Public Lectures 2009-2010
September 22, 2009
The East-European Context of Modern Jewish Culture
Hamutal Bar-Yosef, Ben Gurion University
September 27, 2009
Antisemitism in Romania? Attitudes towards Jews and the Holocaust
István Horváth, Babeș-Bolyai University, Cluj
November 17, 2009
Hannah Arendt, Charlie Chaplin, and the Hidden Jewish Tradition
Liliane Weissberg, University of Pennsylvania
February 9, 2010
Rocking the Nation: A Documentary Film (Hungary, 2007)
Film Screening followed by discussion with Bori Kriza, director
February 23, 2010
Collaboration, Competitive Victimization and the Contemporary Politics of the Holocaust in former Socialist States
Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
March 9, 2010
Obama, the Middle East and Islam: Promise and Reality
Shlomo Avineri, The Hebrew University Jerusalem
March 16, 2010
A Jewish El Dorado? Myth & Politics in Habsburg Bukovina
David Rechter, University of Oxford
May 17, 2010
Corporal Confusion: Ambiguous Bodies in Late 19th- and Early 20th-Century Germany
Helga Thorson, University of Victoria, British Columbia, Canada