FALL 2009 Semester

Tues., Sept. 8

5:30-6:15

Weekly Hebrew Table

Come speak Hebrew with other students and have a free dinner. The JSSA Hebrew Table meets every Tuesday at Kosher Cafe in the Hillel dining room.

730 E. Third Street

Mon., Sept. 21

Application deadline for spring study at the Rothberg School at Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Aplication available at: http://www.indiana.edu/~overseas/applications/jerus.shtml

Tues., Sept. 22

4:30-6:00

Jewish Studies Fall Welcome Back Dessert

Come meet Jewish Studies faculty and other students interested in Jewish Studies

Hoosier Room, Indiana Memorial Union (around the corner from the East Lounge ont he Mezzanine floor)

Fri., September 25

12:00 noon

"The Jewish Self/The Jewish Other: Performing Identity in the Majufes"

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Student Workshop with Professor Halina Goldberg

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Wed., September 30

5:30 p.m. dinner

7:00 p.m. talk

Dinner and discussion with author Achy Obejas

Author Achy Obejas will share her experiences as she navigates her Cuban, lesbian, and Jewish identities. A limited number of students will be able to have the cost of their dinner paid. The first twenty students to RSVP to Sarah Wilensky (swilensk@indiana.edu), will have free dinner, but others are welcome to attend the discussion and pay for their own food or eat before on their own.

Hillel Chapel (730 E. Third Street)

Dinner co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Student Association and La Casa

Wed., October 14

4:00 p.m.

“Tel Aviv: 100 Years of the City on the Sands"

Professor Anita Shapira, Ruben Merenfeld Professor of the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv University, delivers the Edward A. Block Lecture in Jewish Studies

University Club, President's Room (downstairs)

Indiana Memorial Union

Tue., Oct. 20

4:30-6:00 p.m.

Frisbee, Food & More-- Dunn Meadow
Sponsored by the JSSA

Tue., Oct. 20

7:00 p.m.

Jewish Studies Film Showing of Divan

Lindley Hall 102

Oct., 23-25

“Beyond the Racial State: Rethinking Nazi Germany ”
Conference convened by Mark Roseman
Grand Hall, Neal Marshall Black Culture Center

Fri., October 23

12:30 noon

"We Are Not Mizrahi . . . We Are Indian Jews: Issues of Culture and Identity in the Indian Jewish Community in Israel."

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with

Maina Chawla Singh

Ballantine Hall, Room 137

Mon, Oct 26

7:30 p.m.

An Evening with Famed Israeli Writer Etgar Keret

Georgian Room, IMU

Tue., Nov. 3

4:00 p.m.

“In an Instant: Advent of the (Non)event and Menahem Mendel Schneerson's Postmessianic Messianism”

Professor Elliot Wolfson, New York University
Maple Room, IMU

Fri., November 6

12:00 noon

“American Synagogues: The Search for Style”

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with Professor Lee Shai Weissbach

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Mon., November 9

7:30 p.m.

"From the Other Shore: Moses and Korach"

Israeli Biblical scholar, Professor Avivah Zornberg, delivers the Simona and Hart Hasten Lecture in Jewish Studies

Oak Room, IMU

Tue., Nov. 10

6:00-7:00p.m.

Meet the Professor (Matthias Lehmann)
Free Dinner--Hillel dining room, 730 E. 3rd St. RSVP before midnight on November 4 to bgurin@indiana.edu.
Sponsored by the JSSA

Mon., Nov. 16

7:30 p.m.

"Jewish Environmentalism? The Biblical Conundrum"
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Professor of History, Arizona State University, delivers the Helen and Martin Schwartz
Lectures in Jewish Studies

Oak Room, IMU

Tue., Nov., 17

7:30 p.m.

"Nature in Modern Judaism: Between the Secular and the Religious"

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Professor of History, Arizona State University, delivers the Helen and Martin Schwartz
Lectures in Jewish Studies

Oak Room, IMU

Wed., Dec. 2

7:30 p.m.

"Contemporary Israel: Vision and Reality"

Lecture by Visiting Faculty member Professor Yossi Turner

location TBA

Fri., Dec. 11

12:00 noon

"From Common Idealogy to Separate Institute: Creation of Poland's WIZO, or Jewish Women Nationalists int he Public Sphere"

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with Jolanta Mickute

Walnut Room, IMU

Spring 2010 Semester

Thur., Jan. 14

7:30 p.m.

"Liberte, Egalite, Antitsemitism: The French Connection"

Professor Robert Wistrich delivers the inaugural lecture of the new Institute for the study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Frangipani Room, IMU

Fri., Jan. 15

Deadline for Graduate Fellowship Applications

Mon., Jan. 25

Deadline for applications for Incoming Freshman Scholarships of up to $40,000

Thu., Jan. 28

Workshop with Vicky Woeste

Thu., Feb. 11

7:30 p.m.

George Stolnitz Memorial Program delivered by Itzik Gottesman
Oak Room, IMU

Fri., Feb. 12

12:00 noon

"When Irony Failed: Maskilic Yiddish Folksongs"

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with Itzik Gottesman
Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Fri., Feb. 19

12:00 noon

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with John Walbridge
Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Mon., March 1

Deadline for the 2010 Henry A. Bern Memorial Essay Competition , Piser Prize, and continuing scholarships for Jewish Studies undergraduate students

March 2

5:00 p.m.

"Is It Possible to Understand the Germans: Reflections on the Life and Writings of Primo Levi"

College Arts & Humanities Institute lecture by Professor Alvin Rosenfeld

Location TBA

Thur., March 4

4:00 p.m.

Jewish Studies Workshop with Till van Rahden

Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Fri., March 5

2:00 p.m.

“The Cultural Politics of Diasporic Identities: Ways of Being Jewish in Brazil"
Cosponsored lecture with Professor Nelson Vieira, Professor of Portuguese, Brazilian Studies and Judaic Studies at Brown University

Tue., March 9

7:30 p.m.

Bill and Frances Julian Program delivered by Professor David Nirenberg, University of Chicago
7:30 p.m. Oak Room, IMU

Wed., March 10

Deadline for application for Jewish Studies grants-in-aid for graduate students

Fri., March 26

12:00 noon

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with Stephen Watt
Hoosier Room, IMU

Wed., April 14

Jewish Studies Student-Faculty Dinner

Fri., April 23

12:00 noon

"Jews in Fezzes: Fashoning an Ottoman Imperial Identity"

Jewish Studies Faculty-Graduate Workshop with Julia Cohen
Distinguished Alumni Room, IMU

Sun., April 25

"The Past and Future of Zionism"

Joan and Samuel New Institute for the Study of Judaism and the Jewish

University Place Hotel and Conference Center

IUPUI, Indianapolis