Theory has long been present, butunstated, in Jewish Studies - but things arechanging. A history of interdisciplinarycollaboration has produced theoretically-minded work on many topics withimplications for Jewish Studies includingmigration, diaspora, race, gender,colonialism, performance, and more. Join Dartmouth Chair of Jewish Studies, Dr.Susannah Heschel, as she explores theinsights and effects that theseinvestigations, and their resultingtheoretical modalities, have produced onthe Jewish historical experience.Considering also the exclusions anddistortions that have arisen concurrentlyfrom the contemporary politicization of theacademy, the question becomes: Where do we go from here?