Center for Jewish Studies Calendar - Past Events for this Academic Year

building in palestine: zionism, binationalism, and the Strains of German Humanism”

Faculty/Student Workshop

STEVEN ASCHHEIM (Hebrew University) Monday, October 10, 2005 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu ----------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Presents

“After al-Andalus:

Sephardic Society in Christian Iberia”

The Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies

JONATHAN RAY (UCLA) Monday, October 31, 2005 314 Royce Hall • 7:30 pm Pre-registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

ABOUT THE LECTURE: While Jewish life in Muslim al-Andalus is commonly referred to as an intellectual and cultural Golden Age, the subsequent period in Christian Iberia is often characterized by persecution and decline leading inevitably to the expulsion of 1492. Yet five hundred years after their exile from the Iberian Peninsula, Sephardic Jews throughout the world continue to preserve elements of the language and customs developed over centuries under Christian rule. This lecture will explore the nature and development of Jewish society in Christian Iberia during the late Middle Ages and will discuss the way in which the Sephardim fused their Andalusi heritage with both the Gothic culture of the Latin West and the religious currents of Ashkenazi Judaism. Along the way, the discussion will inspire a new appreciation for the complex texture of life in the medieval Sephardic world.

ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Jonathan Ray is Visiting Professor in Sephardic Studies at UCLA. He received his Ph.D. from the Jewish Theological Seminar for his dissertation, "The Medieval Sephardic Frontier: The Jewish Experience in Reconquest Iberia." He held a post-doctoral fellowship at Yale and was a visiting professor at Drew University and the Jewish Theological Seminary.

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-- submitted by CDH Help Desk (joeyb@humnet.ucla.edu)

Jewish Studies Open House

invites all Jewish Studies majors, minors, and alumni to an

OPEN HOUSE

Tuesday, November 1, 2005 at 4:30 PM

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Seminar: "'Re-Orienting' Jewish Modernity: A Genealogical Approach"

Presents

“‘RE-ORIENTING’ JEWISH MODERNITY: A GENEALOGICAL APPROACH”

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By: LITAL LEVY (UC Berkeley)

Monday, November 7, 2005 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED.

Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Conference: "JEWISH LA--THEN AND NOW"

"JEWISH LA-- THEN AND NOW"

A three-day national conference on the history of Los Angeles Jews.

Day 1: LA JEWISH STORIES -- Saturday, November 12, 6-9PM at the Skirball Cultural Center

Day 2: JEWISH LA INSIDE AND OUT -- Sunday, November 13, 10AM-6PM at the Autry National Center

Day 3: WHAT'S WESTERN ABOUT THE LA JEWISH EXPERIENCE? -- Monday, November 14, 10AM-6PM at the UCLA Faculty Center

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

For more information, please visit www.lajh.org.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.lajh.org

Seminar: "DOV SADAN: A ZIONIST LITERARY THEORY"

Presents

“DOV SADAN: A ZIONIST LITERARY THEORY”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By: ARNOLD BAND (UCLA)

Wednesday, November 16, 2005 • 236 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTI-ETHNIC GALICIAN TOWN"

Presents

“THE LAST DAYS OF BUCZACZ: JUDICIAL PERSPECTIVES ON THE DESTRUCTION OF A MULTI-ETHNIC GALICIAN TOWN"

The "1939" Club Distinguished Lecture in Holocaust Studies

By: Omer Bartov (Brown University)

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Sunday, November 20, 2005 Faculty Center • 7:30 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Lecture: Buczacz is the hometown of the only Hebrew author who has won the Nobel Prize for Literature, Shmuel Yosef Agnon; of the great Polish Jewish historian, Emanuel Ringelblum; of Sigmund Freud’s grandparents; of Simon Wiesenthal; and of Bartov’s own mother. It was founded in the 14th century as a private Polish town owned by a noble family. Bartov is particularly interested in the relationships between its Ukrainian, Polish and Jewish residents, whose ethnicity, religion and trades differed.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Seminar: "THE DEBATE OVER THE EXHIBITION 'CRIMES OF THE WEHRMACHT' AND THE REALITY OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN EAST GALICIA IN 1941"

Presents

"THE DEBATE OVER THE EXHIBITION ‘CRIMES OF THE WEHRMACHT’ AND THE REALITY OF INTER-ETHNIC RELATIONS IN EAST GALICIA IN 1941”

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By: OMER BARTOV (Brown)

Monday, November 21, 2005 12 pm • 314 Royce Hall (please note new room)

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU.

About the Speaker: Omer Bartov is the John P. Birkelund Distinguished Professor of European History at Brown University and considered one of the world’s leading authorities on the subject of genocide. He is the author of six books and the editor of three volumes, including Murder in Our Midst: The Holocaust, Industrial Killing, and Representation (Oxford UP, 1996), which received the Fraenkel Prize in Contemporary History; Mirrors of Destruction: War, Genocide, and Modern Identity (Oxford UP, 2000), an analysis of the relationship between total war and state-organized genocide and the emergence of modern identity; and The “Jew” in Cinema: From the Golem to Don’t Touch My Holocaust (Indiana UP, 2005). As a Guggenheim Fellow (2003-2004), Professor Bartov researched the history of interethnic relations and violence in the East Galician town of Buczacz. He received his Ph.D. from Oxford.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

******************************************* ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Lecture: "AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

**PLEASE NOTE VENUE CHANGED TO FOWLER AUDITORIUM**

The Viterbi Program in Italian Jewish Studies and The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies present

"AZARIAH DE' ROSSI (1511-1577): AN EXCEPTIONAL ITALIAN JEW OF THE RENAISSANCE"

By: JOANNA WEINBERG (Oxford)

THURSDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2005 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 PM

ADVANCE REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE EMAIL CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU TO RSVP.

This new program has been made possible by the generous support of the Viterbi Family Foundation.

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ABOUT THE SPEAKER: Joanna Weinberg is the James Mew Lecturer in Rabbinical Hebrew and Catherine Fellow in Rabbinics at Oxford. Professor Weinberg is the author of The Light of the Eyes of Azariah de’ Rossi (Yale UP, 2001), which reveals her mastery of rabbinic texts, Greek and Roman literature, and Italian writers. Her research interests include Jewish historiography, Jews in the Renaissance, and Midrash.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: "Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

"Faithful Renderings: Jewish Difference and the Practice of Translation"

A Faculty/Student Workshop

By NAOMI SEIDMAN (Graduate Theological Union)

Wednesday, January 25, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: "Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed"

“Western Jewish Agricultural Colonies and Why They Failed”

A Seminar on Jewish Culture

By ELEANOR KAUFMAN (UCLA)

Thursday, January 26, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"Hannah Arendt and Gershom Scholem: An Unknown Chapter of a Complex Relationship"

This lecture will take place on Monday January 30, 2006 at 4:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall.

This lecture is Co-sponsored by the Center for Jewish Studies.

-- submitted by Benay Furtivo (furtivo@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: "Modern Jewries and the Imperial Imagination"

“Modern Jewries and the Imperial Imagination”

Seminar on Jewish Culture

By SARAH STEIN (Washington University)

Tuesday, January 31, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. PLEASE RSVP TO CJS@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

THE SOCIAL HISTORY OF ART - A SYMPOSIUM IN HONOR OF PROFESSOR AL BOIME

UCLA Royce Hall 314

"The Social History of Art: A Symposium in honor of Professor Al Boime

MORNING SESSION (8:30-12:30) Reconsidering the ‘Social’: Art History, Marxism and the New Left Professor Michael Orwicz, Department of Art and Art History, University of Connecticut

Seating the Republic: Jacques-Louis David and the Invention of Revolutionary Architecture Professor & Dean Anthony Vidler, School of Architecture, Cooper Union, New York

The French Academy and Engraving in the Nineteenth Century Professor Susanne Anderson-Riedel, Department of Art and Art History, University of New Mexico

Géricault in the Hands of the New Conservatives Professor Nicos Hadjinicolaou, Institute of Mediterranean Studies, Crete

Gambetta & the Arts: An Aesthetic of ‘Opportunism’ Dr. Michel Melot, Ministry of Culture, France

AFTERNOON SESSION (1:30 – 5:30 PM) Authorized and Unauthorized: The Systematic Record of the Image in France before 1900 George McKee, Library Services, SUNY Binghamton

Culture, Class and Gender: Fannia Cohn, Roberta Fansler and The Metropolitan Museum’s Worker’s Education Program Professor Frances Pohl, Department of Art and Art History, Pomona College

From iPod to Iraq Professor David Kunzle, UCLA Department of Art History

Sounds of Paradise: Hawai'i and the American Musical Imagination Professor Charles Garrett, Department of Musicology, University of Michigan

Professor Al Boime received his Ph.D. from Columbia University, has been a UCLA faculty member since 1978. He teaches the Social History of Modern Art. His pedagogical imperative is the training and stimulation of the mind to independent thought through exposure to the visual products of inventive human beings unafraid of unrestricted openness to experience. He believes that an understanding of imagery will show that we are not yet too fallen and depraved to be able to reform the world in the name of suffering humanity.

The Social History of Art is cosponsored by the UCLA Departments of Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Art History, French and Francophone, and History; the Centers for Jewish Studies and 17th & 18th Century Studies; Friends of Art History; History/Art History; Yitzhak Rabin Hillel Center for Jewish Life at UCLA; UCLA Humanities Division; and individual donors.

Parking is available in Structure 2, at the Hilgard & Westholme campus entrance, $8.00/car.

Details on the program schedule will be posted on the web: www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/arthist/ArtHistoryHome.html

-- submitted by Heather Gould (gould@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact gould@humnet.ucla.edu

"The Mediterranean and the Atlantic in the 15th Century"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Lecture "ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by Bernard-Henri Levy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY" by BHL

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY"

A Lecture by BERNARD-HENRI LEVY

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Seminar: "Religion After Secularization: The Liturgical Lives of Generation X Jews in LA"

Presents

“Religion After Secularization: The Liturgical Lives of Generation X Jews in LA”

Seminar on the LA Jewish Experience

By: J. Shawn Landres (Synagogue 3000)

Tuesday, April 4, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Seminar: "Torah Vs. Toyrah: The Linguistic Construction of Orthodox Identity"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

“Torah Vs. Toyrah: The Linguistic Construction of Orthodox Identity”

Seminar on Jewish Culture

By: Sarah Bunin Benor (Hebrew Union College)

Monday, April 10, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 pm

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Lecture by BHL "Anti-Semitism in Europe Today"

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"ANTI-SEMITISM IN EUROPE TODAY”

a lecture by Bernard-Henri Lévy

Tuesday, April 11, 2006 • Korn Convocation Hall • 7:30 pm

With the generous support of Lya Cordova-Latta

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies, the UCLA Department of French and Francophone Studies, and the Consulate General of France in Los Angeles

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

CMRS Faculty Roundtable | " Allegory of an Early Christian Cabalist: The Isagoge (1509-40) of Paulus Ricius"

This presentation is co-sponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Faculty, students, staff, associates, and friends of CJS and CMRS are invited to attend.

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Don't Knock Me A Teapot-Strange Yiddish Expressions And How They Got That Way

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Don't Knock Me A Teapot-Strange Yiddish Expressions And How They Got That Way"

A Lecture by Michael Wex

Thursday, May 11, 2006 • UCLA Faculty Center • 7:30 pm

Sponsored by the Michael and Irene Ross Fund and Cosponsored by Yiddishkayt Los Angeles.

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first- served basis. Parking is available in Lot 2 for $8.

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Cultivation and Representation: Images and Ideals of the Self in Jewish Mysticism"

Presents

"Cultivation and Representation: Images and Ideals of the Self in Jewish Mysticism"

A Lecture by Eitan Fishbane(Hebrew Union College)

Tuesday, May 16, 2006 • UCLA Hillel • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Is Spinoza an Atheist?

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Is Spinoza and Atheist?"

A Lecture by Steven Nadler(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thursday, May 18, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Rembrandt's Jews: Portraying Jewishness in 17th Century Dutch Art

Presents

"Rembrandt's Jews: Portraying Jewishness in 17th Century Dutch Art"

A Lecture by Steven Nadler(University of Wisconsin, Madison)

Thursday, May 18, 2006 • 314 Royce Hall • 7:30 pm

The Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Bearing Witness To "The End Of What Was": Holocaust Diarists

7:30 pm in 314 Royce Hall

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Bearing Witness To "The End Of What Was": Holocaust Diarists"

A Lecture by Alexandra Garbarini(Williams College)

Tuesday, May 23, 2006 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 pm

The "1939" Club Lecture in Holocaust Studies

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is available in Lot 5 for $8.

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

Nusekh-Vilne: Vilna from Place to Myth in Yiddish Literature, 1919-1955

12:00 pm in 306 Royce Hall

The UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Nusekh-Vilne: Vilna from Place to Myth in Yiddish Literature, 1919-1955"

A Workshop by Justin Cammy(Smith College)

Tuesday, May 30, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12:00 pm

Faculty/Student Workshop

Pre-Registration is required. Please RSVP to cjs@humnet.ucla.edu

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Young-Vilna Generation: Chaim Grade, Abraham Sutzkever, And Their Literary World

7:30 pm in Fowler Auditorium

UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Presents

"Contemporary Jewish Identity: Fundamentals And Mutations In The Global Context"

A Lecture by Sergio DellaPergollia(Hebrew University)

Tuesday, June 6, 2006 • Fowler Auditorium • 7:30 pm

The Naftulin Family Lecture on Jewish Identity

Pre-Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Parking is available in Lot 4 for $8.

-- submitted by Aroutin Hartounian (art@humanities.ucla.edu)

The Legacies of Richard H. Popkin

A conference at the Clark Library, located at 2520 Cimarron Street, in the West Adams district of Los Angeles.

June 11-12, 2006

A conference organized by Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky and Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for 17th- & 18th-Century Studies and the William Andrews Clark Memorial Library; the UCLA Franklin D. Murphy Professor of Italian Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Division of Humanities – Office of the Dean; the UCLA Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies; the UCLA Department of Philosophy; the UCLA Department of History; and the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

Richard H. Popkin (1923-2005) had a long association with the Clark Library. He was Clark Professor in 1981-82 and 1997-98 and helped organize numerous lectures and conferences at the Clark Library. He and Juliet Popkin, his wife, have supported the annual Richard H. and Juliet G. Popkin Lecture in Intellectual History and the History of Philosophy since 1999. This conference will seek to assess the legacies of the late Richard H. Popkin's work in the many fields he contributed to and helped to form: the history of philosophy and particularly the history of skepticism; Jewish studies and especially the history of Jewish-Christian interactions; the intersections of philosophical and religious thought; and the impact of millenarism.

Registration Deadline: June 5, 2006 Registration Fees: UC faculty & staff: $15; students with ID: no charge;* others: $30. *Students should enclose a photocopy of their current ID with the registration form. Fees are not refundable and apply to full or partial attendance.

Please be aware that space at the Clark is limited and that registration closes when capacity is reached. No confirmation will be sent, but we will contact you if we receive your registration after we reach capacity.

To register, please visit this web site: http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

Inquiries: 310-206-8552

Sunday, June 11 9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Welcoming Remarks – Peter H. Reill, UCLA

Session 1 – Popkin and the History of Philosophy Chair: Richard Allan Watson, Washington University in St. Louis Brian Copenhaver, UCLA "Popkin Non-Scepticus: The Historiography of Early Modern Philosophy"

Allison P. Coudert, UC Davis "À Rebours in Academia: Richard Popkin’s Contributions to Intellectual History"

Sarah Hutton, Middlesex University "Popkin’s Spinoza"

Peter K.J. Park, Loyola Marymount University "Assessing the Work of Richard H. Popkin from the Vantage Point of Comparative Philosophy and Cross-Cultural Studies"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 2 – Religion and Philosophy in the Seventeenth Century Chair: Robert S. Westman, UC San Diego James E. Force, University of Kentucky "Richard H. Popkin’s Concept of the Third Force and the Newtonian Synthesis of Theology and Scientific Methodology in Isaac Newton, Samuel Clarke, and William Whiston"

Martin Mulsow, Rutgers University "The Third Force Revisited"

David B. Ruderman, University of Pennsylvania "The Study of the Mishnah and the Quest for Christian Identity in the Early Eighteenth Century: William Wotton and His Learned Friends"

Knox Peden, UC Berkeley "Gilles Deleuze: From Hume to Spinoza (An attempt to make good on a Popkin request)"

5:00 p.m. Reception

Monday, June 12

9:30 a.m. Morning Coffee

10:00 a.m. Session 3 – Popkin and the Skeptical Tradition Chair: John McCumber, UCLA John Christian Laursen, UC Riverside "Popkin’s Skepticism and the Cynical Tradition"

José R. Maia Neto, Universidade Federal de Minas Gerais "Charron and Huet: Two Still Unexplored Legacies of Popkin’s Scholarship on Early Modern Skepticism"

Gianni Paganini, Università del Piemonte Orientale "The Quarrel over Ancient and Modern Skepticism: Some Reflections on Descartes and His Context"

Jeremy Popkin, University of Kentucky "Richard Popkin: A Son’s Memories"

1:00 p.m. Lunch

2:00 p.m. Session 4 – Popkin and the Jews Chair: Margaret C. Jacob, UCLA Matt Goldish, The Ohio State University "The Shabbatai Zvi Movement from a European Perspective: Richard H. Popkin’s Contribution to the Field"

Yosef Kaplan, Hebrew University of Jerusalem "Richard Popkin’s Marrano Question"

David S. Katz, Tel Aviv University "Popkin and the Jews"

David N. Myers, UCLA "Richard Popkin and the (Re)Writing of Jewish History"

-- submitted by Mark Pokorski (mpok@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, see http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/c1718cs/calendar.htm#jun11

"THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: THEN AND NOW"

Present

"THE JEWISH PRESENCE IN LATIN AMERICA: THEN AND NOW"

By: Marcos Aguinis (Author; Former Secretary of Culture, Argentina)

Tuesday, October 17, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 4 PM

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Presents

"THE SATIRICAL WORLD OF SHIMEN DZIGAN"

Seminar in Yiddish Studies

By: John Efron (UC Berkeley)

Thursday, October 19, 2006 • 306 Royce Hall • 12 PM

Pre-registration is required. Please email cjs@humnet.ucla.edu to RSVP.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

"HISTORY’S TRACES: PERSONAL NARRATIVE, DIASPORA, AND THE ARAB-JEWISH EXPERIENCE"

Presents

“HISTORY’S TRACES: PERSONAL NARRATIVE, DIASPORA, AND THE ARAB-JEWISH EXPERIENCE”

Faculty/Student Workshop

Kyla Tompkins (Pomona College

Pre-registration is required. • Please email cjs@humnet.ucla.edu to RSVP.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (vdios@humanities.ucla.edu)

Christel Trouvé Brown-Bag Lecture

“A Typology of French Internment Camps, 1938-1946”

Wednesday, November 1, 2006

Royce Hall 236

12 pm

Free and open to the public

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

Steven Beller Lecture: "Island of the Blessed/Island of the Damned: Austria and the Jews in Modern History"

Steven Beller

"Island of the Blessed/Island of the Damned: Austria and the Jews in Modern History"

Tuesday, February 27

7:30 pm

Royce Hall 314

-- submitted by Laura Clennon (clennon@humnet.ucla.edu@humanities.ucla.edu)

For more information, contact clennon@humnet.ucla.edu

"A SCHOLAR'S TALE: THE JEWISH FACTOR"

"A SCHOLAR'S TALE: THE JEWISH FACTOR"

Geoffrey Hartman (Yale)

Thursday, March 8, 2007 6275 Bunche Hall 4pm

Pre-registration is required. To RSVP please email cjsrsvp@humnet.ucla.edu or call (310)267-5327.

-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs@humanities.ucla.edu)

Conference: HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE

“HISTORY AS REFLECTED IN ISRAELI LITERATURE" An International Conference March 11-13, 2007

PRE-REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED. TO REGISTER, PLEASE EMAIL CJSRSVP@HUMNET.UCLA.EDU

ABOUT THE CONFERENCE: One of the signal achievements of Israeli culture since its very beginning has been the production of a rich and varied literature. This conference is dedicated to the examination of Israeli literature in its intersection with Israeli history. That is, we are interested in the way in which literature integrates, confronts, or ignores historical events of significance to the formation of Israeli (and Jewish) culture. Accordingly, we have invited to UCLA a distinguished and diverse group of writers, literary scholars, historians to reflect on the intersection of literature and history. At the heart of our deliberations stand a set of overlapping question: Can one write Israeli history today without paying careful attention to Israel's rich literary tradition? And can one write literature in Israel without feeling the heavy weight of history? Ultimately, we seek to explore in this conference the subtle relationships among literary creations, historical memory, and the society they reflect or mold.

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-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs@humanities.ucla.edu)

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"POWER WITHOUT LAND? JEWS AND WARFARE IN MODERN EUROPE"

"POWER WITHOUT LAND? JEWS AND WARFARE IN MODERN EUROPE" Faculty/Student Workshop

Derek Penslar (University of Toronto)

Tuesday, March 13, 2007 306 Royce Hall 12:30pm

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-- submitted by Vivian Holenbeck (cjs@humanities.ucla.edu)

"THE NEIGHBOR -REFLECTIONS AND SPECULATIONS ON POLITICAL THEOLOGY"

"THE NEIGHBOR -REFLECTIONS AND SPECULATIONS ON POLITICAL THEOLOGY"

Eric Santner (University of Chicago) and Kenneth Reinhard (UCLA)

Thursday, March 15, 2007 306 Royce Hall 12:30pm

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"POPULAR KABBALAH AN D NEW RELIGIOUS MOVEMENT RESEARCH"

"Popular Kabbalah and New Religious Movement Research" Seminar on the LA Jewish Experience

Jody Myers (CSUN)

April 16, 2007 UCLA Hillel:12pm

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"LEGACY: BUILDING THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS IN WARSAW"

"LEGACY: BUILDING THE MUSEUM OF THE HISTORY OF POLISH JEWS IN WARSAW" Arnold Band Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Literature Co-sponsored by the "1939" Club and the UCLA Fowler Museum

Barbara Kirschenblatt-Gimblett(NYU)

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"THE HISTORIAN'S CRAFT IN RENAISSANCE ITALY-THE CASE OF JOSEF HA-KOHEN"

"THE HISTORIAN'S CRAFT IN RENAISSANCE ITALY-THE CASE OF JOSEF HA-KOHEN" Viterbi Lecture in Italian Jewish Studies

Robert Bonfil(Hebrew University)

April 24, 2007 UCLA Hillel. 7:30pm.

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"TURNING A PAGE: HOW YIDDISH -SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS REINVENTED THEMSELVES THROUGH READING"

"TURNING A PAGE: HOW YIDDISH -SPEAKING IMMIGRANTS REINVENTED THEMSELVES THROUGH READING" Seminar in Yiddish Studies Viterbi Lecture in Italian Jewish Studies

Eric Goldstein (Emory University)

306 Royce Hall. 12:30pm.

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“American Judaism Today: Polarization and Post-Denominalization”

“American Judaism Today: Polarization and Post-Denominalization”

The Naftulin Family Lecture on Studies in Jewish Identity Samuel Heilman (Queens College)

Limited Seating. Please RSVP at CJSRSVP@humnet.ucla.edu

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"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'"

"From Hebrew to Ladino: Manuscripts and Books Among the Jews of Medieval Spain and the 'Sephardi Diaspora'" The Maurice Amado Symposium in Sephardic Studies Evelyn Cohen (The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York) Moshe Lazar (USC) Shalom Sabar (UCLA / Hebrew University)

Limited Seating. Please RSVP at CJSRSVP@humnet.ucla.edu For more information contact CJS (310) 825-5387.

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Aamir Mufti "Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture"

Enlightenment in the Colony: The Jewish Question and the Crisis of Postcolonial Culture

By Aamir Mufti (UCLA)

Free event, open to the public. If interested, please RSVP to (310)267-5327

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UCLA Center for Jewish Studies Open House

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"The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry from Muslim and Christian Spain" with Peter Cole

“The Dream of the Poem: Hebrew Poetry From Muslim and Christian Spain”

The Maurice Amado Lecture in Sephardic Studies

Peter Cole has published two collections of poetry, Rift (Station Hill) and Hymns & Qualms (Sheep Meadow Press). What Is Doubled: Poems 1981-1989, was recently published by Shearsman Books in the UK. Cole has worked intensively on Hebrew literature, with special emphasis on medieval Hebrew poetry. His Selected Poems of Shmuel HaNagid, published by Princeton U.P. (1996), received the MLA’s Scaglione Prize for Translation. Cole was granted a TLS translation award for Selected Poems of Solomon Ibn Gabirol, also by Princeton U. Press (2001). His new anthology, The Dream of the Poem, traces the arc of the entire period and reveals this remarkable poetic world in all of its richness, humor, grace, gravity, and wisdom.

Cole has received numerous awards for his work, including fellowships from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Arts, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the 1998 Modern Language Association Translation Award. He was just named a recipient of the prestigious 2007 MacArthur Genius Award.

-- submitted by David Wu (davidwu@humanities.ucla.edu)

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CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Biblical Roots: Talmud, Disputation and the Torah"

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CMRS Sawyer Seminar, "Gilbert Crispin: The Disputation of a Jew with a Christian"

-- submitted by Brett Landenberger (cmrs@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: Civil Society: From Spinoza to Warren Buffett

Presents

'Civil Society: From Spinoza to Warren Buffett'

By Bruce Sievers (Haas Center)

Monday, November 19, 2007 12:00PM

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-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

Egypt and Israel –The ways of cultural contact in the Late Bronze and Iron Age

Bernd U. Schipper (Associate Professor for Biblical and Religious Studies, University of Bremen)

Egypt and Israel –The ways of cultural contact in the Late Bronze and Iron Age

Abstract: The debate on the form and significance of cultural contact between Israel and Ancient Egypt is one of the most salient issues of religious history in the Ancient Near East. Besides the so-called 'Egyptian-tradition' with such famous texts as the Joseph Story or the book Exodus, a few more literary traditions are represented in the Old Testament that show similarities with Egyptian literature. For example, the book of Proverbs includes passages which are influenced by Egyptian wisdom instruction of the New Kingdom (ca. 1550 – 1070 BCE). If these Biblical texts are taken as evidence for Egyptian influence on the Old Testament, a pertinent question poses itself to the scholarly community: how to imagine and reconstruct the ways of cultural contact? And when could Egyptian literary texts such as the Instruction of Amenemope have had an influence on literary production in Ancient Israel? The lecture will put forward an answer to this question by examining all relevant sources that shine light on the ways of cultural contact between Egypt and Israel in the Late Bronze and Iron Age.

Bernd U. Schipper studied Theology, Egyptology and Archaeology at the Universities of Mainz and Bonn. In 1999 he obtained a PhD in Theology (University of Bonn) and in 2004 a PhD in Egyptology (University of Hamburg: Prof. Hartwig Altenmueller). Since 2002 he has been Associate Professor for Biblical and Religious Studies at the Department for the Study of Religions at the University of Bremen. During the summer term 2007 he was Visiting Professor at the University of Heidelberg. He is co-editor of the Journal "Die Welt des Orients" (Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Press) and has published and edited books about the history of Apocalypticism, the cultural contacts between Egypt and Israel in biblical times, the history of Egyptology and the religious literature of Pharaonic Egypt. More: http://www.religion.uni-bremen.de/schipper

-- submitted by Jacco Dieleman (dieleman@humanities.ucla.edu)

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CJS SEMINAR: The Jew as Critic

Presents

'The Jew as Critic'

A Series in Modern Jewish Culture

By Kenneth Turan (Film Critic, LA Times)

Wednesday, November 28, 2007 4:00PM

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CJS SEMINAR: Benjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: The Text and its Controversy

Presents

'Benjamin Wilkomirski's Fragments: The Text and Its Controversy'

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Susan Derwin (UC Santa Barbara)

Thursday, November 29, 2007 12:00PM

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-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History

Presents

'Remapping German-Jewish Intellectual History'

A Book Discussion

By Todd Presner (UCLA)

Monday, December 3, 2007 12:00PM

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-- submitted by Bora Kim (cjs2@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS SEMINAR: Polish-Jewish Relations Today

Presents

Polish-Jewish Relations Today

A Seminar moderated by

Michael Berenbaum (American Jewish University)

Featuring Speakers

Zbigniew Nosowski (Editor-in-chief of The WIEZ)

The Hon. David Peleg (Ambassador of Israel in Poland)

The Hon. Adam Daniel Rotfeld (Former Polish Foreign Minister)

Monday, January 14, 2008 7:30PM - 9:30PM

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CJS SEMINAR: The War Between Eldad the Danite and Prester John Through Time and Space

Presents

The War Between Eldad the Danite and Prester John Through Time and Space

A Faculty/Student Seminar on Jewish-Christian Relations

By Micha Perry (UCLA)

Thursday, January 24, 2008 12:00PM

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CJS SEMINAR: The 'Jewish Question' Among the German-Speaking Exiles in Los Angeles

Presents

"The 'Jewish Question' Among the German-Speaking Exiles in Los Angeles"

Seminar on the LA Jewish Experince

By Ehrhard Bahr (UCLA)

Tuesday, January 29, 2008 4:00PM

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CJS SEMINAR: Seeing Religiosity: Distinction and Community Formation in a Hassidic Neighborhood in Los Angeles

Presents

"Seeing Religiosity: Distinction and Community Formation in a Hassidic Neighborhood in Los Angeles"

A Seminar on the LA Jewish Experience

By Iddo Tavory (UCLA)

Thursday, January 31, 2008 12:00PM

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CJS SEMINAR: Lyric Testimony: Anthropomorphism and Survival in Post-Holocaust Writing

Presents

"Lyric Testimony: Anthropomorphism and Survival in Post- Holocaust Writing"

A Faculty/Student Seminar

By Sara Guyer (University of Wisconsin-Madison)

Monday, February 11, 2008 12:00PM

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Elizabeth Povinelli Lecture

“Beyond Autonomy and Genealogy: Economies of Abandonment”

Thursday, April 10, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Elizabeth Povinelli is professor of Anthropology & Gender Studies and Co-Director of the Center for the Study of Law & Culture. Her writing has focused on developing a critical theory of late liberalism, grounded in theories of the translation, transfiguration and the circulation of values, materialities, and socialities within settler liberalisms. She looks at how the distinction between individual freedom and social bondage subtends and animates most theories and practices of sexuality in postcolonial liberalisms. Her publications include: The Cunning of Recognition: Indigenous Alterities and the Making of Australian Multiculturalism; The Empire of Love: Toward a Theory of Intimacy, Genealogy, and Carnality; and Labor's Lot: The Power, History, and Culture of Aboriginal Action.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

Michael Warner Lecture

"Antisecularism and 'Secular Humanism'"

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 4:30pm 314 Royce Hall

Michael Warner is Professor of English and American Studies at Yale University. One of his interests is the way social worlds are built up out of circulating media and ways of reading or hearing.

-- submitted by Catharine McGraw (catharinemcgraw@humanities.ucla.edu)

CJS Seminar: 'Apocolypse Then: Eschatology and Violence in Jewish Antiquity'

Presents

'Apocolypse Then: Eschatology and Violence in Jewish Antiquity'

A faculty/student Seminar by:

Steven Weitzman

on May 13, 2008 at 12PM

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