Academic Lectures

A dialogue between Professors Muhamad Ali and Giora Eliraz about Indonesian perceptions of the Middle East and Middle Eastern perceptions of Indonesia. Southeast Asia Center Director Laurie J. Sears will moderate.

Dara Horn is an award-winning author and scholar of Hebrew and Yiddish literatures. Her opening night Stroum Lecture addresses the theme of "Hebrew and the Creative Imagination."

Stavans, an accomplished writer and professor at UMass Amherst, will give a lecture on "Hebrew and the Creative Imagination."

Dr. Daniel Newman will discuss the experiences of Holocaust victims in the Soviet Union as well as the divisiveness of the memory of the Holocaust

Should our country discriminate among potential immigrants on the basis of religion? Recent calls by prominent politicians have suggested just this. Four panelists will discuss this and related questions from philosophical, sociological, and historical perspectives.

Book talk on comparative perspective showing Polish productions in the context of a larger international phenomenon of Holocaust cinema.

In this public lecture, Dr. Sheldon Rubenfeld of the Baylor College of Medicine will speak on how medicine and medical ethics were challenged and affected

Prof. Jeffrey Herf will discuss his latest book "Undeclared Wars with Israel: East Germany and the West German Far Left, 1967-1989"

Dr. Francesconi will give a lunchtime talk "The Italian Jewish Household in the Early Modern Mediterranean," with a response from Dr. Rena Lauer on April 20, 2017.