Jewish Studies
Events
All members of the Purdue University community and the public are cordially invited to attend events offered by the Jewish Studies Program.
Evening Events
Spring 2012
Klatch Jewish Arts Series Presentation
Edith Pearlman Q&A
Tuesday, March 27 ~ Stewart Center, Room 318 ~ 4:30 p.m.
Tuesday, March 27 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 7:30 p.m.
Edith Pearlman, author and recipient of the 2011 PEN/Malamud Award for excellence in the art of short fiction, "Binocular Vision: Reading with Award-Winning Fiction Writer Edith Pearlman"
http://www.edithpearlman.com/
Co-sponsored by the College of Liberal Arts, the Department of English, and the Creative Writing and Jewish Studies Programs at Purdue.
Special Events
Spring 2012
Documentary Film Screening and Discussion
"Who Killed Walter Benjamin?"
Wednesday, January 18 ~ BCHM 105 ~ 6:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the School of Languages and Cultures, the Department of Philosophy, and the Comparative Literature, Jewish Studies, and Philosophy & Literature Programs.
"Praying in Her Own Voice" (film followed by discussion)
Wednesday, February 29 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 7:00-9:00 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Temple Israel Sisterhood and the Jewish Studies Program
50/50 Lectures
Thursday, March 1 ~ SC G039 ~ 4:30 p.m.
Daniela Flesler, State University of New York, Stony Brook
"Performing the Past: Jewish and Muslim Spain in the Twenty-First Century"
A PSRL (Purdue Studies in Romance Literatures) and Purdue University Press collaboration
Monday, March 5 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Michael Heller, American poet, essayist and critic
"Under the Sign of Benjamin"
Co-sponsored by the Department of English and the Comparative Literature and Jewish Studies Programs
Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2012
Wednesday, February 8 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Stacy Holden, Associate Professor, Department of History, Purdue University, "Muslim and Jewish Interaction in Moroccan Meat Markets, 1873-1912"
Wednesday, March 7 ~ BRNG 2275 ~ 12:30
Rebekah Klein-Pejšová, Jewish Studies Assistant Professor of History with HIST 390 students Rachel Levine and Jennifer McVeigh, Purdue University, "The Great Greater Lafayette Jewish Scavenger Hunt"
Wednesday, April 4 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Stuart Robertson, Continuing Lecturer, Biblical Hebrew, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Josephus and Philo on the Ancient Israelite Tabernacle"
Special Events
Fall 2011
MARS Mondays
October 3 ~ BRNG 1284 ~ 12:30
Stuart Robertson, Continuing Lecturer, Hebrew and Religious Studies
"The Shadow of Genesis One in the Flood Story, or Genesis' Near Identical-Twin Accounts of the First and Second Beginnings of Life on Planet Earth"
Co-sponsored by the Purdue Jewish Studies and Medieval and Renaissance Studies Programs
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/medieval-studies/events/marsmondays.html
4th Annual Larry Axel Memorial Lecture in Religion
Tuesday, October 4 ~ STEW 202 ~ 7:30 p.m.
Mark Noll, Professor of History, University of Notre Dame,
"The King James Bible and the U.S. Populace"
Co-sponsored by the Purdue Jewish Studies and Religious Studies Programs
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/religious-studies/events/index.html
31st Annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference
"Reflections on Kristallnacht"
Sunday, November 13 ~ Krannert Auditorium
Opening session begins at 2:00 p.m.
The full conference schedule will soon be available at http://www.glhrc.org/
Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2011
Wednesday, September 7 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Xue Yu, Winner of the 2011 Edward Simon B'nai B'rith Barzillai Lodge No. 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, "Escape to the East: The Shanghai Jewish Community During the Second World War"
Wednesday, October 26 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Stella Setka, Doctoral Student, Literary Studies, Department of English, Purdue University, "Trends in 21st-century Jewish American Fiction"
Wednesday, November 16 ~ Stewart Center, Room 318 ~ 12:30
Colleen Neary-Sundquist, Assistant Professor, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Glückel of Hameln: A Jewish Autobiography"
Evening Events
Spring 2011
Klatch Jewish Arts Series Presentation
Monday, April 11 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Lafayette Klezmorim: An Evening of Jewish Music
Special Events
Spring 2011
World Film Forum presentation, "Saviors in the Night"
Thursday, March 10 ~ Neil Armstrong Hall of Engineering, Room 1010 ~ 5:00 p.m.
Presented by Professor Emeritus Fritz Cohen and the School of Languages and Cultures
http://www.menemshafilms.com/saviors-in-the-night.html
Thursday, March 31, 4:30 p.m., Debra Spark, Fiction Discussion, Hicks Undergraduate Library Bookstall
Thursday, March 31, 7:30 p.m., Debra Spark, Fiction Reading, Krannert Auditorium, Room 140
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/english/Calendar/index.html
30th Annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference
April 3-13
http://www.glhrc.org/
*Teaching with Defiance" workshop
Tuesday, April 12 ~ Hicks Undergraduate Library, Room B-848 ~ 5:30-7:00 p.m.
"The Jewish Jesus: Revelation, Reflection, Reclamation"
Panel discussion featuring Zev Garber, Professor Emeritus and Chair of Jewish Studies and Philosophy, Los Angeles Valley College, and Co-Editor of Shofar.
Discussants include:
Dr. Thomas Ryba, Notre Dame Theologian in Residence, St. Thomas Aquinas Center
Dr. Stuart Robertson, Adjunct Professor, Department of Philosophy and Continuing Lecturer, Biblical Hebrew, Purdue University. Pastor Emeritus, Faith Presbyterian Church.
Free and open to the public. Light refreshments served.
Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2011
Wednesday, February 9 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
David Sanders, Associate Professor, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, "The Psychology of Elisha ben Avuyah."
Wednesday, March 2 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Jennifer Oldham, Winner of the 2010 Edward Simon B'nai B'rith Barzillai Lodge No. 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, "Who is a Jew?"
Wednesday, April 6 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1222 ~ 12:30
Fritz Cohen, Professor Emeritus, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Demonization of the Jew in German Popular Plays of the Late Middle Ages."
Evening Events
Fall 2010
Monday, November 8 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Maroš Borský , Director of the Slovak Jewish Heritage Center in Bratislava, "The Future of Jewish Heritage in Slovakia."
Co-sponsored by the Purdue History Department.
http://www.slovak-jewish-heritage.org/
Special Events
Fall 2010
The Purdue Comparative Literature Program presents
"Graphic Engagement: The Politics of Comics and Animation"
Purdue University - West Lafayette, IN
September 2-4, 2010
Conference details
3rd Annual Larry Axel Memorial Lecture
Monday, October 18 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Michael Satlow, Professor of Religious Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University,
"Big Givers: The Origins of Jewish Philanthropy."
Co-sponsored by the Purdue Jewish Studies and Religious Studies Programs.
Public Square Forum
Thursday, October 21 ~ Black Cultural Center ~ 3:00 p.m.
Lecture, Film, and Discussion
Patrick Gerard Henry, Cushing Eells Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and Literature, Whitman College, "Modes of Resistance to Violence: The Rescue of Jews in France During the Holocaust."
Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Violence.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/academic/idis/violence-center/
Forum flier
Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2010
Wednesday, September 1 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Lawrence Mykytiuk, Associate Professor of Library Science, History & Microtext Librarian, Purdue University, "How Not to Evaluate the Historical Reliability of Ancient Sources."
Monday, September 20 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1284 ~ 12:30
Natalie Latteri, Ph.D. student, Department of History, Purdue University, "Set Me As a Seal Upon Thine Heart: Anti-Miscegenation, Martyrdom, and Messianism in Late Medieval Ashkenaz."
A Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) presentation.
Wednesday, October 6 ~ Stewart Center, Room 214A ~ 12:30
Ana Gomez-Bravo, Associate Professor of Spanish, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Court and City: Jewish Identity and the Social Order in Late Medieval Spain."
Wednesday, October 20 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Gordon Mork, Professor Emeritus, Department of History, Purdue University, "Oberammergau's Passion Play: Reformed But Still Flawed?"
Monday, October 25 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1284 ~ 12:30
Thomas Ryba, Adjunct Professor, Religious Studies Program, Purdue University, "Re-Sourcing the Transcendentals: Levinas, Marion, Tymieniecka, and the Trinity."
A Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) presentation.
Wednesday, November 10 ~ Stewart Center, Room 311 ~ 12:30
Jennifer William, Associate Professor of German, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Tracing Signs of Jewish Past and Present in Post-Wall Berlin."
Monday, December 6 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1284 ~ 12:30
Sandor Goodhart, Associate Professor, Department of English, Purdue University, "Jewish Hermeneutics in the European Middle Ages."
A Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS) presentation.
Evening Events
Spring 2010
Klatch Jewish Arts Series Presentation
Monday, March 22 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Tyagan Miller, photographer, Bloomington, "A Place in the World"
http://www.tyaganmiller.com/
Monday, April 12 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Nancy Sinkoff, Associate Professor of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers, "The Fiction of History: Jewish Politics and Resistance in John Hersey's The Wall"
Special Events
Spring 2010
29th Annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference
Opening Programs, Sunday, April 11
Working Theme: Complicity
http://www.glhrc.org/
Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2010
Wednesday, February 10 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Victor Raskin, Professor, Department of English, Purdue University, "The Importance of Being Jewish"
Wednesday, March 10 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1222 ~ 12:30
Rebekah Klein-Pejsova, Jewish Studies Assistant Professor of History, Department of History, Purdue University, "The Strange Case of Rabbi Dr. Samuel Funk, Or, Jewish Nationality in Interwar Czechoslovakia"
Evening Events
Fall 2009
Monday, September 14 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 7:30 p.m.
"Medieval and Renaissance Studies Annual Symposium: Jews and Judaism in Medieval Europe"
Speakers: David Nirenberg, Deborah R. and Edgar D. Jannotta Professor of Medieval History and Social Thought, University of Chicago, "The Unbearable Jewishness of Being in Medieval Spain" and Andrew Scheil, Associate Professor of English, University of Minnesota, "Paradigms of Transition: Jews and the Discourse of Renewal in Anglo-Saxon England." Co-sponsored by the Departments of English and History, Interdisciplinary Studies, the Jewish Studies Program, and Medieval and Renaissance Studies (MARS), Purdue University.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/medieval-studies/events/
Special Events
Fall 2009
Philosophy Department Colloquium
Thursday, September 17 ~ BRNG 1268 ~ 4:30 p.m.
Marilyn Fischer, University of Dayton, "Interpreting a Murder with Addams and Mead."
2nd Annual Larry Axel Memorial Lecture
Tuesday, October 20 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Marjorie Suchocki, Claremont School of Theology, "The Promise of Incorporating the Art of Film into Theological Reflection."
Co-sponsored by the Purdue Religious Studies and Jewish Studies Programs.
http://www.cla.purdue.edu/experience/events/?e=20090005
History Department Colloquium
1989-2009: 20 Years After the Fall
Monday, November 9
Part I: 3pm-6pm ~ Lawson 1142
(lectures by Padraic Kennedy/IU, Julia Gray/Pittsburgh, Constantin Iordachi/Central European University)
Part II: 8pm ~ Krannert Auditorium
(film screening: A Kis Utazas [The Short Trip](Hungary, 2000) )
Colloquium outline
Thursday, November 19 ~ Stanley Coulter, Room G039 ~ 3:30
Sergio Chejfec, Jewish-Argentine writer and instructor, New York University, "Los motivos de una novela. Sobre Baroni: un viaje." (In Spanish)
http://parabolaanterior.wordpress.com/2009/01/26/on-baroni-a-journey/
Co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program, the Latin American and Latino Studies Program, and the School of Languages and Cultures.
Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2009
Wednesday, September 16 ~ Stewart Center, Room 318 ~ 12:30
Saul Lerner, Professor, Department of History and Political Science, Purdue Calumet, "Jewish Pirates of the Atlantic World."
Tuesday, October 20 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:00 noon (PLEASE NOTE DAY AND TIME.)
Alon Kantor, Continuing Lecturer (Modern Hebrew), School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Teaching Hebrew at Purdue."
Wednesday, November 18 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1255 ~ 12:30
Rabbi Dr. Daniel P. Aldrich, Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University, "Is An Alternative Capitalism Possible? Hints from Jewish and Japanese Thought."
Evening Events
Spring 2009
Monday, March 9 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Jeremy Popkin, Professor, Department of History, University of Kentucky, "Tales of Survival: From the Haitian Insurrection to the Holocaust." Co-sponsored by the Department of History and the Jewish Studies Program, Purdue University.
Special Events
Spring 2009
28th Annual Greater Lafayette Holocaust Remembrance Conference
March 29 - April 3, 2009
"Resisters, Rescuers, and Refugees"
http://www.glhrc.org/
Sunday, March 29, STEW 214, 2:40 p.m.
The Third Annual Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecture
Peter Fritzsche, Professor of History, University of Illinois, "Everywhere Friends Are Professing Themselves for Hitler: Why Was There So Little Resistance to the Third Reich?"
Sunday, March 29, STEW 214, 3:40 p.m.
Mitch Braff, Executive Director of the Jewish Partisans Educational Foundation, will discuss the history of the Partisans Resistance. He will also show a film about the Partisans.
Sunday, March 29, Krannert Auditorium, 7:30 p.m.
Panel discussion featuring survivors (Fritz Cohen, Joe Haberer, Johanna Gartenhaus) who have returned to their respective German home towns 60+ years later.
"Home Again? German Jews Return"
Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2009
Monday, February 9 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1284 ~ 12:30
Daniel Frank, Professor, Department of Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program Director, Purdue University, "The Politics of Fear: Idolatry and Superstition in Maimonides and Spinoza."
Wednesday, February 11 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
David Sanders, Associate Professor, Markey Center for Structural Biology, Department of Biological Sciences, Purdue University, "Muhammad, Joseph Smith, Hong Xiuquan and the Bible."
Wednesday, March 11 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1245 ~ 12:30
Jules Janick, James Troop Distinguished Professor in Horticulture, Department of Horticulture and Landscape Architecture, Purdue University, "Jonah, the Whale, and the Gourd at Nineveh."
Wednesday, April 15 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1245 ~ 12:30
Richard Moss, Graduate Student, Department of History, Purdue University, "The American Jewish Tercentenary and the Roots of a New Ethnic Paradigm."
Evening Events
Fall 2008
Monday, September 22 ~ Stewart Center, Room 310 ~ 8:00 p.m.
Anita Norich, Professor, English and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, "How Tevye Learned to Fiddle."
Special Events
Fall 2008
The Larry Axel Memorial Lectureship in Religion
Monday, November 10 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Michael Berenbaum, Professor of Jewish Studies and Director of the Sigi Ziering Institute for the Study of the Holocaust and Ethics, American Jewish University, "Jewish Life Under Attack: The Role of the Synagogue in Nazi Germany between 1933 and 1938."
Monday, November 17, Room TBA, starting at 7:00 PM:
Estelle Tarica, Associate Professor of Spanish at UC-Berkeley, currently Visiting Associate Professor this year at Northwestern University, will present: "Sum or Synthesis? The Holocaust Remembered in Post-Dictatorship Argentina."
Brad Prager, Associate Professor of German at the University of Missouri, also currently Visiting Associate Professor this year at Northwestern University, will present: "A History of Violence: Screening Wartime Suffering in Recent German Cinema."
These two talks are sponsored by the School of Languages and Cultures, the Department of History, and the interdisciplinary programs in Jewish Studies and Film/Video Studies.
Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2008
Wednesday, September 3 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Wendy Flory, Professor, English, Purdue University, "The Search: A Graphic Novel for Teaching the Holocaust in Europe."
Wednesday, October 29 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1222~ 12:30
(Please note date and location change!)
Joseph Haberer, Professor Emeritus, Political Science, Purdue University, "The Story of Shofar: An Editor's Personal Account."
Wednesday, November 12 ~ Stewart Center, Room 214D ~ 12:30
Ashley M. Hebda, Winner of the 2008 Edward Simon Barzillai Lodge No. 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, "Land of Anti-Semitism? Home of the Brave: The Transformation of Jewish America during World War II."
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