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
Hollywood@Duke
Sponsor(s):
Jewish Life at Duke, Alpha Epsilon Pi (AEPi), Career Center, Center for Documentary Studies (CDS), Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Jewish Student Union (JSU), Jewish Student Union (JSU), Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Public Affairs & Government Relations, Student Affairs, Theater Studies, and Vice Provost for the Arts
Tuesday, September 13, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Women's Rites of Passage in Ancient Israel: Weddings
Sunday, September 18, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Susan Ackerman
Edward Breuer: Victorian Jews, Biblical Criticism and The Politics of Acculturation
Thursday, September 22, 2016
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
Edward Breuer
Inaugural Hudi Gross Lecture welcomes Jon D. Levenson
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, September 25, 2016
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Jon D. Levenson
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
Perilman Symposium with Emily Sigalow
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, October 20, 2016
5:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Emily Sigalow
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
Ruth Messinger: "If Not Now, When? Pursuing Global Justice to Mend Our Broken World"
Thursday, October 27, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Ruth Messinger
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
Mizrachi Witches in Israeli Cinema: Lunch Seminar
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), English, and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Rachel S. Harris
Screen/Society--AMI Showcase/Reel Women Directors of the Middle-East [Israel]--"Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem"
Sponsor(s):
Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, and Duke University Middle East Studies Center
Tuesday, November 01, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:10 pm
Introduced by Prof. Rachel Harris (Univ. of Illinois Urbana-Champaign); Q&A to follow!
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
Robert Wilson-Black: "What do we owe one another? A new social covenant to make sense of the times"
Wednesday, November 02, 2016
6:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Robert Wilson-Black (Sojourners)
Reasoning the Holocaust: On God and Evil in Jewish Thought
Sunday, November 06, 2016
3:00 pm - 5:00 pm
Berel Lang
"Rock in the Red Zone"- screening and discussion with the Filmmaker
Sponsor(s):
Jewish Life at Duke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, Duke Israel Public Affairs Committee (DIPAC), J Street U, and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Wednesday, November 09, 2016
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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 (Seminar): "History as Prophecy: Judaism, Christianity, and Islam"
Tuesday, February 07, 2017
12:30 pm - 1:30 pm
David Nirenberg
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
Yaron Jean: The Passport in Jewish and non-Jewish life Following WWI
Sunday, February 12, 2017
3:00 pm - 4:00 pm
Yaron Jean
Hosting "Parents Circle"
Sponsor(s):
Jewish Life at Duke, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Center for Jewish Studies, Center for Multicultural Affairs, Duke Student Government (DSG), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, J Street U, and The Alexander Hamilton Society
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
6:30 pm - 8:30 pm
TBA
"The Parents Circle: Bereavement and Reconciliation in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and J Street U
Tuesday, February 21, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Adventures in Field-Building: On the History of Area Studies/Middle East Studies in the US
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and History
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Zachary Lockman (NYU)
The Personal and the Political: Jews in Poland after the Holocaust
Thursday, February 23, 2017
6:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Contending Visions of the Middle East
Sponsor(s):
Duke University Middle East Studies Center, Center for Jewish Studies, Cultural Anthropology, Duke University Center for International and Global Studies, and History
Friday, February 24, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:30 pm
Zachary Lockman, Charles Kurzman, Adam Mestyan
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
Maya Barzilai: "Golem: Modern Wars and Their Monsters"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Forum for Scholars and Publics
Monday, February 27, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
TBA
Maya Barzilai
Film Screening: Inglorious Basterds; Q&A with Maya Barzilai
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Program in Arts of the Moving Image (AMI)
Monday, February 27, 2017
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
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!
Infertility & the Hebrew Bible
Monday, March 06, 2017
5:15 pm
Duke Divinity School, Room 0016W
Joel Baden
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
Owen Gottlieb (RIT): Medieval and Religious Law in Game Design
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), and Religious Studies
Monday, March 20, 2017
6:30 pm - 8:00 pm
Room 228, Bay 12
Owen Gottlieb (Rochester Institute of Technology)
Capturing the Moment: Centuries of the Passover Haggadah
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), David M. Rubenstein Rare Book & Manuscript Library, Divinity School, Jewish Life at Duke, Libraries, and Religious Studies
Wednesday, March 22, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Kalman Bland
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks & Abdullah Antepli: Civility and Difference: An Inter-Religious Dialogue
Monday, March 27, 2017
5:30 pm - 6:30 pm
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks & Abdullah Antepli
Not in God's Name: Confronting Religious Violence, a Terry Sanford Distinguished Lecture
Sponsor(s):
Sanford School of Public Policy, Center for Jewish Studies, Kenan Institute for Ethics, and Student Affairs
Tuesday, March 28, 2017
5:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Rabbi Lord Jonathan Sacks
Adam Lowenstein: "Exploding Heads: David Cronenberg's Cinema of Therapeutic Disintegration"
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Monday, April 03, 2017
5:00 pm - 6:00 pm
Adam Lowenstein
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