Events

Film Screenings from the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Co-sponsored by the Film and Jewish Studies departments
"Rene and I", a moving documentary about twins on whom Dr. Mengele experimented. Dr. Lipstadt will speak beforehand, and Gina Angelone, the director/producer, will also be present to answer audience questions.
"Bonjour, Monsieur Shlomi", an Israeli coming of age story that Variety favorably compares to "Good Will Hunting".
Tuesday, September 6, 2005
7:00 pm
Lefont Sandy Springs Theater, Roswell Road

Deuteronomy Lecture
Madhavi Nevader will present a presentation examining the function and use of legislation in Deuteronomy as a response to the pressures of exile and the constraints upon the foremost political institution of ancient Israel, the mornarchy.
Thursday, September 2, 2005
5:30 pm
IJS Seminar Room (212 Candler Library)

Transfers and Transferences: Czechs as Jews and Jews as Czechs
Former Emory graduate student Martin Wein will present a lecture on the image of "the Czechs" in the Jewish and Israeli collective memory and historiography. Although there was relatively little historical interaction between Czech Christians and Jews, Czech references are ubiquitous in Israeli society, from singer Arik Einstein's 1968 "A dream I dreamt about Prague" to Prime Minister Ariel Sharon's "Czechoslovakia speech" of 2001.
Wednesday, December 7, 2005
5:30 pm
IJS Seminar Room (212 Candler Library)

Medieval Iberia Lecture Series
The Department of Spanish and Portuguese, along with the Institute for Jewish Studies, Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, Graduate Division of Religion, Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Program in Medieval Studies, Department of Women's Studies, Department of Comparative Literature, and Graduate Institute of Liberal Arts are co-sponsoring a year-long lecture series on Medieval Iberia. This series questions the closing of historical, political, and cultural borders of "Iberia," the place that came to be known as "Spain" when the kingdoms of the Peninsula were grouped under the crown of Castile and Aragon in the fifteenth century. The six speakers for the series are Professor Consuelo Lopez-Morillas, Professor Raymond Scheindlin, Professor Leyla Rouhi, Professor Israel Burshatin, Professor Ross Brann, and Professor Luce Lopez-Baralt. These speakers hope to set in motion a host of discussions about meanings, international relations, diversity, equality, and communications elicited by the various stories and histories of Medieval Iberia that these speakers will bring to campus.

First speaker: Prof. Consuelo Lopez-Morillas
Chair, Department of Spanish and Portuguese
Indiana University
will speak on "Spanish Islamic Texts: Problems, Solutions, and Directions"
October 27, 2005
4:30 p.m.
501 North Callaway Center
(reception to follow)

"A Death in Addis Ababa: On Ethnography, the Question
of Religious Experience and the Politics of Suffering"
Don Seeman, Assistant Professor of Religion, Emory
(with Sara McClintock responding)
Wed., December 14, 2005, 3 pm
Callaway S221
Part of the Series: “Persuasion: Rhetoric & Practice.”

Chapel Tea
Rabbi Joab Eichenberg-Eilon, Lecturer in Hebrew, will present:
"Reflections on Religion and Politics in the Hebrew Bible"
Tuesday, November 8th, 2005
4:30-5:30 p.m. - Formal Lounge, Cannon Chapel
Sponsored by the Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life

"I Am in the East, But My Heart Is in the West"
by David Tal, Visiting Professor, Department of History
Prof. Tal will talk about the desire of the founders of the state of Israel to see Israel as a western state, affiliated with the western culture and world, the impact of that desire on Israel's foreign policy, and the price that that desire exacted from the Israeli society - the "melting pot" through which the non-western newcomers to Israel had to go through, the social tensions created in result, and final notes and conclusion on the state of Israel today.
Wednesday, November 9th, 2005
S-319 Callaway Center, 4:30 p.m.

AIDS Memorial Quilt Display
Emory University will host one of the largest displays of the AIDS Memorial Quilt ever held in Atlanta on World AIDS Day, December 1, 2005. Sponsored by Emory Hillel, in partnership with other Emory organizations, the display on the Emory quadrangle will include more than 400 quilt panels, each memorializing the life of a person lost to AIDS. The Emory community will come together for an opening ceremony at 11:15 a.m., followed by a public reading of the names on The Quilt panels on display. For more information about the Quilt on the Quad event, visit the web site, EmoryHillel.org/AIDSquilt or contact Michael Rabkin, Emory Hillel director, at 404-712-9063.

"How Secular Was the Enlightenment? Six Faces of Reasonable Belief: 1689-1789",
a seminar lecture by David Sorkin
Dr. David Sorkin is Frances and Laurence Weinstein Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of History at the University of Wisconsin.
Wednesday, January 25th, 2006,4:00 p.m.
323 Bowden Hall (History Department's Major Room)
Reception to follow!

Fall 2005 Calendar of Events