[Hum_Calendar_Events] UCLA CJS Upcoming Events

Mon May 3 11:03:53 PDT 2010

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 Center for Jewish Studies Upcoming Events

12pm * Thursday, May 6, 2010 * 6275 Bunche Hall

Commotion in the Colony: Being Black and Jewish in Suriname

Aviva Ben-Ur (University of Massachusetts, Amherst)
Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies

Preregistration is required. Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu 
or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.

4pm * Wednesday, May 12, 2010 * Faculty Center

A Book Discussion of Seth Schwartz's
"Were the Jews a Mediterranean Society? Reciprocity and Solidarity in
Ancient Judaism"

Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley)
Seth Schwartz (Columbia University)

Sponsored by the Viterbi Program in Mediterranean Studies

Preregistration is required. Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu
or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.

7:30pm * Monday, May 17, 2010 * Faculty Center

Divine Authority and Mass Violence:

Economies of Aggression in the Emergence of Religion

Reuven Firestone (Hebrew Union College)
Series on the Bible through the Ages
Sponsored by the 
Joy & Jerry Monkarsh Family Fund
Cosponsored by the 
UCLA Center for the Study of Religion 

Preregistration is required. Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu
or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.

7:30pm * Wednesday, May 26, 2010 * 314 Royce Hall

The Minsk Ghetto during World War II: Resistance and Inter-Ethnic
Solidarity
Barbara Epstein (UC Santa Cruz)

The Last Stand of the Jews in the Small Town (shtetl) Ghettos of
German-Occupied Poland, 1941-1943
Maurice Zeitlin (UCLA)

The "1939" Club Series in Holocaust Studies
Cosponsored by the UCLA Department of Sociology and
The UCLA Center for European and Eurasian Studies

Preregistration is required. Email cjsrsvp at humnet.ucla.edu
or call (310) 267-5327 to RSVP.

Affiliated Events

4pm * Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Royce 314

The UCLA Center for the Study of Women presents
Senior Faculty Feminist Seminar
Assimilating Streisand: When Too Much is Not Enough

Vivian Sobchack (UCLA)

Respondent:
Helen Deutsch (UCLA)

Sponsored by the UCLA Center for the Study of Women

For additional information, please email csw at csw.ucla.edu

3pm * Friday, May 7, 2010
UCLA Schoenberg Music Building, room 1230

The Mickey Katz Chair in Jewish Music at UCLA presents
Past and Present Musical Encounters Between Islam and Judaism

Edwin Seroussi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Sponsored by the UCLA Herb Alpert School of Music

Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies

For additional information, please visit www.schoolofmusic.ucla.edu
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or contact Cheri Quinto at cheriquinto at arts.ucla.edu

7pm * Monday, May 10, 2010 * Melnitz Hall

Screening of "Exodus 1947"

Film Screening followed by a Q&A with the filmmaker and passengers of
the Exodus

Presented by the Los Angeles Jewish Film Festival 
Cosponsored by the UCLA Center for Jewish Studies, 
the UCLA Israel Studies Program, and Bruins for Israel

UCLA Students FREE (with valid UCLA ID)
Non-UCLA Students: $8
Adults: $10
Parking $10 at any UCLA Parking kiosk. Hourly parking also available at
pay-by-space stations. 
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4pm * Thursday, May 13, 2010 * Humanities 193

More Civilization than Discontent: Academic Love and Urban Love in the
Ancient World

Friends Without Benefits; or, Academic Love
Daniel Boyarin (UC Berkeley)

Agathon and Agathon. Tableaux of urban love
Giulia Sissa (UCLA)

Sponsored by the UCLA Department of English 

and the Andrew W. Mellon Sawyer Seminar Program

For additional information, please email Irene Soriano Brightman at 
isoriano at english.ucla.edu 

On view now through August 1, 2010 at the Skirball Cultural Center

Exhibit:
Monsters and Miracles: A Journey through Jewish Picture Books

ADMISSION:

Included with Museum admission: $10 General; $7 Seniors and Full-Time
Students; $5 Children 2-12; Free to Skirball Members and Children under
2; Free to all visitors on Thursdays

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