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FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL UNIVERSITY
Fall 2001 Lecture and Workshop Series
October 2001
Lawrence Schiffman, New York
University
"Dead Sea Scrolls"
October 4, 2001
Rochelle L. Millen, Wittenberg
University
October 23, 2001
Linda Zisquit, American-Israeli
Poet
Poetry Reading
Biscayne Bay Campus, 12:30-3:15 pm
November 2001
Teitelboim Foundation
"Sunday Holocaust Seminar"
November 2001
Professor Leah Hochman, University of Florida
Coming in Spring 2002:
January 2002
Professor Yudit Greenberg, Rollins
College
"Metaphysical Desire and the Feminine in the Writings of Judah Abrabanel
and Judah Halevi"
February 2002
Bernard
Roitman
"Biblical Archeology"
February 2002
Richard Freund, University of
Hartford
"Bar Kokhba Caves"
February 2002
Professor Pinchas Giller, University of
Judaism
"Kabbalah and Meditation"
April 2002
Joel Saxe
Spring 2001 Lecture and Workshop Series
Curt
Leviant,
Rutgers University, January 11, 7:30 PM at Wolfe University Center
#157, Biscayne Bay Campus.
"Fables
in Jewish Literature"
Sponsored
by Yiddish Culture
John
L. Wilkinson, Deputy Assistant Administrator of US AID, January 26,
8:30 AM at the Omni Colonnade Hotel
"Issues
in Middle Eastern Affairs"
Sponsored
by the Center for Transnational and Comparative Studies
"Archeology and the Bible:
A Symposium", January 28, 2:00-5:30PM
At
Kovens Conference Center, Biscayne Bay Campus.
J.P.
Dessel: "Emergence of Israel in the Land of Canaan"
Hanan
Eshel: "The Bar Kockba Revolt"
Jodi
Magness: "Synagogues and Churches in the Land of Israel"
Haim
Aronovitz, Hebrew University, February 7, 12:30 PM at MM 110
"A
New Middle East? Visions and Realities"
Sponsored
by the Department of International Relations
Rivka and Ben-Zion Dorfman,
Ben-Gurion University of Negev
February 21, 5:00 PM, AT 139.
"Synagogues Without Jews: The Fate of Synagogues in Eastern Europe",
Professor Larry
Silberstein, Lehigh University, March 12, 12:30.
Kovens
Conference Center, Biscayne Bay Campus
"Post-Zionism"
Abdelwahab Hechiche,
28 March , 12:30-1:45PM
Kovens Conference Center Room 124
"Religion, Ethnicity, and National Identity
in the Israel-Palestinian Conflict"
Nahma Sandrow,Culture
Speaker, March 29, 7:30 PM at the Biscayne
Bay Campus.
"Yiddish Theater in
America: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrow"
Sponsored
by Yiddish Culture
Caroline
Lopez, March 13, 12:00 DM 353
"Jewish Cuban Community in
Miami"
Tudor Parfitt, University of
London, April 16, 9:30 AM, OE-134
"Post-colonial Theory and the
Lost Tribes of Israel"
Cosponsored by the Institute for
AsianStudies and The Religious Studies Department
Tudor Parfitt, University of
London, April 16, 8 PM, Young Israel of Miami Beach
"Jews, Genes and Black
Africa: The Story of the Lemba"
4221 Pine Tree Drive, Miami Beach
Cultural Event: "Photo Exhibit on Holocaust",
Jerusalem Lyric Trio.
Fall 2000 Lecture and Workshop Series
Matt Levin,American Israeli Public Afairs
Committee, October 26, GC 140.
"Current
Situation in Israel"
Sabri Saleem,
Yemen Language Center and Center for Arabic Studies, October 30, 12:30-2:00 PM at GL 220.
"Modern History of Yemen"
Jeffrey Lesser,
Emory University, November 1, 2:00 PM at DM 370.
"Japanese Immigrants, Other
Minorities and Ethnic Identity in Brazil"
Arthur Seltzer,
University of Stellenbosch, Nov. 13,
9:30-10:45 AM at MM 130.
"The Journey of the
Soul in the Zohar and the Tibetan Book of the Dead"
Arthur Seltzer,
University of Stellenbosch, November 13, 8:00 PM at GC 280.
"Kabbalistic Dream
Interpretation"
Arthur Seltzer,
University of Stellenbosch, November 14, 12:00-2:00 PM at PC 521. RSVP
Requiered- (305)-348-2186.
"Energetics of
Chinese Medicine and Kabbalah"
David Rechter,
Oxford University, November 17,
"The Habsburg Empire: Good for
the Jews?".
Benyamin Tsedaka,Samaritan Religious
Leader, November 20, 11:00 AM- 12:15 PM at GC
243 W.
"The Samaritan
Religious Community in Israel"
1999-2000
Lecture and Workshop Series
Rabbi Ron
Kronish, October 19, 1999, 7:00 pm, Jewish Federation Boardroom, 4200 Biscayne Blvd.
"The Pursuit of the Millennium in Israel,"
Juan Gil,
Department of Classics, University of Seville, November 9, 1999, 7:00 pm., Graham Center 243, FIU University Park Campus
"In Search of the Conversos of
Seville"
Marjorie Argosin,
Poet and Professor of Spanish, Wellesley College, November 18 (time and place TBA)
"On Latin American Jewish Women
Writers"
Richard Gringeri,
Department of History, Florida International University,Friday, November 19,
1999, 11:00 am, DM 370, FIU University Park Campus
"Education and Invention: Marcel Maussīs Exchange with French
Judaism"
Curt Leviant,
Hebrew and Yiddish Studies, Rutgers University, January 11, 2000, 7:00 pm., FIU North Miami Campus, Wolfe Student Center
"Shalom Aleichem and a Touch of Magic-- His Only Love Story: The Song of
Songs"
Stephen
Whitfield, American Studies, Brandeis University, February 27, 2000, 7:00 pm, at Books and Books, Coral Gables
"In Search of American-Jewish Popular
Culture"
INSTITUTE FOR JUDAIC STUDIES at FIU and THE DORA TEITELBOIM CENTER FOR YIDDISH CULTURE,
Inc. present:
Tony Michels,
Department of History, University of Wisconsin, March 1, 2000, 7:30 p.m. at Florida International University, Biscayne Bay Campus, Wolfe Student Center, Room 155, 3000 NE 151st Street, North Miami, FL
"Yiddish and Yiddishkeit: Yesterday and Today"
INSTITUTE FOR JUDAIC STUDIES at FIU together with
The Stanford Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida present:
Tony Michels,
Department of History, University of Wisconsin, March 2, 2000, 7:30 p.m. at The Stanford Ziff Jewish Museum of Florida, 301 Washington Avenue, Miami Beach, FL
"Influences of East European Jewry on American Labor and American Jewish Politics"
Visual Representation, Fascism,and the Holocaust,
Sunday, April 2, 2000 at Wolfsonian-FIU Museum, 2:00-6:00p.m.
Sponsored by Jewish Studies, Asian Studies and Transnational and Comparative Studies,
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Angela Dalle Vacche,
Assistant Professor of Film Studies, Emory University, "History is painful, But Life is Beautiful"
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Claudio Fogu,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Ohio State University, "History Belongs to the Present: Rhetoric and Style in the Fascist Historical Imagination"
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Brett Gary,
Assistant Professor, Dept. of History, Drew University,
"Shining the 'Pitiless Spotlight of Publicity': LIFE Magazine's Exposure of American Fascists"
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Wulf Kansteiner,
Assistant Professor of Modern German History and Holocaust Studies, SUNY
Binghamton,
"Entertaining Catastrophe: The Reinvention of the Holocaust on German Television"
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John W. Dower,
Elting E. Morison Chair in History at
MIT, "Dehumanization and Demonization in the Pacific War"
THESE EVENTS ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE GENERAL PUBLIC
Directions
To FIU
For more information about any of these events, or about FIU's Program in Jewish Studies,
DM 366A or please call 348-1862 or 348-1914. E-mail- Judaic@fiu.edu |
