Lectures - Fall 2009
Schedule
- August 31: Michael Rothberg (English, Illinois). Lecture: "Multidirectional Memory: Rethinking the Politics of the Past."* 7:30pm, Music Room, Levis Faculty Center. Download the flyer here.
- September 3: Mark McCulloh (German, Davidson C). Lecture: "The Relationship of Professional Criticism and 'Dichtung' in the Works of W. G. Sebald.”* 5:15 pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge, Foreign Languages Building.
- September 8: Naomi Seidman (Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union & U of California at Berkeley). Goldberg Lecture: "The Yiddish Gospel of Matthew." 7:30pm, Music Room, Levis Faculty Center. Download the flyer here.
- September 30: Tara Zahra (History, U of Chicago). Seminar "'Prisoners of the Postwar': Expellees, Displaced Persons, and Jews in Austria after World War II."* 3pm, 109 English Building.
- October 15: Justyna Beinek (Slavic, Indiana U). Lecture: “'Portable Graveyards': Russian and Polish Albums in the Romantic Culture of Memory." 5pm, Lucy Ellis Lounge.
- October 19: Shimon Attie (Artist, Brooklyn). Artist Lecture.* 5:30pm, Room 62, Krannert Art Museum.
- October 20: James Young (English & Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, U of Massachusetts at Amherst) & Shimon Attie (Artist, Brooklyn). Krouse Family Visiting Scholars Lecture: Kick-off Event, Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies Initiative.* 7:30pm, Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center. Download the flyer here.
- October 22: James Young (English & Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, U of Massachusetts at Amherst), Lecture: "The History of the Monument."* 4pm, Third Floor, Levis Faculty Center.
- October 22: Marisela Norte (Mexican Jewish American Performance Artist). Poetry Reading. 6:30pm, YMCA.
- October 23: James Young (English & Judaic and Near Eastern Studies, U of Massachusetts at Amherst), Seminar: "Memory and Memorialization from the Holocaust to 9/11."* Noon, 109 English Building. Download the Readings here.
- November 2: Israel: Sing It! (Israeli Idols in Champaign). 7:30pm, Canopy Club.
- November 9: Philip Graham (English, Illinois). Reading from The Moon, Come to Earth: Dispatches from Lisbon. 4:30pm, Illini Union Bookstore.
- November 16: Nelson Vieira (Portuguese & Brazilian Studies and Judaic Studies, Brown University). Lecture: "The Cultural Politics of Diasporic Identities: Ways of Being Jewish in Brazil." Noon, 4080A Foreign Language Building.
- November 17: Irit Linur (Writer, Israel). Lecture: "Making TV Drama in Israel." 7:30pm, Music Room, Levis Faculty Center.
Events marked with an asterisk (*) are part of the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, and Memory Studies.