2007-2008 Speaker and Event Calendar

We have a preliminary list of programs that we are sponsoring or co-sponsoring for the coming year. Of course, we will add to this list. For example, we will be discussing a film series with our Student Advisory Committee.

Fall 2007:

• 18 September: Center's Open House - Student's invited.
• 19 September: Eugene Sheppard (Brandeis): Leo Strauss and Judaism: Epicureanism and its Discontents
  Author of Leo Strauss and the Politics of Exile (Brandeis, 2006)
• 26 September: AnneMerie Donoghue Fellows Dinner.
• 7 October: Daniel Pearl World Music Day at the Motley 8:00PM
• 8 October: Christopher Clark, Professor of History, Cambridge University, will speak on (failed) crisis management in July 1914 and the lessons to be drawn.
• 11 October: Leora Batnitzky (Princeton): Leo Strauss's Contribution to Modern Jewish Thought and the Philosophy of Religion
  Author of Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation (Cambridge, 2006)
• 25 October: David Talbot will talk about RFK, JFK and the civil rights movement, as well as what RFK believed about his brother's assassination. He will discuss his new book, Brothers: The Hidden History of the Kennedy Years, which is a recent New York Times bestseller.
• 1 November: Bill Lowenberg, Holocaust survivor and Center Advisory Member.
• 1 November: Paul Shapiro, Director, Center for Advanced Holocaust Studies, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum will speak on the huge and important archive in Bad Arolsen, Germany that was just opened and its implications for the field of Holocaust studies. (1st Annual Auerbach lecture)
• 5 November: Oona Eisenstadt (Pomona): Is Judaism a Political Philosophy? Reflections on Spinoza, Strauss, and Levinas
  Author of Driven Back to the Text: The Pre-Modern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism (Duquesne, 2001)
• 7 November: Noa Baum, Theater Company, A Land Twice Promised. This play, starring Israeli-American actress/scholar Noa Baum, concerns Jewish-Palestinian relations.
• 20 November: Dr. Judea Pearl, Daniel Pearl Foundation and founder of Daniel Pearl World Musical Days.
• 6 December: Dario Gabbai, Holocaust survivor. He was an inmate in Auschwitz who was forced to serve on a Sonderkommando.

Spring 2008:

• 7 February: Ishmael Beah, born 1980 in Sierra Leone, will speak about his memoir, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier.
• 11 February: James Sheehan, professor of Modern European history, Stanford University; author, Museums in the German Art World: From the End of the Old Regime to the Rise of Modernism
• 14 February: Ruth Kluger, author of Still Alive
• 6-7 March: Symposium on China and Human Rights.
• May 2008 : Academic Travel to Israel.