Public Events 2008-2009
All events are free and open to the public, with the exception of the Uhlman Family Seminar.
Rediscovering the Dance of Klezmer Music Monday, October 27, 2008, 7:30 p.m., William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education parking map
Klezmer Trio Concert
Tuesday, October 28, 2008, 7:30 p.m., Gerrard Hall on Cameron Avenue. This concert if free, open to the public, no tickets or RSVP required. visitor parking
WALTER ZEV FELDMAN, a leading Klezmer researcher and performer, will lecture on Monday, October 27 and perform in a Klezmer Trio concert with Christina Crowder and Alex Fiterstein on Tuesday, October 28. This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, '58.
Communal Genocide: Personal Accounts of the Destruction of Buczacz, Eastern Galicia, 1941-44
Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Monday, November 17, 2008, 7:30 p.m.
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OMER BARTOV, the John P. Birkelund DistinguishedProfessor of European History at Brown University and one of the world’s foremost experts on the Holocaust, will explore how genocide unfolded in a town that had a mixed Jewish-Polish-Ukrainian population for centuries.
Evangelical Christian Support of Israel
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South
Monday, February 23, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
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STEPHEN SPECTOR, professor of English at Stony Brook University, will examine the motives and intentions of evangelicals who support Israel.
The Settlement Cookbook and the Transformation of Jewish American Identity
Monday, March 30, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
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NORA RUBEL, assistant professor of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester, will examine the best-selling cookbook and the ways it shaped the identity of Jewish Americans in the 20th century. This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, '58.
The 2008 Uhlman Family Seminar
Witnessing and Memory: What is Gained, What is Lost, and What Remains from Holocaust Testimonies.
Tuesday, November 11 and Wednesday, November 12, 2008. This two-day seminar will interrogate the idea of witnessing and what we can gain from such testimonies in regard to writing history, understanding the past and coming to terms with that past. For seminar details and fees, or to register, visit: www.unc.edu/depts/human. This seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values. It is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund with additional support from the Center for European Studies.
Academic lectures are open to the general public, however discussion will be more indepth and geared to a scholarly audience.
New Light on the Period of the Maccabees: the Excavations at Tel Kedesh
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture on the Contribution of Judaism to Civilization
Monday, September 22, 2008, 5:30 p.m., Toy Lounge.
Andrea M. Berlin, University of Minnesota.
Pleasures among the Jews in 18th-Century Europe and Their Meaning
The Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship in Jewish Studies
Monday, February 9, 2009, 5:30 p.m.,
Hyde Hall. Shmuel Feiner, Bar Ilan University, Israel
Edward Said in Jerusalem: Exile, Criticism, and Global Culture
Monday, March 2, 2009, 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall. Aamir Mufti, UCLA.
This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ‘58.
Lunchtime Seminars: all three professors will also conduct seminars regarding their recent books on the day of their academic lecture. 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
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