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
Rudnick Lecture Welcomes: Yossi Halevi
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, August 29, 2017
10:00 am - 11:00 am
Screen/Society--Special Events--"Zemene" w/ Q&A
Wednesday, September 13, 2017
7:00 pm - 8:50 pm
Q&A to follow w/ Dr. Rick Hodes, the American doctor who saved the life of Zemene and countless others in Ethiopia
Rick Hodes: Tzedakah in Ethiopia
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Thursday, September 14, 2017
6:00 pm - 7:30 pm
Dr. Rick Hodes
Hudi Gross Annual Lecture Presents Jacques Berlinerblau
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Sunday, September 17, 2017
6:30 pm - 7:30 pm
Jacques Berlinerblau
The Anthropologist and the Settler: Updates From the Field in Israel/Palestine
Sponsor(s):
Forum for Scholars and Publics, Center for Jewish Studies, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and Franklin Humanities Institute (FHI)
Thursday, September 28, 2017
11:45 am - 1:15 pm
Joyce Dalsheim
The Jewish Annotated New Testament
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, October 03, 2017
4:30 pm - 5:30 pm
Iron Age Hebrew Epigraphy in the Silicon Age: An Algorithmic Approach To Study Paleo-Hebrew Inscriptions
Sponsor(s):
Information Initiative at Duke (iiD), Art, Art History & Visual Studies, Arts & Sciences (A&S), Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Bass Connections-Information, Society & Culture, Center for Jewish Studies, Classical Studies, Computer Science, Electrical and Computer Engineering (ECE), Mathematics, Pratt School of Engineering, and Statistical Science
Thursday, October 12, 2017
2:00 pm - 3:00 pm
Barak Sober (Tel Aviv University)
"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
An Arab Jew in Rome: "Zionism" and "Islamophobia" in the 16th Century and Now
Sponsor(s):
Center for Jewish Studies, Asian & Middle Eastern Studies (AMES), Asian Pacific Studies Institute (APSI), Duke Islamic Studies Center, Duke University Middle East Studies Center, and History
Thursday, October 19, 2017
12:00 pm - 1:00 pm
Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
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