2006-2007 Events Calendar

Archive Index  |  2006-07  |  2005-06  |  2004-05  |  2003-04  |  2002-03

Writer in Residence (with the Taube Center for Jewish Stdudies and DLCL's Writer in Residence Program)

Amos Oz, January 2007

Oz has published 11 novels, three books of short stories, seven books of essays, and a children`s book. He has also published numerous articles and essays about the Israeli-Arab conflict, and is one of the leading figures in the Peace Now movement. In 1991 he was elected a full member of the Academy of the Hebrew Language. Oz has received many honors and awards. In 1984, he received the Officier des Arts et Letters in France; in 1997, President Jacques Chirac gave him the L?gion d`Honneur. He has also received the Bialik Prize (1986), the French Prix Femina Etranger (1988), the Frankfurt Peace Prize (1992), the Israel Prize for Literature (1998) and most recently the Goethe Prize for Literature (2005). Oz`s work has been published in some thirty languages in thirty-five countries (from: http://www.ithl.org.il/author_info.asp?id=194)

Visiting Faculty: Professor Rachel Albeck-Gidron, Bar Ilan University

Some of her recent publications include: “Exiled and Suppressed Voices: On the Ashkenazi Pronunciation of Hebrew as a Postmodernistic Question,” “On the Poetic Status of Mystical Language in U. Z. Grinberg’s Poetry,” "What is That Homeland Where 'Hoffmanese' Is Spoken? On Genre and he Community in Yoel Hoffmann’s Epics," “Totem and Blindness in Israel in 1998: The Cultural Selection Processes Represented in A.B.Yehoshua’s Ha-Kalla Ha-Meshahreret”, “Who is a Hebrew writer? On National Definitions of Literary Texts" and “The Draft Renounced by History: Appelfeld's Journey into Winter and the Radiance of Noah's Ark as a Healing Discourse." She is currently working on the relations between Eastern and Jewish philosophies and Hebrew literature and on the works of Yoel Hoffmann. Her book The Monadic Epoch: Leibnitz and the Modernism of the 20th Century will be published this year in Bar-Ilan University Press.

Visiting Scholar: Avidov Lipsker, Bar Ilan University

Some of the books published by Professor Lipsker include:

1) A man Between Universe and Symbol: S. Shalom: Symbols in His Poetry, Renaissance, Haifa, 1982. 200 p.
2) Poetic Changes in S. Shalom’s poetry. 1921-1941 <Dissertation> Bar-Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 1985. 300 pages
3) S. Shalom’s Poetry: From Expressionism of the Third Aliyah to Symbolism, [Editor: Haim Peleg], Poalim Library, 1991. 299 pages
4) Born unto Labor: Avraham Broides Poetry, Haifa University Press and the Ben-Gurion University Press, 2000, 333 pages
5) The Poetry of Yitzhak Ogen : Literary Ecology in Eretz Israel 1930-1940, The Hebrew University Magnes Press, Jerusalem, 2006. 320 pages

International Conference: Hebrew Poetry in Cultural Context, March 28-30, 2007

Co-sponsored by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Language Center and the DLCL Research Project

Speakers Series

• October 18, 12:00 Noon
  Building 240, room 207

  A Pigeon and a Boy: From Bialik to Shalev
  (Talk will be given in Hebrew)
  Hagit Halperin, Professor of Hebrew Literature, Tel Aviv University

• November 3, 12:00 PM
  Building 200, room 030

  Our Holocaust
  A conversation with the Israeli Author Amir Gutfreund (In Hebrew)

• Wednesday, January 24, 12:00 Noon
  Building 240 - Room 201

  On the Cusp of Christianity: Virgin Sacrifice from Pseudo Philo to Amos Oz
  Yael S. Feldman, Abraham I. Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture and Education, NYU

  Cosponsored by Hebrew@Stanford and Text and Culture Speaker Series.

• Thursday, February 15, 12:00 Noon
  Building 460, Terrace Room

  Seven Moral Failings (Sheva Midot Raot)
  Author Maya Arad in conversation about her new book

  Hebrew Speaking Event!

• Monday, February 26, Noon
  Building 240 - Room 201

  To Write in a Silent Language: Yiddish as a Double Agent in Israeli Literature and Culture
  Shachar Pinsker assistant Professor of Hebrew Literature and Culture, University of Michigan

• Wednesday, March 14, 12:00 Noon
  Building 460 - Terrace Room

  Title TBA
  Yigal Schwartz, Professor of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

For more information go to:http://www.stanford.edu/dept/jewishstudies/events/index.html

New Courses for 07-08

Fall:
AMELANG 174 East West East in Israeli Literature. Aleck-Gidron, R

Winter:
AMELANG 173 Politics and Poetics in Israeli Literature (with Amos Oz as guest speaker)
Shemtov,V

Spring:
AMELANG 171: The Bible in Modern Hebrew Literature. Shemtov, V