Power of Diversity Lecture Series: Jewish Identity and Anti Semitism Featuring Chad Alan Goldberg, PhD- September 20, 2024 at 12:30 PM

The Academic Engagement Network (AEN) is an independent, educational nonprofit made up of faculty members on over 300 campuses across the US united by their shared commitment to counter antisemitism, oppose the denigration of Jewish identity, promote academic freedom, and advance education about the Jewish experience and Israel. Through AEN’s Improving the Campus Climate Initiative (ICCI), faculty members partner with college and university administrators to create a welcoming, inclusive campus environment for Jewish students, faculty, and staff, which in turn creates a more positive environment for the entire campus community. The AEN workshop on Jewish identity and antisemitism on campus covers five topics: 1) the diversity of Jewish identity and experience, 2) how antisemitism manifests historically and today, 3) how Jewish identity fits into concepts of race and whiteness, 4) how antisemitism relates to conversations about Israel/Palestine, and 5) strategies for creating an inclusive campus environment. The workshop frames these topics in the context of diversity, equity, and inclusion. The Jewish community is just one of many communities, and we must see combating all forms of bias as a shared struggle. We cannot address hatred and discrimination of one group without creating a safe, welcoming, inclusive, and just society for all.

Chad Alan Goldberg is Martindale-Bascom Professor of Sociology and a faculty affiliate of the Department of History (by courtesy) and the George L. Mosse/Laurence A. Weinstein Center for Jewish Studies at the University of Wisconsin–Madison. He has written since 2008 about the history and sociology of antisemitism, he teaches a course on the history of antisemitism in Europe, and he works to educate the public about antisemitism through interviews for news media. His award-winning books include Citizens and Paupers: Relief, Rights, and Race, from the Freedmen’s Bureau to Workfare (University of Chicago Press, 2008); Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought (University of Chicago Press, 2017); and (as editor) Education for Democracy: Renewing the Wisconsin Idea (University of Wisconsin Press, 2020). He has been a member of the Academic Engagement Network since 2016.

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