2024-2025 Talks and Events
(for full list of past events, see the Talks section of my curriculum vitae)
JUNE 2026
Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity
In conversation with Mariusz Kalczewiak
June 11, YIVO (Virtual - register here)
APRIL 2026
Reclaiming Respect: Black and Jewish Masculinity in the Face of Discrimination
April 15, University of Houston
DECEMBER 2025
The December Dilemma
December 19, DOROT (Virtual)
Truth Sleuths: Uncovering Holocaust History
December 11 - Warren Civic Center Library
Book Event - Carrying a Big Schtick
December 10 - Zingerman's Roadhouse (for tickets click here)
SEPTEMBER 2025
Pre-Show Lecture at the Met: The History of the Jewish Multiverse
September 29 - Metropolitan Opera House (for tickets click here)
"Second Sundays at Pioneer Works"
September 14 - Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) - Video now available to watch online.
"From Page to Stage" PAS and the Met host a discussion about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as selections from the opera. Rabbi Lori Koffman will moderate a panel featuring PAS music director David Enlow, composer Mason Bates, and Dr. Miriam Mora, historian of Jewish immigration.
September 11 - Park Avenue Synagogue (New York City) - Video now available to watch online.
JULY 2025
"Why Jewish Masculinity Matters: Unearthing a Driving Historical Force"
July 29 - Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
"JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience Documentary Screening and panel discussion" Official Selection of the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival
July 24 - San Diego Comic-Con (San Diego)
MAY 2025
"JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience Documentary Screening and panel discussion"
May 20 - 92NY (New York City)
"Why Jewish Masculinity Matters: Unearthing a Driving Historical Force"
May 7 - Kalamazoo College
MARCH 2025
"Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century," Jewish Historical Society of Michigan.
JANUARY 2025
Jewish masculinity in America: Past, Present and Future
January 19 - The Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish Life, Litchfield Country, Ct.
Carrying a Big Schtick
January 5 - Philip, Claire and Benn Meistrich Speaker Series at the United Synagogue of Hoboken in Hoboken, NJ.
DECEMBER 2024
Deconstructing Jewish Masculinity Panel: 2024 New York Jewish Book Festival
December 8 at 10:15am, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York.
NOVEMBER 2024
Rough Riders, Legionnaires, and Rabbis: Setting standards for Jewish Bravery from the Mexican Expedition through WWI
November 20 - Lecture at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
The Jewish Multiverse: Writing, Cartooning, and Engaging in the Fight Against Nazism
November 12 - Lecture on Jews, Comics, and World War II as part of the Jacobs School of Music’s programming around the premiere of the opera “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and Indiana University Bloomington.
Short documentary screening & talk: JewCE - The Jewish Comics Experience!
November 10 - Screening and panel discussion, Jewish Comics Experience Convention
OCTOBER 2024
Jewish Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
October 28 - Discussion with Dr. Ronnie Grinberg and Dr. Ayelet Brinn at the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford
Virtual event, register here to attend.
Short documentary screening & talk: JewCE - The Jewish Comics Experience!
October 20 - Screening and panel discussion, New York Comic Con
SEPTEMBER 2024
Carrying a Big Schtick
September 19 - Lecture for DOROT, NYC.
JULY 2024
Jewish Identity in Comics Outside the Holocaust
July 26 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with author Danny Fingeroth, Roy Schwartz, and Cartoonist/editor Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Writing Lifelines: The Importance of Writers Groups
July 26 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with Frank Forte (Bob’s Burgers, Asylum Press), Enrica Jang (Red Stylo Media), Neo Edmund (Power Rangers, John Carpenter’s--HalloweeNights), Ghezal Omar (Artillery Network), and John Maly (Juris Ex Machina).
The Continuing Relevance Of Will Eisner's The Plot
July 25 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with librarian Karen Green, Professor N.C. Christopher Couch, movie producer Nicholas Meyer [via prerecorded video], and author Danny Fingeroth.
JUNE 2024
Carrying a Big Schtick Book Talk
June 26, 2024 - San Francisco Jewish Community Library
Virtual event, register here to attend.
Official Book Launch Event and Conversation with Dr. Ronnie Grinberg
June 18, 2024 - Center for Jewish History
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
JANUARY 2024
Supermensch: Unveiling the Superhero Jewish Secrets
January 29, 2024 - Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, "Books that Changed My Life Festival."
Coloring Jewish Comics: Comic Books and Jewish Diversity
January 22, 2024 - Eastern Michigan University, Center for Jewish Studies
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
The Chelsea Carol Incident of 1949
December 11, 2023 - Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center, New England Historic Genealogical Society
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
Polish-Jewish Masculinities and the Challenge of Modernity
In conversation with Mariusz Kalczewiak
June 11, YIVO (Virtual - register here)
APRIL 2026
Reclaiming Respect: Black and Jewish Masculinity in the Face of Discrimination
April 15, University of Houston
DECEMBER 2025
The December Dilemma
December 19, DOROT (Virtual)
Truth Sleuths: Uncovering Holocaust History
December 11 - Warren Civic Center Library
Book Event - Carrying a Big Schtick
December 10 - Zingerman's Roadhouse (for tickets click here)
SEPTEMBER 2025
Pre-Show Lecture at the Met: The History of the Jewish Multiverse
September 29 - Metropolitan Opera House (for tickets click here)
"Second Sundays at Pioneer Works"
September 14 - Pioneer Works (Brooklyn, NY) - Video now available to watch online.
"From Page to Stage" PAS and the Met host a discussion about The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, as well as selections from the opera. Rabbi Lori Koffman will moderate a panel featuring PAS music director David Enlow, composer Mason Bates, and Dr. Miriam Mora, historian of Jewish immigration.
September 11 - Park Avenue Synagogue (New York City) - Video now available to watch online.
JULY 2025
"Why Jewish Masculinity Matters: Unearthing a Driving Historical Force"
July 29 - Jewish Senior Life of Metropolitan Detroit
"JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience Documentary Screening and panel discussion" Official Selection of the Comic-Con International Independent Film Festival
July 24 - San Diego Comic-Con (San Diego)
MAY 2025
"JewCE: The Jewish Comics Experience Documentary Screening and panel discussion"
May 20 - 92NY (New York City)
"Why Jewish Masculinity Matters: Unearthing a Driving Historical Force"
May 7 - Kalamazoo College
MARCH 2025
"Carrying a Big Schtick: Jewish Acculturation and Masculinity in the Twentieth Century," Jewish Historical Society of Michigan.
JANUARY 2025
Jewish masculinity in America: Past, Present and Future
January 19 - The Greater Washington Coalition for Jewish Life, Litchfield Country, Ct.
Carrying a Big Schtick
January 5 - Philip, Claire and Benn Meistrich Speaker Series at the United Synagogue of Hoboken in Hoboken, NJ.
DECEMBER 2024
Deconstructing Jewish Masculinity Panel: 2024 New York Jewish Book Festival
December 8 at 10:15am, Museum of Jewish Heritage - A Living Memorial to the Holocaust in New York.
NOVEMBER 2024
Rough Riders, Legionnaires, and Rabbis: Setting standards for Jewish Bravery from the Mexican Expedition through WWI
November 20 - Lecture at the National Museum of American Jewish Military History
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
The Jewish Multiverse: Writing, Cartooning, and Engaging in the Fight Against Nazism
November 12 - Lecture on Jews, Comics, and World War II as part of the Jacobs School of Music’s programming around the premiere of the opera “The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay" and Indiana University Bloomington.
Short documentary screening & talk: JewCE - The Jewish Comics Experience!
November 10 - Screening and panel discussion, Jewish Comics Experience Convention
OCTOBER 2024
Jewish Masculinity in the Twentieth Century
October 28 - Discussion with Dr. Ronnie Grinberg and Dr. Ayelet Brinn at the Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Hartford
Virtual event, register here to attend.
Short documentary screening & talk: JewCE - The Jewish Comics Experience!
October 20 - Screening and panel discussion, New York Comic Con
SEPTEMBER 2024
Carrying a Big Schtick
September 19 - Lecture for DOROT, NYC.
JULY 2024
Jewish Identity in Comics Outside the Holocaust
July 26 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with author Danny Fingeroth, Roy Schwartz, and Cartoonist/editor Jordan B. Gorfinkel.
Writing Lifelines: The Importance of Writers Groups
July 26 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with Frank Forte (Bob’s Burgers, Asylum Press), Enrica Jang (Red Stylo Media), Neo Edmund (Power Rangers, John Carpenter’s--HalloweeNights), Ghezal Omar (Artillery Network), and John Maly (Juris Ex Machina).
The Continuing Relevance Of Will Eisner's The Plot
July 25 - Panel at San Diego Comic-Con International with librarian Karen Green, Professor N.C. Christopher Couch, movie producer Nicholas Meyer [via prerecorded video], and author Danny Fingeroth.
JUNE 2024
Carrying a Big Schtick Book Talk
June 26, 2024 - San Francisco Jewish Community Library
Virtual event, register here to attend.
Official Book Launch Event and Conversation with Dr. Ronnie Grinberg
June 18, 2024 - Center for Jewish History
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
JANUARY 2024
Supermensch: Unveiling the Superhero Jewish Secrets
January 29, 2024 - Marlene Meyerson JCC of Manhattan, "Books that Changed My Life Festival."
Coloring Jewish Comics: Comic Books and Jewish Diversity
January 22, 2024 - Eastern Michigan University, Center for Jewish Studies
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
The Chelsea Carol Incident of 1949
December 11, 2023 - Wyner Family Jewish Heritage Center, New England Historic Genealogical Society
This event was recorded and is now available to watch online, click here to watch.
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