Past Events       2002 - 2003       2003 - 2004       2004 - 2005 2004 - 2005 Events November 4: Jewish Studies and the Institute for the Humanities sponsor a one-day conference on the Jewish legacies of Martin Heidegger, organized by Sam Fleischacker, with UIC faculty Sam Fleischacker and Norma Moruzzi. HEIDEGGER'S JEWISH FOLLOWERS: A ONE DAY CONFERENCE ON THE JEWISH LEGACIES OF MARTIN HEIDEGGER 9:00-9:15: Opening Remarks (Sam Fleischacker, UIC) 9:15-10:30: Panel 1: Hannah Arendt "'The Jew as Pariah': Arendt's Theory of Social Identity" (Norma Moruzzi, UIC) "Ruination: Arendt and Heidegger on the Paradox of Fallenness" (Susannah Young-ah Gottlieb, Northwestern) 10:45-12:15: Panel 2: Leo Strauss "Beginning at the Beginning: On the Starting Point of Reflection" (Daniel Doneson, The Shalem Center, Israel) "Strauss: Jewish, Yes, but Heideggerian?" (Catherine Zuckert, Notre Dame) 1:30-3:45: Panel 3: Emmanual Levinas "Enjoyment and Boredom: What Levinas took from Heidegger" (Leora Batnitzky, Princeton) "Levinas, Heidegger, and the Crisis of Phenomenology" (Peter Gordon, Harvard) "Ontology and Ethics: Contesting First Philosophy" (Paul Franks, Toronto and Notre Dame) 4:00-5:30: Plenary Session "Redeeming Totality: Critical Reflections on the Levinas Renaissance" (Richard Wolin, CUNY) Thursday, November 4, 2004 Institute for the Humanities, Lower Level, Stevenson Hall 701 S. Morgan Street University of Illinois, Chicago 9:00 am - 5:30 pm Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program with support from the Institute for the Humanities. For more information, please contact the conference organizer, Samuel Fleischacker, sfleisch@uic.edu, or the Jewish Studies Program at (312) 413-2102. November 9, 2004 Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies present "Haunted History: Kristallnacht," contemporary legal and literary conversations with Dagmar Lorenz and Matthew Lippman, 4:00 pm, Levine Hillel Center 924 S. Morgan Street November 16, 2004 Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies present Austrian Vladimir Vertlib, author reading and discussion, noon in the Max Kade room January 25, 2005 Jewish Studies and Hillel cosponsored a multimedia presentation by historian Patricia Heberer (Center for Holocaust) on the role of physicians in the Third Reich and Alan Wells (American Medical Association) on bioethics. 12:00PM- 1:30PM at UIC Levine Hillel, Levine Hillel Center, 924 S. Morgan Street April 3, 2005 Jewish Studies and Spertus present, "A Cultural History of Yiddish Radio," by Ari Kelman, Historian, National Museum of American Jewish History, 2:00 pm, Sunday, April 3, 2005, Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, 618 S. Michigan Avenue April 4, 2005 German and Jewish Studies present Ari Kelman on "Broadcasting Bilingualism: Yiddish and English on the Radio" at noon in the Max Kade room.