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
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 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures.
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), Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 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 Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures, 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."