Visiting Scholars and Artists
The Schusterman Center hosts visiting scholars, artists and authors who illuminate the contemporary cultural and academic environment in Israel. They hold public lectures as well as student workshops.
Alex Weingrod Lectures: October 14th, 19th and 22nd, 2009
Alex Weingrod is Emeritus Professor of Anthropology in the Department of Sociology-Anthropology, Ben Gurion University of the Negev. He is a graduate of the University of Chicago and a member of the Brandeis University faculty from 1963-1975. He has taught at universities in the United States, England and Israel; been a visiting fellow at Wolfson College, Oxford; a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies, Princeton; visiting fellow, Center for Middle East Studies, Harvard University; and a fellow of the Institute for Advanced Study, Collegium Budapest.
Weingrod's most recent book (with Andre Levy) is Homelands and Diasporas: Holy Lands and Other Places (Stanford University Press, 2005). Previous publications include The Saint of Beer Sheba (SUNY Press, 2005) and, with M. Romann, Living Together Separately: Arabs and Jews in Contemporary Jerusalem (Princeton University Press, 1991). He is presently working on an anthropological study of contemporary Israeli society.
Upcoming Weingrod lectures:
Wednesday, October 14 at 5:00 pm; "Bones, Burials and Forming the Nation", in the International Lounge in Usdan Student Center
Monday, October 19 at 5:00 pm; "Ethnicity Matters; Or Does It?", in Rapaporte Treasure Hall
Thursday, October 22 at 3:30 pm; "The New Israeli Minorities", in Rapaporte Treasure Hall