Study Abroad in Israel information session
CIPA is pleased to announce the reinstatement of the study abroad programs in Israel, beginning Fall 2006. Emory currently has semester-based programs at Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University. Please join the CIPA staff and Dr. Benny Hary for an information session and learn about the program options, application process, academic courses, and more!
Tuesday, January 24th, 6:30 p.m.
CIPA Office, 1385 Oxford Rd., Room 108
Center for International Programs Abroad
"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
"The Problem of Evil: Jewish Answers from the Bible to Qabbalah"
a lecture by Piero Capelli
Dr. Piero Capelli is Associate Professor of Hebrew Language and Literature at Universita Ca' Foscari in Venice.
Judaism has elaborated various answers to the problem of the presence of evil in a universe willed, created, and ordered by a God who is defined as good and omnipotent. This lecture will consider some of the theologies of evil in the history of the Jewish tradition and in the various fields of Jewish knowledge.
Thursday, February 2nd, 5:30 p.m.
Religion Seminar Room, Callaway S221
Reception to follow
Darfur Diaries
In February 2003, the Sudanese Liberation Army in Darfur (the western region of Sudan) responded to decades of oppression by taking up arms against the Sudanese government. The government and allied militias, known as Janjaweed, answered the rebellion with the large-scale murder of civilians, mass-rapes of women and girls, and destruction of villages, resulting in one of the world's largest current political and humanitarian crises. Up to 400,000 civilians have died since the beginning of the conflict and over 2 million people have been displaced. After watching woefully inadequate media coverage on the crisis in Darfur, Sudan, a team of three independent filmmakers trekked to Darfurian refugee camps in eastern Chad and, with the help of the rebel movement, snuck across the border into Darfur. They interviewed refugees and displaced people, civilians and fighters resisting the Sudanese government. The documentary chronicles the history, hopes, and fears of the people of Darfur and the tragedy they are living.
Thursday, February 9, 6:00-7:50 p.m.
White Hall 101
Sponsor: The Institute for African Studies
Cosponsors: Emory Sudan Working Group and the Institute for Jewish Studies
Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals: 1933-1945
Chronicles the Nazi attempt to rid German-controlled territory of people who did not fit the regime's vision of a hereditarily pure "master Aryan race." Foremost among those identified for annhiliation were the Jews. Nazis also targeted Germans with mental and physical disabilities, Jehova's Witnesses, Roma ("Gypsies"), Poles, Soviet prisoners of war, and homosexual men.
The film Paragraph 175 documents the history of the 100,000 men who were arrested for homosexuality under Paragraph 175, the sodomy provision of the German penal code. Some were imprisoned, others were sent to concentration camps. Today, fewer than ten of these men are known to be living, and five of the survivors tell their stories for the first time in this amazing documentary. Academy Award winning filmmakers Rob Epstein and Jeffrey Friedman will be present at the screening and will take questions from the audience afterwards. This screening is being presented in conjunction with The William Breman Jewish Heritage Museum's hosting of the exhibition Nazi Persecution of Homosexuals 1933-1945. The exhibition is on loan from the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum and will be on display at The Breman Museum from April 2 to June 30, 2006
Paragraph 175 film screening begins 7:30 p.m., April 1st
White Hall 207
Also showing: Love Story: Berlin 1942 tells the story of Lily Wurst, a model Aryan hausfrau with a husband in the army and a German motherhood medal for bearing four sons, who falls in love with Felice Schrader, a 20-year-old woman hiding her Jewish identity. This intimate and poignant documentary, anchored by detailed interviews with Lily, now 82, and Felice's former comrades from the Jewish underground, describes the deep and joyful relationship that developed between the unlikely lovers. Monday, April 10 in White Hall 110
Cosponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies
9th Annual Stein Lecture on Modern Jewish and Israeli History
Henry Feingold, Professor Emeritus from Baruch College, CUNY, will present "German-Jewish Immigration to the U.S. in the 1930s"
Miller-Ward Alumni House, Governor's Hall
Thursday, May 4, 2006, 7:30 p.m.
For more information, contact Diane Rieger (404-727-2798)
