[Peace-discuss] Are any of these events worth attending?

kmedina67 kmedina67 at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 20:14:22 UTC 2018


Dear peace discuss, in particular David green and Carl Estabrook,
What do you think about the list of events I  the email forwarded below? Do you think are are worth attending?


Pace e bene,Karen Medina

-------- Original message --------From: jewishculture at illinois.edu Date: 1/10/18  13:08  (GMT-06:00)Subject: UIUC Jewish Studies Weekly Email 

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Click here for the extension for the call for papers for the 2018 Women's and Gender History Symposium at the University of Illinois hosted by the UIUC History Graduate Student Association, which will take place on March 2nd, 2018 in Champaign-Urbana. This is an interdisciplinary conference and we welcome papers from all programs and methodologies. 
 
Responses and inquiries can be sent to this email: gendersymp at gmail.com 
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        See our Spring 2018 Events list. More events to come!
Check out our Jewish Studies Spring 2018 Courses   Jewish Studies and HGMS Events 
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HGMS Faculty Workshop with Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University



Date
Jan 25, 2018


Time
12:00 pm


Location
English Building, Room 109 (608 S. Wright St., Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies



Khatchig Mouradian will be giving a talk entitled: 
'The Very Limit of our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria during WWI



 







Khatchig Mouradian lecture - "Internment and Destruction: Concentration Camps During the Armenian Genocide, 1915-1917"



Date
Jan 25, 2018


Time
5:00 pm - 6:30 pm


Location
English Building, Room 304 (608 S. Wright St, Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies



Khatchig Mouradian is a Professor at Columbia University.
 



 







HGMS Faculty Workshop with Anke Pinkert - "Public Memory Underground: Photographs of the 1953 Worker’s Uprising in East Germany"



Date
Feb 12, 2018


Time
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm


Location
English 109, Seminar room (608 S. Wright St, Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies



HGMS Faculty Workshop with Anke Pinkert
Anke Pinkert is an Associate Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Germanic Languages and Literatures at UIUC. 
 
 



 







A concert with Anthony Russell - "Convergence: Spirituals from the Shtetl. Davening from the Delta."



Date
Feb 20, 2018


Time
7:30 pm


Location
Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum, (600 S. Gregory, Urbana)


Sponsor
CAS/MillerComm, Program in Jewish Culture and Society



Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell is a Yiddish singer and composer. Please click on the link (his name) to find out more info. There's much more to him!



 







Book talk for Michael Shapiro's "Wrestling with Shylock: Jewish Responses to the Merchant of Venice"



Date
Mar 5, 2018


Time
5:00 pm


Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building 1080 (707 S. Mathews, Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society



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.
 



 







HGMS Grad Student Conference



Date
Mar 9, 2018


Time
9:00 am - 3:00 pm


Location
Levis Faculty Center, Room 422 (919 W. Illinois St, Urbana, 4th floor)


Sponsor
Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society



 
 



 







Julia Cohen Workshop - "The Past as a Foreign Country: Sephardi Jews and the Spanish Past"



Date
Apr 9, 2018


Time
12:00 pm


Location
English 109, Seminar room (608 S. Wright St, Urbana)


Sponsor
Oscar and Rose A. Einhorn fund, Program in Jewish Culture and Society



Julia Cohen is an Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.
 
 
 



 







Julia Cohen Lecture - "Jews for Jihad? Jewish Citizens in an Islamic Empire"



Date
Apr 9, 2018


Time
5:00 pm


Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building 1080 (707 S. Mathews, Urbana)


Sponsor
Oscar and Rose A. Einhorn fund, Program in Jewish Culture and Society



Julia Cohen is an Associate Professor of Modern Jewish History and an Associate Professor of History at Vanderbilt University. She is the author of Becoming Ottomans: Sephardi Jews and Imperial Citizenship in the Modern Era (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.
 



 







Mark Steinberg Workshop - "In the Shadow of Benya Krik? Jews, the Street, and Socialism in 1920s Odessa"



Date
Apr 16, 2018


Time
12:00 pm


Location
English 109, Seminar room (608 S. Wright St, Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society



Mark Steinberg is a Professor in the History Department at UIUC and is also the Director of Graduate Studies. 
 



 







Book launch for Sayed Kashua's "Track Changes"



Date
Apr 23, 2018


Time
5:00 pm


Location
Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building 1080 (707 S. Mathews, Urbana)


Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture and Society



Sayed Kashua will be talking about his new book, Track Changes.
 
 



 






 


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