2nd Annual ucLADINO Symposium: Judeo-Spanish: Survival in the Diaspora – University of California, Los Angeles – PROGRAM

2nd Annual ucLADINO Symposium: March 5-6, 2013

University of California, Los Angeles
Co-sponsored by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and the Center for Jewish Studies

Co-Directores ucLADINO: Bryan Kirschen y Anamaria Buzatu

Featuring Keynote Speakers:

LILIANA BENVENISTE

(Ladino – Argentina)

SOLLY LEVY

(Haketia – Canada)

MARCELO BENVENISTE

(English – Argentina)

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&
Rashi / Solitreo workshops
by invited presenters

BENNI AGUADO

(New York City)

BRIAN BERMAN

(Los Angeles)

Judeo-Spanish has evolved for more thanfive centuriessince the expulsion of the Jews of the Iberian Peninsula. This symposium looks to engage in dialogue to explore the multifaceted aspects od Diaspora through variable changes from the time of the Sephardic expulsion through the 21st Century

PROGRAM

DAY 1 – MARCH 5, 2013 / YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY

•  09:30 – COFEE & REFRESHMENTS
•  09:45 – Welcoming Remarks
   Sara A.  Stein (Maurice Amado Chair in Sephardic Studies, UCLA)

• 10:00 – Aysha Rüya Cohen (University of California, Irvine): Rediscovering our Sephardic Roots: A Turkish-Jewish Tale
• 10:30 – Bethany Beyer (University of California, Los Ángeles): Teatro Muestro: Ladino Theater and its Relation to Spanish-Language Theater in New York City
• 11:00 – Moshe Lapin (University of California, Los Ángeles): The Blessing of Dissimilation: Tradition, Language and the Printing of the Me’am Lo’ez
• 11:30 – BREAK
• 11:45 – Keynote Speaker: Liliana Benveniste (eSefarad)
  Sones Sefaradíes: La Diversita echa Letra i Muzika (Sephardic Sounds: Diversity turned Lyrics and Music) [Lecture in Ladino/Judeo-Spanish]
• 01:00 – CATERED LUNCH
• 02:00 – Celine Piser (University of California, Berkeley): The Revival of Sepahrdic Culture in Contemporary France
• 02:30 – Byan Kirschen – (University of California, Los Ángeles): Saved by Language: Exploring the Role of Judeo-Spanish during the Holocaust
• 03:00 – Keynote Sepeaker: Solly Levy
  La Vida en Haketia – Para ke no se pierda (Life in Haketia – So as not lose it)  [Lecture in Haketia  and Judeo-Spanish]
• 04:00 – Concluding Remarks
  Randal Johnson (Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, UCLA)
• 04:15 – RECEPTION

DAY 2 – MARCH 6, 2013 / YOUNG RESEARCH LIBRARY

•  09:30 – COFEE & REFRESHMENTS
•  09:45 – Welcoming Remarks
   Bryan Kirschen (Co-Director, ucLADINO)
• 10:00 – Daisy Braverman (University of  Pennsylvania): Teaching Judeo-Spanish in the University
• 10:30 – Anamaria Buzatu (University of California, Los Ángeles): A Diachronic Dilemma of the Possessive Construction in Judeo-Spanish
• 11:00 – Keynote Sepaker: Marcelo Benveniste
  The Pathsof Judeo-Spanish and the Sephardic Jews in Argentina [Lecture in English]
• 12:00 – CATERED LUNCH
• 01:00 – Workshop 1: Benny Aguado
  Beginner’s Rashi
• 01:45 – BREAK
• 02:00 – Workshop 2: Benny Aguado
  Beginner’s Solitreo
• 02:45 – BREAK
• 03:00 – Workshop 3: Brian Berman
  Bringing Rashi and Solitreo into 21st Century
• 03:45 – Concluding Remarks
  Anamaria Buzatu (Co-Director, ucLADINO)

ucLadino is a student-run organization al UCLA dedicated to the learnig of and knowledge about the Judeo-Spanish Language. Since its founding in September 2011, ucLadino has invited guest speakers , held cultural events, and organized symposium in order to create active dialogue amond students, speakers and reseachers on a variety of Judeo-Spanish and Sephardic topics. In addition, ucLadino offer weekly Judeo-Spanish language workshop for beginner- and intermediate- level students.

ucLADINO: https://sites.google.com/site/ucladino

UCLA: http://ucla.orgsync.com/org/ladino