2024-09-17
- September 17, 2024
12:00-1:15 PM
English Building 109
A parliamentary democracy since its foundation in 1948, Israel has developed a unique constitutional structure safeguarding basic rights, among them freedom of expression and the press, while lacking a formal constitution. The tension between government, the military and the press that emerges from this arrangement reaches new heights...
2024-09-16 - September 16 5PM Levis Faculty Center 210 Journalist Judy Maltz arrived in the United States just weeks before October 7, excited to start her new position as Haaretz correspondent in New York responsible for our coverage of Jewish life in America. Never would she have imagined that this would become one of the most tumultuous years in Jewish-American history. Covering the biggest story of the...
Fighting Hatred in the Heartland: Hubert Humphrey's Battles Against Extremism in Mid-Century America2024-09-11 - Location: Levis Faculty Center 210 The Fall 2024 Reception will follow the lecture. Light refreshments will be served. Samuel G. Freedman is an award-winning author, columnist, and professor. A former columnist for The New York Times and a professor at Columbia University, he is the author of the ten acclaimed books. The most recent of them, Into the Bright Sunshine: Young Hubert Humphrey and...
2024-05-14 - May 14, 2024 1PM CST Online event. Register here. The State of Israel is a democratic and liberal state that also serves as the nation-state of the Jewish people. The social and...
2024-04-30 - Even as a fourth-generation Jewish Texan, S.L. Wisenberg has always felt the ghost of Europe dogging her steps, making her feel uneasy in her body and in the world. At age six, she’s sure that she hears Nazis at her bedroom window and knows that after they take her away, she’ll die without her asthma meds. Later in life, she makes her first and only trip to the mikvah while healing from a breast...
2024-04-25 - THURSDAY, APRIL 25TH, 2024 Ruth Behar 4:00pm Knight Auditorium, Spurlock Museum 600 South Gregory, Urbana View on Map EVENT DESCRIPTION In this presentation, Ruth Behar will discuss her recent turn from anthropology to writing coming-of-age novels. These works of historical fiction feature Jewish Cuban and Sephardic young girls seeking to...
2024-04-04 - This event, part of the Greenfield Lynch Lecture Series, will take place April 4, 2024 at 5:30 PM in Levis Faculty Center 210. Ben Lerner is the author of eight books of poetry and prose as well as several collaborations with visual artists. His new book of poetry, The Lights, was just published by FSG, and his most recent novel, The Topeka School, won the Los Angeles Times Book Award...
2024-03-26 - This lecture will take place Tuesday, March 26, 2024, 4:00-5:30 PM in Levis Faculty Center 422. The least known Jewish community in the ancient world is the network of Jews who populated the Arabian Peninsula during the years between the destruction of the Second Temple in 70 C.E. and the rise of Islam during the 7th century C.E. Nonetheless, a significant amount of material written in...
2024-01-08 - We have exciting events coming up in Spring 2024! Here's a selection of highlighted events, and please be sure to check our calendar and website for more!
2023-11-03 - On behalf of the Program in Jewish Culture & Society, I write to express our deepest collective concern to all those who have suffered by the appalling terrorist attacks by Hamas and the escalating war in Israel and Gaza. I would like to stress that there is no place for antisemitism, Islamophobia or hate for any faith at Illinois. A message of concern with respect and tolerance from...
2023-10-23 - On Friday, November 3, 2023, the Initiative in Holocaust, Genocide, Memory Studies held a conference on Race, Migration, and Memory. Keynote speaker Shimon Attie talked about "Night Watch and Other Projects." Please click here to view the recording.
2023-10-23 - “Arts of the Border: Kino-Aesthetics and the Movement of Refugees” The keynote lecture for the Race, Migration, and Memory Conference (Keynote Lecture: Nov. 2, 2023, 5pm, Levis Faculty Center 210) (Symposium: Nov. 3, 2023, 9AM- 5pm, Levis Faculty Center 210) Refugees encounter borders in an immediate and embodied experience, yet this encounter is informed by and expressed through...
2023-09-07 - Monday, October 2, 2023 | 10:00 AM-6:00 PM | Levis Faculty Center, Room 210 Hosted by the Department of Religion and Program in Jewish Culture & Society Participants Mårten Björk | Oxford University; Lund University Rachel Havrelock | University of Illinois Chicago Martin Kavka | Florida State University Adam Kotsko | Northwestern University Seth Schein |...
2023-08-07 - The Program in Jewish Culture & Society is delighted to announce our Fall 2023 Reception! Please join us on September 11 at 5:15pm in the Levis Faculty Center (Room 210) for a lecture by Dana Rabin. Light refreshments will be served. We hope to see you there!