CJS Sponsored Events, 2008
Jonathan Judaken, "Theorizing Anti-Antisemitism," Tentative date—Monday, September 17th, 7:30pm at Hillel.
Jonathan Judaken is the Professor of Modern European Cultural & Intellectual History at the University of Memphis and the author of Jean-Paul Sartre and The Jewish Question: Anti-semitism and the Politics of the French Intellectual (Texts and Contexts), University of Nebraska Press, 2007. Judaken reconsiders the origins of the intellectual in France in the context of the Dreyfus affair and Sartre's interventions in the parallel Franco-French conflicts in the 1930s and during the Vichy regime. He considers what it was possible to say on behalf of Jews and Judaism during the German occupation, Sartre's contribution after the war to the Vichy syndrome, his positions on the Arab-Israeli conflict, and the ways Sartre's reflections on the Jewish Question served as a template for his shift toward Marxism, his resistance to colonialism, and for the defining of debates about Jews and Judaism in postwar France by both Jewish and non-Jewish intellectuals. Judaken analyzes the texts that Sartre devoted to these issues and argues that "the Jew" constituted a foil Sartre consistently referenced in reflecting on politics in general and on the role of the intellectual in particular.
A workshop in modern Jewish literature with DAN MIRON is planned for October 12th, 2008. Details TBA.
"Being Jewish in Philosophy." Conference to celebrate sixty years of "Being Jewish" and Time and the Other by Emmanuel Levinas. Invited guest participants: Professor Bettina Bergo (University of Montreal), Professor Dana Hollander (McMaster University), Professor Jonathan Judaken (University of Memphis), and Professor Mary Beth Mader (University of Memphis). Organized by Dragan Kujundzic. Thursday, November 13th, time and location TBA.
Wolf Krakowski: A concert. Date, time and location TBA.
All events are Free and open to the public.
With appreciation...These programs are made possible by our sponsors, Schram Memorial Endowment, Melton Jewish Studies Endowment, Gerson Lecture Series, Breier Visiting Fellowship, Kahn Visiting Scholar Fund, Gerson Visiting Professor Fund, Futernick Professorship Fund, and Jewish Council of North Central Florida.