IJIU Events Fall 06

September 19
Time:  12:30-1:30
Event:  Workshop:  Spirituality as a Resource for Women Globally
Workshop Leader:  Pamela Bro (adjunct assistant professor of women's studies, ODU, and director of the "Kindred Spirits" Project)

October 9:  Jewish Women Writers Reading Group:  Dara Horn's The World to Come.
For  time and location, please contact either Farideh Goldin (faridehDG@msn.com) or Anita Fellman (afellman@odu.edu)

October 16 (Monday).
Time:  3:30-5.
Event:  Reading, Old Dominion Literary Festival
Author:  Shalom Auslander, author of Beware of God:  Stories
Location:  Newport News Room, ODU Webb Center

October 17 (Tuesday). 
Time:  9:30-11
Event:  Panel Discussion--What Makes Jewish Writing Jewish? 
Panelists:  David Metzger and ODU Jewish Studies Faculty
Location:  James/Lynnhaven River Rooms, ODU Webb Center.  

October 17 (Tuesday)
Time:  3:30-5
Event:  Reading, Old Dominion Literary Festival
Author:  Matt Klam, author of  Sam the Cat & Other Stories (Vintage, 2001)
Mills Godwin Bldg, Auditorium, ODU
 
October 20 (Friday)
Time:  1:30-3
Event:  Reading, Old Dominion Literary Festival
Author:  Michael Blumenthal, ODU Darden Professor of English and author of When History Enters the House:  Essays from Central Europe, All My Mothers and Fathers:  A Memoir
Location:  Potomac-York River Rooms, Webb Center, ODU Webb Center

November 6:  Jewish Women Writers Reading Group:  Helen Epstein's Where She Came From:  A Daughter's Search for Her Mother's History.   For time and location, please contact either Farideh Goldin (faridehDG@msn.com) or Anita Fellman (afellman@odu.edu)

November 17 (Friday)
Time:  8am-2pm
Event:  Symposium:  Religion and Reconciliation:  the role of religious communities in post-conflict environments
Featured Speakers:  Milan Sturgis, Robert Holden, Chandra de Silva
Location:  Cape Charles and Isle of Wight Rooms, ODU Webb Center.
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November 27 (Monday)
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Iganski's (U. of Essex, England)  
Lecture:  "Hate Crime and Hate Speech"
Time:  TBA
Location:  TBA

November 28 (Tuesday)
Lecturer: Prof. Paul Iganski's (U. of Essex, England)   
Lecture:  "The Banality of Antisemitism."
Time:  TBA
Location:  TBA

December 4.  Jewish Women Writers Reading Group:  Allegra Goodman's Intuition.
For time and location, please contact either Farideh Goldin (faridehDG@msn.com) or Anita Fellman (afellman@odu.edu)

December  5 (Tuesday)
Time:  12:30-1:30
Panel:  Historical Approaches to Interfaith Understanding
Participants:  Annette Finley-Croswhite, Maura Hametz, Michael Panitz
Location:  Room 151, Perry Library