Zionism, the Novel, and Contemporary Debates with Professor Russell Berman

Join Jconnectors for an engaging night of discussion and light refreshments!

Prof. Russell Berman, Haas Professor of the Humanities, Stanford University, presents “Zionism, the Novel, and Contemporary Debates”

Scholars of literature can teach about the Middle East and contribute to debates about the Israeli/Palestinian conflict by analyzing novels by Israelis, Palestinians, and others. This lecture will show what novels by A.M. Klein, Sayed Kashua, and Howard Jacobson can teach us about the conflict, about novels, and about ourselves.

Dr. Russell Berman, Walter A. Haas Professor in the Humanities, Stanford University, is a distinguished professor of Comparative Literature and German Studies. He has served as President of the Modern Language Association (MLA) in 2011. He is also a Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution.

We hope you'll join us for this engaging and thought provoking evening. Meet us at Hillel at 6:15 pm to park and walk over to campus together. 

RSVP HERE or copy and paste this link into your browser: http://jewishstudies.washington.edu/event/berman/

Organized by the UW chapter of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East.

Co-sponsors: Jackson School of International Studies, Simpson Center for the Humanities, and the Stroum Center for Jewish Studies; the Departments of English, Near Eastern Languages and Civilization, Germanics, and Comparative Literature, Cinema, and Media; Hillel UW and Jconnect.

Sponsorship of this event does not imply endorsement of the content of the lecture.