October 05, 2013|Rae Asselin, UConn Center for Judaic Studies, Statewide 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 a major lecture, free and open to the public (seating is limited and tickets are required), on Monday, Nov. 11, at 7:30 p.m., in the Library Building Auditorium of UConn’s West Hartford Campus, 1800 Asylum Avenue, West Hartford. The lecture will commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Kristallnacht programs. This government-sponsored violence throughout Germany and Austria on the night of Nov. 9-10, 1938 provided shocking evidence to the international community of the brutally anti-semitic agenda of the Nazi party and marked the beginning of the catastrophic end for Jewish communities throughout Europe.
Public Lecture Announcements
Living with a Dual Identity – Events with Sayed Kashua on March 11, 2015
Sayed Kashua – Series of Events and Public Talk: “Living with a Dual Identity”
Student Meet & Greet – Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 4pm in Class of ’47 Room – Library.
Public Talk: Wednesday, March 11, 2015 at 7 pm in Laurel Hall 101
Reception and book signing to follow.
Sponsored by Middle East Studies, The Center for Judaic Studies, the Office of Global Affairs, The Department of English, the Human Rights Institute, and the Humanities Institute.
Join us! Tell your friends!
Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire: The Case of the Jews – presented by Erich Gruen
PUBLIC LECTURE – March 3rd
“Religious Pluralism in the Roman Empire: The Case of the Jews”
WHERE: HBL Video 1 – 2nd floor of LIBRARY AT 4PM
Erich Gruen is a Classicist and Ancient Historian whose research focuses on identity and otherness in the ancient world. His many books include Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992), Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of the Jewish Tradition (1998), Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002), and Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011).
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies as part of our Spring lecture series. The public lecture is open to Faculty, Staff, Students, and the Community. Please RSVP by emailing judaicstudies@uconn.edu.
Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology – Research Seminar by Erich Gruen
RESEARCH SEMINAR – March 4th
“Jewish Appropriation of Greek Mythology”
Where: Dodd 162 AT 12:30pm
Erich Gruen is a Classicist and Ancient Historian whose research focuses on identity and otherness in the ancient world. His many books include Culture and National Identity in Republican Rome (1992), Heritage and Hellenism: The Reinvention of the Jewish Tradition (1998), Diaspora: Jews Amidst Greeks and Romans (2002), and Rethinking the Other in Antiquity (2011).
This lecture is sponsored by the Center for Judaic Studies as part of our Spring lecture series. The public lecture is open to Faculty, Staff, Students, and the Community. Please RSVP by emailing judaicstudies@uconn.edu.
Rachel Greenblatt, Public Lecture by UC Humanities Institute – 2/5/15 at 4pm Austin 301
UCHI’s Visiting External Fellow, Rachel Greenblatt will present a public talk entitled:”Jewish Quest for Cultural Belonging in Frankfurt and Prague (c. 1680-1750)” on February 5, 2015 at 4:00 pm. Open to the public. Refreshments will be served
Charles Asher Small to Present “The Dimensions of Global Anti-Semitism: Will it spread to the U.S.?” Nov. 19, 2014
“The Dimensions of Global Anti-Semitism: Will it spread to the U.S.?”
PLEASE ATTEND THIS SPECIAL LECTURE
By: Dr. Charles Asher Small
On November 19, 2014 at 5pm in Class of ’47 Room – Library.
Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy and Koret Distinguished Scholar at Stanford University. Dr. Asher Small specializes in social and cultural theory, globalization and national identity, socio-cultural policy, and racism, including Anti-Semitism.
This lecture is open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Co-Sponsored by the Honors Program, Human Rights Institute, Dodd Research Center, Departments of Sociology and Political Science, and University of Connecticut Humanities Institute.
Dr. Charles Asher Small made the news, again! Check out this recent article in the Jewish Ledger!
“Scholem’s Myth of Oral Torah and Jewish Interpretation before the Bible” – Seth Sanders, Trinity, 11/12/14 12:15pm
“Scholem’s Myth of Oral Torah and Jewish Interpretation before the Bible”
By Seth Sanders, Associate Professor of Religion, Trinity College On Wednesday, November 12, 2014 at 12:15 pm in the Class of ’47 Room – Library Professor Sanders studies how political identities and religious experience were created in ancient Israel. His work connects the Bible, Jewish identity, and political thought from ancient Israel to modern nationalism. Please RSVP to judaicstudies@uconn.edu or 860-486-2271. Lunch will be provided. Open to all faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Emma Maayan to Present “Marketing Sanctity: Photographic Expeditions to the Holy Land in the 19th and Early-20th Century” | Nov 11, 2014
November 11, 2014 from 4:00 – 5:30pm
Dodd Center – Konover Auditorium
Featuring: Emma Maayan Fanar, Art Historian from University of Haifa
“Marketing Sanctity: Photographic Expeditions to the Holy Land in the 19th and Early-20th Century”
Professor Emma Maayan Fanar is a visiting Art Historian from the University of Haifa spending the academic year at UConn. Her research focuses on Byzantine Art, Early Christian funerary Art, Jewish Art, and Manuscripts Illumination. This lecture is open to faculty, staff, students, and the public.
Refreshments will be served after the event.
“The Jerusalem Light Rail: Integration, Occupation, and Resistance” by Jeremy Pressman 10/22/14 12:15pm
Please join us on Wednesday, October 22, 2014 at 12:15pm in the Library Class of ’47 Room for a Faculty Forum Luncheon Lecture featuring Jeremy Pressman, Director of Middle East Studies and Professor of Political Science at UConn-Storrs. A complimentary lunch will be provided. Please RSVP to judaicstudies@uconn.edu if you will be attending, or by calling 860-486-2271.
Ritual Mutuality in North Africa by Harvey E. Goldberg
Dr. Harvey E. Goldberg,
Professor Emeritus,
The Sarah Allen Shaine Chair in
Sociology and Anthropology at
Hebrew University of Jerusalem
PRESENTS – A PUBLIC LECTURE
ON Monday, September 15, 2014
at 12:00-1:30pm
Oak Hall Room 236
“Ritual Mutuality in North Africa: Jews and Muslims
listen to the Ten Commandments in the Synagogue.”
Harvey E. Goldberg’s work focuses on the cultural history of Jews in North Africa, on religious and
ethnic identities in Israel, and on the interfaces of anthropology and Jewish Studies. His
translation from Hebrew of an indigenous account of Jews in Libya – The Book of Mordechai by
Mordecai HaCohen – links historical and eth- nographic perspectives. Goldberg has authored Cave
Dwellers and Citrus Growers: a Jewish Community in Libya and Israel, Jewish Life in Muslim Libya:
Rivals and Relatives, and Jewish Passages: Cycles of Jewish Life. Among his edited works are
Sephardi and Middle Eastern Jewries and The Life of Judaism. Today’s talk is based on
ethno-historical research, carried out together with Hagar Salamon, among former
residents of Tunisia and Libya now living in Israel.