University of California, Santa Cruz, Emeriti group presents Emeriti Faculty Lecture by Peter Kenez, Professor of History, Co-Holder of Neufield-Levin Chair in Holocaust Studies UC Santa Cruz March 15, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information A Holocaust survivor and […]
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Music of the Holocaust, Exile, and Resistance: Class Concert
February 29, 2012 | 11:00 AM-2:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Music Center, Room 131, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Quartet for the end of times, 5th movement (1941) Olivier Messiaen (1908-1992) Irene Herrmann – cello Ittai Rosenbaum – piano S’bernt (1938) Mordekhai Gebirtig (1877-1942) Liz Baseman – voice […]
Hagi Kenaan: "What Makes an Image Ethical?"
February 27, 2012 | 7:00-9:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Communications Building, Studio C, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Hagi Kenaan (Ph.D, Yale University 1995) is an associate professor in the Department of Philosophy, Tel Aviv University. He specializes in continental philosophy, phenomenology, and the philosophy of art. In […]
Ory Amitay: "Mary, Paulina and Fulvia: Allegorical History in Josephus’ Antiquities 1853-84"
February 23, 2012 | 12:00-2:00 PM | Free & Open to the Public Cowell Conference Room, UC Santa Cruz Directions and Parking Information Ory Amitay is Professor of History at the University of Haifa. This event is made possible from generous contributions from the Classical Studies Program, the Center for Jewish Studies, the […]
ChaeRan Freeze: “Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova”
Prof. ChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies.
Emanuela Trevisan-Semi: "Why Jews left Morocco: Different Narratives"
Emanuela Trevisan Semi is professor of Modern Hebrew and Jewish Studies at Ca’ Foscari University in Venice (Italy). She has done research about Jews at the margins (karaites, Jews of Ethiopia, Judaising movements) and mizrahim in Israel. She has recentely published […]
Jonathan Boyarin: "Trickster’s Children: Jewishness and the Generations of Anthropology"
Jonathan Boyarin is the Leonard and Tobee Kaplan Distinguished Professor of Modern Jewish Thought at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill. His research and writing combine his backgrounds in anthropology and Yiddish culture to point toward new […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: "Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement"
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. […]
Allen Wells: "Lives in the Balance: The United States, the Dominican Republic and the Rescue of Jews during World War II "
Initially supportive of the Dominican dictator Rafael Trujillo’s offer to accept 100,000 Jews at the 1938 Evian Conference, Washington began to back away from its ringing endorsement soon after a succession of German victories throughout Western Europe during the […]
Iraqi-Born Israeli Bringing Jewish Mid-East Music to UCSC
International composer, violinist, oud player, and singer Yair Dalal to present concert and lecture on campus, February 2-3, 2012. “Living in Conflict” is a recent documentary film about five Israeli Jewish and Palestinian people, who use art, science, music and poetry as a way of surviving conflict in a region full of constant tension, violence, […]