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Spring 2007 Calendar of Events
Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
Once again, the American Jewish Committee (AJC) adopts the magic of film to produce the Atlanta Jewish Film Festival, an international celebration of "great films with a Jewish twist." The 2007 AJFF lineup includes 38 films from 13 countries. Many of the filmmakers and actors, as well as academics and other experts, will be on hand to answer questions.
January 22-28, 2007
For a complete list of films and schedules, please visit the AJFF website, or call their toll-free hotline, 404-949-0658
"Un-gendering Anna Margolin"
a lecture by Naomi Brenner, graduate student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Berkeley, where she specializes in modern Yiddish, Hebrew and Arabic literatures. She is a candidate for the joint position in Yiddish language, literature and culture in the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of German Studies.
Wednesday, January 24th, 4:00 p.m., Candler Library 121
Reception to follow in Candler Library 212
Archaeological Studies in Israel Information Session, Summer Study Abroad
Part of Emory University's continued association with the Lahav Research Project for its Phase IV field operations in archaeological, environmental, and ethnographic research in Israel.
Informational meeting for interested students and faculty.
Find out about the site, its history, and the program.
Program and CIPA staff will be available to answer students' questions.
Monday, January 29th, 2007, at 5:30 p.m.
Callaway Center, S-319
Israeli Studies Information Session, Summer Study Abroad
Information session with Benjamin Hary (Program Director), Joshua Langer (Teaching Assistant), and Margie Fishman (CIPA Summer Study Abroad Coordinator)
This program, sponsored by the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, exposes students to an intensive six-week study tour of Israel, its history, cultures, politics, religions, languages and peoples. Students visit Jerusalem, Tel Aviv, Haifa, Nazareth, the Galilee and the Golan, the Negev, several kibbutzim, development towns and a visit to Jordan.
Monday, January 29th, at 5:00 p.m.
CIPA offices, 1385 Oxford Road Room 108, near Emory Village
Lectures by Dr. Shlomo Avineri
Professor of Political Science at Hebrew University of Jerusalem and one of Israel's leading political scientists. A scholar, teacher, and practitioner, Avineri has had a major impact on shaping the study of political science in the state of Israel.
"Israel after the Lebanon War: Internal and External Challenges"
With a government weakened by the inconclusive results of the Lebanon War, the chances for further Israeli unilateral steps in the West Bank have been diminished, while the internal violent Palestinian chaos makes the hopes for meaningful negotiations unlikely. What are the prospects for stabilizing the regional situation at a time when the U.S. appears unsure about its own strategy in Iraq and an extremist Iran is casting its shadow? How will Israel overcome its own internal governmental weakness?
Wednesday, January 31st, 2007
Cox Hall Rooms 3-4, 3rd floor, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
"Lessons from Post-Communist Democratization Processes in Eastern Europe for the Middle East"
Fifteen years after the fall of Communism, some lessons have been learned about the necessary conditions for successful transitions towards democracy and market economy: success stories like Poland and Hungary contrast starkly with the re-emergence of an authoritarian Russia. What can be learned from these developments regarding the chances for democratization processes in the Arab Middle East?
Thursday, February 1st, 2007
Winship Ballroom, Dobbs University Center, 3rd Floor, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel, with support from the Hightower Fund, the Political Science Department, the Institute for Jewish Studies, and the Institute for Comparative and International Studies.
"Power in the Tongue: Isaac Bashevis Singer's Demonic Theory of Language."
A lecture by Miriam Udel-Lambert, graduate student in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, where she specializes in modern Yiddish, Hebrew, and American-Jewish literatures. She is a candidate for the joint position in Yiddish language, literature and culture in the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of German Studies.
Monday, February 5th, 2007, at 4:00 p.m., Candler Library 123
Reception to follow in Candler Library 216
Adapting "A Blessing on the Moon"
Scholar Rabbi Lawrence Kushner, novelist Joseph Skibell, choreographer Rebecca Salzer, and composer Andy Teirstein will hold a panel discussion as part of Theater Emory's Brave New Works Festival, discussing the process of adapting Skibell's novel into a theater/dance piece. The story is a surreal and darkly funny fable following the journey of a Polish Jew named Chaim, who survives as a ghost when everyone in his village is shot by soldiers. He embarks on a fifty year quest to reach the World to Come. Based to some degree on the life and death of Skibell's great-grandfather, this story is more than the usual re-telling of Holocaust horrors. Rather it is a recasting of the experience as a Chagall-esque fable, complete with magical animals, peasant funerals, spiritual quandaries, and the wry sense of humor that is perhaps the most important legacy of this vanished world. Includes co-sponsorship by the Institute for Jewish Studies. Part of the Coca-Cola Artist-in-Residence Series.
Panel discussion: Wednesday, February 7th, 2007, at 5:30 p.m.
Joseph Jones Room, 311 Woodruff Library
Free and open to the public
Performance: Sunday, February 25th, 2007, at 2:00 p.m.
Location: TBA
Free and open to the public
"Between the Red and Yellow Stars: Ethnic and Religious Identity of Soviet World War II Veterans in New York and Berlin"
A lecture by Anna Shternshis, assistant professor of Yiddish Language and Literature at the University of Toronto, where she specializes in modern Yiddish literature and Soviet-Yiddish culture. She is a candidate for the joint position in Yiddish language, literature and culture in the Institute for Jewish Studies and the Department of German Studies.
Monday, February 12th, at 4:00 p.m.
Candler Library 123
Reception to follow in Candler Library 216
"The Nation's History: Who Decides?"
Eyal Naveh is professor of History at the University of Tel Aviv. His school textbook on Israeli history was criticized on the Israeli right for its treatment of the Palestinian question. He compares the controversy in Israel with the American dispute over national history standards in the 1990s.
Thursday, February 15th, 4:00 p.m.
Russell Major Seminar Room, Bowden Hall 323
Co-sponsored by the departments of History, Jewish Studies, the Center for Teaching and Curriculum, ICIS, the Hightower Fund, and the Halle Institute
"New Light on the Temple Mount: The Project of Sifting Soil from Temple Mount, Jerusalem"
A lecture by Gabriel Barkay, professor of Biblical Archaeology at Bar Ilan University
Presented by the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, the Program in Mediterranean Archaeology, the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies, the Jewish Studies Enrichment Fund, and the American Schools of Oriental Research
Tuesday, February 20th, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
Michael C. Carlos Museum Reception Hall
"Exporting the Vernacular: The Yiddish Origins of Elie Wiesel's Night"
A lecture by Marc Miller, Visiting Assistant Professor of Yiddish at Emory and author of numerous publications, including "Representing the Immigrant Experience: Morris Rosenfeld and the Emergence of Yiddish Literature in America". He is a candidate for the tenure-track position in Yiddish language, literature and culture.
Monday, February 26th, at 4:00 p.m.
123 Candler Library
Reception to follow in 216 Candler Library
"Be Fruitful and Multiply"
A documentary by Israeli filmmaker Shosh Shlam about the struggle of ultra-orthodox Jewish women in the small religious communities in Israel and the United States. Ms. Shlam's documentary explores the often unseen struggles of women in these religious communities as they balance between following the commandment "be fruitful and multiply" and the hardships associated with having five, ten, or even sixteen children. Ms. Shlam will be following each screening on her film with a short speech and a question and answer session about the somewhat controversial film. The first screening at Emory will take place in conjunction with the Consulate, Emory University's Film, Jewish Studies, and Women's Studies departments.
February 28th, 2007, at 6:00 p.m.
White Hall, Room 205
Introduction by Consul General Reda Mansour
March 1, 2007, at 7:00 p.m.
Congregation B'nai Torah
"To Play or Not to Play: Jewish Musicians in Post-War Germany"
A lecture by Dr. Anat Feinberg, honorary professor of Jewish Studies at the University of Heidelberg. Dr. Feinberg's many publications include articles on Elizabethan and Jacobian drama, German theater, Israeli literature and culture, and a recent study entitled, "Embodied Memory: The Theatre of George Tabori".
Sponsored by the Department of German Studies and the Institute for Jewish Studies, with genereous co-sponsorship from the Department of Music and the Institute of Liberal Arts
Thursday, March 1st, 2007, 4:30 p.m.
Candler Library 212
"Sunday at the Museum with Esther"
a special viewing of "Through the Eye of the Needle: Fabric of Survival," spectacular embroidered panels by Holocaust survivor Esther Krinitz. Gallery talk, reception, and special presentation by Paula Arbiser, a hidden child of the Holocaust
March 4, 2007, 2:00 p.m., admission $10
Breman Jewish Heritage Museum, 1440 Spring Street
sponsored by The Breman Museum and the Center for Women at Emory
co-sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies
Bearing Witness: Crisis in Darfur
A presentation by Ruth Messinger, president of American Jewish World Service, giving a first-hand account of the ongoing genocidal campaign in Darfur, Sudan that has been raging since February, 2003. Reflecting on her own visits to the region in August 2004 and October 2005, Ruth will describe what must be done to stop these atrocities that have claimed over 450,000 lives. In addition to her presentation on the current conflict in Darfur, she will also highlight the work of AJWS and its 270 projects in over 35 countries throughout the Americas, Africa and Asia. Sharing the words of dedicated volunteers from across the United States - students, community leaders and skilled professionals - Ruth will tell of the enormous transformative impact we can make as global citizens working to ensure lasting social justice.
Sponsored by the American Jewish World Service, the American Jewish Committee - Atlanta chapter, the Anti-Defamation League Southeast Region, Emory Hillel, Emory Jewish Studies Program, Kennesaw State University Holocaust Education Program, Emory's Muslim Student Association, Paperclips for Peace, and the Darfur Urgent Action Coalition of Georgia.
Monday, March 19th, 2007, at 7:30 p.m.
White Hall 208
"Nation-Cleansing: A Critique of the Theory of Nationalism and a Case Study"
Former Emory graduate student Martin Wein will discuss the reasons why the theory of nationalism has itself been subverted by nationalist axioms. Theoreticians have regularly tried to construct differences between various nationalisms and classify them in order to implicitly or explicitly justify their own nationalism and denounce others. However, political sciences and historical analysis can be used to demonstrate that differences between various nationalisms have usually been exaggerated. A prime case study for nation-cleansing is the history of "mixed" Christian-Jewish families in Czechoslovakia. This minority within a minority was subject to three different forms of nation-cleansing in merely one decade, 1939-1949. Then, many of them became victims of a "softer" form of nation-cleansing, i.e. persecution, imprisonment and expulsion at the hands of "liberated" Czechoslovakia in 1945-1948. Finally, Christian-Jewish survivors from Czechoslovakia were banned from immigration to Israel in 1948-1949.
Sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies Masters Program, with generous co-sponsorship from the Institute for Comparative and International Studies and the Center for International Programs Abroad.
April 11, 2007, at 5:00 p.m.
Candler Library 212
Reception to follow
"The Composition of the Torah in the Pseudepigraphic Imagination"
A lecture by David Lambert, post-doctoral fellow in the Yale University Program in Judaic Studies. Prof. Lambert will discuss in what sense the Pentateuch was understood to be the "Torah of Moses" in the late Second Temple period.
Thursday, April 12th, at 4:00 p.m.
Candler Library 212
Reception to follow
Poetry, Politics, and Religion in Contemporary Israel
Featuring poetry readings by Yitzhak Laor, Dory Manor, and Hava Pinhas-Cohen, and talks by Tel-Aviv University professor Uzi Shavit ("Poetry and the Israeli Time") and Columbia University professor Dan Miron ("The Issue of Knowing and Understanding in the Early Poetry of Dan Pagis") among others.
Sponsored by the Departments of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Hightower Fund, the Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund, the Graduate Division of Religion, the Department of Religion, and the Institute for Comparative and International Studies
April 25, 2007-April 27, 2007
Emory University Conference Center
10th Annual Stein Lecture
Jews in American Politics: From Symbolic Presence to Mainstream Power
Presented by Dr. Herbert Rosenbaum, Professor Emeritus of Political Science, Hofstra University. Fear is a primary product of the Jewish historical experience. As a perennial minority, Jews rarely felt at home in their native environments. In managing their tiny communities, Jews depended on the goodwill of dominant groups and leaders. Coming to America gave Jews opportunities to be engaged in civil society and politics not enjoyed in most other settings where they were oppressed minorities. Today in the United States, the percentage of Jews in American politics is far greater than their presence in the general population. What happened to unleash this keen desire to participate in the American political process?
Sponsored by the Institute for the Study of Modern Israel
May 3, 2007, reception at 7:00, lecture at 7:30
Miller-Ward Alumni House, Governor's Hall
815 Houston Mill Road
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