For UNC students and faculty: Film Screening & Pizza Wednesday, November 8, 7pm, New West 219 “Apples from the Desert,” Directed by Matti Harari & Arik Lubetzky Fiction, 2014, 1h 36min Based on a short story by Savyon Liebrecht and … Read more
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South Gertrude Weil (1879-1971), leader of the state’s women’s suffrage campaign, embodied North Carolina’s liberal and traditional paradoxes. Rooted in the small-town South, she fought not just … Read more
For UNC students and faculty: Film Screening, Class Presentations & Dinner End of the Semester Event Wednesday, November 15, 7pm, New West 219 “The Seven Tapes,” Directed by Yair Qedar Documentary, 2015, 56mins. The Seven Tapes is a cinematic journey … Read more
RESCHEDULED: Dec 12, from 12-1pm. Lunch seminar for UNC faculty and grad students: Ancient Judaism in the First-Person: Using Digital Tools to Imagine and Embody the Past Brad Erickson, a graduate student in the department of Religious Studies, … Read more
Our lunch seminar with Jonathan Hess is rescheduled for January 25, 12:30pm start time. Lunch seminars are for Carolina graduate students and faculty members. Book launch for Jonathan Hess. Deborah and Her Sisters: How One Nineteenth-Century Melodrama and … Read more
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
