Invictus and The Whale

From the department website:

Invictus and the Poetry of Healing - A lecture by Professor Karen Alkalay-Gut
Thursday, June 14th, 8 PM, Mexico Building (Registration required)

White Night with the White Whale - A reading marathon of Moby-Dick into the night
Thursday, June 28th, 7 PM, Gordo Café, Gordon Beach, Tel Aviv

See you there!

The Annual Carmel Lecture

Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities Department of English and American Studies 

Take pleasure in inviting you to 

THE ANNUAL LECTURE IN MEMORY OF SHEILA AND YOSSI CARMEL Henry James,

Silent Film and the Culture of Illusion

Professor Jonathan Freedman

University of Michigan

More details here

Tsuris and Other Literary Pleasures

TSURIS AND OTHER LITERARY PLEASURES:

AN INTERNATIONAL CREATIVE WRITING CONFERENCE

IN HONOR OF ALLEN HOFFMAN’S RETIREMENT

and

The 6th Annual Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening

Sunday-Tuesday, May 6-8, 2012, Bar-Ilan University, Beck Auditorium, (unless otherwise


Sunday, May 6 Tsuris and Humor, An Evening with Allen Hoffman and Joseph Skibell

17:15-18:00 Reception in honor of Hoffman’s retirement
18:00-20:00 Readings and Conversation with Allen Hoffman and Joseph Skibell


Monday, May 7 Other Literary Pleasures

9:30-11:00 Panel discussion on Allen Hoffman’s writing, moderated by Michael Kramer

Participants: Sharon Baris, William Kolbrener, and Shira Wolosky. Linda Zisquit will read
comments by Steve Stern, Melvin Bukiet and Sidra Ezrahi.

11:30-12:30 Readings by Hoffman’s students, graduates of the Shaindy Rudoff Program:
Janice Weizman, Sophie Judah, Shantam Zohar and Judy Labensohn

13:45-15:30 Storytelling across cultures , an open writing workshop with Rob Handel
discussion

16:00-17:15 Discussion with Fulbright Visiting Scholar E. Ethelbert Miller and poet Joy Katz

18:30-20:00 Poetry reading with E. Ethelbert Miller and Joy Katz

Tuesday, May 8 More Literary Pleasures

10:00-11:30 Open workshop in creative nonfiction: Joseph Skibell and E. Ethelbert Miller

12:00-13:30 Open workshop in poetry: Linda Zisquit and Joy Katz

14:00-15:30 Open workshop in fiction: Evan Fallenberg and Joan Leegant

16:00-17:30 Reading by Fulbright Scholars in creative writing E. Ethelbert Miller, Robby
Nadler, and Jacob Newberry, moderated by Marcela Sulak

The 6th Annual Shaindy Rudoff Memorial Evening in memory of Founding Director Shaindy Rudoff, z”l

17:45-18:30 Reception

18:30-20:00 Suddenly, A Knock at the Door: Reading by Etgar Keret
in conversation with Evan Fallenberg

Remarks Hedda Rudoff

Closing remarks Allen Hoffman

All events are free and open to the public. No registration necessary.

An eventful may

(As seen on the department website)

Writing Across the Americas - An international conference.
Sunday, May 6th through Monday May 7th, Gilman Building Room 496

Annual Vardi Lecture - Professor Erik Roraback, Charles University, Prague, "The Autopoiesis of Modernity: A Philosophical Baroque"

Thursday, May 10th, 4 PM, Gilman Building Room 496

Reading a Symptom: Literary and Psychoanalytical Perspectives - International Symposium
Monday, May 14th

Another one to add to your calendar

Annual Lecture in Honor of Talma Yzraely - Guest lecture by Professor Sandrine Sorlin from the University of Montpellier entitled "The Power of Rhetorical Imposture."
Thursday March 29th, 4 PM, Rosenberg Building Room 002


See you there!

Belated Beginnings

The department is having a busy two weeks! Please check the website to keep track of it all.

Belated Beginnings: Modernity in Early Yiddish Comedy and Nigerian Market Literature 

A guest lecture by Professor Marc Caplan from Johns Hopkins University

Monday, March 19th, 2012, 2.15 PM, Gilman Building Room 496.

Light refreshments at 2 PM.

Guest Lectures by Professor Alexandre Leupin

Department of English and American Studies

The Yael Levin Writer-in-Residence Program

We are honored to invite you

two Guest Lectures

by

Professor Alexandre Leupin

Kidd and Greogorie Professor in French Studies

Louisianna State University

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"Symptoms of Femininity and Western Narrative"

Thursday, 15 March, 2012, 16:15, Rosenberg Building, Hall 02

"Proust's Desire"

Tuesday, 20 March, 2012, 16:15, Webb 103 

Tel Aviv University Campus, Ramat Aviv

Entrance through Austria Gate (#1) and Safra Gate (#14)

The public is invited

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. 

Poetry in Unexpected Places

We're hosting an international academic conference soon, this one organized by Prof. Karen Alkalay-Gut and Nadja Rumjanceva.

Tuesday, March 22nd: Save the date!

For more details, check out the brochure.

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.

The Mad Poets: A Hanukkah Event!

We are arranging a Hanukkah event for the department:
Next Wednesday, 28^th December, 18:00 to 20:00 in Webb 001.

The theme is Darkness and Light, and there are still slots available for readers! You can send us whatever you want (poetry, prose, short stories, quick lectures) as long as it’s related to the theme of "Light and Darkness" and is short enough (not more than 5 minutes).

If you'd like to participate, contact us at tau.madpoets@gmail.com

It’s going to be a fun event. We have some really interested talks lined up, and quite a few talented musicians, we have students of all levels reading...

There will be snacks, wine and doughnuts!

The event page is on facebook:
http://www.facebook.com/events/288951814474808/

If you have any questions, you are more than welcome to catch us on campus, or send us an email! (Again, at  tau.madpoets@gmail.com )

Chag Sameach,

Yafit, Omri & Adam. 

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 

Update: English and American Literature into Film Series

Beginning Thursday, December 15th, the Department of English and American Studies will be hosting another fascinating lecture series!

English and American Literature into Film Series 

Thursdays, 6-8 PM, Webb Building Room 001

Othello – Shakespeare and Orson Wells 

December 15th: 

Dr. Noam Reisner

Shakespeare in Love

December 22nd: Ms. Linda Streit

Pride and Prejudice - Jane Austen and Joe Wright (2005) 

December 29th: Dr. Amy Garnai

Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol and Mark Waters's The Ghosts of Girlfriends Past (2009)

January 5th: Dr. Yael Maurer

The Time Machine – H.G. Well and Simon Wells (2002)

January 12th: Prof. Elana Gomel

Gone with the Wind – Margaret Mitchell and David O. SleznickJanuary 19th: Dr. Yael Sternhell

Portrait of a Lady – Henry James and Jane CampionJanuary 26th: Prof. Hana Wirth-Nesher

See you there!

English and American Literature into Film Series

Beginning Thursday, December 15th, the Department of English and American Studies will be hosting another fascinating lecture series.

Click here for the teaser!

Please check the department's website for more details.