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12th Annual Lecture/Artist Series:
Featuring the following guests:
Michael Berenbaum Daniel
Liebskind
The
2009-10 academic year offers many exciting programs, and we want you
to invite you to take an active part. Daniel Liebeskind, the noted
architect of the Jewish Museum in Berlin, and master plan architect
for New York's World Trade Center site, will be our featured speaker
in our 12th annual Jewish Studies lecture/artists series this
spring. His interlocuter will be Samuel Norich, the publisher of
The Forward. We are also helping to support the 3rd annual
international conference on human rights, "Combatting Hatred," which
will feature civil rights activist Morris Dees, and the Holocaust
Resource Center's master teacher this year, Michael Berenbaum. All
events sponsored directly by the Jewish Studies Program are free
this year and are open to the public. Click
Upcoming Events for program
dates, locations, and contact information.
The Faculty Seminar is meeting monthly
to explore this year's theme, "The Age of the Witness: Testimonies,
Memoirs, and Other Perspectives 'From Below,'" and will adopt a
comparative framework for grasping post-traumatic memory by looking
at the Holocaust, the Civil War in Sudan, The Vietnam Conflict, and
forensic methods of documenting assault, among other topics. The
Seminar will sponsor a faculty and student roundtable on the witness
theme in the spring, and is publishing its 6th volume in its ebook
series of papers presented at the 2009 roundtable on the 2009
Faculty Seminar theme, "Peace: Its Conditions and Conceptions."
Click the
Faculty Seminar page for the
six titles in this series, or visit
www.kean.edu/~facsem
for the more than 30 papers constituted in these volumes. If you are
interested in submitting a paper for publication in any of the
series's volumes, feel free to email me.
Our courses this fall and spring are
topical and stimulating, and as usual are open to auditors as well
as to our dedicated students. Email me for advisement or for
enrollment instructions.
Our heartfelt thanks to our Friends of
Jewish Studies for sustaining our active program and for making it
possible to offer our public events this year for free. Please
recognize our generous supporters by clicking on the
Friends of Jewish Studies page.
Our goal this year is to offer academic scholarships to students who
elect Jewish Studies as their minor; I want to invite you to help us
achieve this goal. Please get in touch with me if you are interested
in supporting our students with a scholarship. You can click the
donate page as well.
Stay in touch! To receive free email
alerts about events and courses this year, sign up at
www.tinyurl.com/keanjs.
Dr. Dennis B. Klein
dklein@kean.edu