hedule for the 2012 -2013 academic year. In addition to our usual offering of community lectures, academic lectures, and the Uhlman Family Seminar, the Center is also hosting a variety of special events as part of our 10th anniversary celebration. We hope you will join us.If you missed any of our community lectures in 2011-2012, we have audio and video files available. To listen or watch, click here to visit our video archives.
All lectures and seminars [with the exception of the Uhlman Family Seminar] are free and open to the public and no tickets or reservations are required. Seating is not reserved.
Click here to view PDF poster of events.
Community Events
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Southern Jews in the Crucible of Civil Rights
Sylvia and Irving Margolis Lecture on the Jewish Experience in the American South
Wednesday, September 12, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Ed.
STUART ROCKOFF, director of the history department at the Goldring/Woldenberg Institute of Southern Jewish Life, will explore how southern Jews responded to the tumultuous changes during the civil rights movement, the historical relationship between Jews and African Americans in the South, and how Jews responded to the moral challenges of the civil rights movement.
Co-sponsored by: the Center for the Study of the American South, Sonja Hanes Stone Center for Black Culture and History, and the Department of American Studies
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Staged Reading and Panel Discussion:
BOGED: An Enemy of the PeopleSaturday, September 29, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
BOAZ GAON, professor at the Minshar Arts School in Tel Aviv, will share his Israeli adaptation of “An Enemy of the People,” a reimagining of Henrik Ibsen's classic play of environmental activism. The play, which was originally produced by the Beersheva Theatre, depicts a sudden chemical leak in an Israeli industrial park that endangers the region’s water supply, prompting a family feud that quickly turns into all-out political war. This event will be in English, and will be directed by Carolina’s Communication Studies Artist in Residence, Joseph Megel. A panel discussion will follow.
This event is co-sponsored by Theatre J of Washington D.C., which is premiering the English language production of this play in January 2013. Also co-sponsored by Communications Studies and the Center for the Study of the Middle East and Muslim Civilizations. This event is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ’58.
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Demons and Evil Angels in Early Judaism
Monday, November 5, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
CAROL NEWSOM, distinguished professor at Emory University, will discuss the origins and functions of demonic forces in early Judaism, exploring how speculation about demons and evil forces developed in the late Persian and Hellenistic periods of Judaism (4th-2nd centuries BCE).
Co-sponsored by: Department of Religious Studies. This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ’58.
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Excavations in the Ancient Village and Synagogue of Huqoq
in Israel's GalileeThe Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship
in Jewish Studies
Monday, January 28, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
JODI MAGNESS, distinguished professor at UNC, will share images and describe the results of her excavations in the ancient Galilean village of Huqoq, where a stunning mosaic floor decorating a synagogue of the Late Roman and Byzantine periods (fourth to sixth centuries C.E.) was discovered in June 2012.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Religious Studies.
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Film Screening with Live Music:
Breaking Home TiesMonday, March 4, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
SHARON PUCKER RIVO, executive director of the National Center for Jewish Film and professor at Brandeis University, will share and discuss the restored film that focuses on a Jewish family in pre-revolutionary Russia and New York City. The silent film with English titles will be accompanied by musicians from UNC’s Music Department performing an original score. After the screening, Professor Rivo will explore the subject of Jews on Screen, and how the diversity and vibrancy of Jewish life around the globe is captured on film.
Co-sponsored by: Department of American Studies. This event is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ’58.
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Stage Production:
Yosl Rakover Speaks to G-dEli N. Evans Distinguished Lecture in
Jewish Studies
Sunday, April 14, 3:00 p.m.
*Please note updated start time for this event.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Ed.
DAVID MANDELBAUM, artistic director of the New Yiddish Rep theater company, will perform a one-man stage adaptation that explores the final testament of a Jew named Yosl Rakover, who examines his relationship with God during the end of the Warsaw ghetto. The production is in Yiddish, with English subtitles.
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The Dead Sea Scrolls and the Beginnings of Biblical Interpretation
Monday, April 22, 7:30 p.m.
William and Ida Friday Center for Continuing Education
JAMES KUGEL, director of the Institute for the History of the Jewish Bible at Bar Ilan University, will discuss how the Dead Sea scrolls provide us with evidence of an important moment of transition in the development of texts that were to become the Hebrew Bible.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Religious Studies. This lecture is made possible by a grant from the Charles H. Revson Foundation in honor of Eli N. Evans, ’58.
Academic lectures are open to the general public, but discussion will be more indepth and geared to a scholarly audience.
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The Music Libel Against the JewsThursday, October 11, 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
RUTH HACOHEN, professor of musicology at Hebrew University, will explore how Jewish composers and writers from Heine to Schoenberg challenged dominant associations of Christianity with harmonious musicality and Judaism with noise.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Music.
Co-sponsored by the Carolina Center for Jewish Studies
DIASPORA FESTIVAL OF BLACK AND INDEPENDENT FILM:
The Rosenwald Schools
Thursday, October 25, 7 p.m., Stone Center Auditorium
The Sonja Haynes Stone Center for Black Culture and History welcomes filmmaker Aviva Kempner for a special sneak preview of her new film, The Rosenwald Schools, a documentary on businessman and philanthropist Julius Rosenwald who joined with African American communities in the south to build schools during the early part of the 20th century. Rosenwald, the son of German-Jewish immigrants, rose to become one of the wealthiest men in America. Influenced by Booker T. Washington, Rosenwald spurred the establishment of 25 YMCA-YWCAs in cities across the U.S. and created a challenge grant program, seeded for the creation of more than 5,500 schools for poor, rural African American children. From 1915 to 1932, 660,000 students benefited from this initiative. Ultimately, 800 Rosenwald Schools were built in North Carolina.
Beyond Monotheism? Reflections on Contemporary American Jewish Theology
The Morris, Ida and Alan Heilig Lectureship in Jewish Studies
Monday, November 12, 6:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
*Please note updated start time.
SHAUL MAGID, professor of Religious Studies at Indiana University, will discuss the postmonotheistic turn in contemporary American Jewish theology, exploring how theologians such as Zalman Schachter-Shalomi and Arthur Green have sought to move beyond monotheism.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Religious Studies.
The Scrolls of the Judean Desert: Who Wrote Them, and Why?
Monday, December 3, 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
RACHEL ELIOR, professor of Jewish Philosophy at Hebrew University, will focus on the identity of the writers of the Dead Sea Scrolls and will explore why the identity of the writers is rarely discussed or debated.
Co-sponsored by: Department of Religious Studies.
Absolved from the Guilt of the Past? Memory as Burden and as Grace in the Post-War
Lives of Perpetrators of the Shoah
Kaplan-Brauer Lecture on the Contribution of
Judaism to Civilization
Monday, February 18, 5:30 p.m., Hyde Hall
KATHARINA von KELLENBACH, professor of religious studies at St. Mary’s College, will examine the moral responses of two post-war German clergymen who were tried for participation in Nazi atrocities, and how the concept of forgiveness is not a release from, but rather an acceptance of, the burden of guilt.
Lunchtime Seminars
The Center is hosting academic seminars throughout the year, allowing scholars to discuss their current research or recent books during an informal lunch. The seminars are for faculty and students at UNC.
* 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
Venue for the seminars, and reading materials, will be sent after registration.
Schedule:
2012-2013 Uhlman Family Seminar
This two-day seminar is planned for spring 2013. Please check our Web site for event topics, speakers, dates and registration fees. The seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values and is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund. The Uhlman Seminar requires pre-registration. The seminar is offered by the Program in Humanities and Human Values and is made possible by a grant from the Uhlman Family Fund.
Past Events:
See a list of all our events, from 2003 - 2012
Public Lectures Fall 2011 & Spring 2012
Public Lectures Fall 2010 & Spring 2011
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
Click here to learn more about the program and the schedule of events.
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