Tuesday, October 1
"Liberalism, Multiculturalism, and the Jews."
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and,
Coordinator of the Program in Jewish Studies, School of Politics and Internatioal Relations, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
5-7PM, 257 Dennison Building
This presentation is a guest lecture in the graduate seminar, "Jewish Political Thought and Experiences". The public is invited and encouraged to attend.
Tuesday, October 1
"Women in the Warsaw Ghetto."
Barbara Engelking-Boni
Assistant Professor, Institute of Philiosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
7:30PM, Jewish Community Center, 2935 Birch Hollow Drive
Co-sponsored with the Center for Russian and East European Studies, the Copernicus Endowment, and the Jewish Federation of Washtenaw County.
Wednesday, October 2
"Denunciations to the German Occupation Authorities, 1940-1941."
Barbara Engelking-Boni
Assistant Professor, Institute of Philosophy and Sociology, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw
12Noon, 1636 International Institute, 1080 South University
Wednesday, October 2
"The (Continuing) Anomaly of American Jewish Liberalism."
Geoffrey Brahm Levey
Senior Lecturer in Politics and International Relations and,
Coordinator of the Program in Jewish Studies, School of Politics and Internatioal Relations, the University of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
4PM, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, October 21
"Was the Apostle Paul the Father of Christian Anti-Judaism?"
John Gager
William H. Danforth Professor of Religion, Princeton University
8PM, Lydia Mendelssohn Theatre, Michigan League, 911 North University
This presentation is the inaugural event in the newly established "Michigan Lectures on Judaism and Christianity in the Roman World" series. It is co-sponsored with the Department of Near Eastern Studies, International Institute forSecular Humanistic Judaism, and The Michigan Center for the Study of Early Christianity.
Wednesday, October 30
"The Nazi Use of Jewish Scholarship."
Mitchell Hart
Louis and Helen Padnos Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies, UofM, and
Associate Professor of Jewish and European History, Florida International University
12Noon, 3050 Frieze Building
Friday, November 8
"Jessica: The Jew's Daughter."
James Shapiro
Professor of English and Co-director of the PhD Program in Theater Arts, Columbia University
12Noon, Wolverine Room, Michigan Union
Co-sponsored with the Department of English, the Early Modern Colloquium, and the Medieval and Early Modern Studies Program.
Tuesday, November 12
"Palestinian State Building and Peace Making: Between Reality and Wishful Thinking"
Khalil Shikaki
Associate Professor of Political Science Bir Zeit University, and
Director, Palestinian Center for Policy and Survey Research (Ramallah)
4-6PM, International Institute, Room 1636, School of Social Work Building
Co-sponsored by the Frankel Center for Judaic Studies, the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Center for Political Studies, the Department of Political Science, and the International Institute.
Wednesday, November 20
"Judaica Electronica: Exploring and Mastering UM's Digital Judaic Resources."
Elliot H. Gertel
Irving M. Hermelin Curator of Judaica, UM
4-5:30PM, University Library Instructional Center, Room 4059, Shapiro Undergraduate Library/Science Library
Friday, December 6
"Reproducing Jews: A Cultural Account of Assisted Conception in Israel."
Susan Kahn
Ph.D., Anthropologist, Senior Research Director of Hadassah International Institute on Jewish Women at Brandeis University, and
Lecturer in the Department of Antropology, Near Eastern and Judaic Studies, Brandeis University
12Noon-1:30pm, Seminar ROom, Lane Hall, 204 South State Street
Co-sponsored by the Center for Middle Eastern & North African Studies, the Center for Judaic Studies, the Program in Women's Studies, and the Institute for Research on Women and Gender.
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