Lives Lived and Lost in Memory of Golda and Haim Finkler. Our annual event in honor of Holocaust Remembrance Day will be January 29, 2018 at 5:30pm with guest Kaja Finkler, professor of Anthropology emerita. Join Professor Kaja Finkler as … Read more
Lunch seminars are for UNC faculty and grad students. Reservations required. Writing the Stories of Mademoiselle Haas I had written a paper on the way French Jewish scientists had been forbidden to publish during the German Occupation of France. … Read more
Lunch seminar for UNC faculty and grad students: From Schorske’s Polis to Imperial Metropolis: Reconfiguring Fin-de-siècle Vienna with Malachi Hacohen of Duke University Registration is required. Start time 12 noon
Malachi Hacohen, Duke University, will give this year's Graduate Student Network academic lecture, titled: Jacob and Esau, Isaac and Ishmael : The Future of Jewish-Christian and Jewish-Muslim Relations The Holocaust and the State of Israel transformed the traditional paradigms … Read more
Community lecture with Ella Shohat of New York University. This lecture will offer a genealogical reading of the gradual splitting of the once-linked Semitic figure into “Arab” and “Jew” and its ramifications for contemporary discourses about Jews and Muslims. … Read more
Lunch seminars are for Carolina graduate students and faculty members. Speaker: Ella Shohat, NYU. Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary: The Question of Judeo-Arabic This lecture examines linguistic belonging as invented within national and colonial itineraries. More specifically, it explores the … Read more
