Upcoming Events
Sunday, January 13, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Rubenstein Library Breedlove Room 349
The NC Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Yair Mintzker (Princeton U.) Yair Mintzker studies the history of early modern and modern Germany, with particular interest in the Sattelzeit (1750-1850). Professor Mintzker is the author of The Defortification of the German City, 1689-1866 (New York:... Read More »
Tuesday, January 15, 2019 - 12:00pm to 1:30pm
West Duke, Ahmadieh Family Conference Room, Room 101
Sylvia Chan-Malik will give a lecture based on her recently published book, Being Muslim: A Cultural History of Women of Color in American Islam. In her lecture, Professor Chan-Malik will discuss the ways U.S. Muslim women's identities are expressions of Islam as both Black protest religion and... Read More »
Thursday, January 17, 2019 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
New releases/Global Cinema: Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018, 148 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ English subtitles & English, Color, DCP) Based on Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn Burning," the sixth feature from Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong is at once a riveting examination of class... Read More »
Friday, January 18, 2019 - 7:00pm to 9:30pm
Rubenstein Arts Center, Film Theater
New releases/Global Cinema: Burning (Lee Chang-dong, 2018, 148 min, South Korea, in Korean w/ English subtitles & English, Color, DCP) Based on Haruki Murakami's short story "Barn Burning," the sixth feature from Korean auteur Lee Chang-dong is at once a riveting examination of class... Read More »
Sunday, March 3, 2019 - 4:00pm to 6:00pm
Rubenstein Library Breedlove Room 349
The NC Jewish Studies Seminar welcomes Martina Steer (University of Vienna) to discuss her paper "Moses Mendelssohn: A Modern Icon through the Ages." Martina Steer is a faculty member at the Vienna School of International Studies and a current Fellow at the Remarque Institute at NYU. She... Read More »
Thursday, March 7, 2019 - 10:15am to 12:15pm
Motorco Music Hall
From his complicated backstory to his compelling rhymes, Brother Ali is a rapper without a rival. Albino and legally blind, he struggled to find peers in the midwestern states where he spent his youth. But in a pivotal moment at age eight, he found rap, which gave him an outlet and, through the... Read More »