Binghamton University's Master of Public Administration (MPA) program is pleased to announce that we have expanded our programming and are now offering a combined (fast-track) BA-MPA program in Judaic Studies. An MPA degree is a professional degree for those interested in public service careers in management. It is ideal for individuals who are committed to public service, would like to be a leader in a nonprofit or public organization, and want to make a positive difference in the world.
Binghamton University's MPA program:
· prepares students for management careers in public and nonprofit organizations,
· has an energetic faculty committed to students, teaching, and community service,
and
· works with the community to address administrative and policy challenges.
For more information, please visit our website: http://www2.binghamton.edu/ccpa/public-administration/about/. Please also feel free to contact Kristina Lambright.
Dr. Sariel Birnbaum, who is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Judaic Studies at Binghamton University and American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise (AICE) Fellow, is teaching a course about Jewish and Israeli images in the cinema (JUST 484C). As part of the course, Professor Birnbaum is screening films in Lecture Hall 003 at Binghamton University. The screenings are open to the public and everyone is invited to come. Professor Birnbaum will introduce each film as well as have time set aside for a brief discussion of the films after the screening. All screenings are on Tuesdays from 7:20p till 9:20p. The list of films that will be screened is as follows:
T, AUG 30, 2011: "Merchant of Venice"
T, SEP 06, 2011: "Der Golem"
T, SEP 13, 2011: "The Jazz Singer"
T, SEP 20, 2011: "Yiddle with a Fiddle"
T, SEP 27, 2011: "The Jew Suss"
T, OCT 04, 2011: "La Rafle"
T, OCT 18, 2011: "Alexandria, Why?"
T, OCT 25, 2011: "The Grey Zone"
T, NOV 01, 2011: "Exodus"
T, NOV 08, 2011: "Big Lebowsky"
T, NOV 15, 2011: "Gainsbourg"
T, NOV 22, 2011: "The Good, The Bad, The Ugly"
T, NOV 29, 2011: "Life of Brian"
T, DEC 06, 2011: "Paradise Now"
Friday, September 9 Drop/Add deadlines for full-semester courses
Thursday, September 29 Deadline for “back to back,” disability and technology classroom assignment requests for spring 2012 courses. Please use the online form.
Monday, October 3 Deadline for applications for the Undergraduate Award for Research and Creative Work. Students may receive up to $300 for an independent research or creative project that is pursued under the direction of a faculty member. Funding is limited and competitive, but in past semesters the majority of applicants have received some funding.
Friday, October 28 Course WITHDRAWAL (with a “W”) Deadline for full-semester courses
Friday, October 28 Course change of grade option (pass/fail) deadline
Friday, December 2 Deadline for requests for final exam rooms for Spring 2012 semester. Please use the online form.
Sunday, December 11CommencementDecember 12-16 Final examinations
Bat-Ami Bar On, the chairwoman of the Judaic Studies Department at Binghamton University, is excited about the future of her department. In addition to new course selections and reorganization plans, the Judaic Studies Department has received an American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise grant, which will support the scholar Sariel Birnbaum, a film researcher who specializes in Middle Eastern cinema, during the upcoming academic year.
“In fall 2011, [Birnbaum] will offer a course on Jewish and Israeli cinematic images that will be accompanied by an open-to-the-public film series,” Bar On said in an e-mail interview. “[The] Political Science [Department] also has an AICE scholar for 2011-12, Maoz Rosenthal, and his courses are cross-listed with Judaic Studies.”
A CONVERSATION WITH ANITA DIAMANT
Sunday, April 10 at 4:00pm at The Center for Jewish History
Panel I: CONVERSION IN JEWISH HISTORY David Satran (Hebrew University), Paola Tartakoff (Rutgers University), Fa...brizio Lelli (Università del Salento), Moderator: Jonathan Karp (AJHS) Coffee break Panel II: CONVERSION IN TODAYʼS JEWISH WORLD Barry Freundel (Congregation Kesher Israel), Paul Golin (Jewish Outreach Institute), Ellie Schainker (University of Pennsylvania) Moderator: Brian Lehrer (WNYC-Radio)
Francine Prose will read from and discuss her book, Anne Frank - The Book, The Life, The Afterlife, for the 2010 Kenneth Roth, Passie Hinden Burch & Vivian Cohen Burch Lecture in Holocaust Literature, at 7 p.m. Tuesday, Nov. 16, in AA-G008. Prose is the author of 24 books, including novels, collections of short stories, a children's book, and non-fiction, including the 2006 Reading Like a Writer. The event is free and open to the public. A reception and book signing will follow the reading. Supported by Judaic Studies and the Writing Initiative. Contact Paul-William Burch (pburch@binghamton.edu) or Beth Burch (bburch@binghamton.edu) for more information.
Judaic Studies will have a brief Open House, Wednesday, 3 November, from noon - 2:00 pm.
Some faculty and the DUS will be available to answer questions about courses, scheduling, and general advising.
The Department of Judaic Studies is co-sponsoring the Binghamton Hillel's Jewish Authors Series of lectures. For more information see the Hillel website or the Facebook event page.
The College of Jewish Studies will begin its 25th year with a series of talks on three American presidents – Abraham Lincoln, Franklin Delano Roosevelt and Harry S. Truman – and their relationships with the Jews.
The College of Jewish Studies is a coalition between the Judaic Studies Department of Binghamton University and the following local Jewish institutions: the Jewish Community Center, the Jewish Federation of Broome County, Beth David Synagogue, Temple Concord and Temple Israel. Partial funding is also provided by the Jacob and Rose Olum Foundation, the B’nai Brith Lectureship Fund and an endowment fund from the former Temple Beth El of Endicott.
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(October 15-16 2010)
This workshop, co-sponsored by Judaic Studies, which will explore the dynamics of commemorative practices and social memory in the wake of genocides. For academics and public policy analysts interested in the study of genocide, the status of commemorative practices, and the relation between these practices and the comparative study of genocide raise a host of difficult questions. Moreover, if the very broad disciplinary terrain that is encompassed by contemporary genocide and holocaust studies is taken into consideration, it becomes clear that memory of genocide is surely not a constellation of questions that can be adequately addressed from within the boundaries of a single discipline. Memory studies is of course not confinable to a single academic discipline, nor to a single area of policy analysis. The goal of this workshop, therefore, is to support a sustained, intensive, and largely unstructured conversation in and across disciplines.
