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21st Century Jewish Writing and the World Symposium

Event Type
Seminar/Symposium
Sponsor
Program in Jewish Culture & Society and the Trowbridge Initiative in American Cultures
Location
Levis Faculty Center 210 (919 W. Illinois, Urbana)
Date
Mar 29, 2019   9:45 am - 5:00 pm  
Contact
Sarah Elder
E-Mail
srwilkin@illinois.edu
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Originating Calendar
Campus Humanities Calendar

Jewish writing is often said to be in decline, at least since the passing of the great wave of second-generation American Jewish immigrants. At the same time, it is often argued today that Jewish writing has never been more diverse and multivalent. To that end, our scholars will also be distinguishing new directions for Jewish writers and Jewish literary studies.

9:45 - Welcome by Gordon Hutner

10:00 - Dalia Kandiyoti (College of Staten Island, CUNY)

“The Transnational Historical Imagination: Narrating Lost Knowledge”

11:00 - Sarah Phillips Casteel (Carleton University)

“Telling the Untold Story: Jewish Wartime Refuge in Haiti in Dalembert's Avant que les ombres s’effacent

2:00 - Benjamin Schreier (Penn State University)

“Jewish Literature, ‘the World,’ and Jewish Studies’ Bad Faith”

3:00 - Dean Franco (Wake Forest University)

“The Desire of Literary History”

Co-sponsors: Center for Advanced Studies, College of LAS, School of Literatures, Cultures, and Linguistics

In conjunction with: Department of English, Illinois Program for Research in the Humanities, Program in Comparative & World Literature

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