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Fall 2007 Calendar of Events
Cradle of Christianity Exhibit
The Michael C. Carlos Museum of Emory University is one of only three U.S. venues for an important traveling exhibition tracing the shared roots of Jewish and Christian beliefs and practices through biblical archaeology. Organized by the Israel Museum, Jerusalem, this exhibit explores the concurrent histories of early Christian and Jewish life through some of the most significant biblical artifacts ever found, including a section of the Temple Scroll, a major Dead Sea Scroll. In partnership with the Candler School of Theology, Department of Religion, and Institute for Jewish Studies.
June 16-October 14th, 2007
For tickets and more information, please visit the Carlos Museum website.
Lockmiller Series
Dr. Marina Rustow is Assistant Professor in the Department of History with a joint appointment in the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. She is also an affiliated member of the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies. She will present a seminar entitled, "From the Palace in Cairo to the Synagogue in Fustat: A Petition to a Woman at the Fatimid Court." Readings from the seminar are available in the History department, 221 Bowden Hall, or through the Woodruff Library on-line electronic reserve under HIST 998, Instructor: Dr. Gyan Pandey.
Monday, October 1st, 2007
2:00-3:30 p.m.
323 Bowden Hall (J. Russell Major Room)
"Marrano Memory and Identity, Past and Present"
Distinguished historical anthropologist Nathan Wachtel will present a seminar which asks the questions, 'How can one explain a scholarly trajectory that leads from the historical and anthropological study of Andean Indians to that of Marranos in the Americas? How is it that we find contemporary Marranos in northeastern Brazil, of all places?' Nathan Wachtel is a visiting professor in the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program as well as the Institute for Jewish Studies. He is the author of Jewish Memories and Gods and Vampires, among other publications.
Thursday, October 11th
6:00 p.m. with light snacks and refreshments provided
White Hall 200
Motti Lerner Talk and Play Reading
Theatre Studies and Theatre Emory present an artist talk by freelance Israeli playwright and screenwriter Motti Lerner. Lerner's plays have been produced in the USA, England, Germany, Switzerland, Austria and Australia. He has received many awards including the Israeli Academy Award for Children's Drama (1980), the Israeli Motion Picture Academy Award for Best TV Drama (1995) and Best TV Feature Film (2004).
The central premise of his play Benedictus was inspired by an actual event. In 2005, President Khatami of Iran and President Katsav of Israel were seated alphabetically at the funeral service for Pope John Paul II. Although the two countries had broken off diplomatic relations in 1979, the two presidents shook hands and exchanged a few words in Farsi, since they had both been born some fifty years earlier in the same small Iranian town. Benedictus imagines two men, childhood friends, born in the same small village in Iran: one, a Muslim, stays in Iran and rises to leadership in the new Islamic Republic. The other, Jewish, emigrates with his family to Israel, where he becomes a successful businessman and eventually Israel's leading arms dealer. What might happen were they to meet later in life?
Co-sponsored by Jewish Theatre of the South and the Institute for Jewish Studies.
October 15th, 2007, 4 p.m.
Schwartz Center Theater Lab
Cartooning for Peace
From November 12-15, 2007, the Halle Institute brings ten leading cartoonists from around the world to Emory and Atlanta for public events and lectures. From October 27, 2007 to December 15, 2007, an expanded version of the "Cartooning for Peace" traveling exhibition that was unveiled at the United Nations (UN) headquarters is on display at the Schatten Gallery, featuring over 100 new cartoons and drawings by the visiting cartoonists. The collection represents a wide range of issues such as peace, conflict, leadership, and the environment. The exhibition also includes cartoons related to important global health issues as a result of the enormous concentration of expertise at Emory University and Atlanta in this field. "Cartooning for Peace" is the brainchild of Plantu, editorial cartoonist for the French daily newspaper Le Monde. The idea for the project was born in 1991 when Plantu met former Palestinian leader Yassar Arafat, who drew the Star of David for one of Plantu's drawings and signed it. The following year, then-Israeli Minister of Foreign Affairs Shimon Peres signed the same drawing. It was the first time that signatures from both the Israeli government and the Palestine Liberation Organization had been affixed to the same document since the 1993 Oslo Accords. Co-sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Dr. Raymond Schinazi, the Hightower Fund, the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies department, Candler School of Theology, Women's Studies, Art History, Political Science, English, and the Rollins School of Public Health.
November 12-15th, 2007
For a complete schedule, please visit The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning
Raanan Rein Talk and Film Screening
Raanan Rein is the former director of the Institute of Latin American History and Culture and a current Professor of Spanish and Latin American History at Tel Aviv University. He is also the Director of the S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies. He will give a public talk "Not Invisible Anymore: Individual and Collective Identities of Argentines in Israel" and show a short film about an Argentian actor who migrates to Israel and enters into television.
Co-sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies program.
Thursday, November 15th, 2007
Time: TBA
"The Talmud on Trial (Paris, 1240): Between History and Literature"
Presented by Piero Capelli, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies Visiting Scholar and Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature, Universita Ca' Foscari, Venice
Friday, December 7th, 2007
11:30-1:00 p.m.
Candler Library 212 (Jewish Studies Seminar Room)
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