Thursday, October 12, 2023
Helen Kim, Whitman College
Laura Arnold Leibman, Reed College
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So you are on the job market and see a job advertised at a liberal arts college. What makes this position different from the research school where you got your PhD? What specific things are they looking for? How should you tailor your letter to showcase why you are a good fit?
Join Helen Kim (Associate Dean for Academic Affairs and Professor of Sociology, Whitman College) and Laura Arnold Leibman (Kenan Professor of English and Humanities, Reed College) for this hands-on workshop on how to make your application count. With over 40 years of combined experience at liberal arts colleges and dozens of searches under our belts, we will cover the ins and outs of applying to work at liberal arts colleges and go over sample letter templates.
Tuesday, September 12, 2023
Adrienne Posner
In this webinar, we'll cover how to search for and find sustainable meaningful work outside of the academy. You’ll learn to find jobs using LinkedIn, Indeed & Google Jobs and to read non-academic job ads for what they are really trying to say, cutting through the business jargon and cryptic marketing language to understand if you are qualified and what the job actually involves in the day-to-day. And then we'll cover some of the theory and practice behind translating your academic experience to a resume for the non-ac job search, honing in on the essential elements that nonprofit and corporate reviewers are looking for, plus the tricks to get past algorithms and recruiters and land an interview.
Oct 18, 2018
Melissa Martens Yaverbaum, Council of American Jewish Museums
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Have you ever dreamt of working in a Jewish museum? Join Melissa Martens Yaverbaum—Executive Director of the Council of American Jewish Museums and former Curator of the Museum of Jewish Heritage and the Jewish Museum of Maryland—for an insider discussion on opportunities and challenges. We’ll talk about roles and responsibilities within today’s museums, effective pairings with academics, emerging trends in Jewish museums, and ideas for the future. Ranging from the practical present to the inspired future, join us for a look inside Jewish museums and their potential for meaningful work.
June 23, 2023
Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst
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The need for effectively incorporating film into the curriculum is real and growing: our students increasingly live in a mediated environment and are profoundly engaged with images and visual media. What they need to learn, however, is media literacy. Using film in our pedagogy can help us to communicate to students, and, more importantly, teach them to think critically about the content they are absorbing, modes of representation, and the medium itself. It will make them better scholars and better citizens.
This professional development workshop focuses on using film and media in the classroom. Straddling the areas of pedagogy and digital humanities, it’s intended for colleagues across disciplines, including history, sociology, religious studies, and other fields beyond film and literature. Working interactively, we learn how to think about film in the classroom, how to find appropriate content, how to incorporate it into one’s curriculum, and how to facilitate discussion. We cover approaches to using fiction vs documentary films, including full films vs excerpts, selecting and producing film clips, and designing film-based assignments. Our discussion ranges from conceptual approaches to hands-on “know-how.”
October 5, 2021
Sara Tillinger Wolkenfeld, Sefaria
Explore Sefaria's digital library and discover new ways that these digital tools can support your research and teaching. This hands-on workshop will include opportunities to hear about future plans for Sefaria and to share your feedback on the resources that speak to your needs.
Thursday, February 5, 2019
David Freidenreich
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The field of Jewish studies has expanded tremendously, but time and resources are limited — especially in Jewish studies programs with relatively few faculty members. What courses should we teach? Which ones should we require? What do we want our students to learn? This workshop provided an opportunity to discuss the challenges and opportunities associated with crafting program-level learning outcomes, major/minor requirements, and undergraduate course offerings. Participants were encouraged to submit current or proposed curricula (briefly annotated if desired) for precirculation within the workshop group. David Freidenreich, who directs the Jewish studies program at Colby College, facilitated the conversation.
Wednesday, April 11, 2018
Michael R. Cohen, Tulane University
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This webinar will explore how we can craft syllabi that distinguish between higher-level and survey-level/intro courses. What strategies work at which levels? How can we most effectively reach students across the curriculum?
Tuesday, January 31, 2017
Judith S. Pinnolis, Amanda (Miryem-Khaye) Seigel, and Mark Slobin
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This webinar invites Jewish Studies faculty to learn about Jewish music resources for curriculum development and class assignments, or to help students interested in developing projects in Jewish music. There is a wealth of media-based and text-based material available online for teaching and research in Jewish music. Due to the interdisciplinary nature of Jewish music research, resources can be difficult to locate, as they are scattered across many different library databases, archives, and subject specific websites. This webinar, which is hosted by the Association for Jewish Studies and is co-sponsored by the Jewish Music study group of the Society for Ethnomusicology and the Jewish Studies and Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society, will offer faculty a concise overview of the essential primary and secondary resources they can use to bring Jewish music into any Jewish Studies classroom.
Thursday, October 15, 2015
Zachary M. Baker
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Cosponsored by the Association for Jewish Studies and the Association for Slavic, East European, and Eurasian Studies
This webinar will present an overview of online resources relating to Eastern European Jewish Studies: Religion, History, Culture, and Demography. The periods covered range from the Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth, before the Partitions, to the post-Soviet era; the geographical scope encompasses the domains of Eastern Ashkenaz: Poland, the Baltics, Belarus, Ukraine, Russia, Romania, Moldova, Slovakia, and Hungary. Most but not all resources covered in the webinar have English-language home pages.
July 24, 2019
Warren Hoffman, Association for Jewish Studies
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Join AJS Executive Director Warren Hoffman for a webinar on the Do's and Don'ts of grant writing. Drawing on his experience, both working as a grant maker at a foundation, and as a grant writer having written and stewarded a number of successful grants himself, Warren will provide behind-the-scenes information on what foundations are looking for, advice on how to avoid common grant writing mistakes, and other best practices in the grant world. We'll also spend some time looking at where to find grants. This webinar is geared primarily toward organizations looking for operating or program support, but anyone, including individuals, is welcome to attend.
Thursday, June 14, 2018
David N. Myers, Center for Jewish History and UCLA
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Fundraising may seem like an activity far removed from your work in academia, but many academics, regardless of their rank or leadership role, are asked to fundraise in one form or another. Whether you're a department chair looking for money for your department, a faculty member looking for programming dollars, or a grad student looking for research or fellowship money, fundraising can come in many forms. In this webinar, Center for Jewish History CEO and UCLA Professor of History David Myers will provide tips, pointers, and strategies for demystifying he process of seeking out donors, cultivating relationships, and asking for money.
November 11, 2020
Pamela S. Nadell, American University
Alanna Cooper, Case Western Reserve University
This webinar, geared towards graduate students and early career scholars (but open to all AJS members), will offer tips on designing public lectures based on your dissertation or book research. Pamela S. Nadell, the Patrick Clendenen Chair in Women’s and Gender History and Director of the Jewish Studies Program at American University, and Alanna Cooper, the Abba Hillel Silver Chair of Jewish Studies at Case Western Reserve University, will be in conversation. Some of the topics they will cover include choosing a topic for a public lecture, writing a title and description to draw an audience, preparing visuals to accompany your lecture, communicating with an audience, and handling the Q & A.
November 28, 2018
Mary Rubenstein, ELI Talks
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This webinar will explore how academics and Jewish Studies practitioners can create engaging public lectures. Mary Rubenstein, the executive director of ELI Talks, will offer practical tips on improving both the content and performance aspects of public talks.
Tuesday November 28, 2017
Carolyn Starman Hessel and Naomi Firestone-Teeter, Jewish Book Council
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Congratulations! You've published a book, but now you're trying to figure out how to get PR for it. Join Carolyn Starman Hessel, Executive Director Emeritus, and Naomi Firestone-Teeter, Executive Director, from the Jewish Book Council, who will provide strategies and tips to successfully find an audience for your books and pitch media outlets.
