UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute

• "Initiative to Study Hate Impact Symposium" (opening remarks until 8:45, panel “Studying Hate in Fraught Times” from 2:00:40-2:57:00). With Celie Fischer, Yarin Hagay Nevel, Ryan Horio, Aliza Luft, and Christine Ong. May 27, 2025. 
• "Compassionate Conversations: Dr. Jamil Zaki." March 4, 2025. 
• "Compassionate Conversations: The Parents Circle - Family Forum." UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and Dialogue Across Difference Initiative. March 3, 2025.
• "Compassionate Conversations: Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha." UCLA Bedari Kindness Institute and Dialogue Across Difference Initiative. November 13, 2024.
• "ISH Impact Symposium 2024: Introduction and Panel 'What is Hate?'" With Aziza Hasan, Howard Padwa, and Matt Williams. June 3, 2024. 

​​UCLA Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies

• "Rethinking the Dilemma of Bombing Auschwitz: Support, Opposition, and Reservation." With Zohar Segev. March 3, 2025. 
• "Reckoning with the Roots of Antisemitism and Racism." With Magda Teter. February 11, 2025.
• "Translating the Jewish Freud: Psychoanalysis in Hebrew and Yiddish." With Naomi Seidman. January 29, 2025.
• "Zakhor at 40: A Conversation on the Importance of Yosef Yerusahlmi's Masterpiece." December 10, 2022.
• "Between City and Shtetl: A Comparative Look at Contemporary Hasidic Life." With Nomi Stolzenberg (USC), Michael Casper (Yale University), and Nathaniel Deutsch (UCSC), May 24, 2022.
• "An Unchosen People: Jewish Political Reckoning in Interwar Poland." With Kenneth B. Moss, May 5, 2022.
• "Invisible Enlighteners: The Jewish Merchants of Modena from the Renaissance to the Emancipation." With Federica Francesconi, March 25, 2022.
• "The Task of the Jewish Historian Today: A Conversation." February 23, 2022.
• "A Time to Gather." With Jason Lustig, February 14, 2022.
• "The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past." With Liora Halperin, November 10, 2021.
• "The Blood Libel in Modern Eastern Europe: A Social History." With Elissa Bemporad, October 20, 2020.
• "Jerusalem: City of the Book." With Benjamin Balint, April 20, 2020.

Other

• “Commencement Speech: Hebrew Union College Los Angeles” (40:40-1:00:45). May 19, 2025.​
• "On the Ethics and Exercise of Jewish Power: Reading Leibowitz's 'After Kibiyeh' Seventy Years Later." With Yasmeen Abu Fraiha, Tirza Leibowitz, and Rabbi Chaim Seidler-Feller, Smol Emuni Conference. New York City, March 20, 2025. 
• "Why History Matters in an Age of Polycrisis." With Justin Jampol, Wende Museum. March 6, 2025. 
• "Peter Beinart and David Myers: Being Jewish After the Destruction of Gaza, A Reckoning." Writers Bloc. February 18, 2025.
• "Voices of Defiance Panel 3: Researching the Past, Opportunities and Obstacles to Access." With Shaul Kelner and Ann Komaromi, Wende Museum, January 26, 2025.
• "Reflections on Jewish Culture." Lowell Milken Center, November 7, 2024.
• Response to Andrew Koss, "Jewish Studies against the Jews," Mosaic (at minute 33). May 30, 2024.
• "To the Holy Land and Back: Interfaith Perspectives on the Crisis in Israel and Palestine." With Amir Hussain, American River College, May 23, 2024. 
• "Dr. Yasmeen Abu Fraiha: Guardian of Democracy." NIF, April 18, 2024.
• "On the Democracy Crisis in Israel" (at time marker 1:30) "Talk the Talk with Bill and Buz," WHMP, Northampton, MA. July 17, 2023.
• "The Challenges and Opportunities of Building a Pro-Democracy Movement in Israel."  USA for Israeli Democracy (webinar), May 21, 2023.
• "Book Discussion, Steven M. Lowenstein, The Population History of Germany Jewry."  Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem. May 10, 2023. 
• "Book Discussion, Steven M. Lowenstein, The Population History of German Jewry." Leo Baeck Institute, New York.  April 23, 2023. 
• "Crisis in Israel." With Daniel Sokatch. Writers Bloc, April 16, 2023.
• "Combatting Great Replacement Theory." MPAC/JPAC Democracy Forum, Sacramento, CA, September 20, 2022.
• "Dear Palestine: A Social History of the 1948 War." With Shay Hazkani, UCLA Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, May 4, 2022. ​
• "The Future of the University." Jewish Currents Futures Forum, November 18, 2021. 
• Book Discussion: Pogroms: A Documentary History. Center for Jewish History, October 21, 2021.
• "Haredism and the Future of American Judaism."  Jewish Currents Futures Forum, October 19, 2021.
• "The Future of Religious Liberties." Jewish Currents Futures Forum, October 5, 2021.
• "The History of Zionism and the Legacy of Rabbi Leonard Beerman z'l." MPAC series, July 23, 2021.​
• "Our History, Our Future." With Sir Simon Schama and Professor Deborah Lipstadt, NIF Australia, April 20, 2021.
• "The Blood Libel: New Media and Conspiracy Theories with Professors Magda Teter and David Myers." Leo Back Institute, April 8, 2021.
• "A Brief History of Reparations." The Heschel/King Forum: A Discussion on Reparations & Restorative Justice, presented by the Black Jewish Justice Alliance (BJJA), April 6, 2021
• "The Task of the Jewish Historian Today." Panel discussion sponsored by the UCLA Leve Center, Kahn Chair in Jewish History, Association for Jewish Studies, and Historical Society of Israel, February 23, 2021.
• "Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Where Does Criticism of Israel End and Antisemitism Begin?" With Dina Porat and Michael Brenner, Jewish Broadcasting Service, January 5, 2021.
• “A Chanukah Story: The Birth of Jewish Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem."  The Center for Israel Studies, Vienna. December 16, 2020.
• NIF UK Conversation between Sir Simon Schama and David Myers. November 25, 2020​
• “From the River to the Sea”. With Avrum Burg, Oct. 8, 2020.​​
• John Lewis with James Lawson, moderated by David N. Myers. Beerman Foundation, October, 2017.
• "Israel-Diaspora Relations: Past, Present, Future." With Aaron J. Koller, Marjorie Lehman, Shaul Magid, and Alana Newhouse. Center for Jewish History, May 3, 2018.
• "History Matters: Ruth Wisse." Center for Jewish History, April 26, 2018.
• "Beyond the Tent: What's the American Jewish Community's Responsibility Towards Israel's Future?" With Sharon Brous and Merav Michaeli, J Street, June 8, 2014. ​
• "David N. Myers about Arthur Stern at APN Rabin Peace Award Dinner." Americans for Peace Now. April 28, 2014. 
• UCLA Hillel Dedication Event. With Deborah Lipstadt, Eric Fingerhut, and Mark Yudof. March 5, 2014. 

 Header Image: R. B. Kitaj, "Arabs and Jews"