Calendar of Events
SPRING SEMESTER, 2010
April 15, 2010
8:00 P.M.: UVA Klezmer Ensemble, Spring 2010 concert
FALL SEMESTER, 2009
August 26, 2009
Menachem Blondheim (Hebrew University)
12:00-1:30 P.M., lunch seminar (Colloquium Series), Newcomb Hall 481
September 23-24, 2009
Roberto Dainotto (Duke)
9/23, 12:00-1:30 P.M., Seminar: The Jewish Risorgimento (Colloquium Series) - NHL Kaleidoscope Room
9/24, 4:30-6:00 P.M., Lecture: Jazz in Fascist Italy - NHL Kaleidoscope
October 1, 2009
Benjamin Lazier (Reed College)
10/1, 12:00-1:30 P.M.: Seminar - NHL - Boardroom
10/1, 4:30-6:00 P.M.: Lecture: "God Interrupted, Earth Undone: From Theology to Technology in Twentieth Century Thought" - NHL - Boardroom
October 7, 2009
Klaus Hoedl (Center für jüdische Studien, Graz)
10/7, 12:00-1:30 P.M.: Seminar (colloquium Series): Perfomance in Jewish Historiography.
10/7, 4:30-6:00 P.M.: Lecture: Jews, Popular Culture and Anti-Semitism in late 19th Century Vienna.
October 12-13, 2009
Eric Santner
10/12, 3:00-5:00 P.M.: Harrison Institute Auditorium (the Special Collections Library): "The People's Two Bodies: Modernity and the Endgames of Sovereignty."
10/13,12:00-2:00 P.M.: Seminar, Brown College.
October 25-November 1, 2009
Naomi Seidman (GTU), Posen Scholar in residence
10/27, 4:30-6:00 P.M.: Lecture: "Faithful Renderings: Jewish-Christian Difference and the Politics of Translation," Kaleidoscope Room
10/28, 12:00-1:30 P.M.: Seminar, Colloquium Series: "Sexuality, Secularization, and the Rise of Modern Jewish Literature," Kaleidoscope Room
10/29, 4:30-6:00 P.M.: Lecture: "Sexual Politics of the Hebrew Revival," Kaleidoscope Room
November 2-3, 2009
Jonathan Hess
11/2, 4:30-6:00 P.M.: Lecture: "Under the Sword of the Spanish Inquisition: Middlebrow Literature and the Making of German-Jewish Identity."
11/3, 12:00-1:30 P.M.: Program Director’s meeting with Jewish Studies Faculty
November 5, 2009
Peter Cole (Award Winning Poet and Translator)
November 15, 2009
3:30 P.M.: UVA Klezmer Ensemble, Fall 2009 concert
SPRING SEMESTER, 2009
February 4, 2009
Greg Schmidt Goering, Department of Religious Studies
"Visual and Aural Modes of Perception in Jewish Wisdom Literature"
February 23, 2009
Bernard Cooperman, Louis L. Kaplan Associate Professor of Jewish History
University of Maryland, College Park
"New Accounts of Old Libels—Jews, Christians and the Practice of History"
March 11, 2009
Manuela Achilles, Department of German Languages and Literatures and Department of History
"Democrat, Martyr, Jew: Walther Rathenau in the Weimar Republic"
March 19, 2009
Etgar Keret
"Contemporary Israeli Literature: The Work of Etgar Keret in English Translation"
April 1, 2009
Anat Helman, Schusterman Visiting Israeli Professor
"Fashion, Anti-Fashion, and Ideology in 1950s Israel"
April 2, 2009
Ingrid Kisliuk
Class Visit
April 5, 2009
Klezmer Ensemble Spring 2009 Concert
April 6, 2009
Tamar Liebes Colloquium: “Eichmann on the Air: Radio and Holocaust Memory in Israel”
April 7, 2009
Roundtable Talk with Gavriel Rosenfeld, Alon Confino, and Jeffrey Olick: "The Future of Memory Studies"
April 8, 2009
A Luncheon with Gavriel Rosenfeld: "“Building After Auschwitz: Jewish Architecture and Jewish Memory
since the Holocaust"
April 13, 2009
Anat Helman
Lecture: “Sand Dreams, Urban Realities: The Early History of Tel Aviv”
April 14, 2009
Gidi Reuveni
Lecture: “Is It Kosher to Talk about Jews with Money?”
April 16, 2009
Vanessa Ochs, Anat Helman, and Erika Meitner
Jews and Fashion Panel
April 21, 2009
Michele Ohayon
Film Screening: “Steal A Pencil For Me”
April 20, 2009
Michele Ohayon
Workshop: “History on Film”
FALL SEMESTER, 2008
September 22, 2008
“Primo Levi and the Germans: Is Forgiveness Possible after Auschwitz?”
Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington
5:30-7:30 P.M.
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
September 22, 2008
A discussion about the current and future directions in Jewish Studies around the country
Alvin Rosenfeld, Professor of English and Jewish Studies and Director of the Institute for Jewish Culture and the Arts at Indiana University, Bloomington
12:00-1:30 P.M.
Newcomb Hall 481
September 24, 2008
Alison Weber, Department for Spanish, Italian, and Portuguese
“‘Breaking Up is Hard to Do’: Jesuits and Conversos in Sixteenth-Century Spain”
12:00 P.M.
Newcomb Hall 168 A&B
October 6, 2008
Phyllis Leffler, Department of History, UVA
“Southern Jews in the Civil Rights Movement from 1950-1970”
6:00-7:00 P.M.
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
(Presented by Hillel Student Union and the Office of African American Affairs Peer Adviser Program)
October 23, 2008
Patti Durr, Associate Professor at the National Technical Institute for the Deaf at the Rochester Institute of Technology
“Visual Histories: Deaf People’s Experiences in the Holocaust”
7:00 P.M.
Mcleod Hall Auditorium
October 29, 2008
Renowned Israeli Author David Grossman
6:00 PM
Harrison Institute, Small Special Collections Library
November 2, 2008
Film Waltz with Bashir Screening with Comments by Alon Confino and Asher Biemann
1:13 P.M.
Regal Cinemas – Downtown Mall #3
November 6, 2008
"The Demographic Success of Zionism: Immigration Waves, Ethnic Composition, and Immigrants' Skill"
by Yinon Cohen, Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israel and Jewish Studies, Department of Sociology, Columbia University
12:15-1:30 PM
Byrd Morris Seminar Room, Special Collection
November 7, 2008
"Violence Unseen: Activating National Icons in Israel"
by Niza Yanay, Professor at the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben Gurion University, Israel (Currently at the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton)
2:00-4:00 PM
Newcomb Hall 481
November 12, 2008
Jewish Studies Luncheon Workshops
"The Novelistic Side of the Religion of Reason: Re-reading Hermann Cohen through Bakhtin"
by Daniel Weiss, Ph.D. candidate, Department of Religious Studies
12:00-1:30 PM
Newcomb Hall 481
November 13, 2008
An Evening with two Holocaust Survivors: Alfred Traum and Josian Traum
5:00-7:00 P.M.
NHL Commonwealth Room, Newcomb Hall
November 20, 2008
Konrad Jarausch, Lurcy Professor of European Civilization, University of North Carolina, “The Perpetrator as Victim: My Father’s Letters from the Eastern Front, 1939-1942”
3:30-5:30 P.M.
Kaleidoscope Room, Newcomb Hall
November 23, 2008
UVA Klezmer Ensemble Music Performance with special guest, trumpeter and vocalist, Susan Hoffman Watts
8:00 P.M.
Old Cabell Hall
December 3, 2008
Thinking Through Mumbai: A Panel Discussion and Teach-In
5:00-7:00 P.M.
Newcomb Hall Art Gallery
JSP faculty involved: Dan Lefkowitz
SPRING SEMESTER, 2008
Wednesday, January 30, 2008
Jewish Studies Luncheon workshops
Professor Tal Alon Mozes,
Visiting professor in the School of Architecture from the Technion in Haifa.
"Between Rural Ethos and Urban Development:
The Emergence of the First
Hebrew Town in Modern Palestine."
Time: 12 P.M.
Place: Newcomb Hall 481
Thursday, January 31, 2008
Hannah Cotton,
Professor of Classics and History at the Hebrew University
'The Contribution of the Documents from the Judaean Desert
to the Study of Jewish History under Roman Rule'
Time: 5 P.M.
Place: Cocke Hall, Gibson Room
Friday, February 1, 2008
Hannah Cotton,
Professor of Classics and History at the Hebrew University
Seminar: 'The Conception of Jesus and the Documents'
Time: 2 P.M.
Place: New Cabell 119
Monday, February 4, 2008
Jeffrey Lesser,
Professor of History and Director of the Latin American Program
and the Jewish Studies Program, Emory University.
"How the Jews became Japanese in Brazil"
The talk is co-sponsored with History and Latin American Studies Program.
Time: 3:30
Place: TAB
Friday, February 15, 2008
Yosef Kaplan,
Professor at the Department of History of the Jewish People,
the Hebrew University
“The Portuguese ‘New Jerusalem’ of Early Modern Amsterdam”
Time: 2:00 pm
Place: TBD
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Jewish Studies Luncheon workshops
Professor Johanna Drucker,
Media Studies Program
"Alphabet Origins: Myths and Misperceptions."
Time: 12:00 P.M.
Place: Newcomb Hall 481
Thursday, February 28, 2008
Jonathan Judaken,
Department of History and Director of the Marcus W. Orr Center
for the Humanities, University of Memphis
"Rethinking the 'New Anti-Semitism' in a Global Age."
Time: 3:00 pm
Place: Harrison's Byrd/Morris room
Wednesday March 19, 2008
Jewish Studies Luncheon workshops
Professor James Loeffler,
Corcoran Department of History
"Richard Wagner's Jewish Music: Reflections on Anti-Semitism
and Aesthetics in Modern Jewish Culture."
Time: 12 P.M.
Place: Newcomb Hall 481
Monday, March 24, 2008
Raanan Rein,
Professor of Latin American History and Vice Rector at Tel Aviv University
"Searching for home abroad: Jews in Argentina and Argentines in Israel"
Time: 4:00 pm
Place: Newcomb Hall 389
Monday, April, 7 2008
Ilana Pardes,
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University
"The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture: Literal and Allegorical Readings"
The talk is cosponsored by Religious Studies
Time: 3:00-5:00pm
Place: Byrd Morris Seminar Room, Harrison Special Collection
Tuesday, April 8, 2008
Ilana Pardes,
Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University
"Melville's Bibles: Exegetical Voyages"
The talk is co-sponsored by the English Department and American Studies.
Time: 3:00-5:00 P.M.
Place: Byrd Morris Seminar Room, Harrison Special Collection
Saturday, April 12, 2008 - Sunday, April 13, 2008
The Charlottesville & University Symphony Orchestra presents
"Fantasy & Festival" Performing
Osvaldo Golijov (Night of the Flying Horses), Ernest Bloch
(Schelomo, Hebraic Rhapsody for Cello & Orchestra) with
Uri Vardi on cello, Hector Berlioz (Symphonie Fantastique)
Time: 8:00 P.M. (Saturday), 3:30 P.M. (Sunday)
Place: Old Cabell Hall
Sunday-Monday, April 13-14, 2008
“Hearing Israel : Music, Culture and History at 60. An International conference.”
