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CO-SPONSORED EVENTS HELD AT THE HUMANITIES CENTER
Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities ThroughLiterature and History
Wednesday March 21, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
Panel: Maurice Samuels, Yale University: Fictions of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy): Do Moroccans Share Nostalgia of the Jews from Morocco for a Mystical Past? Sharing and Unsharing Narratives about Jews-Muslims Relationships in Morocco This series of talks seeks to enhance a new dialogue between different plural voices writing about multiple Jewish identities originating from France and the Maghreb. Special focus on conflicting and co-existing identities and the ways in which they are presented in literature and history. The goal of the project is to look beyond the much discussed hybrid identity of widely translated writers and scholars, and present a more inclusive, rich, and complex perspective on the unique interplay between Jewish, French and/or Maghreb identities. Sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Comparative Literature Department, The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Department of French and Italian, The Stanford Humanities Center, The Taube Center for Jewish Studies For more information, see the Taube Jewish Studies website (http://jewishstudies.stanford.edu)
Negotiating French, Maghreb-French and Jewish Identities ThroughLiterature and History
Wednesday March 21, 2012 | 04:00 -06:00 PM | Stanford Humanities Center
Panel: Maurice Samuels, Yale University: Fictions of Jewish Identity in Nineteenth-Century France Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Ca' Foscari University in Venice (Italy): Do Moroccans Share Nostalgia of the Jews from Morocco for a Mystical Past? Sharing and Unsharing Narratives about Jews-Muslims Relationships in Morocco This series of talks seeks to enhance a new dialogue between different plural voices writing about multiple Jewish identities originating from France and the Maghreb. Special focus on conflicting and co-existing identities and the ways in which they are presented in literature and history. The goal of the project is to look beyond the much discussed hybrid identity of widely translated writers and scholars, and present a more inclusive, rich, and complex perspective on the unique interplay between Jewish, French and/or Maghreb identities. Sponsored by the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies and the Mediterranean Studies Forum, the Comparative Literature Department, The Division of Literatures, Cultures, and Languages, the Department of French and Italian, The Stanford Humanities Center, The Taube Center for Jewish Studies For more information, see the Taube Jewish Studies website (http://jewishstudies.stanford.edu)
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The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.
The Calendar of Events lists events sponsored and co-sponsored by the Stanford Humanities Center. For a more comprehensive listing of university-wide events, see the Stanford Event Calendar.