IJIU Speaker's Bureau 07-08

Jewish Studies Faculty would welcome the opportunity to speak to your organization.  For more information on how to arrange a speaker for your event, please contact Dr. Maura Hametz (mhametz@odu.edu, 683-3949).

NEW OFFERING:  The "Writers in the Community Project" is now offering creative writing workshops for local organizations. 

Ilan Avisar (Visiting Associate Professor of Modern Jewish Studies)
Areas:  Israeli Film and Cultural Studies, the Holocaust in Film, Israeli Media and Television

Michael Blumenthal (Visiting Mina Darden Chair of Creative Writing, Fall semester only)
Areas:  Readings from his own award-winning poetry, fiction, and non-fiction; Jewish Literature

Maura Hametz (Associate Professor of History, IJIU Academic Director)
Areas:  Patterns of Acculturation and Assimilation in Modern Europe, Anti-Semitism, Fascism, European Jewish Women Intellectuals, Jewish Identity in 20th-century Italy

Frederick Lubich (Professor and Chair of Foreign Languages and Languages)
Areas:  The Revival of Klezmer Music, Holocaust Memoirs, German Jewish Literature and Culture

David Metzger (Professor and Chair of English)
Areas:  Jewish Discourse Studies, Postmodern Jewish Philosophy, Jewish American Literature, Religion and Popular Culture

Heidi Schlipphacke (Associate Professor of German)
Areas:  German Jewish Literature and Culture

Peter Schulman (Associate Professor of French)
Areas:  Contemporary Jewish Literature and Film
 
Steve Yetiv (Professor of Political Science)
Areas:  The Politics of the Middle East