Community Events
All events are free and open to the public, with the exception of the Uhlman Family Seminar. 
Sixty Years of Wrestling with the Dead Sea Scrolls
Eli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Monday, September 14, 2009, 7:30 p.m.
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GEZA VERMES, Emeritus Professor of Jewish Studies at Oxford University and a pioneer of Scrolls research, will discuss the Dead Sea Scrolls and evaluate their contribution to the study of ancient Judaism and early Christianity.
Ritual Murder in
Norwich, 1144
The Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship in Jewish Studies
Monday, November 16, 2009,
7:30 p.m.
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Lunchtime Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
MIRI RUBIN, professor of Medieval History at Queen Mary,
University of London, will explore the origins of ritual
murder accusations against Jews in the Middle Ages.
The New Age of Kabbalah: The Revival of
Jewish Mysticism in the Late 20th Century
Monday, January 25, 2010, 7:30 p.m.
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Lunchtime Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
BOAZ HUSS, associate professor at Ben-Gurion University,
will examine some of the major features of contemporary
Kabbalah, and the context of the revival of Jewish Mysticism
in today's culture.
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.
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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.
‘And we were together’: Solomon’s Window
on
Two Biblical Worldviews
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
Lecture: 5:00 p.m., Hyde Hall
DIANA LIPTON, Kings College, London
Strangers in the Land: Blacks, Jews, Post-Holocaust America
Seminar: October 1, 2009, 12 noon, Coates Hall*
Eric Sundquist, UCLA
Jewishness and the Remaking of Ethnic
Identities
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture on the Contribution of
Judaism to Civilization
Monday, October 19, 2009
Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
Lecture: 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
JONATHAN FREEDMAN, University of Michigan
Contrapuntual Critique: Secularism and Orientalism in the Early Jewish Enlightenment
Friday, November 6, 2009
Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
ANDREA SCHATZ, Kings College, London
My Histories: The Poetics and Politics
of the
Public Word
Monday, February 8, 2010
Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
Lecture: 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
AMMIEL ALCALAY, CUNY
Book Launch: The Unconverted Self
Monday, February 22, 2010
12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
JONATHAN BOYARIN, Leonard and Tobee Kaplan
Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought,
UNC Chapel Hill
Book Launch: Remembering Survival
Monday, March 1, 2010
12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
CHRISTOPHER BROWNING, Frank Porter Graham
Distinguished Professor of History, UNC Chapel Hill
Hebrew Printing and Jewish Knowledge
in 18th Century Germany
Monday, March 22, 2010
Seminar: 12:00 p.m., Coates Hall*
Lecture: 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
DIRK SADOWSKI, Dubnow Institut, University of
Leipzig, Germany
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 fall semester:
Check back for details on our spring semester lunch seminars:
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.
Additional information [including registration fees] will be posted on this Web site in a few weeks. 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. The seminars will be held at Coates Hall, from 5:30-6:30 p.m., and are free and open to the public. Reservations are required - email ccjs@unc.edu or call 919-962-1509.
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