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2009-2010 Calendar of Events

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Fall 2009 events

Wednesday, October 14, 2009
Woodruff Library’s Jones Room, 9 am – 6 pm

Sponsored by the TAM Institute of Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by The Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, Department of Middle Eastern & South Asian Studies, Department of Religion, Department of History, Department of Comparative Literature, and the Latin American & Caribbean Studies Program. For more information and complete schedule, go to the events website of the TAM Institute of Jewish Studies.

This presentation is part of Emory's Department of History Seminar Series. Prof. Wright-Rios of Vanderbilt University is the invited guest, speaking about the research for his recent book Revolutions in Mexican Catholicism: Reform and Revelation in Oaxaca, 1887-1934 (Duke University Press, 2009). For more information, contact the Department of History. The Department of Religion is a co-sponsor of this event.

 

Raanan Rein (Tel Aviv University): "Echoes of the Spanish Civil War in Palestine: History and Memory"
Discussant: Patrick Allitt, Emory Department of History

Friday, October 30, 2009
9:30am – 11:00am
Candler Library, Room 125,
Light refreshments served. Kindly RSVP by Thurs., Oct. 29, to Tobi Ames at 404.727.0896 or tames2@emory.edu.

For those who lived through it, the Spanish Civil War of 1936-1939 was a life-changing event. In its struggle for survival, the Second Republic succeeded in rallying to its support almost 40,000 volunteers from 53 different countries. But as the vast literature on the International Brigades testifies, volunteers brought to Spain definitions of “friend” and “foe” and “right” and “wrong” that grew out of their own experiences “back home.” Raanan Rein, Distinguished Visiting Professor, Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry, examines the reactions of Jewish society in Palestine to the civil war, as well as the story of the volunteers who left Palestine in order to fight for the Republic. Despite much ideological sympathy in Palestine, active support there for the Spanish Republic was neither unequivocal nor unconditional. Rather, solidarity with Spain was refracted through the prism of local political reality.

The Seminar Series in Jewish Studies is co-sponsored by the departments of German Studies, History, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies (MESAS), Religion, the Graduate Division of Religion, and the program in Russian and East European Studies (REES) and is proud to be one of the  Bill & Carol Fox Center for Humanistic Inquiry’s Interdisciplinary Research Seminars (CHIIRS). The series is also generously supported by the James T. Laney Graduate School’s New Thinkers/New Leaders Fund and the LaBelle Birnbaum Tenenbaum Enrichment Fund.

Flagg Miller: “Bin Laden's Tapes: The Orders and Disorders of al- Qa`ida's Audio Jihad”

Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:30 pm
Anthropology Building, Room 206, Emory University

Emory's Program in Linguistics presents a lecture by Flagg Miller, Associate Professor, Religious Studies, UC-Davis and Research Fellow, Woodrow Wilson International Center, Washington, DC. In the winter of 2002, over fifteen-hundred audiotapes from Osama Bin Laden's former house in Qandahar, Afghanistan were acquired by Cable News Networks. This paper examines the contributions that these tapes offer to our understanding of al-Qa`ida. With attention in particular to Slavoj Zizek's concept of materialist theology, Miller examines the kinds of interpretive steps made by speakers in the tape collection to channel legal discourses toward a more disparate and accessible range of ethical frameworks than has commonly been available to Muslim activists. This event is co-sponsored by The Department of Anthropology, The Department of Religion and The Claus M. Halle Institute for Global Learning. For more information, contact the Program in Linguistics.

 

Spring 2010 events

Tibet Week

TBA
Various events/venues around campus.

Each year, Tibet Week celebrates the rich culture of traditional and contemporary Tibet. The Department of Religion is one of the co-sponsors. For more information, visit the Emory-Tibet Partnership website: http://tibet.emory.edu/news/index.html

TBA (usually early March)

For the best paper about religion written by an undergraduate student in an Emory College course anytime between Spring 2009 and Spring 2010.

 

You may also be interested in the calendar of Religions and the Human Spirit, The Tam Institute for Jewish Studies calendar of events, Middle Eastern and South Asian Studies Department events, Emory-Tibet Partnership events, and Aquinas Center events.

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