Month: April 2014

Poetry Reading by Joan Seliger Sidney at UConn Coop Storrs Center on 4/28/14 at 7pm

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sidney_cover_lgsidneyAs good fortune would have it, following the Holocaust Convocation our colleague, Joan Seliger Sidney, will be launching her latest book of poetry, Bereft and Blessed, at the UConn Bookstore. Why not join us for both events!

Apr 28 2014 7:00 pm, at UConn Co-op Bookstore at Storrs Center, One Royce Circle, Unit 101, Storrs

Jennifer Sidney Silva, a flautist with the Elm City Winds, will open the evening.

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Joan Seliger Sidney’s new book from Antrim House, Bereft and Blessed.  Joan Seliger Sidney’s Body of Diminishing Motion: Poems and a Memoir was published by CavanKerry Press. Her poems have appeared in The Louisville Review, The Massachusetts Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, Jewish Currents, Caduceus, Theodate, and elsewhere. Joan has received individual artist’s poetry fellowships from Connecticut Commission on the Arts, Connecticut Commission on Culture and Tourism, Craig H. Neilsen Foundation, Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation, Vermont Studio Center, also a Visiting Faculty Fellowship from Yale. She’s writer-in-residence at the University of Connecticut’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life. In addition, she facilitates “Writing for Your Life,” an adult workshop.

 

The International Institute for Jewish Genealogy and Paul Jacobi Center

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Full details of the ERC’s call for Consolidator Grants are available. These provide funding opportunities for ambitious investigator-led research, for applicants with 7-12 years of experience after their PhD. Details about the Advanced Grants scheme will be published in mid-June with a deadline of October. Detailed, early preparation is recommended.

Deadline:  20 May, 2014

 

Holocaust Convocation and I. Martin and Janet M. Fierberg Lecture – April 28, 2014 5pm

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The I.Martin and Janet M. Fierberg Lecture and 27th Academic Convocation on the Holocaust will be held on Monday, April 28th, at 5pm in the Doris and Simon Konover Auditorium, Thomas J. Dodd Research Center.

The event will include a welcome by Dr. Jeffrey Shoulson, Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies and the Director of the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, and Professor, Department of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages and Professor, Department of English.

Student Awards will be presented by Joan Seliger Sidney, Writer-in-Residence, Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, at which time a student will be presented with the Frances and Irving Seliger Prize for Excellence in Holocaust Studies.

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The speaker will be Ellen Cassedy, award-winning author of “We Are Here: Memories of the Lithuanian Holocaust” (2012), a ground breaking account of how a post-Holocaust nation is, and is not, engaging with its Jewish heritage. Her essays and translations have appeared in Polin, Ha’aretz, The Forward, and other publications. With Yermiyahu Ahron Taub, she received the 2012 Translation Prize awarded by the National Yiddish Book Center. She was a speechwriter in the Clinton Administration and a columnist for the Philadelphia Daily News. Ms. Cassedy resides near Washington, D.C.

Ellen Cassedy’s lecture topic will be “Can Vilnius Remember Vilna? Facing the Holocaust in the former Jerusalem of the North”.  A  reception will immediately follow.

The Center looks forward to hosting this annual event.  Please RSVP here.  For additional information, please call 860-486-2271, or email judaicstudies@uconn.edu.

 

 

 

Seth Kimmel presents: “Parables of Coercion at the End of Islamic Spain” on Thursday, April 17, 1-2:30pm Oak 236

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kimmelPlease join us for a lecture: “Parables of Coercion at the End of Islamic Spain” on Thursday, April 17, 1-2:30pm Oak 236

Presented by:  Dr. Seth Kimmel, Assistant Professor of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, Columbia University

Seth Kimmel is an assistant professor in Columbia University’s Department of Latin American and Iberian Cultures, where he studies and teaches about early modern Iberia. Before coming to Columbia, he was a post-doctoral fellow in Stanford University’s Mellon Fellowship of Scholars in the Humanities. His current book project is an intellectual history of New Christian assimilation in the long sixteenth century. His other research interests include the history of cartography, debates about religion and secularism, and comparative literature.

The talk argues that both opponents and advocates of Morisco expulsion employed debate about the Morisco period’s endgame to counter a pervasive narrative of imperial decline and to stake their respective claims on contemporary public affairs. The two different archives of arguments and episodes that emerged from this early seventeenth-century debate offered distinct models of regional exemplarity, scriptural exegesis, and textual production. In this way, the apparently chauvinistic struggle over how to eliminate Islam from the Crowns of Castile and Aragon became an engine of scholarly innovation.

Sponsored by and for more information, please contact: Daniel Hershenzon, PhD, Assistant Professor, Department of Literatures, Cultures & Languages, UConn