Book Launch: The Laws of Hammurabi
Please join us for the exciting Zoom book launch of The Laws of Hammurabi: at the Confluence of Royal & Scribal Traditions - with Author, Pamela Barmash and Guest Speaker, Bruce Wells
Past Events
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Sharia Genres and their Writers in Imamic Yemen
Please join us for a talk by Dr. Brinkley Messick
The Annual Distinguished Jewish Studies Lecture in JIMES
From Skokie to Charlottesville: American Antisemitism in Court -- with Prof. James Loeffler, University of Virginia
The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century
Please join us for "The Disinherited: Christianity and Conversion in Calcutta in the 19th Century" by Dr. Mou Banerjee
Women and the Recited Qur'an: Scriptural Recitation and Lecture
Ms. Madinah Javed
Israeli Women's Art Festival Lecture: "Look Closely"
Filmmaker Yael Perlov,
Duke University,
Tel Aviv University
Egypt's Arab Spring 10 years after the resolution
Please join us for this Zoom public lecture which will be in Arabic.
Geography of Identity in Artistic Creativity
Professor Abdelilah Ennassef, Columbia University
A Discussion with NaTakallam
A Roundtable Discussion of Erin McGlothlin’s New Book, The Mind of the Holocaust Perpetrator in Fiction and Non-Fiction
Moderator: Flora Cassen, Associate Professor of History; Chair of Jewish, Islamic and Middle Eastern Studies
Jewish Intellectual Responses to Antisemitism in Contemporary France
Join Sarah Hammerschlag, Professor of Religion and Literature at the University of Chicago and Jacob Levi, Lecturer in French at Connecticut College for a roundtable discussion on Jewish intellectual responses to antisemitism in contemporary France.
Discussion: Immigration in Italy
A presentation by Professor Karim Hannachi, Research and Study Centre on Immigration (IDOS), Italy
Jihad and the Negotiation of Gender and Religious Difference
Asma Afsaruddin is a Professor of Middle Eastern Languages and Cultures at Indiana University Bloomington.
Coffee and Conversation with Ari Folman
Ari Folman is an international award-winning director of films such as "Waltz with Bashir" and "Where is Anne Frank?" Hosted by novelist and screenwriter Sayed Kashua.