[Jewish] Tomorrow @ 7:30:Art, Exile, Memory Panel with our very own Rachel Rubenstein

[rag04 at hampshire.edu]

 'ART, EXILE, MEMORY' SERIES
TOMOORRRRROOOOOWWWWW!!!


With dynamic duo Justin Cammy and Rachel Rubenstein and of course Aaron Berman.
(also Deborah Gans but I don't really know her...)

RETURNING: RECONSTRUCTING HOMELANDS
April 20, 7 p.m.
Franklin Patterson West Lecture Hall

A panel discussion of refugees and rights, nations and shelters, utopias and
realities from Bosnia and Palestine to New Orleans and Yiddishland

PANELISTS:

Deborah Gans
Architecture Program, Pratt Institute, Gans/Jelacic, RA
Ms. Gans is principal in the firm of Gans & Jelacic in New York City. The firm's
work in the fields of industrial design and architecture has been exhibited at
RIBA, London; IFA, Paris; and the Van Alen Institute in New York City. The firm
has won international awards and a grant for development from the Johnny Walker
Fund for their investigation into disaster relief housing for Kosovar refugees
and subsequent housing projects, and has received a HUD grant for a project in
New Orleans. Ms. Gans is the author of The Le Corbusier Guide and the editor of
The Organic Approach. She has taught at, among others, the Parsons School of
Design, Columbia University, and Pratt Institute, where she was chair of the
School of Architecture.

Justin Cammy
Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies and Comparative Literature at Smith
College
Dr. Cammy is a specialist in Yiddish literature and Eastern European Jewish
culture. He received his A.M. and Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern
Languages and Civilizations at Harvard University. His research currently
focuses on Yung-Vilne, the last group of young, politically engaged Yiddish
poets, writers, and artists in inter-war Poland, and he is completing a
literary and cultural history of the group called When Yiddish Was Young:
Jewish Literature and Culture in the Lost Jerusalem of Lithuania. His
translation from the Yiddish and introduction to Hinde Bergner’s memoir, On
Long Winter Nights: Memoirs of a Jewish Family in a Galician Township,
1870-1900, appeared in 2005.

Aaron Berman
Professor of History and Vice President and Dean of Faculty, Hampshire College
Dr. Berman received his B.A. from Hampshire College, and M.A. and Ph.D. in
United States history from Columbia University. He is particularly interested
in the dynamics of ideology and politics, the development of the American
welfare state, American ethnic history, American Jewish history, and the
history of Zionism and the Arab-Israeli conflict. He is the author of Nazism,
The Jews, and American Zionism 1933-1948.

Moderated by:
Rachel Rubinstein
Jewish and American Literature and Culture, Hampshire College