April 11 @ 2:40 pm - 3:35 pm

Hofstra Cultural Center, Department of History, European Studies Program, LGBT+ Program, and the Department of Religion and Jewish Studies present The Ukraine Crisis: Jewish and Queer Perspectives featuring Sophia Sobko and Santiago Slabodsky. Moderated by Simon R. Doubleday, Professor of History, Hofstra University.

Sophia Sobko (she/they) is a queer Soviet Jewish cultural organizer, scholar, educator and artist, born in Moscow and now based on Lisjan Ohlone land in Oakland, CA. Sophia is currently a PhD candidate at UC Berkeley, where she is completing her dissertation on Soviet Ashkenazi Jewish negotiations of racial assimilation in the U.S. She is the founder and a stewarding member of Kolektiv Goluboy Vagon, and a founding artist with Krivoy Kolektiv.

Santiago Slabodsky is a sociologist of global knowledge who holds the Florence and Robert Kaufman Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies and directs the JWST program in the Department of Religion at Hofstra University. In addition he serves in the faculty of three area studies programs: Latin American and Caribbean Studies, Middle Eastern and Central Asian Studies, and European Studies. Dr. Slabodsky writes about intercultural encounters between Jewish and Global South social theories and political movements.

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