N.C. Lecture Series and
Speaker's Bureau
Invite one of our faculty members to speak to your group or school... it's free!
One of the primary goals of the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies is to provide education outreach programs that bring the excellence of our academic program to all North Carolinians.
Funding from the Charles H. Revson Foundation, in honor of Eli N. Evans '58, allows our faculty to visit diverse groups across the state by underwriting the lecturer's stipend, travel and lodging expenses. Participating groups are responsible for providing an appropriate venue for the lecture, refreshments, and publicity for the event. All events must be free to the general public.
Review our list of participating faculty members and lecture topics and visit the Frequently Asked Questions page for more information.
To request a speaker, or for more information, please contact Karen Gajewski at 919-962-1509 or kgajewski@unc.edu.
Participating Faculty and Lecture Topics
Yaakov Ariel,
Dept. of Religious Studies
- American Judaism: Decline or Renewal?
- Evangelicals and Jews: A Unique Relationship
Jonathan Boyarin Dept. of Religious Studies
- A Modern Meeting: Or, How Jewish Was The Man With The Scar?
- A reading from a chapter of Boyarin’s book The Education of Shlomo Nobel in Europe and America, about immigration and Jewish identity at the turn of the 20th century.
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From a Ruined Garden: The Memorial Books of Polish Jewry
- Abraham Joshua Heschel and the Rebbe of Kotsk
Christopher Browning, Dept. of History
(Please book lecture one year in advance of your desired lecture date)
- Hitler and the Decisions for the Final Solution: Explaining the Holocaust Perpetrators
- Holocaust History and Survivor Testimony: The Case of the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Campus
- Holocaust Denial in the Courtroom: The Historian as Expert Witness in the Zuendel and Irving-Lipstadt Trials
Erin Carlston, Department of English and Comparative Literature
- The Rosenberg Trial
- The Dreyfus Affair, French Liberalism and Secularism
- 19th Century French Jewry
- James Joyce and Jewishness
Marcie Cohen Ferris, Dept. of American Studies
- Shalom Y’all: Exploring Southern Jewish History and Culture
- Matzoh Ball Gumbo: Culinary Tales in the Jewish South
Jonathan Hess, Dept. of Germanic Languages
- Germans, Jews, and the History of Anti-Semitism
- Germans, Jews, and the Experience of Modernity
- Assimilation and Its Discontents: Untold Tales From the Early History of Reform Judaism
Jodi Magness,
Dept. of Religious Studies
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The Archaeology of Qumran and the Dead Sea Scrolls
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Masada: Last Stronghold of the Jewish Resistance Against Rome
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Jerusalem in the Time of Herod
- Biblical Jerusalem
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Ancient Jewish Tombs and Burial Customs
- Ancient Synagogues
Rosa Perelmuter,
Dept. of Romance Languages
- Reflections on Cuban-Jewish Exile
- Yiddish Cuba
- The Jews of Cuba: Then and Now
Yaron Shemer, Dept. of Asian Studies
- The Journey of Vaan Nguyen: screening/ discussion of overseas labor migrants in Israel
- Ethnic Identities in Israeli Cinema: lecture includes clips from various Israeli films
- The Holocaust in Contemporary Israeli Films: lecture includes clips from various Israeli films
Jeff Spinner-Halev, Dept. of Political Science
- Religion, Politics and Society in Israel
- Zionism and Post-Zionism
- Zionism and Arab Nationalism Since 1900
Jonathan Weiler, Russian and East European Studies
- Jews in American Sports: An Informal History
- Contemporary Human Rights Challenges: From Humanitarian Intervention to Human Trafficking
- The Jewish Vote in America
- Jews in Contemporary Russia
- Is There Still a Peace Process in the Middle East?
