Gender-Inclusive and Nonbinary Hebrew: Innovations and Classroom Applications
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:
11:00-12:30 EDT / 8:00-9:30 PDT / 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 EDT / 10:00-11:15 PDT / 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 EDT / 11:30-1:00 PDT / 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
This event is hosted by the Meyerhoff Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by the College of Arts and Humanities, the School of Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, and the Department of Linguistics.