Past Events       2002 - 2003       2003 - 2004       2004 - 2005 2002 - 2003 Events Tuesday, April 22, 2003 Faculty Brown Bag Professor Carmel Chiswick: "How The Absorption of Jewish Immigrants has Affected American Judaism: The Perspective of Economics" Hillel - A light Kosher Passover Lunch will be served 12:00-1:30 pm. Thursday, April 10, 2003 "Christian Zionism: Historical and Contemporary Intersections of Religion, Politics, and Policy" Featuring:     19h-Century Perspectives (1:15-2:45) Prof. Yaakov Ariel (Religious Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill): "Christian Messianism and Jewish Restoration: Christian Zionism and its role in Modern Jewish History" Prof. Norma Claire Moruzzi (Political Science, Gender and Women's Studies, and Jewish Studies, UIC): "Imagining a Jewish Homeland: Benjamin Disraeli, Lawrence Oliphant, British Imperial Policy, and the Origins of Zionism"     20th- and 21st- Century Histories (3:00-5:00) Prof. Lawrence Davidson (History, West Chester University) "Strange Bedfellows: Christian Fundamentalism, Zionist Nationalism, and US Foreign Policy" Prof. Paul Boyer (Merle Curti Professor of History Emeritus, UW-Madison, presently James Pinckney Harrison Professor, Department of History, College of William and Mary): "Christian Zionism in Contemporary Context: the Jews, Israel, and Islam in Popular American Prophetic Belief from World War II to the Present"    University Hall, Room 401    1:00-5:30 pm Tuesday, April 8, 2003 Slavic Studies presents Professor Lisa Crone, University of Chicago: "Possessed by Dostoevsky: Antisemitism and the intellectual Russian Jew" (An interpretative reading of Leonid Tsypkin's novel "Summer in Baden-Baden") Humanities Institute - Stevens Hall 2:15 pm Thursday, April 3, 2003 Joseph S. Begando Lecture in the Medical Humanities Dr. Inon Schenker, "How Could a Killing Virus Bring Enemies Together in the Middle East? The Unique Case of HIV/AIDS" Molecular Biology Building, 900 S. Ashland Ave. 12:30-1:30 pm Wednesday, March 26, 2003 Faculty Brown Bag Professor Sander Gilman: "Is Multiculturalism Good For Jews?" Hillel 12:00-1:30 pm Monday, March 24, 2003 Screening and Discussion of Film, "I am Joseph Your Brother" Catholic Newman Center 12:30-1:30 pm screening, followed by discussion with Producer, Ron Kronish Wednesday, November 13, 2002 What: "Kristallnacht 1938 and September 11, 2001: Memory and Commemoration" Time: 3:00pm - 5:00pm Where: CCC Cardinal Room (329-330) Sander Gilman Distinguished Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences "Kristallnacht 1938 and September 11, 2001: Memory, Commemoration, and Historical Consciousness" Matthew Lippman Department of Criminal Justice "Portraits of Perpetrators: Explorations in Evil" Elizabeth Loentz and Dagmar Lorenz Germanic Studies Department "The Culture of Catastrophe" Sponsored By: Jewish Studies Department of Criminal Justice Germanic Studies Honors College International Studies UIC Hillel Tuesday, October 22, 2002 Leon Wieseltier has been the literary editor of the Washington-based journal The New Republic since 1983. He was born in Brooklyn in 1952 and educated at Columbia, Oxford and Harvard where he was a member of the Society of Fellows. He has published many essays on Jewish Religion, Politics, and Culture. He wrote the book Kaddish which was published by Knopf in 1998. A welcoming reception will begin at 6:00pm followed by his lecture "Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds: A New Argument for an Old View of the Jewish Difference" at 6:30pm. Where: Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies