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lawrence
> Hello, I wonder if this could be forwarded to the CASCA membership:
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>Dear Colleagues and students,
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>Enclosed please find an announcement for the upcoming "Orientalism and the
>Jews Symposium" at the University of Toronto, May 6-8, 2001. The
>organizers would appreciate it if you brought this event to the attention
>of all interested persons. For free registration please email
>[log in to unmask] or call 416-585-4419. For more information
>please see http://www.library.utoronto.ca/moorish/conference.htm.
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>Orientalism and the Jews Symposium
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>Alumni Hall, Victoria College, University of Toronto, May 6-8, 2001
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>May 6, 2001, Sunday
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>9 a.m. Opening remarks
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>9:30 a.m. Giuseppe Veltri, Director, Leopold Zunz Centrum für Judaistik,
>Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg, "East of the Orient: Map and
>Territory in Jewish Utopian Thought in the Medieval and Early Modern
>Period."
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>10:30 a.m. Coffee
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>10:45 a.m. Ivan Kalmar, Department of Anthropology, University of
>Toronto, "Jews in Turbans: the Christian Roots of Orientalism."
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>12 noon Lunch
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>1:30 p.m. Jeffrey Librett, Loyola University, Chicago, "The Gift of the
>Origin: the Jew and the Orient in G.E. Lessing s `Ernst und Falk and
>Nathan der Weise. "
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>2:30 p.m. Noah Isenberg, Department of German Studies, Wesleyan
>University, "Orientalist Discourse in Arnold Zweig's Face of Eastern
>Jewry."
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>3:30 p.m. Coffee
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>3:45 p.m. John Efron, Department of History, Indiana University at
>Bloomington, "Orientalism and the Jewish Historical Gaze."
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>May 7, Monday
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>9:30 a.m. Bernhard Kukatzki, Frank-Loeb-Institut, Landau, "Moorish-Style
>Synagogues in the Palatinate in the 19th Century"
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>10:30 Coffee
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>10:45 a.m. Rudolf Klein, Faculty of Arts, Tel Aviv
>University,"Neo-Moresque Synagogues in the Context of Architectural
>History"
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>12 noon Lunch
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>1:30 p.m. Xun Zhou, School of African and Oriental Studies, London,
>"Representations of the Chinese Jews in the West."
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>2:30 p.m. Michael Berkowitz, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
>University College London, "Recasting Orientalism: Embracing the 'Semitic'
>in the Representation of Jewish Leadership."
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>3:30 p.m. Coffee
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>3:45 p.m. Tudor Parfitt, Director, Centre for Jewish Studies, School of
>African and Oriental Studies, London, "The Use of the Jew in Colonial
>Discourse."
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>May 8, Tuesday
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>9:30 a.m. Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheva, will
>speak on orientalist images of the Sephardim in Israeli politics today.
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>10:30 a.m. Coffee
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>10:45 a.m. Derek Penslar, Samuel J. Zacks Chair in Jewish History,
>University of Toronto, "From Community to Nation: Representations
>of Oriental Jewry in Israeli Radio, 1948-67."
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>11:45 a.m. Sander Gilman, Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professor
>of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology, University of Chicago, "`We re not
>Jews': Jews in Contemporary Multicultural Literature."
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>1 p.m. Working Lunch - Round-Table Discussion: Assessing the Results of
>the Conference; Future Directions
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Dr. Lawrence D. Berg
Department of Geography
Okanagan University College
7000 College Way
Vernon, B.C., Canada V1B 2N5
phone: 250/545-7291 ext. 2264
fax: 250/545-3277
E-mail: [log in to unmask]
Web: http://www.geog.ouc.bc.ca/geog/berg/Berghome/
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