The Center for Judaic Studies at UConn sponsors a monthly luncheon discussion group in the Yiddish language, led by founding Director Arnold Dashefsky. These discussions provide an opportunity to practice listening and speaking skills in an informal manner.

The Yiddish Tish is a small, intimate gathering of members from the community and campus, and all reading and speaking levels are welcome! We continue to attract new members interested in attending and welcome you to join us to sustain our enthusiasm!

Please bring a bag lunch, and we will provide dessert and drinks.

For more information visit: http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/yiddish-tish-discussions/

Professor Anke Finger and PhD candidate Britta Meredith will discuss their Flusser 2.0 digital humanities project

Professor Joseph Reynolds teaches at the Storrs campus and Trinity College, Dublin. He will be reading from his new novel, Make Dust Our Paper.

Susan Einbinder kicks off the first of this year's LCL Colloquia. Lunch will be served.

Dr. Yossi Chajes, Associate Professor in the Department of Jewish History at the University of Haifa and Director of its Center for the Study of Jewish Cultures, will be presenting "From the Spheres to the Sefirot: Kabbalistic Diagrams and the Visualization of the Divine" for the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life Faculty Colloquium Series on October 16. The colloquium will be held at 12:00 pm in room 162 at the Dodd Research Center. All are invited, and a kosher lunch will be served.

Attending this event counts toward sophomore honors credit.

For more information: http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/?p=6040

Generative Principles of Story Style: Shakespeare and the Integration of Genres

By: Patrick Colm Hogan, 2017 Board of Trustees Distinguished Professor of English, Cognitive Science, and Comparative Literature and Cultural Studies

Authors have their own characteristic ways of developing stories, which constitute their story style. One important kind of story development involves the mixing of genres.

Style is a distinctive pattern that has a particular scope (as in an author’s style or the style of a literary school) and level of application (as in verbal style or the style of story construction). Such a pattern derives from partially interrelated, generative principles. Perhaps the most useful account of literary genre begins with cross-cultural story structures—romantic, heroic, sacrificial, and so on. These structures are defined by the protagonist’s goals, the emotion systems that establish those goals, and procedures for intensifying the emotional impact of the story trajectory.

The production of individual works may be understood as resulting from the application of development principles to general structures, including genres. The extensive integration of genres is a striking, stylistic feature of many of Shakespeare’s works. It manifests and illustrates the preceding points about style, genre, and development.

Jeff Parker is the author of the nonfiction book Where Bears Roam the Streets: A Russian Journal (2015), the novel Ovenman (2007), and the short story collection The Taste of Penny (2010). With Pasha Malla, he assembled the book of found sports poetry Erratic Fire, Erratic Passion (2015), and with Annie Liontas he edited A Manner of Being: Writers on Their Mentors (2015). His short fiction and nonfiction have been published in The Best American Nonrequired Reading, Ploughshares, Tin House, The Walrus, and many others. With Mikhail Iossel he co-edited two volumes of contemporary Russian prose in translation, Rasskazy: New Fiction from a New Russia (2009) and Amerika: Russian Writers View the United States (2004). He also co-translated the novel Sankya by Zakhar Prilepin from the Russian. He has taught at Eastern Michigan University, the University of Toronto, the Russian State University for the Humanities, and the University of Tampa, and he currently teaches in the MFA Program for Poets & Writers at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst. He is the co-founder and Director of the DISQUIET International Literary Program in Lisbon, Portugal.

Co-sponsored with the Aetna Chair of Writing and the Barnes & Noble College Bookstore

faculty meeting

The Center for Judaic Studies at UConn sponsors a monthly luncheon discussion group in the Yiddish language, led by founding Director Arnold Dashefsky. These discussions provide an opportunity to practice listening and speaking skills in an informal manner.

The Yiddish Tish is a small, intimate gathering of members from the community and campus, and all reading and speaking levels are welcome! We continue to attract new members interested in attending and welcome you to join us to sustain our enthusiasm!

Please bring a bag lunch, and we will provide dessert and drinks.

For more information visit: http://judaicstudies.uconn.edu/upcoming-events/yiddish-tish-discussions/

This inaugural symposium will launch UConn’s Abrahamic Programs in the Middle East/North Africa Region. The symposium will encourage and foster intellectual exchanges and presentation among participants.