Local Renaissance CFP

In March, our department will be hosting a one day conference called Reading Medieval And Renaissance English Literature, and the call has gone out to YOU! Papers to be submitted until January 6.

Interrupting Whiteness

ADARR

Tel-Aviv

At the Porter Institute

for Poetics and Semiotics

INVITATION

Tuesday March 13, 6 PM, Webb 102 (in English)

Dr. Janice Fernheimer, University of Kentucky:

Interrupting Whiteness :

Hatzaad Harishon, Black Jews, and the Expansion of Jewish Identity

Janice W. Fernheimer, Assistant Professor, English Department & Program in Jewish Studies

President, Klal Rhetorica

Professor Fernheimer's book project, Rhetoric, Race, Religion: Hatzaad Harishon and Black Jewish Identity from Civil Rights to Black Power (RRR), is under contract with the University of Alabama Press. Analyzing primary archival documents (letters, memos, proposals) housed at the Schomburg Center in New York, RRR focuses on Black Jews and their interactions with other Jews to theorize how rhetors argue about questions of identity and authenticity. 

Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence

The Faculty of Humanities, the School of History, the Minerva Institute for German History, the Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism and the Cummings Center for Russian and East European Studies invite students, scholars and researchers to a seminar on

Sites of Anti-Jewish Violence

Professor Paul Lerner, University of Southern California, Los Angeles

Professor Michael L. Miller, Central European University, Budapest

The seminar will take place on Tuesday, 27 December, 2011 at 12:15, Tel-Aviv University, room 133, Gilman Building.

Communications History as Cultural History

We have all been invited to a lecture by Berkeley history professor David Henkin on the topic of "Communications History as Cultural History." For all MA students who are working on subjects pertaining to American literature and culture, this lecture should be of particular interest.

Wednesday, December 14th

6 PM

Gilman 282