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Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications

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Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications

Joseph and Rebecca Meyerhoff Program and Center for Jewish Studies Sunday, March 13, 2022 11:00 am - 4:00 pm Online, Zoom

This online conference will feature sessions on recent efforts to create gender-inclusive grammar in spoken Hebrew, liturgy and orthography. Speakers will address their research and program development, challenges and cultural implications. Following these sessions will be a hands-on workshop for Hebrew instructors with practical tips about how to use gender alternatives in their classrooms.

 

Language, Gender and Society:
11:00-12:00 EST / 8:00-9:00 PST / 17:00-18:30 IST

Avital Karpman | Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Maryland 
Greetings and Introductory Remarks

Michal Shomer | Creator and Designer of Multi-Gender Hebrew
Multi-Gender Hebrew: Creating a New Space in the Hebrew Language 

Orit Bershtling | Professor at the School of Social Work, Hadassah Academic College 
"All is Gendered:" Hebrew's Role in Constructing Transgender Bodies and Identities

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan 
Is Gender Justice Possible in Hebrew?

Language, Gender and Liturgy:
1:00-2:15 EST / 10:00-11:15 PST / 19:00-20:15 IST

Abby Stein | Rabbi, Educator, Author and Co-founder of Sacred Space 
In the Image of Divine: All Genders and Genderless

brin solomon | Liturgist at The Inclusive Siddur Project
Standing Again at Sinai, Again: Towards a Nonbinary Hebrew for Liturgical Use 

Joy Ladin | Writer, Teacher and Speaker 
Shekhinah Speaks: Gendering Divinity

Language, Gender and Pedagogy with Q&A Session for Hebrew Instructors:
2:30-4:00 EST / 11:30-1:00 PST / 20:30-22:00 IST

Eyal Rivlin | Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-creator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Ani V’aTEH Neshaneh Et Ha’olam: The Origin Story of the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, and How You Can Start Using It

Jen Braveman | Former Executive Director, Habonim Dror Camp Moshava -and-
Erica Kushner | Mazkirol Klaliol (Director), Habonim Dror North America
Gender Inclusive Hebrew in Habonim Dror North America

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan
Nonbinary and Gender-Equal Hebrew in the Classroom

Dov Wiener | High School Teacher and Researcher
American Judaism Outside the Binary: The Growing Need for New Language

 

 


 

Add to Calendar 03/13/22 11:00 AM 03/13/22 4:00 PM America/New_York Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications

This online conference will feature sessions on recent efforts to create gender-inclusive grammar in spoken Hebrew, liturgy and orthography. Speakers will address their research and program development, challenges and cultural implications. Following these sessions will be a hands-on workshop for Hebrew instructors with practical tips about how to use gender alternatives in their classrooms.

 

Language, Gender and Society:
11:00-12:00 EST / 8:00-9:00 PST / 17:00-18:30 IST

Avital Karpman | Associate Clinical Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Maryland 
Greetings and Introductory Remarks

Michal Shomer | Creator and Designer of Multi-Gender Hebrew
Multi-Gender Hebrew: Creating a New Space in the Hebrew Language 

Orit Bershtling | Professor at the School of Social Work, Hadassah Academic College 
"All is Gendered:" Hebrew's Role in Constructing Transgender Bodies and Identities

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan 
Is Gender Justice Possible in Hebrew?

Language, Gender and Liturgy:
1:00-2:15 EST / 10:00-11:15 PST / 19:00-20:15 IST

Abby Stein | Rabbi, Educator, Author and Co-founder of Sacred Space 
In the Image of Divine: All Genders and Genderless

brin solomon | Liturgist at The Inclusive Siddur Project
Standing Again at Sinai, Again: Towards a Nonbinary Hebrew for Liturgical Use 

Joy Ladin | Writer, Teacher and Speaker 
Shekhinah Speaks: Gendering Divinity

Language, Gender and Pedagogy with Q&A Session for Hebrew Instructors:
2:30-4:00 EST / 11:30-1:00 PST / 20:30-22:00 IST

Eyal Rivlin | Associate Teaching Professor and Director of Hebrew, University of Colorado, Boulder and Co-creator of The Nonbinary Hebrew Project
Ani V’aTEH Neshaneh Et Ha’olam: The Origin Story of the Nonbinary Hebrew Project, and How You Can Start Using It

Jen Braveman | Former Executive Director, Habonim Dror Camp Moshava -and-
Erica Kushner | Mazkirol Klaliol (Director), Habonim Dror North America
Gender Inclusive Hebrew in Habonim Dror North America

Tal Janner-Klausner | Coordinator of Hebrew Teaching, This is Not An Ulpan
Nonbinary and Gender-Equal Hebrew in the Classroom

Dov Wiener | High School Teacher and Researcher
American Judaism Outside the Binary: The Growing Need for New Language

 

 


 

Organization

Contact

Avital Karpman
akarpman@umd.edu

Website

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Cost

FREE, Registration required