eSefarad Noticias del Mundo Sefaradi
PROGRAM
8:30-8:45am PST
Introduction
8:50-9:50am PST
Panel 1: Nationalism & Memory: Accessing the Past through Ladino Theater and Autobiography
Moderated by Max Daniel, University of California, Los Angeles
“Kula 930: The Istanbul Jewish Community’s’ longing for a lost past” Rivka Bihar Waldman, Post-Doc Researcher, Kadir Has University, Istanbul, Turkey
“Reina Cohen: ‘yo vo amurir, y non van a saver ningunos ke fui el sakrifisio de la nasion’ / ‘I’ll die and nobody will know that I was the sacrifice of the nation’” Gila Simha Hadar, PhD, University of Haifa, Israel
9:55-11:10am PST
Panel 2: Language, Adaptation, and Gender in Ladino and Haketia Texts and Education
Moderated by Rachel Smith, University of California, Los Angeles
“A Cognitive Linguistic Humor Approach to Professionals Depicted in Beki Bardavid’s Work Titled ‘Ağzımdaki Kül’ / ‘The Ash in My Mouth’ and Turkish Sephardic Culture” Fazila Derya Agis, PhD, Instructor at the University of the People
“Translated Modernity: The Practice and Poetics of Ladino Translation in the Novels of Elia Karmona” Marina Mayorski, PhD Candidate, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
“The Double-Bind of ‘Tradition’ & ‘Progress’: The Gendered Politics of Haketia in Colonial Morocco” Natalie Bernstien, PhD Student, University of California, Los Angeles
11:15am-12:30pm PST
Panel 3: Translating History, Translating Empire: Poetics, Gender, and Race across Ladino
Borders and Generations
Moderated by Rachel Kaufman, University of California, Los Angeles
“New Djudezmo in Argentinian Poetry: A Perspective on Gender and Self-translation” Cynthia Gabbay, PhD, Institute of Advanced Studies Le Studium Loire-Valley Fellow, University of Orléans, France
“Victor Levi’s Imperial Mimesis”
Michael Zalta, PhD Candidate, University of Southern California
“A Flag of No Nation & the Hamsa Flag”
Tom Haviv, writer, co-founder of Ayin Press & founder of Hamsa Flag project
12:30-1pm PST
LUNCH
1-2pm PST
Keynote by Vanessa Paloma Elbaz, University of Cambridge & INALCO
2:05-3:20pm PST
Panel 4: Naming, Digitizing, and Translating: Linguistic Approaches to the Ladino Archive
Moderated by Bryan Kirschen, Binghamton University
“Recent Studies on Sephardic Onomastics in the Balkans”
Marcel Israel, PhD, Independent Scholar
“The Digital Humanities and the Ladino Press: Unlocking Historic Ladino Newspapers with Machine Learning”
Ben Lee, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Washington
“What do we gain (and what do we lose) when we translate literature into Judeo-Spanish?”
Rey Romero, PhD, MPH, University of Houston-Downtown
3:25-4:15pm PST
Panel 5: Ladino Across the Decade: UCLadino’s 10th Conference
Featuring UCLadino Directors from 2012-2022
4:20-4:50pm PST
A Ladino Musical Performance
coordinated by Simone Salmon, University of California, Los Angeles
4:50-5:00pm PST
Closing Remarks
