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September - October - November - December
September
September 18. 7:30 pm, East Bay Jewish Community
Center, 1414 Walnut Street, Berkeley, Admission Fee
Film Screening: A Jihad for Love
Directed by Parvez Sharma. Produced by Parvez Sharma
and Sandi DuBowski (Trembling Before G-d).
Please join IES for a screening and panel discussion — the first in IES’ year-long
series on Gender, Islam and the West — of Parvez Sharma’s
film A Jihad for Love (2007). This documentary is the first to
explore the coexistence of Islam and homosexuality. It was filmed in twelve countries
and nine languages, with interviews conducted throughout North America, Europe,
Africa, Asia, and the Middle East.
Ticket Prices: $8.00 (Discounted tickets
available for UC classes. Contact Noga Wizansky, nwizansk [@] berkeley.edu, for
details).
Panelists include Tirza True Latimer, Associate Professor and Chair, Graduate
Program in Visual and Critical Studies, CCA; Sasha T. Goldberg, Assistant Director,
Nehirim West; Pam Shortridge, Pastor of the Community Church of Mill Valley;
and Ali Sheikholeslami, Executive Director, Islamic Cultural Center of Northern
California.
Cosponsors include IES and the Religion, Politics, and Globalization
Program at UCB; Jewish Community Center of the East Bay,
Jewish Mosaic, Frameline, and the Queer Cultural Center
September 18, 12 noon, 201 Moses Hall
From Post-War to Post-Wall Germany-The Transformation of
Jewish Life
Michael
Brenner, Professor of History, University of Munich
After the near-total destruction of European Jewry by
Nazi Germany few believed that Jewish life could ever be
rebuilt on German soil. This lecture shows the various steps
taken to reconstruct Jewish life in Germany and the struggle
the community faced to be recognized by the worldwide Jewish
community. It will also discuss the immigration to Germany
of over 100,000 Jews from the former Soviet Union in the
past two decades and the current fascination with Jewish
culture among non-Jewish Germans.
September 18, 5:00 pm, Bancroft Hotel,
2680 Bancroft Way (opposite Kroeber Hall)
Center for British Studies Fall Reception and Lecture
The Peoples' Revolution:
Rethinking Britain's Wars of Religion John
Morrill, University of Cambridge
RSVP to Candace Groskreutz via email: ctrbs [@] berkeley.edu
September 30, 2:00 pm, Home Room, International House
(Piedmont at Bancroft)
Women and Global Security
Margot Wallström, Vice President of
the European Commission
Reception Follows.
October
November
