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Please Note:

• The Friday night performance is free, but there is limited seating. Contact 416-978-7986 for reservations.

• Due to limited seating, the Saturday lunch and afternoon performance and panel are open to registered participants only.

• The Saturday evening Queer Jewish Weddings will take place at the Miles Nadal Jewish Community Centre. Contact 416-978-7986 for tickets.

Time/place	Activity /Registration	Name	Paper or Topic
FRIDAY 28
12:00-2:00 [Location TBA]	Pre-Conference Event: The Disenhouse Lecture in Yiddish Studies	David Roskies	Yiddish Culture at Ground Zero
8:00 Robert Gill Theatre 214 College Street	Opening Address	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett	Rebel All You Like... Just Be Jewish
	Performance	Hadassah Gross	Hadassah Gross Presents The Rebbetzin's Tisch

Saturday 29 *Afternoon*	*Please Note: Registration Required for Saturday afternoon events as seating is limited
12:00 – 1:30 Wolfond Centre for Jewish Campus Life, 2nd floor	*Shabbat lunch
1:30 - 3:00 Wolfond Centre	*Shabbat Afternoon Ritual Performance	Storahtelling	Babble: Shultime Parsha Performance
3:30 - 5:00 Wolfond Centre	*Roundtable Discussion: The Futures of Jewish Ritual	Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett	Moderator
		Amichai Lau-Lavie	Jewish Ritual Theatre for the 21st Century
		Jonathan Webber	Recomposing Jewishness and Jewish Ritual in Eastern Europe
		Melissa Shiff	Kicking the Habit: Making Rituals for Happening People
		Aryeh Cohen	"We Will All Be in Shul for Fifteen Minutes:" Pop Judaism vs. Revolutionary Judaism
Saturday 29 *Evening*
8:00 Miles Nadal JCC 750 Spadina Ave. at Bloor	Queer Jewish Weddings Concert	Adrienne Cooper Sara Felder Marilyn Lerner Frank London Lorin Sklamberg	For Tickets Call: 416-978-7986
Sunday 30
9:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Breakfast – Registration Req.
9:30-11:30 Robert Gill Theatre	The Futures of Jewish Music	Gage Averill	Chair & Respondent
		Mark Slobin	"Embracing Eclecticism: Today's Jewish Multimusicality."
		Aaron Eckstaedt	On the Long Way to Normality: Semantic Changes In klezmer and Yiddish Music in Post-war Germany
		Tamar Barzel	“O Little Town of East New York ”: Jewish American Memory and the Music of Composer/Vocalist Shelley Hirsch
		Judah Cohen	"We Will All Be in Shul for Fifteen Minutes: Pop/Judaism"
11:30 - 1:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Lunch – Registration Req.
1:00-2:30 Robert Gill Theatre	The Futures of Jewish Literature I: New Voices, New Readings	Derek Penslar	Chair and Respondent
		David Roskies	Was Gimpel a Fool?: Rereading and Misreading a Modern Classic
		Sidra Dekoven Ezrahi	"In America Everyday is Purim": Impersonation, Self-Invention, and Comedy in the America Century
		Karen Weisman	“Most Musical of Mourners”: Contemporary Jewish Elegiacs and the Formalist's Dilemma.
2:30 – 3:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Break
3:00-5:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Addressing Command J: Jewish Laws, Digital Arts	TBD Chair and Respondent Carol Zemel	Virtual Idolatry: Jeffrey Shaw and The Golden Calf
		Jessica Wyman	Cutting Gender, Splicing Ritual: Melissa Shiff's Gender Cuts: The Jew Under the Knife ".
		Norman Kleeblatt	The Complexities of Jewish Patronage for Contemporary Art: Helene Aylon as Paradigm
		Louis Kaplan	Laws of Glass
7:30 – 9:00 XPACE 303 Augusta Ave.	Command J: Dessert and Reception – Registration Req.
9:00 – 12:00 Xpace 303 Augusta Ave.	Dance Party at Xpace with Socalled, aka Josh Dolgin
Monday 31
8:30 – 9:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Breakfast registration req.
9:00 – 10:30 Robert Gill Theatre	The Futures of Jewish Literature II	Andrea Most	Chair and Respondent
		Shaul Bassi	Yidentifications: Jewish Mimicry and Indian Literature
		Paul Zakrzewski	Lost and Found: Trends in New Jewish Fiction
		Mikhail Krutikov	"Virtualizing the Jew in Contemporary Russian Fiction"
10:30 – 11:00	Break
11:00 – 1:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Jews in Cyberspace	TBD	Chair and Respondent
		Pierre Lévy	Jewish Culture and Hypertextual Thinking
		Shelley Hornstein & Reesa Greenberg	Doing Digital
		Dan Sieradski	“And The Walls Came Tumbling Down”: Ownership, Empowerment and Judaism
		Anna Shternshis	Jewish Names Are Highlighted Blue: Ethnic Identity in Russian Cyber-space
1:00 – 2:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Lunch – Registration Req.
2:00 – 4:00 Robert Gill Theatre	Performing Jewishness Panel And Roundtable Discussion	David Biale	Moderator
		Ann Pellegrini	After Sontag: Notes on "Jewish" Camp
		Katrin Sieg	Ethnic Drag and Jewish Representation in Contemporary German Theater
		David Shneer	Queer is the New Pink: How Playing with Sexuality Has Become the Marker of Hipness in New Jewish Culture
		Frank London	Carnival of the Jews
4:00 – 4:15 Robert Gill Theatre	Break
4:15 – 5:30 Robert Gill Theatre	Closing Address	Sander Gilman	Can the Cultural Experience of Diaspora Judaism serve as a Model for Contemporary Diaspora Islam in Today's Europe ?