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2009

KLEZMERUSHA
A cabaret concert with - PSOY KOROLENKO

Russian-Yiddish-Klezmer-Folk-Pop

Thursday, November 19
7 pm
Faulkner Auditorium in the HOP


Psoy Korolenko is a songwriter, singer, poet, comedian, one-man Klezmer band, and "wandering scholar" who performs in several languages.  His appeal spans gernerations, from teens to college students to those who remember Yiddish spoken in ther homes.

This event is free and open to the public.

Sponsored by the Russian Department, Nadezhda T. Koroton Fund, and the Jewish Studies Program.

 

STIH & SCHNOCK - THE ART AND POLITICS OF REMEMBRANCE IN NEW BERLIN

Renata Stih    Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock     Frieder Schnock

Wednesday, September 23, 2009
4:30 pm to 6 pm
Kreindler Auditorium - Haldeman Center room 041

Approaching the twentieth anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, conceptual artists Renata Stih and Frieder Schnock speak about their critical interventions addressing urban space, memory, and new media.  In collaboration with the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Department of German Studies, the Department of Art History, the Hood Museum of Art and the Jewish Studies Program.  In support of the Dartmouth Centers Forum theme Conflict & Reconciliation

Philip Roth Symposium

To mark the fortieth anniversary of the publication of Portnoy's Complaint, the Jewish Studies Program will hold an informal symposium on the work of Philip Roth and its impact on Jewish identity. Speakers include Janis Bellow, Bernard Avishai (Hebrew University), Richard Gottlieb (NY Psychoanalytic Society), Jonathan Wilson (Tufts University), Sidra Ezrahi (Hebrew University), and Klaus Milich and Ivy Schweitzer from Dartmouth College.

Thursday August 20, 3-6 pm, Haldeman 124

The Philip Roth Symposium is made possible by the generous endowment of the Mary & William Barnet II 1934 Family Fund. 

For further information, please email Susannah Heschel or Karen DeRosa

 

 

The Public Professors and the Professions of the Public
with
Professor Martin E. Marty

Professor Marty

Fairfax M. Cone Distinguished Service Professor
Emeritus of the History of Modern Christianity

University of Chicago Divinity School

Saturday, July 11, 2009
5:00 p.m.
041 Haldeman Building

Reception to follow.

Sponsored by theJewish Studies Program, Department of Philosophy, Department of Religion, William Jewett Tucker Foundation, Professor Susannah Heschel, Eli Black Professor of Jewish Studies, all of Dartmouth College, and by the Eugen Rosenstock Huessy Fund.

CANCELLED "Isaac Rosenfeld, Saul Bellow, Friendship, and Fate -- On Fame, Oblivion, and Writing in Mid-20th Century America"  CANCELLEDSteven Zipperstein

Lecture by Steven Zipperstein
Daniel E. Koshland Professor in Jewish Culture and History at Stanford University.  Steve writes modern Jewish history and has published widely in professional and popular publications including the New York Times,the Washington Post, New Republic, Partisan Review and Dissent.

Wednesday, May 27, 2009 at 4:30 pm
Carpenter Hall Room 201C
CANCELLED

Last Updated: 11/20/09