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
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
The Center is please to co-sponsor this event, which is organized by Chabad of Chapel Hill/Durham. Please note that the event is at Duke University, Page Auditorium. Map
The Uhlman Family Seminar, a collaboration of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies and Carolina Public Humanities Recent controversies over monuments featuring leaders and soldiers of the Confederacy in the American Civil War have sparked heated debates—and violent acts—over … Read more
