Past Conferences
April 9, 2008
"Rabbi Shneur Zalman of Lyady as an Educator"
45th Annual Simon Rawidowicz Memorial Lecture
Immanuel Etkes, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Harvard University
April 10, 2005
“Babylonia and Jerusalem: The Politics and Thought of Simon Rawidowicz”
International Symposium, Brandeis University
April 10, 2005
September 16-18, 2003
“Literary Responses to Mass Violence”
International Conference, Brandeis University
Rachel Talshir, “Love Macht Frei”
- Antjie Krog, “South Africa: Country of My Skull”
- Siham Daoud, “Israel”
- Kanan Makiya, “Iraq/United States: Cruelty and Silence”
- Boubacar Boris Diop, “Senegal: Muramb”
- Peter Dale Scott, “Canada/US: Coming to Jakarta: A Poem about Terror”
Co-sponsors: The International Center for Ethics, Justice and Public Life and the Department of English and American Literature, Brandeis University; Heksherim, The Research Center for Jewish and Israeli Literature and Culture, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
March 3, 2002
“The Rock: Jerusalem’s Sacred Space”
Symposium, Brandeis University
Kanan Makiya, Brandeis University
Co-sponsors: The International Center for Ethics, Justice, and Public Life and the Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel
October 6-8, 2002
“On Interpretation: Modern Hebrew Literature”
A Junior Scholars Colloquium, Brandeis University
- Professor Arnold Band, Brandeis University
- Professor Yigal Schwartz, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
- Sylvia Fuks Fried, Brandeis University
Co-sponsors, The Jacob and Libby Goodman Institute for the Study of Zionism and Israel, Brandeis University, and "Heksherim," The Research Center for Jewish and Israeli Culture and Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
February 25-26, 2001
“Israeli Historical Revisionism from Left to Right”
Center for Jewish History, 15 West 16th Street, New York, NY 10011