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Spring 2003 Calendar of Events


Dr. Ruth Kluger
"Still Alive: A Holocaust Girlhood Remembered"

January 21, 2003
8:00 PM
White Hall, Room 207

** Sponsored by the departments of German Studies, Jewish Studies,
Political Science, and Women's Studies **



Dr. Nadav Morag, Senior Director for Domestic Policy
"Israel's War on Terrorism:
Is There a Light of Accommodation at the End of the Tunnel?"

January 27, 2003
3:30 PM
The Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center

** Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel and Middle East Research Program
in cooperation with the Anti-Defamation League's Eugene Warner Middle East Lecture Tour **

** Free and open to the public **



Dr. Raanan Rein, Senior Director for Domestic Policy
"Argentina, Israel and the Jews: From Peron to Eichmann"

January 27, 2003
7:30 PM
Geosciences 206

** Sponsored by the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, the Vernacular Modernities Program, and the Hightower Lecture Fund **

** Free and open to the public **

Aren Maeir, Bar-Ilan University
"The Search for Goliath:
Recent Excavations at Ancient Tell es-Safi (Gath of the Philistines)"

February 5, 2003
8:00 - 8:45 PM
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

** Sponsored by the Program in Mediterranean Archeology
and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies **


Carol Meyers, Duke University
"Barely Visible But Very Real: Women's Religious Culture in Ancient Israel"
February 26, 2003
7:00 PM
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

** Sponsored by the Program in Mediterranean Archeology
and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies **

Ze'ev Herzog, Tel Aviv University
"'He named the well Sheba and this is why the city is called Beersheba to this day':
Water Supply at Tel Beersheba in Light of Recent Exploration at the Site"

March 6, 2003
7:00 PM
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

** Sponsored by the Program in Mediterranean Archeology
and the Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies **


Dr. James D. Tabor, The University of North Carolina at Charlotte
"An Ancient Clash of Cultures:
Jewish and Roman Art in Palestine in the Time of the Herods"

Thursday, March 20, 2003
7:00 PM, reception to follow
Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum

** The Annual Laszlo-Excalibur Lecture Series of the Michael C. Carlos Museum **

The David Goldwasser Symposium in Religion and the Arts
"The Redemptive Power of Art"


An exploration of spirituality and the arts, Emory University's David Goldwasser
Symposium brings together three of the most articulate and inspiring creative leaders
to explore the power of art in shaping religious and spiritual tradition.

Anne Bogart
theater/opera director, playwright, essayist, and teacher
co-founder of the Saratoga International Theater Institute

Bill T. Jones
dancer, choreographer
co-founder of New York's Bill T. Jones/Arne Zane Dance Company

Pauline Oliveros
composer and performer
founder of the "Deep Listening" technique


Saturday, March 29, 2003


1:00 PM - 2:30 PM
Pauline Oliveros will lead a deep listening workshop on sound and creativity.


Sunday, March 30, 2003

2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
Individual presentations by each artist

7:00 PM
Panel discussion with the artists moderated by Dr. Donald Saliers,
William R. Cannon Distinguished Professor of Theology and Worship

** Free and open to the public **

** The symposium is co-sponsored by:
The Dean of the Chapel and Religious Life, The Department of Religion,
The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies,
Office of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender Life,
The Emory Dance Program, Theater Emory and the Department of Theater Studies,
The Department of Music, The Office of Multicultural Programs and Services,
Media Partner: Public Broadcasting Atlanta **

"Transgressive Commodities: A Symposium in Response
to the Exhibition'Mirroring Evil: Nazi Imagery/Recent Art'"

The exhibition "Mirroring Evil" was presented in 2002 at the Jewish Museum, New York.

April 10, 2003, 6:30 PM, Harland Cinema, Dobbs University Center
James Young, Prof. of English & Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Massachusetts, Amherst

April 11, 2003, 1:00 PM, Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall
Symposium Round Table with Lisa Saltzman, Associate Professor of History of Art at Bryn Mawr College; James Young; Alan Schechner, one of the artists from the exhibit; and Emory University Professor and renowned Holocaust scholar Deborah Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies & Director of Jewish Studies

** The symposium is presented by the Department of Comparative Literature **


The Atlanta Seminar in the Comparative History of Labor, Industry,
Technology and Society (SCHLITS) Workshop

Dr. Eric Goldstein, Emory University
"Forging an Uneasy Whiteness:
How Jews Complicate the Story of Racial Assimilation in America"


Friday, April 25, 2003
4:00 PM
Bowden 323 (Major Seminar Room)

 

 


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