All events are free and open to the public, with the exception of the Uhlman Family Seminar.
Film Screening:
The People v. Leo Frank
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience
in the American South
Monday, April 19, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking map
BEN LOETERMAN, writer and director, will screen his
new film which recounts the 1913 legal case of a Jewish pencil
factory manager in Atlanta who was convicted of murdering
one of his employees.
Academic lectures are open to the general public, but discussion will be more indepth and geared to a scholarly audience.
Directions to Hyde Hall
Directions to Coates Hall
Hebrew Printing and Jewish Knowledge
in 18th Century Germany
Monday, March 22, 2010
Graduate lunch: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
Lecture: 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
DIRK SADOWSKI, Dubnow Institut, University of
Leipzig, Germany
* Reservations are required for the graduate student luncheon.
Please call or email for details and to R.S.V.P.
Phone: 919-962-1509 Email: ccjs@unc.edu
Lunchtime Seminars
The Center is hosting several academic seminars throughout the year, allowing scholars to discuss their recent books during an informal lunch.
* Reservations are required for the lunchtime seminars.
Please call or email for details and to R.S.V.P.
Phone: 919-962-1509 Email: ccjs@unc.edu
Lunchtime Seminar Schedule for spring 2010 semester:
2009-2010 Uhlman Family Seminar
Being Jewish in the Modern World
March 4-5, 2010
Identities are not stable, but are constructed, in constant negotiation and flux. The changing nature of identities will be the subject of this Humanities seminar on Jewish identity in the modern period. Our speakers will explore Jewish identity in Eastern and Central Europe, in the American South and in the Middle East, moving from the eighteenth century up to the present. Art, literature, history, and culture will be the focus of our discussion as we explore Jewish identities then and now.
Speakers:
Literature, Art and the Invention of the Ghetto: German Jewry's Romance with the Jewish Past
Jonathan Hess, Moses M. and Hannah L. Malkin Distinguished Term Professor of Jewish History and Culture and Director of Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
A Storyteller's Worlds: The Education of Shlomo Noble in Europe and America
Jonathan Boyarin, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought
From Dixie Diaspora to Kosher Krogers: A Look
at
the Evolving Jewish South
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Associate Professor, American Studies
Mizrahi Identities in Contemporary Israeli Cinema
Yaron Shemer, Assistant Professor of Asian Studies and Levine-Sklut Fellow in Jewish Studies
The seminar concludes with a panel discussion with all
the speakers.
Schedule and Fees
4:30 Thursday, March 4, through 1:00 p.m. Friday, March 5, 2010. The tuition is $125 ($110 by January 5). Tuition for teachers is $62.50 ($55 by January 5). 10 contact hours for 1 unit of renewal credit. The optional dinner on Thursday evening is $20.00.
To register: http://www.unc.edu/depts/human/level_3/2010_Spring/6-JewishIdentity.htm
The seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values and is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund.
Hasidic Modernity:
Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rebbe of Kotsk
Feb. 2, 9, 16, and 23.
Join Professor Jonathan Boyarin in a series of seminars exploring one of the leading Jewish theologians of the twentieth century and his favorite Hasidic Rebbe. Professor Boyarin is working on the first translation from the Yiddish of the great book that Heschel completed at the end of his life on the controversial Rebbe of Kotsk. In a series of four seminars, Professor Boyarin will introduce the world of the Hasidic Rebbe and explore both Heschel’s interest in him and his hold on us today.
We have reach capacity for this seminar and we are only accepting names for our wait list. To be added to our wait list, please email ccjs@unc.edu or call 919-962-1509. Thank you.
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Past Events
Public Lectures Fall 2009 & Spring 2010
Public Lectures Fall 2008 & Spring 2009
Public Lectures, Fall 2007 & Spring 2008
Public Lectures, Spring 2007
Public Lectures, Fall 2006
Public Lectures, Spring 2006
Public Lectures, Fall 2005
Public Lectures, Spring 2005
Public Lectures, Fall 2004
Public Lectures, 2003-2004
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