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“Writing the Ghosts of Eastern Europe”
Wednesday, October 21, 2009 , 4:30 pm
Olin Language Center, Room 115
Three authors discuss their recent work on the East European past and its legacy today
Laimonas Briedis is a native of Vilnius, Lithuania educated in Canada. He received his doctorate from the University of British Columbia and was a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Toronto. His book Vilnius: City of Strangers has just been published.
Daniel Mendelsohn, Charles Ranlett Flint Professor of Humanities, is the author of the bestseller The Lost: A Search for Six of Six Million, which was awarded many honors including the National Book Critics' Circle Award and the National Jewish Book Award.
Jonathan Brent is Visiting Alger Hiss Professor of History and Literature and Executive Director of the YIVO Institute for Jewish Research. He founded Yale University Press’ landmark Annals of Communism series and recently published Inside the Stalin Archives: Discovering the New Russia.
A Reading by Poet Samuel Menashe
Tuesday, May 5, 2009 , 5:00 pm - 7:00 pm
Bard Hall, Bard College Campus
The Institute for Advanced Theology, The Hannah Arendt Center for Ethical and Political Thinking at Bard College, The Jewish Studies Program, and The Human Rights Project at Bard College
Invite you to join us for a Poetry Reading and Discussion Led by
Samuel Menashe
Samuel Menashe was the first the Winner of the Poetry Foundation of America's "Neglected Master's" Award in 2004. His latest collection New and Selected Poems is published by the Library of America.
Social Status in the (Post-) Soviet Shtetl
Monday, December 1, 2008 , 7:00 pm
Olin LC Room 115
A Report on Recent Fieldwork in Ukraine given by Anna Kushkova, Petersburg Judaica Center, European University, St. Petersburg, Russia
Anna Kushkova is engaged in Jewish field research in the former shtetlekh (small towns) of contemporary Ukraine. Her presentation will include video excerpts from materials recorded in 2005-08 in the towns of Tulchin, Balta, and Mogilev-Podol’sky.
Dr. Kushkova received her PhD from the Institute of Anthropology and Ethnography,
Russian Academy of Sciences. She is the author of 30 publications in Russian and English.
"Trembling on the Road"
Tuesday, November 18, 2008 , 8:00 pm
Preston Hall Cinema
Rabbi Steve Greenberg will be screening his documentary, "Trembling on the Road", based on his acclaimed feature "Trembling Before G-D".
Rabbi Greenberg will lead a discussion following the screening
"An Invisible Country"
Wednesday, November 12, 2008 , 7:00 pm
Olin, Room 102
Stephan Wackwitz will read from An Invisible Country, his memoir about growing up in the shadow of Auschwitz. The author of two novels and an essay collection, Dr. Wackwitz is also the Deputy Director in charge of programming at the Goethe Institute, New York.
The event is free and open to the public and is co-sponsored by the German Department and the Jewish Studies Program. The reading will be in English and will be followed by a
discussion with the audience.
The Judiciary in the Context of Israeli Politics
Thursday, October 16, 2008 , 7:00 pm
Olin, Room 102
Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law at Boston University, is an authority on constitutional law – in both the United States and Israel. A graduate of the Hebrew University (L.L. B.)
and Yale (L.L.M., J.S.D.), Lahav has held fellowships and visiting professorships at leading institutions in the United States, Europe and Israel. Perhaps best known for Judgment in Jerusalem: Chief Justice Simon Agranat and the Zionist Century (University of California Press,1997; winner of several prizes), she has also authored some fifty other publications, and lectured extensively, on topics such as: women’s rights, law in multi-ethnic societies, political trials, as well as the strengths and limitations of the Israeli courts in maintaining justice in the Palestinian occupied territories.
A Just Zionism
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Bard College Campus
Chaim Gans is a political philosopher and member of the Faculty of Law at Tel Aviv University. He has studied the moral justifications that can be offered for some types of
nationalism (and multiculturalism)—and the limits of those justifications (/The Limits of Nationalism, /Cambridge University Press, 2003). This year, he published /A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish State /(Oxford University Press, 2008). In this book he
examines which claims of Zionism and the State of Israel can be supported by “considerations of distributive justice and considerations of remedial justice” and which
cannot.
Andreas Føllesdal is a philosopher at the University of Oslo, Director of the Ethics Programme of the University and Research Director at the Norwegian Center for Human
Rights, Oslo University Law School.
Joel Perlmann teaches history and sociology at Bard College, including courses on the Arab-Israel conflict and American ethnicity.
Sponsored by the Human Rights, Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies programs at Bard College.
Genocide, Diaspora and Homeland: Comparing Jewish and Armenian Survivor Communities in 20th Century France
Monday, March 17, 2008 , 7:00 pm - 9:00 pm
Olin, Room 102
Professor Maud Mandel
Brown University
During World War I and World War II respectively, Turkish attacks against Armenians and Nazi persecution of European Jewry seemed to underscore the impossibility of modern nation-states tolerating ethnic minorities in their midsts. Yet in the aftermath of genocide Armenian and Jewish survivor communities often remained just that, minorities within nation-states. This talk will focus on France, where survivors of both groups had to come to terms with the recent onslaught against their fundamental human rights while fashioning a place for themselves within the French state. In what ways--if at all--did genocide influence survivors' religious, ethnic, and national affiliations? How did they assess the feasibility of living as national minorities after an attack on their status as such? And how did their conceptions of homeland and Diaspora shift as a result?
Maud Mandel is Associate Professor of Judaic Studies and History at Brown University. Her monograph In the Aftermath of Genocide: Armenians and Jews in Twentieth Century France, was published by Duke University Press. Her current book project is entitled Beyond Antisemitism: Muslims and Jews in Contemporary France.
Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program and the Human Rights Project
Michal Govrin in conversation with Norman Manea
Thursday, November 8, 2007 , 7:00 pm
Olin, Room 102
Michal Govrin
in conversation with Norman Manea
on her latest novel SNAPSHOTS
Michal Govrin, a novelist, poet, and theater director, chairs the theater department of Emunah College, Jerusalem. Among her works in English are her novel, The Name (Penguin-Riverhead, 1998) and Body of Prayer (Cooper Union, 2001), a dialogue with poet and architect David
Shapiro and philosopher Jacques Derrida. Snapshots received Israel's 2003 AKUM Prize, and has just been published in English by Penguin-Riverhead
One recent review described Snapshots as "an acclaimed and controversial novel about love, war, the devastation of loss, and trying to find oneself when the world is in chaos. After her death in a car accident, a childhood friend is asked to translate the notes and journals of feminist architect Ilana Tzuriel. In the process, the friend uncovers a secret life of deep passions and conflicts. A lyrical and poetic look at the impact of one woman against the torrents of history, Snapshots is also a novel about Israel that asks, where is the nation heading and what is it becoming? Who are its people becoming and how will they be defined -- not only by the world at large, but by themselves?"
"Soundtrack of a Zeitgeist: Weimar-Era Songs of the Stage and Screen"
Sunday, November 4, 2007 , 3:00 pm
Olin Hall
Libby Shapiro, vocals, with Jed Distler, piano
Featuring selections by:
Bertolt Brecht
Franz Doelle
Roger Fernay
Robert Gilbert
Friedrich Hollaender
Marcellus Schiffer
Kurt Weill
Open to the Public & Free of Charge!
Singer and actress Libby Shapiro attended Bard College from 1980-82. "[Her] voice is a gift from heaven,” wrote the Suddeutsche Zeitung of Munich, Germany. A connoisseur of popular song in English, German, and French—spanning many decades and even centuries with a special interest in the 1920s and ‘30s—she is known for her wit, warmth, and rapport with the audience, whether in intimate clubs, large concert halls, or theaters. She has performed in and/or given voice to a wide range of projects in the United States and Europe, embracing dramatic theater and musical theater, documentary film and radio commercials, installation art at the Whitney Museum of American Art and comedy on German TV. Her repertoire includes songs from film, the stage, and dance orchestras to chanson, pop, country, swing/Big Band, and folk. Shapiro’s New York appearances include venues such as the Jewish Museum, La Mama, Fez under Time Café, and the Cornelia Street Café; in Germany and France, she has performed with the Mickey Katz Orchestra with special guest Giora Feidman, the New Classic Jazz Quartet, and Hatshepsut, among others. She is fondly remembered in Germany from her two years as Zelda with the nationally acclaimed music comedy trio die Blauen Engel, which performed on countless stages from Berlin’s legendary Bar Jeder Vernunft to the Alte Oper Frankfurt and the Hamburger Kammerspielen.