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Fall 2007 Newsletter
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Fall 2005 Newsletter
Current & Upcoming Events
Sunday, April 13, 7:00 p.m., Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
- Dr. Alvin H. Rosenfeld, University of Indiana, Bloomington, IN
- The Return of Antisemitism: The Intellectual Assault Against the Jews and the Jewish State
October 26 & 27, 2008, 21st Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Call for Papers, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Recent Events
Thursday, March 27, 2008, 7:00 p.m., CBA 25, UNL Campus, Lincoln, NE
- Scott Blakeman Comedy, New York, (About Scott Blakeman)
- Stand Up For Peace
November 29, 2007, 7:00 p.m., Great Plains Art Gallery, 1155 Q Street, Lincoln, NE
- Dr. Saul Sosnowski, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
- Borges and the Kabbalah: A Pretext to the Core
October 28 & 29, 2007, 20th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
Past Events
April 16, 2007, 2007 Henry and Gretl Wald Lecturer
- Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, Atlanta, GA
- Holocaust Deniers: Flat Earthers or a Genuine Threat
April 12, 2007, 2007 Norman and Helen Krivosha Lecturer
- Steve Stern, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
- Evening with Steve Stern
March 22, 2007, 2007 Myer and Dorothy Kripke Lecturer and E.N. Thompson Forum
- Sherwin B. Nuland, Clinical Professor of Surgery at the Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT Faith, Philosophy and Medicine: Reflections on Maimonides , UNL News Release
- Additional Activities Re: Sherwin Nuland Visit:
6:30 pm, Thursday, March 22, 2007, Pre-Talk at the Lied Center, Katherine Starace, Medical Social Worker
Lunch event/Informal presentation and Discussion, Friday, March 23, 2007 at the Jewish Community Center, 333 S. 132nd Street, Omaha, NE
7:00 pm, Sunday, March 25, 2007 Follow-up Discussion at Saint Paul United Methodist Church, 1144 M Street, Lincoln, NE, Facilitated by Norm Bond, CLU (Video of 3/22/07 lecture to be shown at 6:00 pm)
- Leonard Greenspoon, Klutznick Chair in Jewish Civilization, Creighton University, Omaha, NE
"It's Okay to Laugh: Reading the Bible through Comic Strips and the Daily Press"
October 29 & 30, 2006, 19th Annual Klutznick-Harris Symposium
October 19, 2006, Guest Lecturer
- Michael Rips, New York, author of "Pasquale's Nose: Idle Days in an Italian Town"and "The Face of a Naked Lady: An Omaha Family Mystery."
October 4, 2006, Guest Lecturer, Schlesinger Fund for Social Justice
- Eric Reeves, Professor of English Language and Literature, Smith College, Northampton, MA
- "A Long Day's Dying: Genocide by Attrition in Darfur"
September 6, 2006, Guest Lecturer
- Marjorie Agosin, Luella LaMer Slaner Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA
- "Always From Somewhere Else: The Jewish Experience in L.A."
March 23, 2006, 2006 Henry and Gretl Wald Lecturer
- Richard S. Levy, Professor of German History, University of Illinois at Chicago
- "Antisemitism: Used or New?"
February 9, 2006, Guest Lecturer
- Nora Glickman, Professor of Spanish at Queens College, New York, NY
- "Fact To Fiction: The Reshaping of History in Latin American Jewish Literature"
November 2005, 2005 Myer and Dorothy Kripke Lecturer
- Michael Walzer, Professor of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton, NJ "The Paradox of National Liberation: India, Israel & Algeria"
April 2005, 2005 Henry and Gretl Wald Lecturer
- Peter Hayes, Professor of History and German, Northwestern University
"Corporate Complicity in the Holocaust: German Big Business and The Nazi Regime"
April 2004, 2004 Norman and Helen Krivosha Lecturer
- John Felstiner, Professor of English, Stanford University
"Still Songs to Sing" Poetry, Art, and Music from the Holocaust"
