Friday, January 11
"When Exiles Return: Jerusalem as Topos of Mind and Soil."
Sidra DeKoven Ezrahi
Professor, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem;
previously, Padnos Visiting Professor of Judaic Studies, UofM
12 noon, 2065 Frieze Building
Please note: This is a Candidate's lecture for the Hebrew Literature and Culture Position.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
Monday, January 14
"The Dairyman's Daughters: Sholem-Aleichem and the Jewish Anti-Novel in Russia."
Olga Litvak
Assistant Professor of Jewish studies and History, Princeton University
4PM, Kalamazoo Room, Michigan League
Co-sponsored by the Department of slavic Languages and Literatures.
Tuesday, January 15
"What Remains in Translation: Examples from Hebrew and Romance."
Avi Matalon
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Literature and Society, Columbia University
4:15PM, 3050 Frieze Building
Please note: this is a Candidate's lecture for the Hebrew Literature and Culture Position.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
4PM, 3050 Frieze Building
Thursday, January 24
topic TBA
Maryam Segal
Ph.D. candidate, Department of Comparative Lituerature, University of California-Berkeley
4:15PM Location TBA
Please note: This is a Candidate's lecture for the Hebrew Literature and CUlture Position.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Wednesday, January 30
"The Magyar-Jewish Symbiosis: Reflections on Hungarian Jewry."
Howard Lupovitch
Pulver Family Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies, Colby College
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, February 4
"Negative Theology and the Meaning of the Commandments in Modern Orthodoxy."
Daniel Statman
Associate Professor of Philosophy, University of Haifa
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, February 11
"What Can Ritual Theory Tell Us about Ancient Judaism?"
Ithamar Gruenwald
Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Department of Jewish Philisophy, Tel Aviv University
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Monday, February 11
"What Early Christianity Offers to the Understanding of Judaism in Antiquity."
Ithamar Gruenwald
Professor of Jewish Mysticism, Department of Jewish Philisophy, Tel Aviv University
7:00-9:30PM, 3050 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies.
Thursday, February 14
"The Catholic Church and the Jews: From the Middle Ages to the Present."
David Berger
Broeklundian Professor of History, Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City Univesity of New York
12noon, 3050 Frieze Building
Thursday, February 14
"The Lubavitcher Rebbe as Messiah: Can Judaism Affirm a Second Coming?"
David Berger
Broeklundian Professor of History, Brooklyn College and Graduate School, City Univesity of New York
8PM, Koessler Room, Michigan League
Sunday, February 17
Premiere screening and discussion of a personal documentary abut Cuba's Sephardic Jews.
Ruth Behar
Professor of Anthropology, UofM: writer, director, producer of "Adio Kerida." (Goodbye Dear Love)
7PM, Michigan Theatre, 603 East Liberty
Co-sponsored with several UofM departments and programs.
Monday, February 18
"Children of Magnolia Street: Autobiographical Voices of Jewish Acculturation."
Bernard Wasserstein
Professor of History, University of Glasgow
12noon, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Monday, February 18
"Jerusalem Divided: Religion and Politics in the Holy City"
Benard Wasserstein
Professor of History, University of Glasgow
7:30PM, Vandenberg Room, Michigan League, Second Floor, 911 North University
Friday, March 8
"Religion and Politics in th Middle East."
Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
12noon, 3050 Frieze Building
Friday, March 8
"The Lebanonization of the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict."
Laurie Zittrain Eisenberg
Visiting Associate Professor, Department of History, Carnegie Mellon University
2:30pm, 1636 School of Social Work Building
Co-sponsored with the Middle East Distinguished Lecturer Series
Wednesday, March 13
"Islamic Attitudes Towards Jews and Judaism - Old and New."
Norman A. Stillman
Schusterman/Josey Proessor of Judaic History, University of Oklahoma;
and Visiting Professor and Researcher L'Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales in Paris, France
4PM, Salinger Resource Center, 3040 Frieze Building
Thursday, March 21
Screening Travels with My Brother (1997) and excerpts from Cinema Egypt (2001).
Discussion with filmmaker to follow showing.
Rami Kimchi
Ph.D. Candidate in Near Eastern studies/ Modern Hebrew Literature, UofM
4-5:30 PM, Lecture Room 2, MLB.
Co-sponsored by the Department of Near Eastern Studies
Monday, April 8
"Organized Evil: The 1968 Anti-Zionist Campaign in Poland."
Dariusz Stola
Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
3:30PM, 6050 Conference Room, Institute for Social Research
Tuesday, April 9
"The Holocaust in Polish Discourses Since World War II."
Dariusz Stola
Institute of Political Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
4PM, 3050 Frieze Building
Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Center for Russian and East European Studies
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