[Peace] Fwd: lecture this afternoon

[Karen Medina]

["I just saw this; can be interesting to see how these kinds of issues
are discussed in an academic context." - N

I thought some of you might agree with N's curiosity, others might see
an opportunity for a discussion, others just might want to know what
is going on. -karen medina]
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Jewish Studies Workshop: "New Cities for New Jews: Zionist Utopia,
Fantasy and the Modern Urban Landscape."

Monday, February 20
from 4 to 5:30pm in
109 English Building. 608 South Wright Street, Urbana, Illinios

EITAN BAR-YOSEF (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) will discuss his
paper "New Cities for New Jews: Zionist Utopia, Fantasy and the Modern
Urban Landscape."

Dr. Bar-Yosef's text has been posted on the Internet where it can be
found at the following address:

http://netfiles.uiuc.edu/bunzl/www/Bar-Yosef.pdf

 Eitan Bar-Yosef is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Foreign
Literatures and Linguistics at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. He
authored The Holy Land in English Culture, 1799-1917: Palestine and
the Question of Orientalism (2005) and coedited "The Jew" in
Late-Victorian and Edwardian Culture: Between the East End and East
Africa (2009). His research interests include postcolonialism,
Anglo-Jewish history, Israeli cultural studies, and contemporary
theatre. Bar-Yosef is spending the current academic year as a fellow
at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of
Pennsylvania where he is examining the representation of African
travel in Israeli Literature and Culture.

[This is a meeting of the Jewish Studies Workshop which is
co-organized with the Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory.]






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-- karen medina
"The really great make you feel that you, too, can become great." - Mark Twain