ODU/IJIU Jewish Studies Lectures/Events: Fall 05
For Additional Information: Contact Dr. David Metzger (ODU) at 757-683-3875
August 28 (Sunday) 2-4 pm, Perry Library (ODU), Room 151:“Monsters of the Jewish Literary Imagination:Singer’s Satan in Goray” (Discussion Leader:David Metzger, Professor of English).Co-Sponsors:ODU Perry Library, American Library Association, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.
September 11 (Sunday) 2-4 pm, Perry Library (ODU), Room 151:“Monsters of the Jewish Literary Imagination:Ansky’s The Dybbuk.”Co-Sponsors:ODU Perry Library, American Library Association, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.
September 23 (Friday) 4:00 – 6:00 p.m. Batten Arts & Letters 921 (ODU):Jewish Chilean Poet Marjorie Agosin, “Always Living in Translation:Meditations on the Diaspora.”Presented by Latin American Studies Distinguished Speakers Series.
September 26 (Monday) 8pm, Chandler Recital Hall (ODU):Israeli pianist Ilan Rogoff presents the music of Astor Piazollo. Sponsor:Diehn Concert Series.
October 16 (Sunday), 2-4, Perry Library (ODU), Room 151:“Monsters of the Jewish Literary Imagination:Kafka’s The Metamorphosis” (Discussion Leader:Heidi Schlipphacke, Assistant Professor of German). Sponsors:ODU Perry Library, American Library Association, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.
October 23 (Sunday):Interfaith Break-the-fast for Ramadan, 6:30pm.Webb Center Cafeteria.Co-sponsors:Better Understanding Club, Rumi Institute (Washington, D.C), Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.
October 30 (Sunday) 2-4. Yiddish Club:Screening of the “Dybbuk” with discussion.Location:Mills Godwin Building, Room 102.
November 7 (Monday). Jewish Women Authors Reading Group: Gina Nahai, Moonlight on the Avenue of Faith.For Time and Location, Contact Anita Fellman (afellman@odu.edu) or Farideh Goldin (faridehDG@msn.com).
November 8 (Tuesday), 7:10-8:45, ODU,Batten Arts and Letters, Room 336:Yochanan Peltz speaks on “Religion, Secularity, and the Creation of a Jewish State.”Introduced and moderated by R. Lawrence Forman (Director, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding)
November 9 (Wednesday), 12:30-1:30, ODU, Batten Arts and Letters, Room 921:“Mysticism and the Ethics of Spirituality” (Panel:Jonathan Dauber, Assistant Professor of Religion and Jewish Studies at Virginia Wesleyan; William Brenner, Professor of Religion and Philosophy at ODU; David Putney, Associate Professor of Religion at ODU)
November 9 (Wednesday)7:30-8:30, ODU,BAL 921. “Surviving to Excel: The Last German Jewish Autobiographies of Holocaust Survivors Ruth Klüger, Marcel Reich-Ranicki, and Paul Spiegel” Frederick Lubich, Professor of German, Old Dominion University.
November 20 (Sunday) 2-4 pm, “Monsters of the Jewish Literary Imagination:Ozick’s The Puttermesser Papers (Discussion Leader:David Metzger, Professor of English). Sponsors:ODU Perry Library, American Library Association, Institute for Jewish Studies and Interfaith Understanding.
December 5 Jewish Women Authors Reading Group: Batya Gur, Bethlehem Road Murder. For Time and Location, Contact Anita Fellman (afellman@odu.edu) or Farideh Goldin (faridehDG@msn.com)
December 11 (Sunday) 2-4 pm, Perry Library (ODU), Room 151:“Monsters of the Jewish Literary Imagination:Kushner’s Angels in America” (Discussion Leader:David Metzger)
December 13 (Tuesday) 7:30-9pm, NARO THEATRE (Norfolk, VA):Screening and Discussion of the documentary, “The Protocols of Zion.”Discussion Leader:Dr. Maura Hametz (Associate Professor of History, ODU)
