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May
19
2025

Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies with Ethan Katz, UC-Berkeley

When: Monday, May 19, 2025
7:00 PM - 8:30 PM CT

Where: Norris University Center, Louis Room at Norris University Center, 1999 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it

Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Public - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students

Cost: Free and open to the public.

Contact: Nancy Gelman   (847) 491-2612

Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies

Category: Academic, Lectures & Meetings

Description:

Annual Manfred H. Vogel Lecture in Judaic Studies:

"Unsettling Histories: Colonialism, Zionism, and Anti-Zionism", with Ethan Katz

Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of History at UC-Berkeley, and Helen Diller Family Faculty Director of the Center for Jewish Studies. Katz is a specialist in modern Jewish history and the history of modern France and its empire. Katz’s research interests include Jewish-Muslim relations, Jews in colonial societies, Holocaust studies, and the interplay between religious and secular in modern Jewish life. He is the author of the award-winning book The Burdens of Brotherhood: Jews and Muslims from North Africa to France (Harvard, 2015), and of the forthcoming Unsettling Histories: Jews, Colonialism, and Zionism. He is co-founder of the Antisemitism Education Initiative at Berkeley, a program designed to improve the conversation about antisemitism on the Berkeley campus through thoughtful education and engagement; and of the Berkeley Bridging Fellowship, a year-long program that brings together a diverse group of students for engaged discussions about Israel, Palestine, the conflict, and interconnected histories.

Free and open to the public. No reservations required. Parking free on campus after 4:00pm.

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