Wednesday, February 3rd, 2010
"The Ship with three Names that Smuggled Arms into Israel and Rescued Refugees in the Balkans in 1948"
Renato Barahona, UIC History
1:00pm, 650 UH

Friday, February 12th, 2010
A screening of Christian Bauer's "Richie Boys", followed by a discussion with Guy Stern, one of the film's subjects, and Stephen Goldman
2:00pm, Latino Cultural Center (LCB 2)

Wednesday, February 24th, 2010
"Women and the Israel Economy"
Ella Gera
2:00pm, 850 UH

Tuesday, March 9th, 2010
"Alejandra Pizarnik, Mikhail Bakhtin, and the
Word of Desire"
Olivia Edelman
1:00pm, Latino Cultural Center

Thursday, September 22, 2009
"East European Jews on the Eve of World War II"
Gershon Bacon, Bar Ilan University
9:30am, Douglas Hall, Room 316

Friday, October 2, 2009
"Language as an Issue of Identity: Aliyah or Exile in Israel in the
Works of Austrian Jewish Authors Shimon Kronberg, Elazar Benyötz,
Tuvia Tuvia Rübner, Ilana Shmueli"
Primus Heinz Kucher, University of Klagenfurt, Austria
12:30pm, Levine Hillel Center
(corner of Morgan and Taylor)

Monday, October 12, 2009
"Rosa Nissan's Like a Bride/Like a Mother: A Sephardic-Mexican Family Romance"
Margarita Saona, Associate Professor of Spanish Literature & Cultural Studies at UIC
12:30pm, University Hall, Room 650
(in collaboration with the Latino Cultural Center)

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009
"Israel and World Jewry in the 21st Century:
Close Family or Distant Relatives? "
Sergio Dellapergola, PhD, Hebrew University
6:30pm, Cardinal Room, Student Center East

Sponsored by the Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Wednesday, October 28th, 2009
"Jewish Intermarriage Around the World"
A brown bag lunch and book presentation:
Sergio Dellapergola, Hebrew University
12:30pm, 650 UH

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009
"What Now? Where Do We Go From Here? ”
Jean Cohen, journalist
11:00am, 2028 UH

Wednesday, November 4th, 2009
"Reflections on the Life of the Jewish Community in Thessaloniki and the Holocaust”
Heinz Kounio, author and Holocaust Survivor, will discuss
his experiences in Salonika and Auschwitz during WWII
6:30pm, Illinois Room, Student Center East

In collaboration with the Greek Community of Greater Chicago

Thursday, November 5th, 2009
“From Selanik to Thessaloniki? The Third Missing Strand”
Steven Bowman, PhD, University of Cincinnati, author of The Holocaust in Salonika: Eyewitness Account, will be joined in a panel discussion with
Heinz Kounio and UIC faculty members
3:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

Thursday, November 12th, 2009
Suzanne Wasserman, CUNY, will discuss and screen her film, Thunder in Guyana, about the late Janet Jagan,
born and raised in South Shore and former president of Guyana.
3:00pm, Latino Cultural Center

Co-sponsored by the Latino Cultural Center, the Political Science Department,
and the Gender and Women's Studies Department

Thursday, November 19th, 2009
"Jewish in America, Jewish in Chicago"
Hasia Diner, NYU, will discuss the state of Jewish Studies in America and in Chicago. Reception to follow.
6:30pm, UIC Student Center East, Room 302

Co-sponsored by the UIC College of Liberal Arts and Sciences, and the UIC Liberal Arts and Sciences Alumni Association

Friday, November 20th, 2009
"La política desflecada. Dos novelas argentinas recientes: Glaxo e Historia del Llanto"
Sergio Chejfec
3:30pm, Institute for the Humanities
(Stevenson Hall Lower Level)

Presented by the Argentinean Consulate and
the UIC Hispanic Studies Program

Monday, November 30th, 2009
"View from Another Planet: Public Attitudes
and Policies Toward Childbearing in Israel"
Sergio DellaPergola, Hebrew University, Jerusalem
3 p.m., Hillel (Corner of Morgan and Taylor)

Thursday, February 12, 2009
"Psalms as Poetry: Yesterday and Today"
Alicia Ostriker
3:00pm, 2028 UH

Wednesday, February 18, 2009
"In Search of Lost Spiritual Peace "
Brown Bag lunch: Eli Shai Shibi
12:30pm, 650 UH

Tuesday, March 17th, 2009
"Palestinian Women in Terrorism: Women's
Oppression or Liberation?"
Edna Erez (UIC Criminal Justice)
3:45pm, UIC Honors College Library (Burnham Hall)

Thursday, March 19th, 2009
Women and Family Life: A Symposium
1:00pm - 7:30pm, Levine Hillel Center

Speakers:
1:00pm - Sylvia Barack Fishman
2:00pm - Elizabeth Loentz
3:00pm - Carmel Chiswick
4:00pm - Jessica Lippman and Matthew Lippman
5:00pm - Farideh Goldin

Monday, April 20, 2009
"Radical Islam and Terrorism"
Raphael Israeli (The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
9:30am, Room 401 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

"The Dark Side of the Web: Terror on the Internet "
Gabriel Weimann (School of International Service (SIS))
11:30pm, Room 1169 BSB (1007 W. Harrison St.)

"The Dhimmis: The Story of Jews in Arab Lands"
Raphael Israeli (The Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace, Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
1:30pm, Room 650 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

Wednesday, April 22 , 2009
"A Stranger in Prague: Writing and the Politics
of Identity in Apollinaire, Kafka, and Camus"
Alfred Thomas (UIC Germanic Studies)
1:00pm, 1501 UH (Max Kade Conference Room)

Monday, April 27th, 2009
"“The Bombing of Dresden and The Night of the Broken Glass: Cultural Memory in Durs Gruenbein's ‘Porzellan. Poem vom Untergang meiner Stadt’”"
Anne Fuchs (Professor of Modern German
Literature and Culture at UCD, Dublin)
9:30am, Room 401 UH (601 S. Morgan St.)

Tuesday, September 23, 2008
"Health and Immigration in Israel:
From Melting Pot to Multi-culturalism"
Visiting Israel Scholar Dr. Nadav Davidovitch

UIC School of Public Health (Room 109)
1603 W. Taylor Street

6:00pm: Conversation and light refreshments
7:00pm: Lecture
All are welcome to this FREE EVENT!

Thursday, October 16, 2008
" ' I Will Never See It Again, But It Remains Fixed in
My Memory' (Manes Sperber): Visions and Memories
of the Shtetl in German-Jewish Literature"
A lecture by Primus Heinz Kucher (Max Kade Scholar)
12:30pm, Levine Hillel Center

Thursday, October 23, 2008
"Multicultural Israel: From Pragmatism to Legal
Battles, Toward Identity Conversation"
Brown Bag lunch: Michal Alberstein (Bar Ilan University)
12:30pm, 650 University Hall

Tuesday, October 28, 2008 - screening of
Theresienstadt Looked Like a Spa (50 minutes)
Thursday, October 30th, 2008
Discussion with filmmakers Nadja Seelich and Bernd Neuburger entitled "Diaspora, Exile, Genocide: Aspects of the European Jewish Experience in Literature and Film”

Monday, November 3, 2008
"Jews and the Evolution of Photojournalism:
From 'Beneath Contempt' to Elegance"
Michael Berkowitz (University College London)
12:30, Institute for the Humanities

Wednesday, November 5, 2008
"Recalling the Survivors: Between Memory and
Forgetfulness of Hospitalized Holocaust Survivors"
Visiting Israel Scholar Dr. Nadav Davidovitch
2:00pm, Levine Hillel Center

Wednesday, March 12, 2008
"Women in the Israeli Collective, A Personal and Historical Survey of
a Century of Changing Roles and Aspirations"
Nancy Gebhardt, Associate Director of the Jewish Studies Program
2:00pm, Hillel

Wednesday, April 16, 2008
A lecture by Steven Beller, author of
Antisemitism: A Very Short Introduction
2:00pm, UIC Institute for the Humanities

Join us for refreshments!
All are welcome to this FREE EVENT!

Wednesday, April 23, 2008
"The Nazi Regime as Macro Criminology and the
Holocaust as Macro Victimology."
Visiting Israel Scholar Shlomo Shoham
Prof. Dagmar C.G. Lorenz, (Director of Jewish Studies)
Matthew R. Lippman, (Professor of Criminal Justice at UIC)

2:00pm - 4:00pm, Levine Hillel Center