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Sephardic Studies: Young American Jews: Today’s Conversos?

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Sephardic Studies Lecture with David Graizbord, University of Arizona. The annual Lecture on Sephardic Studies is planned as an in-person event in Dey Hall, fourth floor Toy Lounge.   Young American Jews: Today’s Conversos? This talk will compare and contrast … Read more

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Southeast German Studies Consortium

The Center is pleased to co-sponosor the keynote address for the Southeast German Studies Consortium. The keynote lecture of the 2022 Southeast German Studies Workshop (SEGSW) will be delivered at Appalachian State on Thursday, March 24, by Prof. Shmuel Feiner (Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan). Prof. … Read more

Class Visit: Ronny Someck

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Poet Ronny Someck will be a special guest visitor for Prof. Yaron Shemer's students that are enrolled in JWST 357 or in his grad seminar. The class is open to the public, and will explore different poems than what is … Read more

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Mizrahim and Zionism: A History

This lecture is made possible by the generosity of an anonymous donor through an endowed lectureship in Sephardic Judaism.   Tuesday, February 7, 2023. 5:30pm, Hyde Hall University Room . Free and open to the public. Parking: Swain Lot. (A … Read more

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Grad Student Network: Career Roundtable with Center Alumni

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March 1, 2022, 4:30pm, Hyde Hall Incubator Room. Hybrid Event. The Center's grad student network event for 2022-23 will feature a panel of our alumni, and our recently hired faculty member, in a variety of academic and academic-adjacent positions to … Read more

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Co-sponsoring: The Birth of the Gentile

  The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this event, hosted by UNC Religious Studies:   The Birth of the Gentile and its Critics: Five Years Later with Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Department of Jewish Philosophy, Tel Aviv University September 28th, 5:30pm, Murphey … Read more

War in Gaza: a Discussion of the Origins, Strategy, and Ethics

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For the Carolina Community: students, faculty and staff:   Navin Bapat and Jeff Spinner-Halev will explain the origins of the current conflict, assess the strategic aims of key political actors in the conflict, and assess the ethics of the combatants' … Read more

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Memory, History and the Care for the Dead

  This event is hosted by the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign on the commemoration of the November Pogram (Kristallnacht). Brett Ashley Kaplan, Keohane Distinguished Visiting Professor for 2023-24, will be visiting Duke University and … Read more