Past Events

Evening Events
Spring 2008

Wednesday, February 27 ~ Stewart Center, Room 206 ~ 7:30 p.m.
David Ofek (Israeli filmmaker) will screen and discuss his award-winning film, "#17 is Anonymous." Co-sponsored by the School of Languages and Cultures and the Jewish Studies Program at Purdue.

Monday, March 31 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00 p.m.
Benjamin and Margaret Karp, School of Music, University of Kentucky, "An Evening of Jewish Music."

Special Events
Spring 2008

Ben and Louise Klatch Jewish Art Series
Nina Haft, visiting artist in dance
Thursday, March 20, 7:00 p.m., Pao Hall, dance studio 1179
"36 Jewish Gestures"
Nina will present a solo dance performance/lecture/discussion of her work.
Reception following.

Monday, April 7 ~ BRNG 1222 ~ 12:00 p.m.
Debra Kaufman, Department of Sociology, Northeastern University, "Contemporary Post-Holocaust Narratives: Some Gender Differences."
Co-sponsored by the Women's Studies and Jewish Studies Programs at Purdue.

Holocaust Remembrance Conference: "Lives Interrupted"
April 6-10, 2008
http://www.glhrc.org/

Sunday, April 6, 2:30-5:30 ~ STEW 214
Christopher Browning (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill), The Second Annual Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecturer, "Remembering Survival: Post-War Testimonies from the Starachowice Factory Slave Labor Camps."
Debra Kaufman (Northeastern University), "The Holocaust and Contemporary Jewish Identity."
Joseph Haberer (Purdue University), "On Kindertransports."

Sunday, April 6, 7:30 ~ Loeb Theater, STEW
Mona Golabek (pianist and author), "The Children of Willesden Lane," Oral Interpretation and Piano Performance.

Wednesday, April 9, 7:30 ~ Krannert Auditorium
Janet Afary (Purdue University), "The Holocaust Debate Inside Iran."

Michael Chabon (Pulitzer Prize-winning author of The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay and other novels) will give a reading, free and open to the public, at 8:00 p.m. April 15 in Loeb Playhouse.

Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2008

Wednesday, February 6 ~ Stewart Center, Room 320 ~ 12:30
Ana M. Gomez-Bravo, Director of Graduate Studies and Associate Professor, Spanish, Purdue University, "Jewish Disclosure and Converso Authorship in Late Medieval Spanish Literary Culture."

Wednesday, March 19 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Rebecca Nicholson-Weir, Graduate student, English, Purdue University, "Dangerous Illusions: Moses and the Wandering Jew in Paul Wegener's Der Golem."

Wednesday, April 2 ~ PMU, Room 256 ~ 12:30
Alisha Erin Heavilon, College of Liberal Arts Senior (Creative and Professional Writing) and Winner of the 2007 Edward Simon B'nai B'rith Barzillai Lodge No. 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, "Israeli Attitudes toward the Holocaust and Holocaust Survivors."

Evening Events
Fall 2007

Monday, September 24 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8-9:30 p.m.
Norman M. Finkelstein, Professor of English, Xavier University, "The Sacred, the Secular, and the Book: The Problem of the Jewish Literary Imagination."

Monday, October 22 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8-9:30 p.m.
Neil R. Davison, Associate Professor of English, Oregon State University, "Hemingway's Jewish Boxer: Racial Ambivalence and Weak Muscle-Jews."

Special Events
Fall 2007

Thursday, September 13 ~ Matthews Hall, Room 210
Kate Bernheimer, University of Alabama, author of two novels based on German, Russian, and Yiddish fairy tales, will present a reading at 7:30 p.m.
Co-sponsored by the Creative Writing and Jewish Studies Programs.

Thursday, November 8 ~ Lafayette Room, PMU, room 230 ~ 3:30 p.m.
Rachel Einwohner, Associate Professor of Sociology
Fellow, Center for Behavioral and Social Sciences
"The Need to Know: Explaining Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, and Lodz"
Wednesday, December 5 ~ Lafayette Room, PMU, room 230 ~ 3:30 p.m.
Daniel Morris, Professor of English
Fellow, Center for Humanistic Studies
"Weegee's 'Nation' "
Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2007

Wednesday, August 22 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Jennifer L. Foray, Assistant Professor, History, Purdue University, "Beyond the Diary: The History and Legacy of Anne Frank."

Wednesday, September 19 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Shari Troy, Assistant Professor, Theatre History, IPFW, "Pesach in Havana 2006: A Cuban Odyssey."

Wednesday, October 17 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1232 ~ 12:30
Becka Alper, Graduate student, Sociology, Purdue University, "Avoiding Shaigetz and Shiksappeal: Factors Affecting Jewish Identity Maintenance."

Wednesday, November 14 ~ Stewart Center, Room 214A ~ 12:30
Monica Osborne, Graduate student, English, Purdue University, "No Poetry After Auschwitz?: Midrash as Aesthetic Loophole."

Evening Events
Spring 2007

Monday, March 19 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8-9:30pm
Steven Weitzman, Irving M. Glazer Chair of Jewish Studies, Indiana University Bloomington, "Readers of the Lost Ark: Ancient Clues about the Lost Treasures of the Temple."

Special Events
Spring 2007

Wednesday, May 23 ~ Beering Hall, Room 1284 ~ 7:30 p.m.
Helgard Kramer, Professor, Sociology and Gender Studies, Freie Universitat Berlin. "Holocaust Perpetrators and Gender Relations in Nazi Germany."
Co-sponsored by the Purdue University Women's Studies and Jewish Studies Programs.

Friday, February 9 ~ Beering Hall, Room 2275 ~ 2:00-4:00pm
Daniel Morris, Professor, Department of English, Purdue University, "Against Assimilation: Diane Arbus' Photographs as Mirrors with Memories."

Guy Stern, Distinguished Professor of German and Slavic Studies, Wayne State University, "My Marlene."
Thurs., March 8, 2007
3:00--5:30 p.m., lecture & screening
5:30-6:00 p.m., discussion & reception
Stanley Coulter 239

26th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Conference
March 1-8, 2007
The Holocaust: A 21st Century Perspective
A Window on the Past and a Vision for the Future

Keynote speakers:
Sunday, March 4, 2007, 3:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 214, Purdue University
Professor Jan T. Gross
Author of Neighbors: The Destruction of the Jewish Community in Jedwabne, Poland
The First Annual Rabbi Gedalyah Engel Lecturer
"Reflections on the Frightening Legacy of the Holocaust"

Sunday, March 4, 2007, 4:30 p.m.
Stewart Center, Room 214, Purdue University
Professor Charles Small
Director, President, and Founder of the Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism and Policy, Yale University
Lecture title TBA.

More information regarding the 26th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Conference will be posted as it becomes available.
http://www.glhrc.org

Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2007

Wednesday, January 24 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Dara Hill, Graduate student, Philosophy and Jewish Studies, Purdue University, "Regina Jonas: The First Female Rabbi."

Wednesday, February 28 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Joyce Field, volunteer, JewishGen VP, Data Acquisition, "The Genealogical Value of Yizkor Books."

Wednesday, March 7 ~ Stewart Center, Room 311 ~ 12:30
Stuart Robertson, Continuing Lecturer, Purdue University, "The Bible and its Early Interpreters" and "Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity": Prolegomena to Two New Jewish Studies Courses.

Wednesday, March 28 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Maren Linett, Assistant Professor of English, Purdue University, "Inauthenticity and the Modernist 'Jew'."

Wednesday, April 18 ~ Stewart Center, Room 313 ~ 12:30
Thomas Ryba, Notre Dame Theologian in Residence, St. Thomas Aquinas Center, Purdue University, "Bloody Logic: The Biblical Economy of Sacrificial Substitution and Some of Its Eucharistic Implications."

Evening Events
Fall 2006

Monday, September 18 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00-9:30pm
Steven Kellman, Professor of Comparative Literature, University of Texas at San Antonio, "Living on Writer's Block: Henry Roth and American Literature."

Monday, October 23 ~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 7:30-9:00pm
Alicia Ostriker, Professor Emerita of English, Rutgers University, "The Nakedness of the Fathers: Contemporary Midrash as Window and Mirror."

Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2006

Wednesday, August 23 ~ Stewart Center, Room 318 ~ 12:30
Daniel Frank, Professor of Philosophy and Director of the Purdue Jewish Studies Program, "Idolatry and the Love of Appearances."

Wednesday, September 20 ~ Stewart Center, Room 218A ~ 12:30
Miriam Joyce, Professor of History, Purdue Calumet, "King Hussein and Israel, 1953-1994: A Complex Tale."

Wednesday, October 18 ~ Matthews Hall, Room 304 ~ 12:30
Jennifer William, Assistant Professor of German, Purdue University, "Education or Entertainment? Hollywood's Influence on German Holocaust Film."

Wednesday, November 15 ~ Stewart Center, Room 214A ~ 12:30
Allison Baumhart, winner of the 2006 Edward Simon B'nai B'rith Barzillai Lodge 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, will present her paper, "Why Did the Polish Holocaust Occur?"

Evening Events
Spring 2006

Monday, February 27~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00-9:30pm
Zev Garber, Department of Judaic Studies, Los Angeles Valley College and Co-editor of Shofar, "Is There a Redeeming Voice? Theological Reflections on Job 38-41 and Matthew 27."

Monday, April 10~ Krannert Auditorium ~ 8:00-9:30pm
Rabbi Michael A. Signer, Abrams Professor of Jewish Thought and Culture and Director of the Notre Dame Holocaust Project, Department of Theology, University of Notre Dame, "The Bible of Jews and Christians during the 12th Century: Rashi and the Victorines."

25th Annual Holocaust Remembrance Conference
Spring 2006

Noon Series Lectures
Spring 2006

Wednesday, January 25 ~ Stewart Center, Room 214A~ 12:30
Donald W. Mitchell, Professor, Department of Philosophy, Purdue University, "Forty Years After Nostra Aetate: Eavesdropping on Jewish-Catholic Conversations at the Gregorian."

Wednesday, February 22 ~ Pao Hall for Visual and Performing Arts Building, Room B157 ~ 12:30
Christopher A. La Cross, Graduate student, School of Languages and Cultures, Purdue University, "Jewish Communities in Bavaria Today: Interviews with Community Leaders."

Wednesday, April 19 ~ Pao Hall for Visual and Performing Arts Building, Room B157~ 12:30
Rachel L. Einwohner, Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Purdue University, "Explaining Jewish Resistance in the Ghettos of Warsaw, Vilna, and Lodz."

Evening Events
Fall 2005

Wednesday, November 2~ Krannert Auditorium, KRAN, room 140 ~ 8:00-9:30pm
Shimshon Zelniker, Director, Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem, Israel, "Israel and World Politics: Reflections on the Post-Oslo and Post-Gaza Situation"

Monday, November 7 ~ Rawls Hall, room 1086 ~ 8:00-9:30pm
Leslie Epstein, Director, Creative Writing Program, Boston University, "Full Circle: Leaving Hollywood and Jewishness and Coming Back Again"

Friday, November 11 ~ Beering Hall, room B268 ~ 2:00-4:00pm
Daniel Morris, Professor of English and Assistant Head at Purdue, "On Aesthetics and Identity: Marjorie Perloff's Vienna Paradox"

Noon Series Lectures
Fall 2005

Wednesday, August 24 ~ Stewart Center, room 318 ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Daniel Frank, Professor of Philosophy at Purdue and Director of the Purdue Jewish Studies Program, "Meet the New Director."

Wednesday, September 7 ~ Stewart Center, room 214A ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Michelle Carreon, winner of the 2004-2005 Edward Simon B'nai B'rith Barzillai Lodge 111 Prize in Jewish Studies, will present her paper, "Jewishness within the Realm of American Independent Film: An Analysis of Identity and Film as Activism."

Wednesday, September 21 ~ Rawls Hall, room 2077 ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Edward Simon, Professor of Biology at Purdue, "Wanna Bet? Gambling in Jewish Law and Lore."

Wednesday, October 12 ~ Stewart Center, room 214A ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Gordon Mork, Professor of History at Purdue, "The News from Berlin: Germans and the Holocaust Memorial."

Wednesday, November 16 ~ Stewart Center, room 313 ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Laura Shumar, graduate student in the Department of History at Purdue, "Resources and Responsibilities: Learning and Preserving Indiana's Jewish History"

Wednesday, November 30 ~ Stewart Center, room 313 ~ 12:30-1:30 pm
Fritz Cohen, Professor Emeritus, School of Languages and Cultures, "Back to the Land."

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