Jewish Studies Program
Over the past 20 years or so, scholars have delved deeply into the racial ideologies that became influential in the early 1900s and helped facilitate the rise of Nazi Germany. But has the pendulum swung too far? A conference this weekend at Indiana University Bloomington will examine the limits of the "racial state" model in explaining Germany's Third Reich and explore the role of other factors, such as nationalism and ethnic and class issues.
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Acclaimed Israeli writer and filmmaker Etgar Keret will visit Indiana University Bloomington for a reading and discussion on Monday, Oct. 26. The evening with Keret, presented by IU's Robert A. and Sandra S. Borns Jewish Studies Program, starts at 7:30 p.m. in the Georgian Room of the Indiana Memorial Union. It is free and open to the public.
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The National Endowment for the Humanities has awarded Indiana University faculty members Dov-Ber Kerler and Jeffrey Veidlinger $267,000 to preserve and annotate oral histories they collected from Yiddish-speaking residents of Eastern Europe and make the material available to scholars, educators and the public.
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Indiana University's College of Arts and Sciences has selected two students as winners of its 2009 Palmer-Brandon Prize: Aren Wilson-Wright, a junior majoring in Jewish studies, religious studies and mathematics, and Clara Mitchell, a junior majoring in English and art history, will each receive $20,000. The Palmer-Brandon Prize is given annually to outstanding full-time students who are majoring in the humanities.
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The November 2008 terrorist attacks in Mumbai, India, stunned the world and provided a dramatic reminder of its modern-day dangers. In response, faculty members from the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University Bloomington have organized a symposium to address the problem of terrorism from the perspective of three countries hit hard by violence: India, Israel and Turkey.
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Several academic programs at Indiana University Bloomington will collaborate with Cardinal Stage Company on the Bloomington theater group's production of The Diary of Anne Frank, which runsSept. 12-28. Also planned are a public conversation with experts on Anne Frank and the Holocaust Sept. 16 and a workshop for teachers Sept. 17.
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