CJS Sponsored Events, 2008
A workshop in modern Jewish literature with DAN MIRON is planned for October 12th, 2008. Details TBA.
Todd Hasak-Lowy, "Todd Hasak-Lowy Reads," Thursday October 16, 7:30pm at Hillel.
Todd Hasak-Lowy holds a PhD in Comparative Literature from the University of California, Berkeley. He is an Assistant Professor in the Dpartment of African and Asian Languages and Literature at UF.
Captives is a stinging indictment of our age and an equally stinging indictment of our weary indifference to the horrors of our age. It's also an exploration of how, too often, what we think of as success leaves us emotionally and spiritually barren. Above all, though, Captives is the humane, hilarious, and ultimately touching story of a man in flux. Daniel Bloom enters middle age with a successful screenwriting career, a head full of frightening thoughts, and a wife and son who barely recognize him. It's our privilege and pleasure as readers to watch as he risks his empty life in order to save it.
David Nirenberg, "Sibling Rivalries: Judaism, Christianity, Islam," Wednesday, November 12th. Time and location TBA.
Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought at the University of Chicago. Nirenberg's highly acclaimed book, Communities of Violence: Persecution of Minorities in the Middle Ages (Princeton, 1996), examines the complex interfaith relations between Jews, Christians, and Muslims in late medieval Spain and southern France. His book The Figure of the Jew: from Ancient Egypt to the Present (provisional title) is forthcoming from Norton, and he is currently working on a study of the collapse of religious pluralism and the emergence of genealogical models of religious identity in Iberia from 1300 to 1500.
- Made possible by the Center for European Studies and the Graham Center for Public Service.
"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 with the Lonesome Brothers and friends," Saturday, November 15th. Time and location TBA.
Jonathan Judaken, "Theorizing Anti-Antisemitism," Tentative date—Monday, November 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.
- Made possible by the Gary Gerson Lecture Series in Jewish Studies.
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David Ruderman, "The People and the Book: The Invention of Print and the Transformation of Jewish Culture," Monday, December 1st. Time and location TBA.
Joseph Meyerhoff Professor of Modern Jewish History and the Ella Darivoff Director of the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania. His many publications include Jewish Thought and Scientific Discovery in Early Modern Europe (Yale University Press, 1995; revised paperback, Detroit, 2001), Jewish Enlightenment in an English Key (Princeton University Press, 2000), and Connecting the Covenant: Judaism and the Search for Christian Identity in Eighteenth-Century England, (University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007).
- Made possible by The Alexander Grass Chair in Jewish Studies.
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.