Previous Weekends in Quest
The first Weekend in Quest took place in 2007. Here are the scholars and titles for the years preceding the current year:
- 2020: Professor Evlyn Gould, University of Oregon, Friends, Foes, Fanatics and Proto-Fascists: The Dreyfus Affair in fin-de-siècle France (1894-1906) (download brochure)
- 2019: Professor Naomi Sokoloff, University of Washington, "Poems and Prayers: Modern Jewish Writers Reinterpreting Tradition" (download brochure)
- 2018: Professors Rina Lauer and Yiftakh Osterloh, Oregon State University, "Jewish Masculinity and Femininity in the Premodern World" (download brochure)
- 2017: Professor Roger Porter, Reed College, "'Who Is the Jew?' Anti-Semitism in Shakespeare and Philip Roth" (download brochure)
2016: Professor Noam Pianko, University of Washington, "Is There a Future for Jewish Peoplehood" (download brochure) - 2015: Professor Devin E. Naar, University of Washington, "The Rise and Fall of Ladino-Speaking Jewry" (download brochure)
- 2014: Prof. Ellen Eisenberg, Willamette University, "Go West, Young Mensch!" (download brochure)
- 2013: Prof. Matthew Warshawsky, University of Portland, "Jews, Conversos, and Crypto-Jews in Iberia and the Americas" (download brochure)
- 2012: Prof. Oren Kosansky, Lewis & Clark College, "The Modern Moroccan Jewish Experience" (download brochure)
- 2011: Prof. Loren Spielman, Portland State University, "Jews and Popular Culture in the Ancient World" (download brochure)
- 2010: Prof. Judith Baskin, University of Oregon, "Insiders and Outsiders: Who Is the Other? Biblical and Rabbinic Views of Gentiles, Converts, Women and Servants" (download brochure)
- 2009: Prof. Natan Meir, Portland State University, "The Lives of Our Mothers and Fathers in Eastern Europe" (download brochure)
- 2008: Rabbi Alan Berg, "Gilgul: Spiritual Transformation and the Jewish Musical Voice" (download brochure)
- 2007: Prof. Steven Wasserstrom, Reed College, "Islam from a Jewish Perspective" (download brochure)
