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

C G Estabrook cgestabrook at gmail.com
Wed Jan 10 20:49:59 UTC 2018


Mort is right, but Michael Shapiro’s talk looks interesting. 

 
> On Jan 10, 2018, at 2:33 PM, Brussel, Morton K via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net> wrote:
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> Too much glorification of Jewish victimhood, and not enough of what the Jewish state and its supporters represent, in particular to Palestinians, but not only to them. 
> Clearly, individuals can decide if they are interested. …
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> —mkb
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>> On Jan 10, 2018, at 2:14 PM, kmedina67 via Peace-discuss <peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net <mailto:peace-discuss at lists.chambana.net>> wrote:
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>> Dear peace discuss, in particular David green and Carl Estabrook,
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>> What do you think about the list of events I  the email forwarded below? Do you think are are worth attending?
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>> Pace e bene,
>> Karen Medina
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>> HGMS Faculty Workshop with Khatchig Mouradian, Columbia University <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991247?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=8>
>> 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
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>> 'The Very Limit of our Endurance': Unarmed Resistance in Ottoman Syria during WWI
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>> 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
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>> 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
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>> Time	7:30 pm
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>> Sponsor	CAS/MillerComm, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
>> Anthony Mordechai Tzvi Russell <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991253?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=14> is a Yiddish singer and composer. Please click on the link (his name) to find out more info. There's much more to him!
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>> 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.
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>> Time	9:00 am - 3:00 pm
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>> Sponsor	Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies, Program in Jewish Culture and Society
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>> Julia Cohen Workshop - "The Past as a Foreign Country: Sephardi Jews and the Spanish Past" <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991256?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=17>
>> 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 <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991257?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=18> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.
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>> 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 <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991257?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=20> (New York: Oxford University Press, 2014) which received many awards.
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>> 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 <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991260?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=22> is a Professor in the History Department at UIUC and is also the Director of Graduate Studies. 
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>> Book launch for Sayed Kashua's "Track Changes" <https://illinois.edu/emailer/forward2/12991261?emailAddress=kmedina67@gmail.com&orderId=23>
>> 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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