Israel at Sixty
Reflections on the Past, Present and Future of the Jewish State
Open to the public and free of charge
An international symposium featuring:
Shlomo Avineri
Andy David
Benajmin Frommer
Jacob Lassner
Elie Rekhess
Leonard Saxe
Liora Sion
Asher Susser
Schedule | Speakers | Parking and Directions
Sunday, May 18
2-5:30 PM
McCormick Tribune Center Forum
1840 Campus Drive, Evanston Campus
Israel and Europe
Shlomo Avineri, the Hebrew University
Israel and the Middle East
Asher Susser, Tel Aviv University
Israel and the Concept of Diaspora
Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University
Monday, May 19
9:30-11:30 AM
Harris Hall Room 108
1881 Sheridan Road, Evanston Campus
Panel Discussion
Moderator, Ilan Troen
The Stoll Family Professor in Israel Studies and Director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies, Brandeis University
Participants:
- Shlomo Avineri, the Hebrew University
- Andy David, Deputy Consul General of Israel
- Benjamin Frommer, Northwestern University
- Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University
- Leonard Saxe, Brandeis University
- Asher Susser, Tel Aviv University
- Elie Rekhess, Tel Aviv University and Northwestern University
- Liora Sion, Northwestern University
Shlomo Avineri, one of the world's leading political theorists, is Professor of Political Science and Director of the Institute for European Studies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In addition, he has held visiting appointments at numerous universities including Yale, Cornell, and Oxford. He was also visiting scholar at the Wilson Center, the Brookings Institution and the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace as well as the Institute of World Economics and International Relations (IMFMO) in Moscow. During 1975-77 he was Director-General of Israel's Ministry of Foreign Affairs. He also headed the Israeli delegation to the UNESCO General Assembly, and in 1979 was member of the joint Egyptian-Israeli commission that drafted the Cultural and Scientific Agreement between the two countries. In 1996 he was awarded the Israel Prize, the country's highest civilian decoration.
Jacob Lassner is the Phillip M. and Ethel Klutznick Professor of Jewish Civilization at Northwestern University and served on occasion as Sackler Professor in the Department of Middle East History, Tel Aviv University. He specializes int he history of Jewish-Muslim relations.Dr. Lassner, who received his doctorate at Yale, has been a member of the Institute of Advanced Study in Princeton; a fellow of the Hebrew Union College School (Jerusalem); the Rockefeller Institute in Bellagio, Italy and the Oxford Postgraduate Center for Hebrew Studies where he was Skirball Fellow for Jewish-Muslim Relations. He is the recipient of the Doctor of Humane Letters (Honoris Causa) from the Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion.
Leonard Saxe is Professor of Jewish Community Research and Social Policy at Brandeis University where he also serves as Director of the Cohen Center for Modern Jewish Studies and the Steinhardt Social Research Institute. Professor Saxe is a social psychologist whose current research focuses on Jewish identity and engagement. He is the principal investigator of a program of research on a large-scale educational experiment, Birthright Israel, and leads a project to develop estimates of the size and characteristics of the American Jewish population. Professor Saxe is an author and/or editor of more than 250 publications, including a 2004 book about Jewish summer camping, How Goodly are thy Tents (co-authored with Amy Sales) and a forthcoming book (with Barry Chazan), Ten Days of Birthright Israel. He has been a Science Fellow for the United States Congress, a Fulbright Professor at Haifa University and received the American Psychological Association's prize for Distinguished Contributions to Psychology in the Public Interest.
Asher Susser is presently the Director for External Affairs of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern Studies at Tel viv University. He was the Director of the Center from 1989 to 1995 and again from 2001 to 2007 and has taught for over twenty-five years in the University's Department of Middle Eastern History. Professor Susser has focused on Modern Middle Eastern History, Religion and State in the Middle East and Arab-Israeli issues, with special reference to Jordan and the Palestinians. He has been a Fulbright Fellow, a visiting professor at cornell University (1986-7), the University of Chicago (1990) and Brandeis University (1998, 2007-8), and a visiting fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (1987, 1996-7). Professor Susser, the author and editor of eight books, is presently engaged in the writing of a work on Israel, Jordan and the Palestinians.
Ilan Troen holds the Karl, Harry, and Ellen Stoll Chair in Israel Studies at Brandeis Univsristy and is the Sam and Anna Lopin Professor in Modern History emeritus at Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is the founding editor of Israel Studies, the leading journal in the field and the author/editor of ten books on American, Jewish, and Israeli history. His recent focus has been on Jewish settlement in the land of Israel under the ottomans, the British Mandatory regime, and following that, under the rule of the modern State of Israel. He has also written on the creation of an Israeli national consciousness. He recently assumed the role of director of the newly established Schusterman Center of Israel Studies at Brandeis.
Sunday
Parking on campus on Sunday is FREE.
Sunday's program is at the McCormick Tribune Center, 1870 Campus Drive located on the Southeastern portion of Northwestern University's Evanston Campus.
From the North
Drive south on Sheridan Road. After the light on Chicago, Sheridan curves left (east)—follow Sheridan, staying in the left lane. As Sheridan curves to the right (2 blocks), take a left into the University main entrance. Park in the two-tiered parking lot (#214 and #215) on your right. McCormick Tribune Center is the modern white building located just west of the parking lot.
From the South
Proceed north on Sheridan Road. Sheridan will curve left (west) just south of Clark Street. There is a University entrance just before this curve. Make a right here and park in the two-tiered parking lot (#214 and #215) on your right. McCormick Tribune Center is the modern white building located just west of the parking lot.
Monday
Monday's program is located in Harris Hall, 1881 Sheridan Road, Room 108, Evanston Campus.
Northwestern Parking
A permit is required to park on campus. Please contact jewish-studies@northwestern.edu or 491-2612 by May 10 if you would like a permit mailed, or stop at the Northwestern University Parking Office 1819 Hinman Avenue on Monday morning.
City Parking
City of Evanston parking is also available and convenient to Harris Hall. Rates are approximately $1/hour.
The most convenient parking lot is the City of Evanston's Church Street Self-Park (837-328-4607) located on Chicago Avenue between Church Street and Clark Street in downtown Evanston. Enter from Church or Clark, just east of Chicago Ave.. Exit parking lot on Clark St. side and walk north on Chicago Ave. one block to Sheridan Rd. Cross Sheridan at the light and go through the Northwestern Arch. Harris Hall is the first building on your right.
