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Fall 2009 Calendar of Events

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"The Other Others: Jews & Arabs in Latin America"
- Raanan Rein, Distinguished Visiting Faculty Member, and Jeffrey Lesser, Director, Tam Institute for Jewish Studies

9:00 a.m. Jeffrey Lesser, Director, TIJS, Emory University - Greetings
Raanan Rein, Distinguished Visiting Professor, The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Emory University - Introduction

Leo Spitzer, Dartmouth College - Opening Comments

10:00 a.m. Heba El-Attar, Cleveland State University - "Tackling the Middle East in Chile: Palestinian and Jewish Communal Press"

Comments: Eric Goldstein, Emory University

11:00 a.m. Erin Graff Zivin, University of Southern California - "In Other Worlds: Universality, Truth and the Question of Semitic Particularity in Borges"

Comments: Miriam Udel, Emory University

12:00 p.m. Break

1:45 p.m. Camila Pastor de Maria y Campos, Centro de Investigacion y Docencia Economica (Mexico) - "Inscribing Difference: The Institutionalization of Conflicting Ethno-Religious Identities in Mexico"

Comments: Yanna Yannakakis, Emory University

2:45 p.m. John Tofik Karam, Depaul University - "Victims Nonetheless: The Impact of Anti-Semitism on Arabs in a South America Frontier Region"

Comments: Deirdra Reber, Emory University

3:45 p.m. Group Discussion

4:30 p.m. Mariano Plotkin, Instituto de Desarrollo Economico y Social/CONICET, Universidad Nacional de Tres de Febrero (Argentina) - Concluding Remarks

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.
Jones Room, Woodruff Library

 

Thursday, October 15th, 2009
9:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.
Morning discussion and publication plans over brunch
TIJS Conference Room

Co-sponsored by The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, Department of Religion, Department of History, Department of Comparative Literature, and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program.

"The Shame of Survival: Working Through a Nazi Childhood"
- Ursula Mahlendorf, Professor Emerita of German Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Ursula will be reading selections from her book, with a signing to follow.

Monday, October 19th, 2009
4:30-6:00 p.m.
White Hall 110

"The Desert Role in the Formation of Ancient Israel"
- Uzi Avner (Ben Gurion University)

Part of the Mediterranean Archaeology Lecture Series.

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009
7:00 p.m.
Carlos Museum Reception Hall

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