2011-2012 Events
Gavriel Shapiro of Cornell University will present “Vladimir Nabokov Sr. and Vladimir Nabokov Jr., Staunch Opponents of Anti-Semitism” on Monday, September 12 at 4:30 pm in the Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, reception to follow. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Comparative Literature, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, and the Society for the Humanities
Marc Baer of the University of California, Irvine will speak on “Turkish and Jewish in Nazi Germany” on Wednesday, October 12 at 4:30 pm in the History of Art Lounge, G08 Goldwin Smith Hall, reception to follow. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of German Studies, and the Institute for German Cultural Studies
Alan Rosen, author and international scholar, will speak on “New Index for Time: Commemorating Kristallnacht” Tuesday, November 8 at 4:30 pm in the Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, reception to follow. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of German Studies, the Institute for German Cultural Studies, and the Society for the Humanities
Peter Filkins of Bard College at Simon’s Rock will present “Translating the Holocaust: Rediscovering H.G. Adler's novel Panorama” on Wednesday, November 9 at 4:30 pm in the History of Art Lounge, G08 Goldwin Smith Hall, reception to follow. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Studies, the Department of German Studies, and the Institute for German Cultural Studies
Jodi Magness of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill will present “The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls” on Monday, February 6 at 4:30 pm in the Guerlac Room, A. D. White House, reception to follow. Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Department of Near Eastern Studies and the Society for the Humanities