Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation (ACJC)
EVENTS 2011
FEBRUARY @ ACJC
Yannick Haenel in Conversation with Mark Baker
(Wednesday 16 February 2011)
What's Jewish? Freud, Race, Identity
An Evening Salon with Dr Eliza Slavet, Author of "Racial Fever: Freud and the Jewish Question"
(Tuesday 22 February 2011)
MARCH @ ACJC
The Future of the Past: Polish Jewry -- Then and Now
Public Lecture by The Chief Rabbi of Poland, Dr Michael Schudrich -- Visiting Fellow ACJC (Tuesday 1 March 2011)
A Commemorative Tribute to Yiddish Poet Avrom Sutzkever
( Sunday 6 March 2011)
Rethinking Jewish Community in Australia: policy and praxis
APG 4648/5648: Jewish Communal Service and Leadership intensive unit ( Sunday 13 March - Thursday 17 March 2011)
What's Israeli? Nation, Religion, Identity
Panel discussion: Under the auspices of the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies, an international panel of academics join together to unlock the question of what makes Israel tick. Multiple viewpoints will be represented including A Lawyer, Palestinian Poet, A Futurist (Thursday 31 March 2011)
APRIL @ ACJC
Academic Colloquium
The Israeli Nation State: Political, Constitutional and Cultural Challenges
Hosted by the Leon Liberman Chair in Modern Israel Studies ( Friday 1 April 2011)
MAY @ ACJC
Two intensive seminar series featuring eminent overseas scholars (running concurrently during May and June 2011)
A Taste of Talmud with Rabbi Adin Steinsaltz
A morning of Talmud study on the topic "The world is a human responsibility" (15 May 2011)
Literary recovery in Aboriginal, Native American and Jewish cultures (17 May 2011)
JUNE @ ACJC
Father Patrick Desbois: Holocaust by Bullets (Thursday 2 June 2011)
Aftermath International Conference
(Sunday 5-Monday 6 June 2011)
JULY @ ACJC
The Jewish Community: What's in it for me?
Public forum on Jewish continuity
(Sunday 31 July 2011)
AUGUST @ ACJC
Amos Oz (Wednesday 3 August 2011)
2000 people came to hear Amos Oz deliver the Monash Israel Oration. Listen to the talk here online: Amos Oz - Israel: War, Peace & Storytelling - The Wheeler Centre: Books, Writing, Ideas
Monash Israel Lecture Series 2011
(Wednesday, 3, 10 & 24 August 2011)
SEPTEMBER @ ACJC
Monthly series on Yiddish language, literature and culture
(Thursday, 1 September, 6 October & 17 November 2011)
OCTOBER @ ACJC
Avram Mlotek: In Song and Conversation
A young person's connection to Yiddish
(Sunday, 2 October 2011)
Claude Lanzmann's Shoah: A 25 Year Retrospective
A four-part Masterclass comprising screening and discussion of this controversial film
(Wednesday, 26 October, 2 November, 9 November, 16 November 2011)
NOVEMBER @ ACJC
Professor Leah Garrett to discuss how central Jewish thinkers reworked Wagner's opera to present Jewish cultural concepts
(Wednesday, 23 November 2011)
DECEMBER @ ACJC
A Shtetl in Ek Velt (A Shtetl at the End of the World)
Launch of book about growing up in pre-war Carlton (compiled and edited by Julie Meadows)
(Sunday, 4 December 2011)