Author: Saskia Ziolkowski

February 28^th, 5-7 p.m. Mapping Jewish Modernism Exhibit Opening in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153

March 20^th, 12-2 p.m. Archives, Exhibits, and Literature dialogue in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153

April 4^th, 12-2 p.m. Translation and World Literature dialogue in the Holsti-Anderson Family Assembly Room, Rubenstein Library 153

The Global Jewish Modernism Lab will hold two spring events that complement an exhibit (February-August 2024), curated by the graduate and undergraduate students of “Mapping Jewish Modernism,” taught by Kata Gellen and Saskia Ziolkowski Spring 2023. February 28^th 5-7 p.m. come to the opening of “Mapping Jewish Modernism,” held in the Holsti-Anderson Family Room (153 Rubenstein) and exhibit space (Mary Duke Biddle Room in Rubenstein). Yitzhak Lewis, Assistant Professor of Humanities at Duke Kunshan University, will give a talk and students involved in curating the exhibit will briefly present their work. There will be beverages and food. March 20^th, 12-2 p.m., also in the Holsti-Anderson Family Room (153 Rubenstein), the Archives, Exhibits, and Literature Dialogue will take place during lunch. Two Duke Romance Studies faculty, Annette Joseph-Gabriel and Felwine Sarr, and two visitors, Emma Bond and Max Czollek, will examine the intersections, problems, and productive intersections between archives, exhibits, and literature.

ReJoyce 2022: 100 Years of Multi-lingual Play

Trieste-Zurich-Paris 1914-1921 is the last line of James Joyce’s Ulysses, and the signature of this experimental novel, published first in France in 1922.   As we mark the centenary of Ulysses, we celebrate its multi-lingual play.

The small pop-up exhibit in the Perkins Circulation area invites you to discover some of Joyce’s works in the collections of the David M. Rubenstein Rare Book and Manuscript Library.

On February 8: an opportunity to discover the pop-up exhibit with colleagues.. Come enjoy something of the sounds of Ulysses’ inventiveness in English, français, italiano, + a song and maps too. The event is planned in person.

February 8, 12:00-1:30 PM, Carpenter Conference Room, Rubenstein Library 249

(It’s never too late to celebrate a birthday…)

Thursday, February 3^rd, 4:00-5:30 p.m. “What is a ghetto?” 

The second event in the “What is…” series of the Global Jewish Modernism Lab. Each dialogue involves the examination of one term and its representation and use in diverse geographical and historical contexts. Each conversation will involve at least two scholars, one from Duke and one from another institution. Our Fall 2021 dialogue was “What is Jewish Modernism?” and our Spring 2022 dialogue is “What is a ghetto?”

Speakers: Karen Auerbach (UNC Chapel Hill), Shaul Bassi (Ca’ Foscari, Venice), Paul B. Jaskot (Duke).

When: Thursday, Feb. 3, 4:00-5:30 p.m.

Where: https://duke.zoom.us/j/94543659670