Annual Lecture Series
See Also: Recent Lectures
November 9, 1993
Professor Steven T. Katz, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY, “The Holocaust and Comparative History.”
February 3, 1994
Professor Bezalel Narkiss, Director, Center for Jewish Art, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, “Jewish Identity Through Art.”
Spring 1994
Dr. Jo Milgrom, Center for Jewish Studies, Graduate Theological Union, Berkeley, CA., “The Binding of Isaac.”
October 11, 1994
Professor Alexander Orbach, Chair, Department of Religious Studies, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, Pa., “Russian Jewish Cultures at the Turn of the Century.”
November 15, 1994
Dr. Avraham Biran, Jerusalem, “The House of David and Tel Dan.”
February, 22, 1995
Professor Ziva Amishai-Maisels, Head, Robert and Clarice Smith Center for Art History, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, “German and Israeli responses to the Holocaust in Art.”
March 2, 1995
Professor Michael Kogan, Montclair State College, Montclair, NJ, “Jewish Christian Relations.”
March 30, 1995
Professor David Desser, Film Studies, University of Illinois/Urbana-Champaign, “The Changing Image of Jewish Males in T.V. and Film.”
October 28, 1996
Panel discussion on Daniel J. Goldhagen’s book, Hitler’s Willing Executioners with Professor Vejas Liulevicius, Professor Milton Klein, Father Terry Ryan, Ms. Jenny Richter, Professor Charles Reynolds, Professor Gilya Schmidt, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
November 11, 1996
Dr. Rami Arav, Bethsaida Excavations Project, “Bethsaida, the Lost City.”
September 21-23, 1997
Professor Emeritus Maurice Friedman, “Martin Buber: Israel and the Arab-Jewish Conflict.”
May 4, 1998
Maestro Kirk Trevor, Knoxville Symphony, Knoxville, TN, “Felix Mendelssohn-Bartholdy.”
October 16, 1998
Dr. Jennette Lander, author, Berlin, Germany, “Living as a Jew in Germany Today.”
November12, 1998
Professor Kenneth Seeskin, Philosophy, Northwestern University, Chicago, IL., “Maimonides’ Critique of Popular Religion.”
November 19, 1998
Professor Klaus Berghahn, German Studies, University of Wisconsin, Madison, “Hebrews or Jews? On Tolerance and Judaism in the Age of Enlightenment.”
November 15, 1999
Mr. Arnold Schwarzbart, artist, Knoxville, TN, “Not By Might, Nor By Power, But By My Spirit Alone, Says the Lord of Hosts.”
April 17, 2000
Professor Vivian Kleff, Sociology, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies, University of Delaware, Newark, DE, “Jewish Demographics.”
October 23, 2000
Dr. Jeanette Lander, author Berlin, Germany, “Jewish Life in Germany After the Holocaust.”
January 25, 2001
Professor Eric Mazur, Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA, “Jews as a Test Case for Religious Minorities and the Constitution.”
October 29, 2001
Professor Richard J. Bernstein, Vera List Professor and Director, Graduate Program, New School for Social Research, New York, symposium on “Facing Radical Evil: Kant and Arendt.”
February 20, 2002
Professor Carol Meyers, Religious Studies Department, Duke University, “All about Eve: The Latest Word on the First Lady.”
October 21, 2002
Dr. Rachel Simon, Princeton University, Princeton, N.J., “How New Were the ‘New Jews’ of Libya? Girls in the Jewish Youth Movement in Libya.”
March 8, 2003
Poetry reading by Professor Richard Chess, Director, Judaic Studies Program and Creative Writing Program, University of North Carolina, Asheville.
September 18, 2003
Professor Peter Höyng, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN, “Discovering their Jewish Roots: Portraits of Eastern Jewish Life through the Eyes of Arnold Zweig, Alfred Doeblin and Joseph Roth.”
October 9, 2003
Dr. J.P. Dessel, Professor of History, University of Tennessee, “From Village People to Chosen People.”
October 24 and 25, 2004
Dr. Marsha Rozenblit, Professor of Modern Jewish History, University of Maryland, “The Jews of Freud’s Vienna: Assimilation and Jewish Identity at the Turn of the Century and “Jews and Nationalism: The Dilemmas of Jews in Central Europe in the Nineteenth Century.”
April 4, 2005
Dr. Guy Stern - Distinguished Professor of German at Wayne State University, “In the Service of American Intelligence – An Award Winning Documentary Film and its Story.”
September 25 and 26, 2005
Dr. Reginetta Haboucha, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs and acting Dean of the Graduate School at the Fashion Institute of New York City. A reading from her latest book King Solomon and the Golden Fish given at the Arnstein Jewish Community and lecture on “Oral Narratives in the Sephardic Tradition” given at the University of Tennessee.
November 15, 2005
Professor Daniel Magilow, University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN., Lecture on the Whitlow, Tennessee paperclips project, entitled “Counting to Six Million: Collecting Projects and Holocaust Memorialization.”
April 4, 2006
Maestro Lucus Richman, Director of the Knoxville Symphony Orchestra, “Classical Music and the Jewish Spirit: The Spiritual Inspiration of the Jewish Musical Legacy.”
February 16, 2007
Professor Marie-France Rouart, Professor of Comparative Literature at the Université de Nancy II, “Jews Gypsies and Aborigines: Comparative Myths and Mythologies about Wanderers.”
March 8, 2007
Professor Vivian Mann, Morris and Eva Feld Chair of Judaica at The Jewish Museum;
Advisor to the Master's Program in Jewish Art and Visual Culture at the
Graduate School of Jewish Theological Seminary, "Jewish Art/Christian Art/Islamic Art: Symbiosis and Otherness."
April 16, 2007
Professor Michael Feige, Visiting Professor Institute for the Study of Modern Israel of Emory University and The Ben-Gurion Research Center, Ben-Gurion University, “Israel’s Disengagement from the Gaza Strip: What Has Israel Learned?”
April 23, 2007
Professor Ehud Toledano, Graduate School of Historical Studies, Tel Aviv University, “As if Silent and Absent: Bonds of Enslavement in the Islamic Middle East.”
Contact Information
Gilya Gerda Schmidt, Ph.D.
Chair, Judaic Studies Program
Professor and Head of Department of Religious Studies
501 McClung Tower
University of Tennessee
Knoxville, Tennessee 37996-0450
Phone: 865-974-6985
Fax: 865-974-0965
Email: gschmidt@utk.edu