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October 23 – 24, 2011 Sunday, October 23, 2011 All rooms are located in the Oakland Center 10:00am – 10:30am Registration 10:30am – 12:00noon Session 1: includes IA and IB 1A: European Jews (room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Seth Korlitz or Derek Hastings Silent Seer: John Milton and the Jews Adam Reinherz, University of Cambridge "Producing Spaces: Jewish Conflict in the Badenese Press during the mid-1840s" David Meola, University of British Columbia Performative Jewish Identity in Fin-de-Siècle Vienna Klaus Hoedl, Center for Jewish Studies, University of Graz/Austria IB: The Wandering View: Jewish Themes in National Cinemas (room 127, Oakland Center) Chair: Kirsten Fermaglich, Michigan State University “Live and Become: Aliyah and Alienation of Ethiopian Jewry.” Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University. “The American Dream on St. Urbain Stree: Duddy Kravitz and the Canadian Film Industry.” Scott Henderson, Brock University. “Empathy and Character Identification in Popular German Holocaust Films of the Past Decade” Jennifer William, Purdue University. 12:00 – 1:00pm Lunch (Gold Room “C”, Oakland Center) Announcement of the Graduate Student Paper Award 1:15 – 3:15pm Session II: includes IIA and IIB IIA: Music from Europe to Texas (room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Jessica Payette, Oakland University Kinky Friedman and His Texas Jewboys: in a New Historical and Geographical Perspective Theodore Albrecht, Kent State University Sholom Secunda Susan Filler, Private Scholar Life (or Death) is a Cabaret: Music and Theater at the Concentration Camp Westerbork Edward Michael Hafer, University of Southern Mississippi 3:15 – 3:30pm Break 3:30 --5:00pm Session III: includes IIIA and IIIB IIIA: Using Popular Media (Room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University A Cultural Language for the Folk: The Creation of a “Popular” Kulturshprakh in Yidish far ale, 1938-39 Jordana de Bloeme, York University Science, Emancipation and The Jewish Chronicle Matthew Kaufman, Private Scholar The Missing Jewish Narrative: The Art and Emotional Politics of Jewish Outreach to Jews - A Mass Communication Analysis of Missionary and Counter-Missionary Books and Websites Susan Kray, Indiana State University IIIB: Zionism in Politics and Literature (Room 127, Oakland Center) Chair:
The Jewish Question in Herzl’s ‘Das Neue Ghetto’ and Pappenheim’s ‘Tragische Momente’ Jai Deshpande, University of Illinois Gandhi and the Jews/ The Jews and Gandhi Joseph Hodes, York University Quivers of a Novel: Rivka Alper’s Pirpurey Mahapekha Orian Zakai, University of Michigan 5:00 – 6:15pm Session IV: includes IVA and IVB IVA: Eichmann After 50 Years: New Considerations (Room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Lawrence Baron, San Diego State University Adolf Eichmann at the Movies: An Examination of Film Portrayals of Eichmann and their Historical Significance Paul R. Bartrop, Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Re-reading Eichmann: Examining the Work of Papadatos, Aharoni, Arendt, Bascomb, Cesarani, Glock, Harel, Lipstadt, Minerbi, Robinson, Roqat, Rassinier (!), Russell, and von Lang – and Others Steven Leonard Jacobs, Aaron Aronov Endowed Chair of Judaic Studies, University of Alabama IVB: People and the Land in Literature (Room 127, Oakland Center) Chair: Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University Polemical City: Jewish Coney Island and the Image of America Benjamin H. Pollak, University of Michigan Mourning, Reading, and Jewish Identity: Leon Wieseltier and His Books Steven Weiland, Michigan State University The City Limits: Mordkhe Spector's Rayze-bilder Alexandra Hoffman University of Michigan Evening Events: Banquet Room “B”, Oakland Center 6:15 – 6:45pm Cocktails (cash bar). 6:45 – 7:30pm Dinner 7:30 - 9:00pm Program: Welcome message from Dr. Ron A. Sudol, Dean of the Colleges of Arts and Sciences, Oakland University. Welcome Message from Mara Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University and President of the Midwest Jewish Studies Association Plenary: Digging at Biblical Sha’arayim, Israel: An Iron Age Site from the Time of King David. Michael J. Pytlik, Special Lecturer Oakland University And Professor Richard Stamps, Oakland University. Oakland University 8:45 – 9:30pm Coffee and dessert: sponsored by Oakland University Religious Studies Monday, October 24, 2011 8:30 – 10:30am Session V: Includes VA and VB VA: Family and Jewish Identity in Literature (Room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Chris Apap, Oakland University "Getting Your Mind in the Gutter: Non-Jewish Jewish Identity in Alison Bechdel's Graphic Memoir Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic" Jenna Goldsmith, University of Kentucky Individual Choice and Family/Societal Pressure in Daniel Deronda Anne Strauss, Hebrew Union College – Jewish Institute of Religion Rabbinic School The Impact of Jewish Women Homesteaders on America and American Judaism Mara W. Cohen Ioannides, Missouri State University VB: Jewish Religious Texts (Room 127, Oakland Center) Chair: Michael Pytlik, Oakland University Computer Analysis of Midrashic Exegesis on Parallel Biblical Phrases Russell Jay Hendel, Towson University The Paratactic and Anthrocentric Creation Stories—The Real Message of Genesis 1 and 2 Joseph Klein, Oakland University Lamdanut 2.0: Reintegrating Talmudic analytics with legal, ethical and moral theory Chaim N. Saiman, Villanova Law School 10:30am – 10:45am Break 10:45am – 12:15pm Session VI: Includes VIA and VIB VIA: Philosophy, Metaphysics, and Identity (Room 126, Oakland Center) Chair: Elysa White-Koppleman, Oakland University Spinoza’s Doctrine of the Eternity of the Mind: Personal Immortality or A Case of Mistaken Identity? Gregory Curtis, Florida State U. Pedagogical Lessons Obtained thru Comparison: Religion and Ethics Through the Eyes of Maimonides and Shinran Ilana Maymind, The Ohio State University American Metaphysical Judaism: Jewish Shaman and Rabbi Gershon Winkler Celia Elaine Rothenberg, McMaster University VIB: Memories (Room 127, Oakland Center) Chair:
"Memories in Conflict: The Autobiographies of Rebeka Bettleheim Kohut and Elsie Kohut Sulzberger." Howard N. Lupovitch, University of Western Ontario Remembering and Ritual: Anna Mitgutsch’s Narratives of Memory Christina Guenther, Bowling Green State Evolving Memories: Conversos' Trials and their Stories Jennifer Heilbronner Muñoz, Harvard University 12:30 – 1:30pm Lunch / Recognitions / Closings (Banquet Room “B”, Oakland Center) 1:30- 2:15pm Closing Presentation: Rabbi Jason Miller’s Jewish Humor Directory: home -> wp-content -> uploads -> 2015 2015 -> This Scientific Test Will Tell You How Addicted You Are To Your Smartphone uploads -> Civil Society Certifications: overview uploads -> Welcome to a coastal prefecture surrounded by stunning mountain views where uploads -> Membership form uploads -> International R&B recording artists, The O'jays, performed live, on-stage at the Joseph P. Riley, Jr. Ballpark Download 28.03 Kb. Share with your friends:
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