Upcoming Events
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies sponsors frequent lectures and symposia.
this event has been canceled at the last minute - we apologize for any inconvenience
CANCELED
Tuesday, February 7th, 4:00 p.m.
Norris Center, Arch Room, #206
"Israel as a Jewish and Democratic State: The Complexities"
Alex Yakobson
Department of History, Hebrew University
Monday, February 13th, 4:00 p.m.
McCormick Tribune Forum
“Jews In China”
Pan Guang
Vice Chairman and Professor of Shanghai Center for International Studies at Shanghai Academy of Social Sciences, Director of SCO (Shanghai Cooperation Organization) Studies Center in Shanghai, Dean, Center of Jewish Studies Shanghai (CJSS) and Vice President of Chinese Association of Middle East Studies.
sponsored by the Chinese Language Program, co-sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Hillel and the Office of the President
Tuesday, February 28, 4:00 p.m.
Fisk 311
"Playing with the Torah Scroll: The Performance of Ritual Objects
on the Jewish Stage"
Yair Lipshitz
Mandel Fellow, Hebrew Univeristy
co-sponsored by Religious Studies and Performance Studies
Tuesday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
McCormick Auditorium, Norris Center
The Joseph Cardinal Bernardin Jerusalem Lecture Series
"Catholic Trends in the Global Church and Why Jews Should Care"
John Allen, The National Catholic Reporter
sponsored by: The American Jewish Committee, Archdiocese of Chicago, Chicago Board of Rabbis, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
co-sponsored by: The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Northwestern University and Catholic Studies Minor, Northwestern University
Monday April 16, 7:30 p.m.
Harris Hall, 108
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston campus
Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
"Private Faith, Public Religion: Tensions in Modern Jewish Thought"
Leora Batnitzky
Professor of Religion, Princeton University
Thursday, April 26, 6:00 p.m.
Chicago Sinai Congregation, 15 W. Delaware St., Chicago
An evening with Israeli author Etgar Keret
sponsored by the Chicago Humanities Festival, co-sponsored by
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies
for more information and tickets:
http://www.chicagohumanities.org/Genres/Literature/2012-Keret-Etgar.aspx
CHF Member: $5.00
General Admission: $10.00
Sunday, April 29- Monday, April 30
The Middle East and North Africa at a Crossroads: Religion,
Revolution and Reform
a conference
co-sponsored by The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies
Monday, May 14, 7:30 p.m. Pick-Staiger Auditorium
Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
"Dreamers or Pioneers? The Jewish Community in 19th Century Jerusalem"
Israel Bartal
Avraham Harman Professor of Jewish History at the Hebrew University
co-sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
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Recent Events
Monday, January 9 11:00 a.m.
Kresge 2-425
"Walter Benjamin's Jewishness"
Howard Eiland
MIT
sponsored by Department of German, co-sponsored by
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies
Tuesday, October 4 , 2011
The Allan and Norma Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
"German-Jewish Responses to the Rise of Hitler"
Michael Brenner
Professor of Jewish History and Culture, University of Munich,
International Vice-President of the Leo Baeck Institute, member of the Bavarian
Academy of Sciences.
5:00 p.m.
Harris Hall, room 108
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston campus
Thursday, October 6, 2011
“Making the Crime Fit the Punishment: Rewriting 'Jewish White Slavery,' Rethinking Jewish-Argentine Identity"
Claire Solomon
Assistant Professor, Department of Hispanic Studies, Oberlin College
4:30 p.m.
Kresge 2-301, 1880 Campus Drive
The Sava Ranisavljevic Endowment in Weinberg College is providing generous support for this event.
Lecture co-sponsored by WCAS, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program
Tuesday, May 17, 2011 .
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
The Cult of Synthesis in American Jewish Culture
How Jews Have Striven to be American and Jewish at One and the Same Time
Jonathan Sarna
Joseph H. and Belle R. Braun Professor of American Jewish History
Brandeis University
7:30 p.m
Harris Hall , room 107
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston campus
Co-sponsored by American Studies, The Nicholas D. Chabraja Center
for Historical Studies, Fiedler Hillel
Monday, May 2, 2011
Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies
Christian Missionizing and Jewish Responses over the Ages
Robert Chazan
S. H. and Helen R. Scheuer Professor of Hebrew and Judaic Studies
Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies, New York University
7:30 p.m.
Big 10 Room, Norris Center
Evanston Campus
Thursday, April 7, 2011
2011 Philip M. & Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
Irwin Cotler
Renowned for a distinguished academic and legal career that he has spent at the forefront of the global struggle for justice, peace, and human rights, Professor Cotler is currently a member of the Canadian Parliament.
Please note the new location
7:30 p.m.
Ryan Family Auditorium, Technological Institute
2145 Sheridan Road, Evanston Campus
Sponsored by The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Northwestern University
& the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Wednesday, March 9, 2011
9 AM- 4 PM
The Shifting Sands of Hegemonic Powers in the Middle East
a conference sponsored by
The Roberta Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies and
Northwestern University Middle East Forum (NUMEF),
Co-sponsored by: The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies,
the Keyman Family Program in Modern Turkish Studies and the History Department
Guild Lounge, Scott Hall 601 University Place
Evanston Campus
free and open to the public
March 1, 2011
"A New Index for Time: Calendars and the Holocaust"
Alan Rosen
Author and research fellow of the Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah
November 7-9, 2010
Jews, Urban Space and Early Modernity
a conference hosted by
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies and
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
Monday, November 8, 2010.
The Songs of Solomon
7:00 p.m.
Chicago Syntagma Musicum performs a concert of Italian Baroque
Jewish music, including works by Salamone Rossi.
Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies
610 S. Michigan Avenue, Chicago
Presented by Spertus Institute and The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies in conjunction with the international conference, Jews, Urban Space and Early Modernity.
Monday, October 4, 2010
Dr. Michael Oren, Ambassador of Israel to the United States
Ambassador Oren addresses Northwestern students, faculty and staff
followed by Q and A.
4:30 PM, McCormick Auditorium, Norris Center
Ambassador Michael Oren Oct 4 2010 - Speech from NU Hillel on Vimeo.
Ambassador Michael Oren Q&A from NU Hillel on Vimeo.
Monday, May 3, 2010
The Philip M. and Ethel Klutznick Lecture in Jewish Civilization
speaker Anthony Julius
7:30 p.m. Pick Staiger Concert Hall
co-sponsored by The Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Thursday, April 29, 2010
"What Maimonides learned from the Philosophers of Islam"
Lenn E. Goodman
Professor of Philosophy
Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities
Vanderbilt University
Sunday April 25 - Tuesday April 27
The Middle East in the 1950s - Historical Perspectives:
Israel, the Arab World, and the Great Powers
an international conference co-sponsored by
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies,
The Buffett Center for International and Comparative Studies,
The Northwestern Middle East Forum and the Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities
http://www.northwestern.edu/newscenter/stories/2010/04/middleeast.html
Wednesday April 14 and Thursday April 15
Department of Philosophy
Spring Conference
"QUESTIONING THE LAW"
featuring faculty from Northwestern and
The University of Pisa
for more inforamtion
http://www.philosophy.northwestern.edu/
Wednesday, April 7
Bernard Beck
Northwestern University Associate Professor Emeritus
Performs Scenes from the Piven Theatre Workshop’s World Premier of
“Number of People” by Emilie Beck
co sponsored by The Department of History
Monday, March 1
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“How Jewish is Jewish History? Jewish Metahistories and the Jewish
Historical Experience”
Moshe Rosman
Profesor of Jewish History, Bar Ilan University
Goldsmith Visiting Professor, Yale University
Co-sponsored by The Center for Historical Studies
Monday, February 8
"Semitic Mysteries, Universal Truths: Jewishness and Arabness in
Jorge Luis Borges"
Erin Graff Zivin
Professor, University of Southern California
Co-sponsored by Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies, Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program, The Sava Ranisavljevic Endowment in Weinberg College.
Tuesday, January 12
Jonathan Brent
YIVO Institute for Jewish Research and
Yale University Press
"Russia Today: Nationalism and the Rebirth of Stalin"
Co-sponsored with the History Department and the
Department of Slavic Languages and Literatures
Thursday, November 19
"Searching for Home: Cuban Jewish Stories from the Island and the Diaspora"
Ruth Behar
Professor of Anthropology and Women's Studies at The University of Michigan
5:00 p.m. Kresge Hall 2-301
1880 Campus Drive
Co-sponsored by the Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies and the Latin American and Caribbean Studies Program
Wednesday, November 4
"The Monk's Haggadah: The Story Behind A Remarkable 15th C.
Codex and Its Discovery."
David M. Stern
Ruth Meltzer Professor of Classical Hebrew
University of Pennsylvania
Monday, October 26
"The Story of Rahab: Harlot of Jericho, Heroine of Israel"
Gary A. Rendsburg
Blanche and Irving Laurie Chair in Jewish History
Rutgers University
Thursday, April 23
The Allan Harris Memorial Lecture in Jewish Studies
“A Medieval Pilgrim and Poet: Judah Halevi and the Land of Israel”
Raymond Scheindlin
Professor of Medieval Hebrew Literature at The Jewish Theological Seminary and director of JTS's Shalom Spiegel Institute of Medieval Hebrew Poetry
7:00 p.m.
Norris University Center
Wildcat Room, 101
1999 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Monday, April 6
The Cluster on Russian, East European and Jewish Studies and
The Crown Family Center for Jewish Studies present
"A Bit of my Brain: Venice as Urban Theatre in Dickens " Pictures from Italy"
Murray Baumgarten
3:00 p.m. Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
and
"Venice, the Jews, and Italian Culture"
Tuesday, April 7
3:00 pm,
Hagstrum Room, University Hall 201
Murray Baumgarten is Professor of English and Comparative Literature;
Neufeld-Levin Chair, with Peter Kenez, in Holocaust Studies; and
Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz.
Monday, April 13
Michael Chabon, on Edgar Allan Poe
7:30 PM
Pulitzer-prize winning author and cultural observer Presented by the Program in American Studies, co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and other departments
Owen L. Coon Forum in
Jacobs Center (Leverone Hall)
2001 Sheridan Road (near Foster St.)
Evanston Campus
Free & Open To The Public
Michael Chabon is one of the most distinguished American writers of his generation. His novel The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Klay won the New York Society Library Prize for Fiction, the Bay Area Book Reviewers Award, the Commonwealth Club Gold Medal, and the Pulitzer Prize in 2001. Chabon's novella The Final Solution (2004) was awarded the 2005 National Jewish Book Award and also the 2003 Aga Khan Prize for Fiction by The Paris Review, and his most recent book, The Yiddish Policemen’s Union, won the 2008 Hugo Award for Best Novel. He also is a prominent critic and cultural observer, as well as a screenwriter and children’s book author. Chabon’s works explore themes which include American superheroism, Jewish identity, and history as popular culture, and his unique style blends complex literary metaphor with the action and energy characteristic of comic books. This lecture is part of the “Great Authors” series made possible by the generous support of the Office of the President, Northwestern University.
Tuesday, April 14
Adina Hoffman
5:15 p.m.
Adina Hoffman reads from her new book
My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet's Life in the Palestinian Century
John Evans Alumni Center
1800 Sheridan Road
Evanston Campus
Author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem Neighborhood. Adina Hoffman's essays and criticism have appeared in the Nation, the Washington Post, the Times Literary Supplement, the Boston Globe, Raritan, and on the World Service of the BBC. Formerly a film critic for the American Prospect and the Jerusalem Post, she is one of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, a small press that publishes the literature of the Levant. She lives in Jerusalem. Presented by The Center for Writing Arts co-sponsored by Jewish Studies and other programs
Thursday, April 16
2.30-5.30 pm
Judith Butler
University of California –Berkeley
"Keeping Company With Oneself"
(Arendt on Eichmann contra Kant)
Followed by a round table with Judith Butler and responses from:
Peg Birmingham, Philosophy, De Paul University
Mary Dietz, Political Science Northwestern University
Susannah Gottlieb, English Northwestern University
Linda Zerilli, Political Science University Of Chicago
Tech Auditorium LR2 –
Lecture Room 2 (L171)
Northwestern University
2145 Sheridan Rd Evanston Campus
Sponsored by the Kreeger Wolf Lecture Fund, the Department of Philosophy, the Program of Jewish Studies, the Program of Comparative Literary Studies, and the Program of Gender Studies at Northwestern University with further support from the Department of Political Science, Northwestern and the Department of Philosophy, DePaul University
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.
