"Being Jewish in America Today" Series Event with Lili Rosen
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- Tuesday, January 20th
- 6pm to 7:30pm
Old Cabell Hall
UVA Jewish Studies will host Lili Rosen for a conversation and short performance on Tuesday, January 20th at 6 PM in Old Cabell Hall for the second installment of the "Being Jewish in America Today" series. Reception to follow. This event is supported by UVA Arts & the Office of the Provost & the Vice Provost for the Arts, and the Department of Women, Gender, & Sexuality. READ MORE.
Lili Rosen (she/they) is a trans actress, writer, producer and cultural consultant raised in a Yiddish-speaking home in Hasidic Brooklyn. Dubbed by Air Mail magazine “Hollywood’s Yiddish Consultant,” her TV/film credits include the Emmy-winning Unorthodox (Netflix), Amazon’s Undone, Apple’s Little America, and the Ukrainian Yiddish film Shttl, winner of the Rome Film Fest audience award. Her award-winning short film The Binding of Itzik (2020), is the recipient of the Rainin Foundation grant from SFFILM for development as a feature film. Lili is a past LABA NY artist- and scholar-in residence at LABA NY, where she developed her solo show. She is also the past managing director of New Yiddish Rep Theater, where she translated, produced and starred in numerous Yiddish productions, including the New York Times Critic’s Pick God of Vengeance.
- An American Girl Anthology @ UVA: Finding Ourselves in the Pleasant Company Universe
- Tuesday, February 26
- 5pm
Wilson 142
Recent years have seen an explosion of critical and cultural work related to the American Girl brand, and to the thousands of young women who were influenced by the dolls, books, and movies it spawned. The first line of 18-inch historical dolls, released in 1986 by the Pleasant Company, were many girls’ first exposure to pivotal moments in U.S. History – the Revolutionary War, Emancipation, and the WWII Homefront. Today, those same millennials consume nostalgic images of the dolls on social media by the thousands. Online, the American Girl brand has become a vector for discussions about reproductive justice, the electoral college, and the legacies of slavery. More than one millennial historian or developmental psychologist has cited early (sometimes fraught) exposure to American Girl as the impetus for their current careers.
In an exciting new collection, editors Justine Orlovsky-Schnitzler and KC Hysmith have curated "an ode to the democratizing power of the internet and the intoxicating power of nostalgia" in the world of American Girl. The proposed panel with the editors will focus on the young scholars' path to creating the anthology, the company's influence on a generation of historians and cultural scholars, and the surprising new life of American Girl online.
Contact Carrington OBrion for more information: yvp5ng@virginia.edu.
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