The Art of War: Isaac Babel and the Soviet-Polish War as Dress Rehearsal for the Shoah
02/21/12 04:00
Val Vinokur, Director of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College/The New School Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 4-5:30pm Location: Sproul 912 Co-sponsored by History and Russian
Val Vinokur, Director of Jewish Studies and Assistant Professor of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College/The New School Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 4-5:30pm Location: Sproul 912 Co-sponsored by History and Russian
Diaspora Heroes: Freud's Moses and Cesaire's Toussaint L'Ouverture
02/21/12 12:00
Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College/The New School Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 12Noon Co-sponsored by the Departments of French, Comparative Literature, the Cultural Studies Program and African and African American Studies Program
Rose-Myriam Rejouis, Associate Professor of Literary Studies, Eugene Lang College/The New School Tuesday, Feb. 21st at 12Noon Co-sponsored by the Departments of French, Comparative Literature, the Cultural Studies Program and African and African American Studies Program
Making Marathi Kirtan Jewish in Colonial India
02/16/12 12:00
Professor Anna Schultz, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Stanford University Date: Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 Time: 12-1 pm Location: 53 A Olson Sponsored by: Jewish Studies, ME/SA, Music and Religious Studies
Professor Anna Schultz, Assistant Professor, Ethnomusicology, Stanford University Date: Thursday, Feb 16, 2012 Time: 12-1 pm Location: 53 A Olson Sponsored by: Jewish Studies, ME/SA, Music and Religious Studies
The Arabs and the Holocaust: The Arab-Israeli War of Narratives
10/21/11 12:00
Talk by Professor Gilbert Achcar Professor of Development Studies & International Relations, University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Friday, October 21, 2011 Sociology Boardroom (1291 SS&H) 12Noon- 1:30pm
Talk by Professor Gilbert Achcar Professor of Development Studies & International Relations, University of London - School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS) Friday, October 21, 2011 Sociology Boardroom (1291 SS&H) 12Noon- 1:30pm
CANCELLED Kafka, Zionism and the Trial in Tel Aviv
09/22/11 04:10
Dr. Ben Gurion
University of the Negev (Beer Sheva, Israel)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Lecture at 4:10 pm
Sproul Hall, Room 912
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Department of German
Dr. Ben Gurion
University of the Negev (Beer Sheva, Israel)
Thursday, September 22, 2011
Lecture at 4:10 pm
Sproul Hall, Room 912
Free and open to the public.
Co-sponsored by the Department of German
The Don Kunitz Award for Academic Excellence in Jewish Studies Award Ceremony & Reception
06/02/11 04:00
Thursday, June 2, 2011 4-5:30pm Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H-History Department) *Light refreshments will be provided Please also join us in acknowledging and thanking our Jewish Studies Instructors! Click here to see the flyer.
Thursday, June 2, 2011 4-5:30pm Andrews Conference Room (2203 SS&H-History Department) *Light refreshments will be provided Please also join us in acknowledging and thanking our Jewish Studies Instructors! Click here to see the flyer.
Human Rights Symposium "Lost Children: The Transfer of Children during Genocide and Civil Conflict"
05/17/11 03:15
Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 3:15-6p
This symposium explores the treatment of children during times of war and genocide from comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives, focusing in particular on the genocidal act of transfer, that is the coerced removal of children from their families and communities.
Location: Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
Co-sponsored by Religious Studies, History, Davis Humanities Institute, Consortium for Women in Research, Cultural Studies, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
Tuesday, May 17, 2011, 3:15-6p
This symposium explores the treatment of children during times of war and genocide from comparative and multidisciplinary perspectives, focusing in particular on the genocidal act of transfer, that is the coerced removal of children from their families and communities.
Location: Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
Co-sponsored by Religious Studies, History, Davis Humanities Institute, Consortium for Women in Research, Cultural Studies, Hemispheric Institute of the Americas, Center for the Study of Human Rights in the Americas
Politics of Sentimentalism: On "Fiddler on the Roof," Philanthropy, and Photography
05/09/11 04:00
Monday, May 9, 2011 4-6pm Politics of Sentimentalism: On "Fiddler on the Roof," Philanthropy, and Photography Talk by Ari Y. Kelman, Assistant Professor of American Studies, UC Davis 3201 Hart Hall Co-sponsored by American Studies and Cultural Studies
Monday, May 9, 2011 4-6pm Politics of Sentimentalism: On "Fiddler on the Roof," Philanthropy, and Photography Talk by Ari Y. Kelman, Assistant Professor of American Studies, UC Davis 3201 Hart Hall Co-sponsored by American Studies and Cultural Studies
Kafka, Yizhar, Genet: Textual Collectivities in Israel/Palestine
04/28/11 04:30
Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:30-6:30pm
"Kafka, Yizhar, Genet: Textual Collectivities in Israel/Palestine"
Talk by Shaul Setter, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
912 Sproul Hall
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature and French
Please see the event flyer.
Thursday, April 28, 2011 4:30-6:30pm
"Kafka, Yizhar, Genet: Textual Collectivities in Israel/Palestine"
Talk by Shaul Setter, PhD Candidate, UC Berkeley
912 Sproul Hall
Co-sponsored by Comparative Literature and French
Please see the event flyer.
Academic Lecture Series for the Sacramento Community 2010-2011
04/13/11 07:00
"The Jewish Quarter of Fez: Between Memory and Extinction" with Professor Susan Miller
Location: Congregation B'nai Israel
3600 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95818
"The Jewish Quarter of Fez: Between Memory and Extinction" with Professor Susan Miller
Location: Congregation B'nai Israel
3600 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95818
Social Silence and War: Testimonies of 1948 Jewish-Israeli Palmach Veterans
03/08/11 12:00
Dr. Efrat Ben- Ze'ev
Anthropologist, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Author of Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Andrews Conference Room (2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Bldg)
Co-sponsored by Middle East/ South Asian Studies
A light lunch will be provided.
Please see the attached flyer.
Dr. Efrat Ben- Ze'ev
Anthropologist, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel
Author of Remembering Palestine in 1948: Beyond National Narratives(Cambridge University Press, 2011)
Andrews Conference Room (2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Bldg)
Co-sponsored by Middle East/ South Asian Studies
A light lunch will be provided.
Please see the attached flyer.
"Playing at Being Jews": Performing Jewishness and Questioning the Moral Community among Russian Jewish Migrants in Contemporary Germany
02/15/11 12:00
Sveta Roberman, Social Anthropologist
Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and UC Davis
Co-sponsored by the Departments of German and Russian and Sociology
Sociology Boardroom (SS&H 1291)
Available flyer
Sveta Roberman, Social Anthropologist
Postdoctoral Fellow at UC Berkeley and UC Davis
Co-sponsored by the Departments of German and Russian and Sociology
Sociology Boardroom (SS&H 1291)
Available flyer
The Power of Identity: Orientalism, Inequality, and Shifting Ethnic Boundaries in Israel
02/02/11 12:00
Professor Aziza Khazzoom
Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University and Richard and Rhoda Goldman
Visiting Israeli Professor, UC Davis
Sociology Boardroom (SS&H 1291)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Available flyer
Professor Aziza Khazzoom
Professor of Sociology, Hebrew University and Richard and Rhoda Goldman
Visiting Israeli Professor, UC Davis
Sociology Boardroom (SS&H 1291)
Co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology
Available flyer
Academic Lecture Series for the Sacramento Jewish Community 2010-2011
12/09/10 07:00
Numerous events include:
Congregation B'nai Israel 3600 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95818
Numerous events include:
Congregation B'nai Israel 3600 Riverside Boulevard, Sacramento, CA 95818
- October 27, 2010 Beyond Anne Frank: The Fate of Hidden Jewish Children After World War II with Professor Diane Wolf
- December 9, 2010 Is Secularism Part of the Jewish Tradition? with Professor Biale
- January 26, 2011 Inequalities among Jews in Israel with Professor Aziza Khazzoom
- March 9, 2011 Politics of Sentimentalism: On "Fiddler on the Roof," Philanthropy, and Photography with Professor Ari Y Kelman
- April 13, 2011 The Jewish Quarter of Fez: Between Memory and EXtinction with Professor Susan Miller
The Holocaust and Israel: History, Memory, Politics
11/23/10 12:00
Idith Zertal, Professor of Contemporary History and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel
Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
Idith Zertal, Professor of Contemporary History and Senior Researcher at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Basel
Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
Undergraduate Film Screening, Discussion, and Pizza Dinner
11/04/10 04:30
4:30-6pm Movie Screening "You Don't Mess with the Zohan"
6-7pm Discussion with JS Faculty and Pizza Dinner
Location: Sociology Boardroom 1291 SS&H
4:30-6pm Movie Screening "You Don't Mess with the Zohan"
6-7pm Discussion with JS Faculty and Pizza Dinner
Location: Sociology Boardroom 1291 SS&H
Slavery and the Holocaust: Comparing the Trauma of Two Diasporas
10/21/10 04:00
Robert Abzug, Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of History and American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
Robert Abzug, Director, Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies and Professor of History and American Studies, University of Texas, Austin.
Andrews Conference Room (2203 SSH)
"What to Expect When You're Not Expecting: Resisting Futurity in Yiddish and Hebrew Women's Poetry"
Kunitz Awards Reception
05/20/10 04:00
Kunitz Awards Reception, 4-5pm, Sproul 912
Kunitz Awards Reception, 4-5pm, Sproul 912
"A Serious Man" Movie Screening, Discussion, and Dinner
05/06/10 04:00
4-6:30pm Academy Award Nominated Film Screening
6:30-7:30 Free Pizza Dinner and Discussion with JS Faculty
2203 SS&H Andrews Conference Room
Please see the flyer
4-6:30pm Academy Award Nominated Film Screening
6:30-7:30 Free Pizza Dinner and Discussion with JS Faculty
2203 SS&H Andrews Conference Room
Please see the flyer
Muslims and Jews Together: Seeing from Without; Seeing from Within
04/28/10 12:00
April 28-30, 2010
April 28-30, 2010
This symposium is a collaborative effort between the Center for Middle Eastern Studies at UC Berkeley and the Program in Jewish Studies at UC Davis. For more details please contact the CMES at (510) 642-8208 or cmes@berkeley.edu. See also the flyer [PDF]
Friday April 30, 2010
Location: Founders' Board Room, Beuhler Alumni & Visitors Center, UC Davis
Religion, Literature, and the Arts
03/05/10 09:30
Religion, Literature, and the Arts
March 5th, 2010
9:30 AM - 5:00 PM
126 Voorhies
An interdisciplinary conference on Religion, Literature, and the Arts, with keynote speaker Professor Giuseppe Mazzotta (Italian and Comparative Literature, Yale).
For more information please contact: Brenda Deen Schildgen, bdschildgen@ucdavis.edu and see DHI for a preliminary schedule: http://dhi.ucdavis.edu/?p=2401.
20 Years After the Fall of the Wall: Jews in Germany
02/25/10 04:00
Jeffrey Peck, Professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY
February 25, 2010 4pm Andrews Conference Room, 2203 SS&H
Click here to view the flyer.
Jeffrey Peck, Professor of Comparative Literature and Dean of the Weissman School of Arts and Sciences, Baruch College, CUNY
February 25, 2010 4pm Andrews Conference Room, 2203 SS&H
Click here to view the flyer.
Dovid Bergelson and Walter Benjamin in Berlin
02/23/10 04:00
Harriet Murav, Professor of Russian and Comparative Literature, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
February 23rd, 2010
4:00 PM - 6:30 PM
Location: TBA
Prof. Murav will explore problems of justice and injustice through the lives and writings of these two contemporaries and in the haunted city-scape of Berlin in the 1920s.
For more information please contact: Seth Schein, slschein@ucdavis.edu.
Visual Images in the Modern Jewish Experience [PDF]
01/07/10 04:00
Professor Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Professor David Shneer, University of Colorado
Thursday, January 7, 2010 4pm Sociology Boardroom, 1291 SS&H
Professor Jeffrey Shandler, Rutgers University
Professor David Shneer, University of Colorado
Thursday, January 7, 2010 4pm Sociology Boardroom, 1291 SS&H
JS Conference "Motherhood and the State: Women, Surrogacy and (Trans)Nationalism in Israel and India," 360 Shields Library, UC Davis, 9:30-5pm.
09/15/09 12:00
2009 JS Undergraduate Conference and Presentation of the Don Kunitz Award for Excellence in Jewish Studies, 4 PM 912 Sproul Hall
05/13/09 12:00
JS Poetry Series: "Dahlia Ravikovitch: The Poetics and Politics of Translation"
04/02/09 04:00
Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld will talk about their new translation, *Hovering at a Low Altitude, The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch*, just published by Norton. Ravikovitch (1936-2005), one of the great Hebrew poets of our time -- many believe, the greatest Hebrew woman poet of all time -- was widely honored for her artistry and admired for her courage as a peace activist. Bloch is the author of three books of poems, *The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing*, and *Mrs. Dumpty*, and co-translator of *The Song of Songs* and *The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai*. Kronfeld, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of *On the Margins of Modernism*. Their translation of Yehuda Amichai's *Open Closed Open* won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Thurs., April 2, 4PM, 126 Voorhies
Chana Bloch and Chana Kronfeld will talk about their new translation, *Hovering at a Low Altitude, The Collected Poetry of Dahlia Ravikovitch*, just published by Norton. Ravikovitch (1936-2005), one of the great Hebrew poets of our time -- many believe, the greatest Hebrew woman poet of all time -- was widely honored for her artistry and admired for her courage as a peace activist. Bloch is the author of three books of poems, *The Secrets of the Tribe, The Past Keeps Changing*, and *Mrs. Dumpty*, and co-translator of *The Song of Songs* and *The Selected Poetry of Yehuda Amichai*. Kronfeld, Professor of Hebrew and Comparative Literature at the University of California at Berkeley, is the author of *On the Margins of Modernism*. Their translation of Yehuda Amichai's *Open Closed Open* won the PEN Award for Poetry in Translation.
Thurs., April 2, 4PM, 126 Voorhies
SECULARISM IN ISRAEL: "Live and Let Buy: The Secularization of the Holy Land"
03/04/09 04:00
SECULARISM IN ISRAEL "Live and Let Buy: The Secularization of the Holy Land" Professor Guy Ben-Porat Visiting Fellow, UC Davis Department of Public Policy Ben-Gurion University Discussant and Moderator: Professor David Biale UC Davis Wednesday March 4th, 4pm Andrews Room, SSH
SECULARISM IN ISRAEL "Live and Let Buy: The Secularization of the Holy Land" Professor Guy Ben-Porat Visiting Fellow, UC Davis Department of Public Policy Ben-Gurion University Discussant and Moderator: Professor David Biale UC Davis Wednesday March 4th, 4pm Andrews Room, SSH
SECULARISM IN ISRAEL
03/04/09 12:00
"Live and Let Buy: The Secularization of the Holy Land"
"Live and Let Buy: The Secularization of the Holy Land"
JS Series: "The Turbulent Relationship between Zionism and Israeli Feminism"
01/12/09 04:00
Professor Orit Kamir, Hebrew University Monday, January 12th, 4pm, Andrews Conference Room, SSH 2203 Since the First Zionist Congress and the beginning of the Jewish settlement in Zion/Palestine, Zionist women have claimed to enjoy full equality within their community. But can Zionism really embrace feminist theory and practice, and if so - what kind of feminism? Have Zionist women been feminist, and if so - in what sense? How has "Israeli /Zionist feminism' developed over the twentieth century and what is its current state today? Dr. Kamir is a professor of law, culture, and feminist theory at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Hartman Institute for Judaic Studies, and the co-director of the Israeli Center for Human Dignity. She has published and worked extensively on gender, feminism, and the law.
Professor Orit Kamir, Hebrew University Monday, January 12th, 4pm, Andrews Conference Room, SSH 2203 Since the First Zionist Congress and the beginning of the Jewish settlement in Zion/Palestine, Zionist women have claimed to enjoy full equality within their community. But can Zionism really embrace feminist theory and practice, and if so - what kind of feminism? Have Zionist women been feminist, and if so - in what sense? How has "Israeli /Zionist feminism' developed over the twentieth century and what is its current state today? Dr. Kamir is a professor of law, culture, and feminist theory at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, a research fellow at the Hartman Institute for Judaic Studies, and the co-director of the Israeli Center for Human Dignity. She has published and worked extensively on gender, feminism, and the law.
Pell Lecture: "Witnessing and Testimony in the Consciousness of the Holocaust" Tuesday 10/28, 10:30 AM, 179 Chemistry
10/28/08 10:30
"Witnessing and Testimony in the Consciousness of the Holocaust"
"Witnessing and Testimony in the Consciousness of the Holocaust"
This year's Pell Lecture will be given by Professor Samuel Moyn (Columbia University) on Tuesday, October 28 at 10:30 AM in 179 Chemistry.
The lecture is free and open to the public.
JS Workshop, ?Immigrant Workers, Rights and Citizenship: Comparative Perspectives on Israel, Germany, the Gulf States and California?
Wednesday, 10/22, 360 Shields Library
Wednesday, 10/22, 360 Shields Library