January 23, 2025
1-1:30 pm ET via Zoom
Registration link: https://bit.ly/LAL-MCSJE
Fluid Meanings of the Yarmulke Across Educational Contexts | Dr. Anastasia Badder
In her recent article, Anastasia Badder asks: How do congregational school students experience moments in which they were confronted with Jewishness outside of the classroom, in their secular schools and public spaces? And taking a material approach, how does the presence (and absence) of yarmulkes influence those experiences? In this session, she will discuss findings from fieldwork she conducted as an ethnographer and teacher in a Jewish congregational school researching the ways children learn about and how to do Jewishness.
Dr. Anastasia Badder is a research associate in the Faculty of Divinity and Cambridge Interfaith Programme at the University of Cambridge. She holds a Ph.D. in educational sciences from the University of Luxembourg, and an MA in anthropology from the University of Auckland. Though grounded in anthropology, her work is often interdisciplinary, especially reaching across sociolinguistics and education. Some of her recent research explores the materiality of interreligious encounter, as well as articulations of language and the material in Jewish lives in Europe
Hosted by Professor Jon Levisohn (Brandeis University).
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