Upcoming Events
The Crown Center for Jewish Studies sponsors frequent lectures and symposia. Among the notable upcoming events are:
Monday, October 13, 2008
"A Conversation with Ana Maria Shua :
Jewish Culture and Community in Argentina"*
Ana Maria Shua is a prominent, contemporary Argentinian author
4:30pm, Kresge 2-301
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Thursday, November 13, 2008
"Jewish Identity and Testimony in Latin America"*
Marjorie Agosín
Chilean-Jewish writer, human rights activist, academic
Luella LaMer Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College
7:30pm, McCormick Tribune Forum, 1870 Campus Drive
Evanston Campus
Co-sponsored with Facing History and Ourselves
Friday, November 14, 2008
"A Conversation with Marjorie Agosín: Decoding Jewish Culture in Chile" *
Chilean-Jewish writer, human rights activist, academic
Luella LaMer Professor in Latin American Studies at Wellesley College
4:30pm, Kresge 2-301
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
*These public events are being supported by the Sava Ranisavljevic Endowment in WCAS; and are being co-sponsored by Spanish & Portuguese, Jewish Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies
Tuesday, January 20, 2009
"Argentina's 'Auschwitz': The Death Camp and the Argentine Disappeared"
Edna Aizenberg
Professor of Spanish at Marymount Manhattan College, Adjunct Professor of Jewish Literature at Jewish Theological Seminary
4:30pm, Place: Kresge 2-301
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Monday, February 9, 2009
"Poetic Narratives: Creative Writing, Jewishness, and the University."
Michelene Wandor
Michelene Wandor is a dramatist, poet and cultural critic. Her recent publications include 'The Author is not Dead, Merely Somewhere Else: Creative Writing Reconceived', and 'The Art of Writing Drama'. Her play, 'Tulips in Winter', about Spinoza, was broadcast on BBC Radio 3. She holds a Royal Literary Fund Fellowship at the University of London.
Tuesday, February 10, 2009
Saúl Sosnowski
Public lecture: Title TBA
Latin American-Jewish Scholar; Founding member, Latin American Jewish Studies Association
4:30pm, Kresge 2-301
1880 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
March 4, 2009
2009 Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
featured speaker
Tova Hartman
Bar Ilan University
Dr. Tova Hartman teaches at Bar Ilan University in the School of Education and the Program in Gender Studies. Her first, book, Appropriately Subversive: Modern Mothers in Traditional Religions (Harvard University Press, 2002), examines how feminists in traditional religions balance and blend their roles as mothers and believers. Using ethnographic methods, Hartman studies both American Catholic and Israeli Jewish women in this ground-breaking book. Her second book, Feminism Encounters Traditional Judaism: Resistance and Accommodation (Brandeis University Press, 2007), explores the relationships between contemporary feminist thought and Jewish tradition. Rabbi Irving (Yitz) Greenberg describes it as “an intellectual/analytical feast and a spiritual delight.”
Hartman holds a Masters in Jewish Philosophy from Hebrew University; a Masters in Counseling Psychology from Boston College; and a doctorate in Psychology from the Harvard University Graduate School of Education, where she wrote her dissertation with Carol Gilligan.
Hartman has worked as a clinician at the Jerusalem Women's Counseling Center. She is one of the founders of Shira Hadasha, an orthodox feminist synagogue in Jerusalem.
For descriptions of the Center's endowed lectureship series, symposia and conferences, and other academic events, along with listings of the principal scholars who have participated in them, please see the corresponding links on the left.
