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Displacement has been an integral part of the twentieth-century Jewish experience. Whether forced due to Nazi persecution, compelled by other oppressive factors, or entered into voluntarily in the hope of a new start, migration, internment and exile have affected musical, theatrical and literary output by Jewish artists in myriad ways. This conference seeks to interrogate...
Muslims, Jews, Christians, and the Astrolabe; The Establishment of a New Science in the 12th Century Within the ten-year period from 1140 to 1150, the first texts on the astrolabe were written in Hebrew, and several translations and original works were written in Latin. The texts were either translations of, or closely dependent on Arabic...
Prof. Bryan Cheyette (University of Reading)will present his new book Diasporas of the Mind: Jewish and Postcolonial Writing and the Nightmare of History. with contributions from John McLeod, Griselda Pollock, and Maxim Silverman. 27.2.14
Einstein's Jewish Science Steven Gimbel (Gettysburg College) This year's Selig Brodetsky Memorial Lecture will be delivered by Professor Steven Gimbel, who holds the Edwin T. and Cynthia Shearer Johnson Chair at Gettsyburg College, and is the author of the recent book Einstein's Jewish Science: Physics at the Intersection of Politics and Religion (Baltimore, 2012). The...
Organised by Eva Frojmovic and Lior Libman 15:00 Introduction by Dr Eva Frojmovic, Centre for Jewish Studies and FAHACS, University of Leeds 15:15 – 16.15 Panel 1 Intersecting Histories Prof. Clive Jones, University of Leeds Dr Ben Gidley, University of Oxford Discussion chaired by Lior Libman, Hebrew University 16:15- 16:45 tea/coffee break 16:45 – 18:15...
Why the Jews are the smartest people in the universe, and why this is a bad thing Sander Gilman (Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences and Professor of Psychiatry, Emory University): The Selig Brodetsky Lecture was given in conjunction with the Antisemitism in Contemporary Culture project, supported by the Burton Family Charitable Trust,...
As part of the International Medieval Congress 2011, Eva Frojmovic will chair a Roundtable on "Displaying / Musealising the Medieval in the Postcolonial Present". The starting point of the roundtable is the current display of the medieval Synagoga panel in York minster, and its educational aspects. Certain aspects of the medieval period can constitute an...
Dorothea Heiser will speak about the collection of poems from Dachau concentration camp that she published in 1994, Mein Schatten in Dachau. Dorothea spent a decade from the mid-1980s collecting poems written by inmates of Dachau of all different nationalities - Russian, Polish, German, Czech, French, Italian, and English - and interviewing survivors in order to reconstruct...
Has anything of the concentrationary universe seeped into and been disseminated through contemporary culture? Going beyond the work of Agamben and Virilio who suggest that the camp and war are now the matrices of modern society, we want to enquire into cultural forms and subjectivities. Is there now a concentrationary imaginary?
Plenary speakers: Andrew Benjamin, Adriana Cavarero, Ian James, Griselda Pollock, Samuel Weber. Organised by Griselda Pollock and Max Silverman. Far from being contained as a one-off, geopolitically contained event, the Nazi-created concentrationary and its horrific extension, the exterminationary, initiated the political novelty that Arendt defined as totalitarianism. Totalitarianism was an experiment in the destruction of...