Exhibit Reception: A Mockery of Justice: Caricature and the Dreyfus Affair
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
4:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Ivan Marcus: "What Happened to the Jews of Medieval France? A Diaspora that Disappeared"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, February 04, 2013
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Ivan Marcus
Creating Participatory Democracy: Green Politics in Germany since 1983
Thursday, February 28, 2013
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Nancy Sinkoff: "The Polishness of Lucy S. Dawidowicz's Postwar Jewish Cold War"
Sunday, September 08, 2013
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Nancy Sinkoff (Rutgers)
"Why Do We Look Back? On Memories of Jewish Warsaw since 1945." -- With Professor Michael Meng
Sponsor(s):
Slavic and Eurasian Studies, Center for European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and History
Monday, September 30, 2013
4:30 pm
Michael Meng
Moshe Rosman: "The Rise of Hasidism"
Sunday, October 13, 2013
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Moshe Rosman (Bar-Ilan)
Life on the Peripheries: Muslims and Jews in Poland, Imperial Russia, and the Soviet Union*
Sponsor(s):
Center for European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Center for International Studies (DUCIS), Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Slavic and Eurasian Studies
Monday, November 11, 2013
3:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Eliyana Adler, Eugene Avrutin, Eren Tasar, Mustafa Tuna
Screen/Society--Special Event--"Ida" (Oscar nominated film) + panel discussion
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Center for European Studies, and Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 15, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Followed by a discussion led by Edward Serotta, Director of Centropa, and Dr. Beth Holmgren, Professor of Slavic and Eurasian Studies and SES Department Chair.
Reasonable Accommodations & Roma Issues in Contemporary Europe: A Symposium on Global Governance, Democracy and Social Justice
Sponsor(s):
Center for European Studies, Center for Canadian Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Provost's Office
Tuesday, April 07, 2015
12:00 pm - 5:15 pm
Reasonable Accommodations & Roma Issues in Contemporary Europe: A Symposium on Global Governance, Democracy and Social Justice
Sponsor(s):
Center for European Studies, Center for Canadian Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Islamic Studies Center, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Provost's Office
Wednesday, April 08, 2015
11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Off-campus
Ruth Ellen Gruber: "Seeing, Believing, Being: Holocaust sites, Jewish heritage, Dark (and not-so-dark) Tourism"
Monday, November 09, 2015
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Ruth Ellen Gruber
Triangle Intellectual History Seminar: "The Courage in Science to Sincerity and Truth: Adolf Jellinek and the Jewish Scholarly Tradition in Leipzig"
Sunday, November 22, 2015
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
See description
Samuel Joseph Kessler
"Translation and Transgression: Kadya Molodovsky's From Lublin to New York"
Sunday, January 31, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Anita Norich
Exhibit Opening Reception: Faith in Action: In the Footsteps of Abraham Joshua Heschel
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Center for Jewish Studies, and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Monday, March 21, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Susannah Heschel
Screen/Society--Special Events!--"Kisses to the Children" w/ dir. Vassilis Loules
Thursday, April 07, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:15 pm
Q&A to follow w/ director Vassilis Loules!
A World Without Jews: The Nazi Imagination from Persecution to Genocide
Sponsor(s):
John Hope Franklin Center (JHFC), Center for European Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Wednesday, April 13, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Alon Confino
Film Screening: From Swastika to Jim Crow: Jewish Refugee Scholars in the American South (2000)
Sponsor(s):
Libraries, Center for Jewish Studies, David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Humanities Writ Large, and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Tuesday, April 19, 2016
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
. Participants will discuss the manifestations of the imperial legacy in Red Vienna, the Austrian provinces and borderlands, and the successor states to Austria-Hungary. They will focus on the traces of the Monarchy in Austrian Socialist discourse and Austrian national identity, and on imperial nostalgia in Central European literary life, especially among Jewish writers. "Event Image")
Empire, Socialism and Jews IV: The Interwar Years
Wednesday, April 20, 2016
9:00 am - 10:00 am
see website for full list
Questions of Faith: A conversation with Curator Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek
Sunday, April 24, 2016
3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek
Curator Dilemmas: Exhibiting Jewish Life in Post-Holocaust German-Speaking Europe
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for European Studies, and David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library
Tuesday, April 26, 2016
1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek and Gerhard Milchram
Yedida Eisenstat: ¿At Odds With the Law: Halakhic Precedent & Multiple Interpretation in Rashi's Torah Commentary
Sunday, August 28, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:30 pm
Yedida Eisenstat
Christophe Boltanski presents his novel, The Safehouse
Sponsor(s):
Center for French and Francophone Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Romance Studies
Wednesday, September 28, 2016
5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Christophe Boltanski
Film Screening: "Denial" with post-screening discussion led by Neil Siegel
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, October 23, 2016
2:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Neil Siegel, Professor of Law and Political Science, Duke Law School
Lunch Seminar with Professor Guy Miron
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, October 31, 2016
12:15 pm - 1:15 pm
Prof. Guy Miron, Professor of Jewish History and Chair of the Department of History, Philosophy and Jewish Studies at the Open University of Israel
Film Screening: "Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem" with special guest, Rachel Harris (U. of Illinois: Urbana-Champaign)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Rachel Harris
Reasoning the Holocaust: On God and Evil in Jewish Thought
Sunday, November 06, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Berel Lang
Anna Klein: Jewish Cemeteries in Poland
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, January 30, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Anna Klein, MA, Liberal Studies at Duke University
The Architect of Two Partitions or a Federalist Daydreamer? The Curious Case of Reginald Couplan
Sunday, February 05, 2017
5:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Arie Dubnov
David Nirenberg, "Anti-Judaism: Past and Present"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
David Nirenberg
The Personal and the Political: Jews in Poland after the Holocaust
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Maya Barzilai: "One Should Finally Learn How to Read this Breath:" Paul Celan and the Buber-Rosenzweig Bible
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, February 26, 2017
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
TBA
Maya Barzilai
Screen/Society--AMI Showcase--"Inglourious Basterds" [DCP screening!] + Q&A
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, February 27, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:45 pm
Introduced by Prof. Maya Barzilai (Univ. of Michigan); Q&A to follow!
Danielle Bailly: Hidden Children of France
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Center for French and Francophone Studies, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), German, Jewish Life at Duke, and Romance Studies
Monday, March 06, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
TBA
Danielle Bailly
"An Italian Jesuit in Canton and the War on the Chinese: 'Orientalism,' Conquest, and the Eastern Indian Ocean in the 16th Century"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, October 18, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Map, Territory, and Boundary - Duke-UNC Annual Graduate Student Conference
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke Islamic Studies Center, International Comparative Studies (ICS), Literature, Political Science, and Religious Studies
Friday, February 09, 2018
All Day
Keynote: Banu Gokariksel
Vita Activa: The Life of Hannah Arendt
Sponsor(s):
Duke Human Rights Center at the Franklin Humanities Institute (DHRC@FHI), Center for Jewish Studies, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Tuesday, February 13, 2018
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
1968 in Poland and Czechoslovakia in Comparison (AT UNC)
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Friday, August 31, 2018
All Day
Chapel Hill, NC
Visualization and the Holocaust: Analyzing Space and Place with Digital Methods and Geographical, Textual, and Visual Sources
Sponsor(s):
Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Dean of Humanities, Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI), Nasher Museum of Art, and Research Computing
Friday, January 18, 2019
All Day
Martina Steer: "Moses Mendelssohn: A Modern Icon through the Ages"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, March 03, 2019
4:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Martina Steer (U. of Vienna)
Antisemitism: Here and Now
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, Center for Jewish Studies, Coalition for Preserving Memory (CPM), Duke Office of Civic Engagement (DOCE), Jewish Life at Duke, Office of Global Affairs, Office of the University President, POLIS: The Center for Political Leadership, Innovation, and Service, Provost's Office, and Religious Studies
Monday, March 25, 2019
5:30 pm - 6:45 pm
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory University
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