Spring 2008 Calendar of Events
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2008 Atlanta Jewish Film Festival
The Atlanta Jewish Film Festival (AJFF) has established itself as one of the largest and most respected film arts events of its kind. In response to overwhelming audience demand, the AJFF has expanded to 12 days, offering more opportunities to experience this incredible collection of evocative films. The 2008 AJFF will showcase an unprecedented 47 films representing 16 countries.
January 16-27, 2008
For a full line-up and schedule of films, along with ticket information, please visit the AJFF website.
"Embodied Minds: Toward an Ethics of the Body in Saul Bellow"
Professor Miriam Udel-Lambert of the Department of German Studies and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies will present a talk as part of the Tam Institute's ongoing 2007-2008 seminar series.
Friday, January 25th, 2008
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Candler Library 212
Lunch is provided to those who RSVP to (404) 727-6301
"Was Communism a Jewish Conspiracy? Why So Many Communists Were Jews and So Few Jews Were Communists"
Zvi Gitelman, Tisch Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Political Science at University of Michigan will present a talk as part of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies' ongoing 2007-2008 seminar series.
Co-sponsored by the Center for Russian and East European Studies (REES).
Friday, February 8th, 2008
12:30 p.m.-2:00 p.m.
Candler Library 212
Lunch is provided to those who RSVP to (404) 727-6301
"Traumatic Psychosis: Narrative Forms of the Muted Witnesses"
A lecture by Dori Laub, Associate Clinical Professor of Psychiatry at Yale University School Medicine and Director of Psychiatric Residency Training at Connecticut Valley Hospital.
Co-sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Friday, February 15th, 2008
2:30 p.m.-4:00
p.m.
Callaway Center, Room S423 (ILA Conference Room)
"The Strange Career of Hebrew Literature in America: An Emerging Group Portrait"
A lecture by Professor Alan Mintz. Mintz is the Chana Keist Professor of Hebrew Literature and chair of the Department of Jewish Literature at the Jewish Theological Seminary. Dr. Mintz is the author of Popular Culture and the Shaping of the Holocaust Memory in America and Translating Israel: The Reception of Hebrew Literature in America. He is also the founder of Response magazine.
Co-sponsored by the Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies department and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
5:30-7:00 p.m.
S319 Callaway
"The Aftermath. Living with Memories of the Holocaust"
Dr. Ruth Klüger, Professor Emeritus of German Literature at UC-Irvine, met the beginnings of the Nazi persecution in her hometown Vienna. Klüger and her mother survived Auschwitz-Birkenau; her half-brother and her father were killed in the Holocaust. After the war, Klüger and her mother moved to the United States where Klüger became a renowned professor of German languages and literature at Princeton and later UC-Irvine. For this lecture, Klüger will read and discuss samples of her soon to be published collection of autobiographical essays in her own English translation. Dr. Klüger's books will be available for purchase at this event. A book signing will follow the reading.
Sponsored by the departments of German Studies, Jewish Studies, Women's Studies, ILA, and History
Monday, February 25th, 2008
6:00 p.m.-8:00 p.m.
White Hall 110
"Ukraine: The Holocaust by Bullets"
An interview with Father Patrick Desbois. During World War II, an estimated 1.5 million Jewish men, women, and children were brutally murdered in the Ukraine. Their killers-Germans, Axis collaborators, and local Ukranians- carried this out not in the gas chambers of Poland, but by bullets in tiny villages across Ukraine. This program addresses the fate of Jews buried in mass graves across Ukraine through the lens of Father Patrick Desbois, interviewer of surviving eyewitnesses and participants in mass shootings in that country. He is the president of Yahad-In Unum, which was cofounded by the Archbishop of Paris and the head of the World Jewish Congress to promote Jewish-Catholic dialogue, joint social relief programs, and common moral values throughout Europe. Paul A. Shapiro, Director of the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum's Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, will interview Father Desbois in this program.
Sponsored by the Emory University Center for Ethics, Global Perspectives Program of Goizueta Business School, and the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies.
Co-sponsors include the Emory Aquinas Center of Theology, the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, the Graduate Division of Religion, and Candler School of Theology
Wednesday, February 27th, 2008
4:00 p.m.
Goizueta Business School, Room 130
"The Battle for Armageddon: David, Solomon and the Early Israelite Monarchy as Viewed from Megiddo"
A lecture by Prof. Tim Harrison, University of Toronto
Thursday, February 28th, 2008
Carlos Museum Reception Hall
"The Wrathful God: Religious Extremism in Comparative Perspective"
21 outstanding scholars from the fields of Judaism, Christianity, Islam, and other world religions will examine religious extremism through a new comparative perspective. This conference will examine the conceptual language of extremist discourses in world religions and the factors that contribute to the development of extremist worldviews. Particular attention will be devoted to the monotheistic or "Abrahamic" traditions of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam as posing the greatest potential for violence toward the religious other and as challenging liberal and secular ideologies of pluralism and self-determination. However, varieties of non-Abrahamic religious extremism, such as Hindu and Buddhist extremism, will also be examined for comparative purposes.
Sponsored by the Institute for Comparative and International Studies, the Religion, Conflict, and Peacebuilding Initiative, the Department of Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies, and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies
March 3-5, 2008
3rd Floor Reception Hall, Michael C. Carlos Museum
Full Lineup of Speakers
Mediterranean Archaeology Lecture Series
"Mapping Sacrifice on Bodies, Spaces, and Art in Ancient Judaism and Early Christianity." Lecture by Joan R. Branham, Associate Professor of Art History, Providence College Visiting Associate Professor of Early Christianity and Judaism, and Acting Director of Women's Studies in Religion Program, Harvard Divinity School.
Sponsored by Emory's Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department. Co-sponsored by the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies.
Tuesday, March 18th, 2008
White Hall 103
7:00 p.m.
"My Father's Country: Story of a German Family"
Author and journalist Wibke Bruhns will present a lecture as part of the German Studies 2008 Speaker Series.
Co-sponsored by Jewish Studies, Women's Studies, ILA, and the History department.
Wednesday, March 26th, 2008
6:00 p.m. - 8:00 p.m.
White Hall 206
"If Jews Themselves are Divided, How Can We Decide?: American Protestants Respond to Zionism, 1938-1948"
Caitlin Stewart of the Emory University History department, will present a talk as part of the Tam Institute of Jewish Studies' ongoing 2007-2008 seminar series.
Friday, March 28th, 2008
Candler Library 212
11:30 a.m.-1:00 p.m.
Lunch is provided to those who RSVP to (404) 727-6301
"The Deep Water Phoenician Shipwrecks Off Ashkelon"
A lecture by Prof. Daniel Master, Wheaton College
Thursday, April 10th, 2008
White Hall 103
7:00 p.m.
Lockmiller Series: "Narrative Form and Historical Sensibility: On Saul Friedlander's The Years of Extermination"
A lecture by Prof. Alon Confino, Professor of Modern German and European History and the Director of the Jewish Studies Program at the University of Virginia. He has written extensively on memory, nationhood, and historical method. Confino received his B.A. from Tel Aviv University and his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. He is the author of The Nation As a Local Metaphor: Württemberg, Imperial Germany, and National Memory, 1871–1918 (Chapel Hill, 1997), winner of the Smith Book Prize of the Southern Historical Association, Germany as a Culture of Remembrance: Promises and Limits of Writing History (Chapel Hill, 2006) and the forthcoming Foundational Pasts: An Essay on the Holocaust and Historical Understanding. He is the co-editor of The Work of Memory: New Directions in the Study of German Society and Culture (2002) and Between Mass Death and Individual Loss: The Place ofthe Dead in Twentieth-Century Germany (forthcoming, 2008). Confi no spent the 2006-7 academic year as a visiting professor at Tel Aviv University and the Hebrew University. He has received grants from the Fulbright Program, DAAD, Humboldt Foundation, Social Science Research Council, Israel Academy of Sciences, Lady Davis Foundation, and the Institute for Advanced Studies at the Hebrew University.
Co-sponsored by the Department of German Studies, The Graduate Institute for Liberal Arts (ILA), the Graduate School, and the Tam Institute for Jewish Studies. Readings are available in the History Department, 221 Bowden Hall, or through the Woodruff Library on-line electronic reserve under HIST 998, Instructor: Dr. Gyan Pandey.
Monday, April 28th, 2008
Bowden Hall 323
2:00 p.m. - 3:30 p.m.
2008 Tenenbaum Family Lecture Series
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