Fall 2015 Jewish Studies Events: MARK YOUR CALENDARS

Friday September 4, 2015, 9:00-10:30 am

Cathedral of Learning Commons Room

Jewish Studies Program Back to School Meet and Greet with Coffee and Donuts

for Faculty and Undergraduates

Tuesday September 30, 2015,  4:30 pm

at Carnegie-Mellon University

"The Invention of the German National Landscape by Jewish Filmmakers, 1918-1968"

Lecture by Ofer Ashkenazi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

For more information:  http://www.cmu.edu/dietrich/modlang/

Thursday October 8, 2015,   8:00 pm         

at Pittsburgh Public Theater, Downtown                

PittArts & Hillel-JUC night at The Diary of Anne Frank       

with an introduction by Rachel Kranson (University of Pittsburgh)

For more information: http://www.pittarts.pitt.edu/index.php

Saturday October 10-Sunday October 11, 2015    

"Found in Translation:  A  Conference on the World History of Science, 1200-1600 CE"

This international conference addresses Islamic, Latin, Hebrew, African, Chinese, South Asian, Eurasian, and American scientific endeavors,  traditions, and interactions.

For more information:  worldhistoryofscience@pitt.edu

Monday, October 19, 2015, 4:30-6:30 pm

602 Cathedral of Learning

"From Jewish to Black: The Strange Career of the Word Ghetto"

Lecture by Daniel B. Schwartz (George Washington University)

Tuesday October 20, 2015, 12 noon-1:30 pm         

4217 Posvar Hall                 

"Europe's Jews: Past, Present, Future?"       

EUCE/ESC  "Conversations on Europe" Series Roundtable

Ron Linden (Political Science, University of Pittsburgh), Moderator and Guests

Monday October 26,  7:00-8:30 pm           

English Nationality Room, 144 CL                

"The America that Greeted the Diary of Anne Frank:  Postwar Jews and the Memory of the Holocaust"                 

Lecture by Hasia Diner (New York University)

Coffee with Professor Diner for interested graduate students, 3-4 pm, RSVP to Rachel Kranson (kranson@pitt.edu) if interested in attending.

Thursday October 29-Friday October 30, 2015         

“History and its Discontents: Commemoration in Italy and the Francophone World” 

Conference in Honor of the 50th Anniversary of the Department of French and Italian. http://frit50.pitt.edu/the-conference-real-and-virtual/

Thursday November 5, 2015, 7:00 PM      

Studio Theatre, Basement of Cathedral of Learning          

Performance and Lecture "The Mitzvah Project"with Roger Grunwald

Thursday December 3, 2015, 7:00-8:30 pm

Location TBA

“The Mystery of the Hebrew Detective”

Lecture by Dror Mishani, Israeli literary critic and best-selling mystery novelist.