Last Spring, Professor Susan Miller gave an invited talk at UCLA Jewish Studies on the Moroccan Jewish Quarter and will be visiting UCLA again in October for a conference on Algerian Jews. In November, Miller will be a participant on a panel on contemporary Moroccan culture at Dartmouth College. In December, she will be the chair and discussant of a panel at the Middle East Studies Association on "Maghribi Jews Between Europe and North America" and a second panel on the "spatial turn" in Middle East Studies.

Professor Diane Wolf gave an invited talk at University of Ohio in History and Jewish Studies. She will be presenting a talk at the Graduate Theological Union in October at a roundtable on "The Meaning of Circumcision in Judaism and Islam."

Professor David Biale received an NEH Collaborative Research Grant for a History of Hasidism, a project he is directing consisting of nine scholars from the US, UK, Poland and Israel. The group met for the month of July at the Simon Dubnow Institute in Leipzig, Germany and will meet for two more summers in Leipzig and then for a two-week residency in Jerusalem. The Hebrew translation of Biale's book, Not in the Heavens, is to appear in December, at which time he will be doing several events around the book in Israel. He also will be lecturing this fall at the Getty Museum and at Indiana University.