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
Sunday, March 25, 2018, 1:00-3:00pm Carolina Union Auditorium, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Free and open to the public, no tickets or reservations are required. You're invited to campus to experience what we mean by “Jewish Studies… … Read more
Lunch seminars are for Carolina graduate students and faculty members. Archaeology and Jewish settlements in seventh century Palestine Speaker: Gideon Avni, head of the Archaeological Division in the Israel Antiquities Authority and a lecturer at the Institute of Archaeology at … Read more
This event is cancelled. We hope to reschedule in 2018-2019. Revealed Beauty and Hidden Danger: On Jewish Books of Time in Early Modern Europe Early modern Jews developed a beautifully illustrated manuscript tradition about their calendar. The need to … Read more
Converting the New Testament?: Hebrew Translations of the New Testament in the Early Modern Period “Matthew also issued a written Gospel among the Hebrews in their own dialect”. This quotation, taken from the writings of the second century church … Read more
The Center is pleased to co-sponsor this conference. 1968 in Poland and Czechoslovakia in Comparison UNC-Chapel Hill, Friday, August 31 and Saturday, September 1, 2018 Institute for the Arts and Humanities The year 1968 was a momentous one in many … Read more
