Undergraduate Colloquium in Jewish Studies
To recognize exceptionally strong undergraduate work, the program will present three students with the Don Kunitz Award for Excellence in Jewish Studies.

Colloquium Series - Fall 2007

Tuesday, Oct 16, 2007 @ 4:00pm	Andrews Room - 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building, UC Davis
Zeev Maoz Political Science, UCDavis "The Politics and Strategy of Muddling Through-The Al Aqsa Intifada and the Lebanon II War as Cumulative Failures"
Thursday, Nov 29, 2007 @ 4:00PM	Andrews Room - 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building, UC Davis
David Biale History, UCDavis "God's Blood and Medieval Jewish-Christian Polemics" Current UCDavis Faculty and Students Only
Feb 2008
Julia Watts Belser "Confusing the Human and the Heavenly Fathers: Power, Powerlessness, and Miracle in Rabbinic Literature" Thursday February 7th, 12:00PM Andrews Room 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building
Apr 2008
Ari Y. Kelman "Snapshots and Struggles of Contemporary American Jews” Tuesday April 15, 4 PM Andrews Room 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building
May 2008
Alon Raab "From Rabinovitch and the Burden of Jewish History to Beckham's Thigh: Israeli Soccer Literature." Tuesday May 13th, 12:00PM Andrews Room 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building

Conference

Mar 3, 2008
American Jews: Contemporary Challenges

Past Colloquium Series - Winter / Spring 2007

All lectures begin at noon on Wednesday (* except on January 10, 2007)
LIGHT REFRESHMENTS WILL BE SERVED

January 10, 2007 (*)
11:30 AM-12:30PM, HIA Conference Room, 5214 Social Science and Humanities Building
Devorah Schoenfeld
Program in Jewish Studies
"Rashi in his Christian Context: The Case of the Binding of Isaac"

February 14, 2007
12:00-1:30 Sociology Boardroom, 1291 Social Science and Humanities Building
Diane Wolf
Department of Sociology
"Beyond Anne Frank: Hidden Children and the State in Post-War Holland"

April 11, 2007
12:00-1:30 Andrews Room, 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building
Alisa Braun
Program in Jewish Studies
"Jewish Patron, Black Artist: Fannie Hurst and Zora Neale Hurston Imagining Each Other"

May 9, 2007
12:00-1:30 Andrews Room, 2203 Social Science and Humanities Building
Julia Cohen
Program in Jewish Studies
Co-sponsored with ME/SA
"Muslim Empire, Jewish Allegiance: Revisiting Late Ottoman Sephardi Patriotism"

2007 Pell Lectures on the Holocaust
Sponsored by Joseph and Eda Pell, Pell Family Foundation

April 16, 2007 @ 12:00pm *New Date

Professor Leora Ausland
University of Chicago

"Homecomings: Parisian Jews after 1944"

Andrews Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building

May 15, 2007 @ 12:00pm

Professor Ido de Haan
University of Utrecht

"Between Moral Recognition and Cultural Identity: Jews, Gentiles and Holocaust Memory in the Netherlands after 1980"

Andrews Room, 2203 Social Sciences and Humanities Building