<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></head><body><div>Dear peace discuss, in particular David green and Carl Estabrook,</div><div><br></div><div>What do you think about the list of events I the email forwarded below? Do you think are are worth attending?</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div id="composer_signature"><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Pace e bene,</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757">Karen Medina</div><div style="font-size:85%;color:#575757"><br></div></div><div><br></div><div style="font-size:100%;color:#000000"><!-- originalMessage --><div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: jewishculture@illinois.edu </div><div>Date: 1/10/18 13:08 (GMT-06:00)</div><div>Subject: UIUC Jewish Studies Weekly Email </div><div><br></div></div><!--[if (gte mso 9) | (gte IE 7)]><style>
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<p><span style="font-size: 12pt;">Check out our<strong> <a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991245?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=6"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Jewish Studies Spring 2018 Courses</span></a></strong></span> </p></td></tr></tbody></table></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- ELEMENT_792797_STOP --><!-- ELEMENT_792798_START --><table style="width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="background: #999999; font-size: 8px; padding: 0; line-height: 8px; height: 8px;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><!-- ELEMENT_792798_STOP --><!-- ELEMENT_792799_START --><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 24px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><!-- ELEMENT_792799_STOP --><!-- ELEMENT_792800_START --><a name="element_792800" id="element_792800"></a><table style="; border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 36px;"><div style="color: #666699; font-family: Georgia; font-size: 32px; font-weight: bold; line-height: 36px; margin: 0;"><a class="title" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991246?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=7" style="color:#666999;text-decoration:underline;" target="_blank"><span style="color:#666999;">Jewish Studies and HGMS Events</span></a></div></td></tr></tbody></table><!-- ELEMENT_792800_STOP --><!-- ELEMENT_792801_START --><table style="border: none; width: 100%;" border="0" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0"><tbody><tr><td style="padding: 0; line-height: 24px; width: 100%;"> </td></tr></tbody></table><!-- ELEMENT_792801_STOP --><!-- ELEMENT_792802_START --><style rel="stylesheet" type="text/css">
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<p>Khatchig Mouradian will be giving a talk entitled: </p>
<p>'The Very Limit of our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria during WWI</p>
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<p><a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991249?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=10"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Khatchig Mouradian</span></a> is a Professor at Columbia University.</p>
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<p>HGMS Faculty Workshop with Anke Pinkert</p>
<p><a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991251?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=12"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Anke Pinkert</span></a> is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures at UIUC. </p>
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<p><a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991253?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=14"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell</span></a> is a Yiddish singer and composer. Please click on the link (his name) to find out more info. There's much more to him!</p>
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<p>Michael Shapiro is one of the founders of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society and is an emeritus professor of English and the Center for Global Studies at UIUC.</p>
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<p>Julia Cohen is an Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of<em> <a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991257?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=18"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era</span></a> </em>(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.</p>
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<p>Julia Cohen is an Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of<em> <a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991257?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=20"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era</span></a> </em>(New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.</p>
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<p><a style="color: #075fb7;" href="https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991260?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=22"><span style="color: #075fb7;">Mark Steinberg</span></a> is a Professor in the History Department at UIUC and is also the Director of Graduate Studies. </p>
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<p>Sayed Kashua will be talking about his new book, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Track Changes.</span></p>
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