Posted in PJC, PJCMultimedia, PJCAudio on Apr 10th, 2013 Comments
This presentation will address two central questions that have been largely unasked: is the Holocaust readable—or un-readable? What is the relationship between reading and experiencing? Readability takes on different meanings for survivors and non-survivors. Survivors, eyewitnesses to the event, read the Holocaust in ways that are distinct from second generation survivors, the children of eyewitnesses. Furthermore, many readers of the Holocaust have no direct lineage that connects them to the event, to the text, or to a culturally nuanced or informed interpretation of the texts/events. Through a range of first, second and third generation texts, Dr. Lang explores the changing relationship between reading and the Holocaust, between experience and history, between representation and trauma, in a setting that grows increasingly distant from the event it attempts to understand.
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At the turn of the century, American Jews and prohibitionists viewed one another with growing suspicion. Jews believed that all Americans had the right to sell and consume alcohol, while prohibitionists insisted that alcohol commerce and consumption posed a threat to the nation's morality and security. The two groups possessed incompatible visions of what it meant to be a productive and patriotic American--and in 1920, when the Eighteenth Amendment to the Constitution made alcohol commerce illegal, Jews discovered that anti-Semitic sentiments had mixed with anti-alcohol ideology, threatening their reputation and their standing in American society.
Jews and Booze:Becoming an American in the Age of Prohibition with Marni Davis, Georgia State University
Wednesday, March 20th at 12 PM CCAS Boardroom 241, ICC Co-sponsored by the American Studies Program
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Prof. Rynhold is the current Schusterman Visiting Professor in Israel Studies at George Washington University. Prof. Rynhold will present his analysis of the various grand strategies of Democrats, Liberals, and the Left towards the Middle East, as well as elite discourse and public attitudes towards the conflict. He explains the trend towards increasing criticism of Israel and increasing preference for a neutral approach to the conflict Prof.Rynhold argues this is not simply to do with changes in Israeli policy but deeper changes within the Democratic Party and among liberals in their attitudes to foreign policy and politics in general.
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Ariela Keysar, “Freedom of Choice: Women and Demography in Israel, France and the US” Rev. Susan Thistlethwaite, “In the Eyes of Patriarchal Religion, All Women are Secular: What Can We Learn from This?” Pascale Fournier, “Religious Divorce and Civil Divorce for Jewish and Muslim Women in Canada: A Comparative Approach” Moderated by Aurora Nou
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Posted in PJC, PJCMultimedia, PJCAudio on Feb 21st, 2013 Comments
Jacques Berlinerblau, “Let the Study of American Secularisms Begin!”
Caroline Mala Corbin, “The U.S. Supreme Court’s Religion Clause Jurisprudence”
Barry Kosmin, “The Vitality of Soft Secularism in the U.S. and the Rise of the “Nones”
Moderated by Erika Seamon
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A public interview with Phil Zuckerman and Jacques Berlinerblau
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Régine Azria, “Post-War French Jewry Facing Laïcité in a Multicultural France” Jean Baubérot, “Laïcité and Freedom of Conscience in Pluricultural France” Henri Peña-Ruiz, “Laïcité as a Background of Emancipation” Moderated by Sarah Fainberg
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Denis Charbit, “A Self-Restrained Secularism? Halakhhah and Sharia in Contemporary Israel” Ilan Greilsammer, “The “status quo”: Old and New Frontlines between Hilonim and Anti-Hiloni Forces in Israel?” Anita Shapira, “Israeli Religious Secularism” Moderated by Moran Stern
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Posted in PJC, PJCMultimedia, PJCAudio on Feb 20th, 2013 Comments
A public interview with Jean Baubérot, Henri Peña-Ruiz, and Sarah Fainberg
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Posted in PJC, PJCMultimedia, PJCAudio on Feb 20th, 2013 Comments
| A public interview with John Fea and Jacques Berlinerblau |
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