YPSA Events 2011-2012

Please check back frequently as dates could change and new lectures are added.

September 21, Wednesday

“On the Periphery of the Holocaust:  Killing and Plunder of Jews by their Neighbors.”
Jan Gross
Norman B. Tomlinson '16 and '48 Professor of War and Society, Professor of History
Princeton University
Co-Sponsored by the Yale Department of History
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC 

October 3, Monday

Francesca Trivellato

Professor of History, Yale University,
“On Good and Bad Credit: A Forgotten Chapter in European Debates about Jews and Capitalism”
Co-sponsored with the Transitions to Modernity Colloquium
Location: 4p.m. Room 38/39, Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, 121 Wall Street

October 11, Tuesday

"Exploring Diversity in France"

Roundtable featurning:

Maurice Samuels
Professor of French, Yale University
Patrick Weil
Senior Research Fellow, CNRS, University of Paris1 (Sorbonne)

Location: 12-2pm

Calhoun College Fellows Lounge
Yale University 
189 Elm Street
New Haven, CT

Co-sponsored with Humanity in Action

To attend the event, please rsvp:
http://www.humanityinaction.org/programs/40-exploring-diversity-in-france/151-yale-university

October 17, Monday

“Holocaust Denial and Holocaust Approval: Two Sources of the ‘New Antisemitism’”
Alvin Rosenfeld
Professor of English and Jewish Studies
Irving M. Glazer Chair in Jewish Studies
Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
Indiana University
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC

Nov 2, Wednesday

"Joint Israeli-Palestinian Study of the Portrayal of the ‘Other’ in School Books, Sponsored by the Council of Religious Institutions of the Holy Land: Background, Methods and Process"
Bruce Wexler
Professor Emeritus of and Senior Research Scientist in Psychiatry
Yale Medical School
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC

Nov 30, Wednesday

“Playing the Blame Game: American Jews and the Historiography of America and the Holocaust”
Deborah Lipstadt
Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish and Holocaust Studies
Tam Institute for Jewish Studies/Dept. of Religion
Emory University
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC

Jan 25, Wednesday

“The ‘Jewish type’ and the ‘mean Englishman’: Equality, Difference and the Jews, 1750-1900.”
David Feldman
Professor of History
Director, Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism Birkbeck, University of London
Talk co-sponsored by Yale Modern Britain Group and the European Studies Council
Location: 6:15 p.m. Luce Hall, room 203, 34 Hillhouse Ave.

February 16, Thursday

“Theorizing the Study of Antisemitism”
Panel Discussion
Jonathan Judaken, Spence L. Wilson Chair in the Humanities, Rhodes College
Jeffrey Alexander, Lillian Chavenson Saden Professor of Sociology, Yale University
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC

February 27, Monday

“Anti-Semitism in the Muslim Middle East”
Meir Litvak
Senior Researcher
Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies
Tel Aviv University
Location: 4 p.m. room 208, WHC