[Jewish] April 5 event of interest

[rrHACU at hampshire.edu]

Dear all,
Please mark your calendars and make sure to come to the reception afterwards!

art, conflict, identity:
a symposium with israeli/palestinian/american writers and artists
featuring udi aloni, adina hoffman, and fady joudah
moderated by aaron berman and rachel rubinstein

tuesday april 5 2011
franklin patterson main lecture hall
hampshire college
5:30 pm
public reception to follow in the faculty lounge

free and open to the public
organized by the schools of humanities, arts and cultural studies and critical
social inquiry
sponsored by the posen foundation’s visiting writers project at hampshire
college


FADY JOUDAH’S The Earth in the Attic won the Yale Series for Younger Poets in
2007. His translations of Mahmoud Darwish's poetry, The Butterfly's Burden and
If I Were Another won the Banipal prize for Arabic literary translation from
the UK and a PEN translation prize respectively. He is a physician working in
Houston. In 2002 and 2005 he served with Doctors Without Borders. He is married
with two children.

UDI ALONI is known for his deeply psychoanalytic films and work in political
theology. Living part time in Jenin refugee camp he teaches film at The Freedom
Theater in Jenin. His film Forgiveness tells the story of David Adler, a 20-year
old American-Israeli who decides to move back to Israel to join the military.
David ends up at a mental hospital, which was built on the ruins of the
Palestinian village Deir Yassin, where a Jewish militia killed over 100
villagers in 1948. Aloni's book What Does a Jew Want:on Binationalism and Other
Specters is forthcoming in May 2011.

ADINA HOFFMAN is the author of House of Windows: Portraits from a Jerusalem
Neighborhood and My Happiness Bears No Relation to Happiness: A Poet’s Life in
the Palestinian Century, which was named one of the best twenty books of 2009
by the Barnes & Noble Review. Sacred Trash: The Lost and Found World of the
Cairo Geniza, written with Peter Cole, is due out in April from
Schocken/Nextbook.  One of the founders and editors of Ibis Editions, she
divides her time between Jerusalem and New Haven.



Rachel Rubinstein
Associate Professor of American Literature and Jewish Studies
School of Humanities, Arts, and Cultural Studies
Hampshire College
(413) 559-5821