Centre for Jewish Studies Research Seminar Programme 2013-14 Dear friends and colleagues, We are delighted to announce our research seminar programme for the academic year 2013-14. As was the case last year, this year's seminars tend to have an Israel Studies theme. Please note that the seminar programme will only run in semester one, taking place on Thursdays at 16:00 in room A7 in Samuel Alexander Building (Building 67 on theCampus Map, see directions). Please see the statement on University events open to the public. More information will be sent out nearer the time. 3 Oct: Raphael Cohen-Almagor (University of Hull) Avoiding the Destruction of the Third Temple: Separating State and Religion in Israel 17 Oct: Marc Hecker (IFRI, Paris) France and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict 7 Nov: Yaron Peleg (Cambridge) Secularity and Its Discontents: Religion and Cinema in Israel 21 Nov: Tanja Müller (University of Manchester) What Makes a Refugee? The case of Eritrean immigrants in Tel Aviv 5 Dec: Tamar Drukker (SOAS) Home away from home: Israelis abroad in contemporary Israeli literature 30 Jan: Julie V. Gottlieb (Leeds University) Becoming My Mother's Daughter. Memory, Mourning and Maternal Inheritances: A Daughter's Reading of her Mother's Holocaust Memoir (Special Seminar for Holocaust Memorial Day) |