SURVIVING LOSS AND TRAUMA: A Conversation with Prof. Laura Levitt

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In this program, religious scholar and historian Prof. Laura Levitt discusses her latest book, The Objects that Remain (2020)—part memoir and part scholarly—in which she explores how individuals and nations cope with traumatic experiences and losses. At the center of our conversation will be Jewish history and Jewish experiences in the totalitarian regimes of Germany and Russia.

The host is Dr. Mikhail Sergeev, a historian of philosophy and religion. At the end of the conversation – answers to viewers' questions live on air.

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LAURA LEVITT (b. 1949) — Professor of Religion, Jewish Studies, and Gender at Temple University, where she has chaired the Religion Department and directed both the Jewish Studies and the Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies Programs.

Levitt is the author of The Objects that Remain (Penn State University Press, November 2020), American Jewish Loss after the Holocaust (2007), and Jews and Feminism: The Ambivalent Search for Home (1997). With Laurence Silberstein and Shelley Hornstein, she edited Impossible Images: Contemporary Art After the Holocaust (2003), and with Miriam Peskowitz, she edited Judaism Since Gender (1997). Laura Levitt edits NYU Press’s North American Religions Series with Tracy Fessenden (Arizona State University) and David Harrington Watt (Haverford College).

She currently chairs the Committee on Sexual Misconduct for the Association for Jewish Studies (AJS) and led the task force that created and implemented the Society's sexual misconduct policies and procedures. Levitt is working on a series of projects that consider the reliquary desires that inform contemporary acts of commemoration and is putting together a collection of essays under the working title I and You: Jewish Feminist Writing.