Jewish Studies: Events
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Unless otherwise noted below, Jewish Studies at Tulane University is happy to invite all friends, students and supporters of Jewish Studies as well as others in the wider community who may be interested to all of our events and functions. For questions or additional information, please call 865.3075 or email jwst@tulane.edu.
Upcoming Events
CONFERENCE ON JEWISH WOMEN AND PHILANTHROPY
A one-day conference on Jewish women and philanthropy offered in preparation for a special issue of the academic journal Nashim.
To register and see the complete conference schedule, click here.
JULY 16, 2009 @ 8:45 am - 4:45 pm
Caroline Richardson Building
PUBLIC LECTURE:
Richard Wortman (Columbia University)
“Alexei Olenin, Fedor Solntsev, and the Development of a Russian National Esthetic”
Co-sponsored by the German and Slavic Studies Department at Tulane
Friday, October 17, 2009 @ 4 pm,
LBC, Room 202
LECTURE:
Oleg Budnitsky, (Russian State University for the Humanities)
“Russian Jews between the Reds and Whites”
October 23, 2009 @ 4pm
LBC, Room TBA
Former Events
INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE:
“THE EXPANSE OF RUSSIA IN ISRAEL: ZIONISM IN RUSSIA, RUSSIANS IN ISRAEL”
Speakers from three continents will be coming, including the leading scholars in Jewish Studies worldwide.
To download a conference schedule, click here.
FEBRUARY 15 & 16, 2009 @ 10:30 am,
LBC, Room TBA
EVENT:
9th Annual “People of the Book Festival”
Scott Lasensky
Author of “Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East”
Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 8pm
Uptown Jewish Community Center
PUBLIC LECTURE:
Pam Nadall (American University)
Encountering Race: The Complexities of African-American/Jewish Relations
November 12, 2008 @ 12pm
LBC, Room TBA
PUBLIC LECTURE:
Pam Nadall (American University)
“Yentl: From Yeshiva Boy to Syndrome.”
November 11, 2008 @ 7:30 pm.
Freeman Auditorium of the Wollenberg Art Center
David Biale, (U.C. Davis)
Jewish History
March 25, 2008 @ 7pm
Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Building
Mitchell Bard
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Greater New Orleans and AIPAC.
March 3, 2008 @ 4pm
LBC 201-Race Conference Room
Lehrhaus Lectures:
Derek Penslar (University of Toronto)
Can Zionism Be Secular? Can Post-Zionism be Religious? (60th Anniversary of Israel)
Byron Strung Memorial Lecture
January 23, 2008 @ 7pm,
Touro Synagogue, 4328 St. Charles Ave
Lehrhaus Lectures:
Sarina Chen (Tulane University)
The Temple Mount is in our Hands: The Current Halachic Controversy about Jewish Pilgrimage to the Temple Mount (60th Anniversary of Israel)
January 16, 2008 @ 7:15pm
Touro Synagogue, 4328 St. Charles Ave.
Lehrhaus Lectures:
Nili Gold (University of Pennsylvania)
Yehudah Amichai
IsraelÕs National Poet (60th Anniversary of Israel)
Byron Strung Memorial Lecture
January 9, 2008 @ 7pm
Touro Synagogue, 4328 St. Charles Ave
Rosalie Cohen Dedication
Dedication Ceremony of the Rosalie Cohen Collection
December 7, 2007 @ 3pm in the
Garden of Jones Hall
David Fishman (Jewish Theological Seminary)
Vilna: Jerusalem of Lithuania
Co-sponsored by Shir Hadash
November 16. 2007 @ 7pm
Shir Chadash Conservative Congregation
Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University)
Patricia Herlihy (Brown University)
Marline Otte (Tulane University)
Odessa and New Orleans: Inverted Twins/Port Cities
Co-sponsored by the Kennan Institute of the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars in Washington (Secular Judaism)
November 14, 2007 @ 7pm
Jewish Community Center, 5342 St. Charles Ave.
Dr. Geoffrey Megargee
(Historian at the United States Holocaust Museum)
The Role of Work Camps in the Holocaust
October 25,2007 @ 2pm
Jones Hall 108.
Ilan Troen
(The Karl, Harry, and Helen Stoll Family Chair in
Israel Studies at Brandeis University)
Whose Land is it Anyway? Theology and Secular Politics in the Land of Israel/Palestine?
(60th Anniversary of Israel)
October 11, 2007 @ 7pm
Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Building
Arnie Fielkow (New Orleans City Councilman)
Adopting in Eastern Europe Today or Making a Baby Jewish (Secular Judaism)
Sept. 18, 7pm, Stone Auditorium in the Woldenberg Art Building
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