Public Lecture Announcements

9/14/16 – Josh Lambert to Present “The Roots of Jewish Humor”

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Josh LambertJosh Lambert, author of award-winning book Unclean Lips: Obscenity, Jews, and American Culture and academic director of the Yiddish Book Center, will present “The Roots of Jewish Humor” on September 14 at 7:30pm in the Wilde Auditorium at the University of Hartford in an event co-sponsored by UConn’s Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life and the University of Hartford’s Maurice Greenberg Center for Judaic Studies.

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Learn more about Josh Lambert by visiting his website.

April 18 – Yale’s Judaic Studies Program Hosts Annual Colloquium

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On April 18, 2016 from 4:00 – 7:00 PM, Yale’s Judaic Studies Program will be holding its annual Judaic Studies Colloquium.
Guest speakers include:
  • Yishai Keil – “Dynamics of Sexual Desire: Babylonian Rabbinic Culture at the Crossroads of Christian and Zoroastrian Ethics”
  • David Sorkin/Lucy G. Moses – “Interminable Emancipation: Jews and Citizenship”
A light dinner will be served.
Please RSVP to nanette.stahl@yale.edu

11/17/15 – Nuremberg at 70: Commemorating the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg

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Stephen RappOn Tuesday, November 17 at 4:00 PM, Ambassador Stephen J. Rapp, an Ambassador-at-Large for War Crimes Issues, 2009-2015 for the Office of Global Criminal Justice, U.S. Department of State will present a lecture commemorating the international military tribunal at Nuremberg.

This lecture is will take place in the Konover Auditorium in the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, and is free and open to the public.

For more information, contact the Dodd Center at doddcenter@uconn.edu.

11/16/15 – Holocaust Claims: Recovering from Swiss Banks and the German Government

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Leonard OrlandOn Monday, November 16 from 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM, Professor Leonard Orland, who taught at UConn School of Law for more than 30 years, will return to share his experience participating in two groundbreaking compensation programs for Holocaust victims.
A 1996 class action against Swiss banks for accounts of Jewish depositors resulted in a recovery of $1.25 billion, the background of which Professor Orland reveals in his 2001 book, “A Final Accounting: Holocaust Victims and Swiss Banks.” A second program established by the German government awarded billions of dollars to compensate victims forced to live in Jewish Ghettos or sent to concentration camps.
In connection with the program, Germany authorized the Conference on Jewish Material Claims against Germany to administer a claims process for victims. Professor Orland has recently been appointed by the Claims Conference as an appellate magistrate to review cases in which awards were terminated because of fraud.
This event is sponsored by the UConn School of Law and will take place at the Reading Room in William F. Starr Hall, 45 Elizabeth Street, Hartford, CT.
For more information or to RSVP, click here.

UConn Global Presents Coexistence Panel

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Coexistence Panel

Thursday, October 22nd at 5pm
Castleman Building, Room 212

Guest speakers from Beit Hagefen Center in Haifa, Israel:
Mr. Asaf Ron, CEO
Ella Chernyak, high school student
May Ayoub, high school student

As stated on their website, Beit Hagefen is an Arab-Jewish cultural center “which strives for the creation of common and equal spaces that encompass the variety of identities and cultures in Haifa in particular and in Israel in general.” Ella, a 17-year-old Russian Jew, and May, a 16-year-old Christian Arab, will share their stories with us in order to prove that coexistence is possible and actually exists in Israel.

More information is available at: https://www.facebook.com/events/1652506588370992/

Barry Kosmin to Speak About Anti-Semitism on Today’s Campuses | October 14th, 2015

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On October 14th, 2015, Professor Barry Kosmin will present a faculty colloquium and public lecture entitled “Anti-Semitism and Today’s Campus Environment.” The colloquium will take place at 1 PM in Dodd Center Room 162 and the public lecture will be held at 5pm in the Class of ’47 Room in the library. 

Dr. Barry A. Kosmin, of Trinity College, is a Principal Investigator of the American Religious Identification Survey series. He is editor of the international journal Secularism & Nonreligion and of the ISSSC’s series on secularism. Dr. Kosmin is an internationally renowned expert in Jewish demography and was the director of the CJF 1990 U.S. National Jewish Population Survey, the American Jewish Identity Surveys of 2001 and 2008, and the 1998 National Survey of South African Jews. He is a consultant to the JDC International Center for Community Development, Barcelona, Spain.

Holocaust Convocation on April 16, 2015 in Class of ’47 Room at 3:30pm

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Holocaust Convocation and Fierberg Lecture

Professor of Jewish Studies, Berel Lang, Presenting “Raphael Lemkin: Unsung Hero of the Holocaust”

The Center for Judaic Studies & Contemporary Jewish Life and the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut will be sponsoring the 28th Academic Convocation on the Holocaust and the Fierberg Lecture Series, free and open to the public, on Thursday, April 16, 2015 at 3:30 PM, in the Class of ’47 Room, Library Building.

The speaker will be Berel Lang, who has held appointments at Wesleyan University and Hebrew University, among numerous other appointments. He is the author or editor of 21 books, including Act and Idea in the Nazi Genocide, Writing and the Holocaust, The Death of Art, Philosophy and the Art of Writing, and Philosophical Witnessing: The Presence of the Holocaust.

Berel Lang’s lecture topic will be “Raphael Lemkin: Unsung Hero of the Holocaust.” The lecture will be preceded by student awards; a reception will immediately follow.

The lecture is supported by the Center for Judaic Studies and Contemporary Jewish Life, the Human Rights Institute, the Thomas J. Dodd Research Center, UConn Hillel, and the Doris and Simon Konover Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Connecticut.

Please RSVP to judaicstudies@uconn.edu. For more information, please contact the Center for Judaic Studies by calling 860-486-2271.

 

“Israel’s 2015 elections: The country spoke, but what in the world did it say?” – Herb Keinon, 4/13/15 12pm at Hillel

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“Israel’s 2015 elections: The country spoke,
but what in the world did it say?”

With Guest Speaker
Diplomatic Correspondent for the Jerusalem Post
Herb Keinon

Monday, April 13th, 2015| 12-2 p.m.
University of Connecticut
Hillel MPR – 54 N Eagleville Rd Storrs, CT 06268

Herb Keinon, diplomatic correspondent for the Jerusalem Post, has been at the paper
for the last 25 years. He took over the diplomatic beat in August 2000, just after the
failed Camp David summit and just before the outbreak of violence in September of that
year. Keinon is responsible for covering the Prime Minister and the Foreign Minister,
often traveling with the Prime Minister on his trips abroad.
This event is free and open to the public.

Lunch included, please RSVP by Wednesday, April 9th.
Please call 860.429.9007 or email: algom@uconnhillel.org or you can register direct here: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1-bd4r-0kVMOsd9CLpoo1Art3RN4dCrIlPo0iRrJLwPs/viewform?c=0&w=1

Co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation Association of Connecticut (JFACT). The Jewish Community Relations
Council of the Jewish Federation of Greater Hartford, Primer and the following University of Connecticut
Departments: Hillel, Huskies for Israel, Judaic Studies, Middle East Studies, and the Office of Global Affairs.