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Queering Science Fiction: A Series of Readings and Discussions
Join us for a reading by local author Annalee Newitz from her book, Autonomous, and a post-reading Q&A session. Lunch will be served.
Find out more »DLCL Winter Film Series Screening: Moonlight (2016) Barry Jenkins
Barry Jenkins’ 2016 film won Best Picture for its heart-wrenching portrayal of the coming of age story of a young gay black man named Chiron and his resilient endurance of repeated physical and emotional abuse. Jenkins’ film beautifully depicts Chiron’s difficult lifelong relationships with drugs, violence, and childhood relationships and will be remembered as a groundbreaking testament to the lives so often ignored by cinema. Discussion will focus on analyzing the relationships between gender and sexuality, love and friendship, body…
Find out more »Meet the Makers Winter Student Showcase 2018
Product Realization Lab students transform big ideas into pathbreaking products. See innovations in sports equipment, consumer goods, education and health devices, agricultural tools, and MORE! Come get a glimpse of the future!
Find out more »AUDITIONS | A Raisin in the Sun
Lorraine Hansberry’s moving classic kicks off Stanford TAPS’S 2018-19 production season. This production, directed by TAPS Professor and Stanford Vice President for the Arts / Senior Vice Provost for Education Harry Elam Jr., is presented in conjunction with the Stanford Arts Intensive summer program.
Find out more »How to Save Politics in a Post-Truth Era: Thinking Through Difficult Times with Ilan Baron
Ilan Zvi Baron is an Associate Professor in the School of Government and International Affairs at Durham University, where he is also the Co-Director of the Centre for the Study of Jewish Culture, Society and Politics. He has published on International Relations theory, identity and security, dual loyalty, the Jewish Diaspora’s relationship with Israel and the international cultural politics of Israeli cuisine. His most recent books include, “Obligation in Exile: The Jewish Diaspora, Israel and Critique,” published by Edinburgh University Press,…
Find out more »Jewish Museums in Europe: Cabinets of Curiosities or Theatres of History with Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett
What comes first? The collection or the story? What is the story the collection tells, and can the story the museum wants to tell be told through the collection? Given the politics of history and historical policies in Europe today, Jewish museums have a special role to play. Prague, Budapest, London, Paris, Berlin, Warsaw, Moscow, Vienna – Jewish museums in these and other European cities have taken different approaches. Their strategies reflect not only the history of the institution and…
Find out more »Is AI the New Frankenstein? with Ken Goldberg
Is AI the New Frankenstein? (Ken Goldberg, UC Berkeley with Fred Turner, Stanford) 200 years after Mary Shelley’s masterwork appeared in print, “Artificial Intelligence” is running amok, provoking extreme claims of opportunities and threats. Many assert that AI is an “exponential technology”, a “new electricity” that will transform every industry. Advocates claim that fully autonomous cars and robots with human dexterity are just around the corner. At the same time, headlines report that robots will soon steal the majority of…
Find out more »A Conversation with Award-Winning South African Author Jonny Steinberg
Join us for an evening with best-selling author and Oxford University Professor of African Studies Jonny Steinberg. Professor Steinberg will give a talk, followed by a short reading of his forthcoming book One Day in Bethlehem, and a moderated Q&A session with Jeremy M. Weinstein, the Sakurako and William Fisher Family Director of the Stanford Global Studies Division. One Day in Bethlehem begins late in the evening of April 2, 1992, when, on the brink of apartheid’s end, the South African security police…
Find out more »“Denial”, History on Trial: My Day in Court with David Irving with Deborah Lipstadt
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies at Emory College Deborah received her B.A. from City College of New York (1969) and her M.A. (1972) and Ph.D. (1976) from Brandeis University. Professor Lipstadt is frequently called upon by the media to comment on a variety of matters. She has appeared Good Morning America, NPR’s Fresh Air, the BBC, Charlie Rose Show, and is a frequent contributor to and is widely quoted in a variety of newspapers…
Find out more »Blackfest 2018
Stanford University’s Black Family Gathering Committee is a group of students who are impassioned by black art, music and culture and who embark on a yearly endeavor to share those values with the entire university community – both interracially and cross culturally. The committee’s trademark event is a concert called Blackfest, a festival on campus featuring clothing, food and jewelry vendors along with student performers, fashions shows, Black Greek step performances and Grammy-nominated recording artists. Blackfest presents students with a…
Find out more »The Polish Roots of Right-Wing Zionism with Daniel Heller
Daniel K. Heller, Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at McGill University How interwar Poland and its Jewish youth were instrumental in shaping the ideology of right-wing Zionism By the late 1930s, as many as fifty thousand Polish Jews belonged to Betar, a youth movement known for its support of Vladimir Jabotinsky, the founder of right-wing Zionism. Poland was not only home to Jabotinsky’s largest following. The country also served as an inspiration and incubator for the development of right-wing Zionist…
Find out more »The Ruined House with Ruby Namdar
Ruby Namdar, author Ruby Namdar was born and raised in Jerusalem to a family of Iranian-Jewish heritage. His first book, Haviv (2000) won The Ministry of Culture’s Award for Best First Publication. His novel The Ruined House has won the Sapir Prize—Israel’s most prestigious literary award. In The Ruined House, an elegant NYU professor at the peak of his powers is reduced to a quivering puddle by a violent, unsought, yearlong spiritual awakening. Jumping between New York of 2000 and the Holy Temple…
Find out more »When Vilna was Young: Vilna’s Last Generation with Justin Cammy
Justin Cammy is a literary and cultural historian with research and teaching interests in Yiddish and modern Jewish literatures, Eastern European Jewish history, and Zionism and contemporary Israel. He holds a Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from Harvard University and a B.A. in Middle Eastern studies from McGill University. In addition to appointments in Jewish studies and comparative literature, he also is a member of Smith’s Programs in Middle East studies, Russian, Eastern European, and Eurasian studies, and American…
Find out more »Making Hungary Great Again: State Building, Mass Violence, and the Irony of Global Holocaust Memory in Twentieth-Century Europe with Raz Segal
Raz Segal, Assistant Professor of Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Sara and Sam Schoffer Professor of Holocaust Studies at Stockton University Dr. Segal is engaged in his work with the challenges of exploring the Holocaust as an integral part of modern processes of imperial collapse, the formation and occasional deformation of nation-states, and their devastating impact on the societies they sought (and seek) to break and remake. Integrative and comparative, his research stands at the intersection of modern European history, Holocaust scholarship, Genocide Studies, and Jewish history, and links the Holocaust to…
Find out more »The Origin of the Jews: The Quest for Roots in a Rootless Age with Steven P. Weitzman
Steven Weitzman, Abraham M. Ellis Professor of Hebrew and Semitic Languages and Literatures, Ella Darivoff Director of the Katz Center of Advanced Judaic Studies at Pennsylvania University Prof. Weitzman specializes in the Hebrew Bible and the origins of Jewish culture. Recent publications include Surviving Sacrilege: Cultural Persistence in Jewish Antiquity(Harvard University Press, 2005); Religion and the Self in Antiquity (Indiana University Press, 2005); The Jews: A History (Prentice Hall, 2009); and a biography of King Solomon, part of the new “Jewish Lives” series, published by Yale University Press in…
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