Conference Schedule
Sunday, November 13
7:00pm Rimon Artist Salon, featuring vocalist Galeet Dardashti
(Off campus event organized by Rimon: The Minnesota Jewish Arts Council)
Monday, November 14
All events held at the President's Room at Coffman Memorial Union, unless otherwise noted.
9:45am Opening Remarks
10:00 - Noon Emergent Practices and Rituals (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/eL-9JTHSMzM)
Chair: Sara Gardner
Galeet Dardashti, "Arabic as Sacred: Emergent Piyyut Practices among Mizrahi Haredim in Israel"
Samuel Torjman Thomas, "Performing Gabirol: Reverbations and Resonances"
Naomi Cohn Zentner, "Piyyut trend 2.0: a few thoughts in the aftermath of the piyyut revival" (Zoom)
Re'ee Hagay, "Anonymous Remains: Toward a Relational Archive of Piyyut"
11:45 - 1:15pm Activating Piyyut Archives (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/vh-JPHoCIJU)
Chair: Michelle Hamilton
Gil Hochberg, "Afterlives of Robert Lachman's Archive"Bryan Roby, "Canonical fodder: A Historical Method of Reframing and Categorizing the Piyyut"
2:15 - 3:30pm Piyyut as Embodiment (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/itLEhVz7Z4w)
Chair: Shir Alon
Tamar Sella, "Reorienting Piyyut: Embodied Performance and Queer Genealogies"
Melissa Melpignano, "Undermining (choreographic) sovereignty: piyyutim as a tactic of dance composition"
4:00 - 5:00pm Hadar Ahuvia, Embodying a Hasidic Piyyut (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/pUuw3a3ClHA)
Participatory workshop and presentation
7:30 - 9:00pm Global Piyyut Concert
Featuring Yair Harel, Rabbi Roly Matalon, Dr. Galeet Dardashti, Rabbi Arielle Lekach-Rosenberg, Dan Nadel, Dr. Yaron Klein, Ismail Lumanovski, and Satoshi Takeishi
Cedar Cultural Center, Doors open at 7:00pm
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Tuesday, November 15, 2022
All events held at the President's Room at Coffman Memorial Union, unless otherwise noted.
10:00 - 11:30am Piyyut in Contemporary Mizrahi Culture (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/SUgbYYK-apY)
Chair: Yaron Klein
Edwin Seroussi, "A Street Named Najara"
Almog Behar, "Reclaiming Piyyut beyond 'the table surrounded by men': Possibilities of return in the poetry of Shva Salhoov"
Yuval Evri, "Reclaiming Piyyut beyond 'the table surrounded by men': Possibilities of return in the poetry of Haviva Pedaya" (Zoom)
11:45 - 1:00pm Mizrahi Documentary Filmmaking (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/Es8u2mV7KBE)
Filmmaker Rafael Balulu in conversation with Daniel Schroeter
4:00 - 6:00pm Keynote lecture: Poet and translator Peter Cole (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/4qQrXyE9ieg)
"A Way of Happening, a Mouth: On Petition and Repetition in Baqashot, or When the Best Translation Isn't Exactly a Translation"
Coffman Memorial Union - Mississippi Room
7:30 - 9:00pm Piyyut Global Workshop (livestreamed at: https://youtu.be/GamExwbWAOI)
Participatory workshop with Yair Harel and R. Roly Matalon
Coffman Memorial Union - Mississippi Room
Wednesday, November 16
This event is part of the Chapel Arts Series
University of St. Thomas, Chapel of St. Thomas Aquinas