SPRING 2008 CALENDAR OF JEWISH STUDIES PUBLIC EVENTS
Programs are free and open to the community unless otherwise indicated.
Dr. Michael Widlanski
Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies
Washington Univeristy
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Dr. Michael Widlanski is the Schusterman Visiting Professor of Israel Studies in Arts & Sciences at Washington University. A specialist in Arab politics, he earned a Ph.D. in political science and communications from Bar Ilan University in 2004. Born in New York, he began his journalism career in 1980 reporting for the Jerusalem Bureau of The New York Times. He has served as a reporter, editor and news for several major news outlets including the Atlanta Constitution, Boston Globe, National Review, Jerusalem Post and Ha’aretz. Widlanski has also served as a strategic affairs advisor to the Ministry of Public Security, editing secret PLO Archives captured in Jerusalem, and as a special advisor to Israeli delegations to peace talks in 1991-1992.
From Battlefield to Airwaves: Hamas & Hezbollah’s Media Strategy
April 3, 2008 | 11:40 a.m.
Hillel @ 1012 S. Mill Ave. | Tempe, AZ
The U.S.-Israel Bond: The Strategic Importance of Israel to the U.S.
April 3, 2008 | 1:40 p.m.
Payne Hall, Rm. 212
Arizona State University | Tempe Campus
co-sponsored with Hillel Jewish Student Center
Gabriel Schoenfeld
Senior Editor of Commentary magazine
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Gabriel Schoenfeld earned his doctoral degree from Harvard University’s Government Department in 1989 and lives in New York City. He joined Commentary magazine in 1994 and is currently its senior editor. Prior to joining Commentary, Schoenfeld was a senior fellow at the Center for Strategic and International Studies in Washington, D.C. In the 1980s, he served briefly as a temporary foreign-service officer with the USIA in the USSR. Schoenfeld has written for Commentary on a wide range of subjects, including Israeli security, the Vietnam war, terrorism, nuclear proliferation, the cold war, anti-Semitism, and 20th-century German and Russian history. His articles have also been published in a number of other leading publications, including the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, and the Washington Post. His book, The Return of Anti-Semitism, was published by Encounter in 2003.
On Dual Loyalties of American Jews
April 8, 2008 | 1:40 – 2:55 PM
Payne Education Building, Room 212
Arizona State University
Tempe campus
Giacomo Todeschini
Department of History, University of Trieste
Princeton Fellow, Spring 2008
Jewish & Christian Usury in the Middle Ages: Metaphor & Reality
April 17, 2008 | 3:00 PM
Lattie F. Coor Hall
Room 4403
Arizona State University
Tempe campus
Presented by: the School of International Letters & Cultures
With additional support from: the Department of Religious Studies & the Jewish Studies Program
SPRING 2008 - PAST EVENTS
Menachem Klein. Ph.D.
Department of Political Sciences
Bar-Ilan Univeristy
Religion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
January 28, 2008 |
3:00 – 4:00 PM
Schwada Classroom Office Building (SCOB),
Room 228
Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
Faculty & Graduate Student Colloquium
January 28, 2008 | 4:30 – 6:00 PM
Social Sciences Building (SS), Room 109
Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
Co-sponsored by: the Jewish Studies Program and the Center for the Study of Religion & Conflict
Eckstein Scholar in Resdidence
Dr. Marc Brettler
Dora Golding Professor of Biblical Studies, Brandeis University
February 11, 2008
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The Dead Sea Scrolls
Class Lecture
February 11, 2008 | 1:40 – 2:55 PM
Bateman Physical Sciences Center A (PSA) , Room 308
Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
The Ten Commandments in the Bible and in American Life
February 11, 2008 | 7:30 PM
Temple Chai
4645 East Marilyn Road
Phoenix , Arizona 85032
(602) 971-1234
Richard McBee, Artist in Residence
Artistic Interpretation of Biblical Themes
Richard McBee was born in 1947 in New York City and studied painting at the Art Students League of New York. Since 1976 he has painted subject matter exclusively from the Torah and Jewish history, in addition to creating figurative relief sculptures, monotypes, ceramic menorahs and other Judaica. In 1991 McBee helped create the American Guild of Judaic Art—an educational and trade association of artists engaged in Jewish Art (www.jewishart.org), and has been writing a weekly critical review column in TheJewish Press since 2000.
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The Rabbis and Uppity Women
February 25, 2008 | 12:15 -1:30 PM
Farmer Education Building (ED), room 238
Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
Using Art in Teaching Religion—Exploring Religion in Teaching Art: A Jewish Art Primer
Workshop for Teachers Monday,
February 25, 2008 | 3:00 - 5:30 PM
Hillel 1012 South Mill Avenue
Tempe , Arizona 85281
Space is limited. Please RSVP to Hillel at (480) 967-7563.
Artful Encounters with the Hebrew Bible©: Art Interprets the Sacred Text
February 26, 2008 | 12:15 – 1:45 PM
Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus
12701 North Scottsdale Road
Scottsdale, Arizona
* title © Marcie Lee
Feminism and Contemporary Jewish Art
February 27, 2008 | 12:15 -1:30 PM
Farmer Education Building (ED), room 238
Arizona State University
Tempe Campus
Edward Shapiro
Professor Emeritus, History
Seton Hall
Edward S. Shapiro is Professor of History Emeritus at Seton Hall University. He is the author of A Time for Healing: American Jewry since World War II (1992) and Letters of Sidney Hook: Democracy, Communism, and the Cold War (1995).
The Impact of WWII on American Jews
March 3, 2008 |
12:00 PM
Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus
12701 North Scottsdale Road | Scottsdale
Forum on Group Relations
March 3, 2008 |
6:45 PM
Ina Levine Jewish Community Campus
12701 North Scottsdale Road | Scottsdale
Class Lecture
March 4, 2008 |
1:40 – 2:55 PM
Payne Education Building,
Room 212
Arizona State University
Tempe campus
Marcelo Brodsky
Argentine Artist & Human Rights Activist
Marcelo Brodsky is an Argentine Jewish photojournalist, artist, and human rights activist based in Buenos Aires. He grew up during the Dirty War in Argentina (1976-83), a period during which state terrorism “disappeared” an estimated 30,000 people. Brodksy’s 22-year-old brother was among the kidnapped, never to be seen again. While in exile in Barcelona during the 1980s, Marcelo earned a master’s degree in Economy at the University of Barcelona and trained as a photographer at the International Center of Photography. After his return to Argentina, he created a photographic essay titled Buena Memoria (Good Memory). The essay illustrates the personal and collective evolution of the 1967 graduating class of the Colegio Nacional de Buenos Aires, beginning with two “missing” students, victims—like thousands of others—of State Terrorism. The exhibition has been presented 100 times in 20 countries during the past ten years. Brodsky has also had solo exhibitions worldwide, is represented in numerous museums, has been an editor and curator, and currently serves on the Board of Directors of Buena Memoria, a non-governmental organization dedicated to human rights work in Argentina. For more information about Brodsky and his work, please visit his website: www.marcelobrodsky.com
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Tuesday, March 18
Arizona State University Tempe campus
Latin American Art, Architecture & Public Interest Issues
9:15-10:30 a.m.
Architecture Bridge
between College of Design buildings
(CDN & CDS)
Brown Bag Presentation & Discussion:
Marcelo Brodsky, Argentine Artist & Human Rights Activist
Noon-1:00 p.m.
Architecture Bridge
between College of Design Buildings
(CDN & CDS)
hosted by Professor Claudio Vekstein &
the School of Architecture & Landscape Architecture
Ser artista. Ser judío.
Ser argentino.
3:40-6:30 p.m.Language & Literature Building (LL)
room 265
Lecture in Spanish
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