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DESCRIPTION:Ellen Smith will give a Brown Bag\nLunch presentation on Thursd
 ay\, March 15\, at 12:15 pm. Her talk is entitled\n“The Limits and Possibi
 lities of Jewish Material Culture Studies.”\n\nObjects don’t “talk\,”\nbut
  we often rely on them to tell us stories about history and culture.\nWhat
  can we actually learn from non-textual material? How can\nwe “read” objec
 ts absent supporting textual material? How does supporting\ndocumentary or
  oral history evidence shape our interpretations? What can\nmaterial cultu
 re tell us about the past and the present that other forms of\nevidence ca
 nnot? And what can we learn specifically from Jewish material\nculture abo
 ut Jewish communities and the people among whom they live? Join\nProfessor
  Smith for a conversation and hands-on experience to explore the\nlimits a
 nd possibilities of Jewish material culture studies\, testing the new\nkno
 wledge it may provide\, and reconsidering some standard interpretations it
 \nmay challenge.\n\nEllen Smith is Associate Professor and Director of the
 \nHornstein Jewish Professional Leadership Program\, and an affiliated fac
 ulty\nmember of the Heller School for Social Policy and Management\, and t
 he\nDepartment of Near Eastern and Judaic Studies at Brandeis University. 
 She is\nalso principal of Museumsmith\, where she consults on museum and h
 istoric\npreservation projects around the country. Trained as a profession
 al historian\nand a museum curator\, Professor Smith has produced over thr
 ee dozen books\,\narticles\, and museum exhibitions on American Jewish his
 tory and American Jewish\nwomen’s history\; on Yiddish theater and Jewish 
 new year postcards\; on portraits\nof colonial American Jews\; on historic
  immigrant synagogues\; and three major\nexhibitions on Boston Jewish hist
 ory. She is the co-author and editor\, with\nJonathan D. Sarna\, of The Je
 ws of Boston\, and was the chief\nconsultant to the Emmy award-winning WGB
 H (PBS) television show of the same name.\nAt Brandeis\, she has developed
  and teaches a series of courses in visual and\nmaterial culture\; art\, a
 rtifacts and history\; and museum studies. She also\nco-directs advanced t
 raining programs at Brandeis for Jewish professionals and\norganizations.
 \n\nThis event is part of the Leon Levy Foundation Lectures in\nJewish Mat
 erial Culture. Additional support provided by The David Berg\nFoundation.
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SUMMARY:Bard Graduate Center: The Limits and Possibilities of Jewish Materi
 al Culture Studies
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