The 1921 Tulsa Race Massacre: A Photographic History"
May 2021 | Ronnie Grinberg - "Midge and Norman: The First Couple of American Neoconservatism"
Apr 2021 | Lindsay Katzir - "Ghosts of Dickens’s Past: the Death of Judaism in Oliver Twist and Our Mutual Friend"
Mar 2021 | Lisa Wolfe - "Qoheleth for Feminists: Where are the Women Hiding in Ecclesiastes?"
Dec 2020 | David Levy - "More than JuSt Lunch: Celebrating 25 Years of Judaic and Israel Studies at OU"
Nov 2020 | Kaleigh Bangor - "Hannah Arendt on Antisemitism"
Sep 2020 | Alan Levenson: "The Jefferson Bible: Enlightenment Oddity, American Artifact"
Mar 2020 | Rhona Seidelman: "Under Quarantine: Immigrants at Israel's Gate"
Dec 2019 | Tyson Putthoff: "Human Nature in the Hebrew Bible"
Oct 2019 | Simona Di Nepi: "The Visual Presentation of the Dreyfus Affair"
May 2019 | Alan Levenson: "'Biblical' Nations? Foundational Fantasies in Israel and the US"
Apr 2019 | Nina E. Livesey: "Learning from Rhetoric in the Study of Paul"
Dec 2018 | Brandon Katzir: "Figures of the Jews in Melville's Clarel"
Nov 2018 | Andrew Porwancher: "Theodore Roosevelt and the Jews"
Feb 2018 | Carsten Schapkow: "Max Nordau: Early Zionism and the Sephardic Mystic"
Dec 2017 | Rhona Seidelman: "Negotiating Israeli Memory: The Legacy of Professor Michael Feige"
Sep 2017 | David Levy: "Mark Twain and the Jews"
May 2017 | Daniel Snell: "The Religion of Israel in the Ancient Near East"
Dec 2016 | Yael Lavender-Smith: "Fictionalized Identities: Transformations-Uriel da Costa & Don Quixote"
Sep 2016 | Alan Levenson: "The Brothers' Hatred of Joseph & Other Challenges of Bible Reading"
Apr 2016 | Walker Robins: "Was Harry Truman a Christian Zionist?"
Sep 2015 | Alan Levenson: "Jewish Mad Men"