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Helen and Allen Apter '61 Support New Chair in Holocaust Studies Thanks to the generosity of long-time supporters Helene and Allen Apter ’61, an endowed chair in Holocaust Studies is being established at Lehigh. Besides providing specific courses on the Holocaust, the holder of the new chair will also contribute to broader college initiatives such as ethics, values, decision making, social change and global studies. More information on the Apters and their gift is available on Lehigh's website. Russell Berrie Foundation Awards Lehigh Challenge Grant for Visiting Professorship at the Berman Center In addition to the newly endowed chair in Holocaust Studies, the Berman Center’s academic offerings will be further enhanced in 2007-2008 with the presence of a visiting professor from Israel. This position has been created as a result of a challenge grant from the Russell Berrie Foundation and the generous response of a select group of alumni and friends. The foundation's gift was largely the result of the efforts of Myron Rosner ’59. It is hoped that this will be the first in a series of visiting professors from Israel at Lehigh in the years to come. If you would like to make a contribution to the challenge grant, contact Ann Neitzel in Lehigh's Development Office. For the past year, Larry Silberstein and Ruth Setton of the Berman Center, in cooperation with the Lehigh University Art Galleries, have been involved in planning a semester-long, campus-wide project for Spring 2007, “Diaspora: Re-imagining Culture Space." One of the most critically debated aspects of contemporary identity, diaspora involves issues of displacement, migration, cultural space, ethnic and group identity, postcolonialism, and globalism. Throughout the semester LUAG will present several exhibits on this theme including one by Jason Francisco, photographer and author of Far from Zion: Jews, Diaspora, Memory. In addition, courses across the campus will incorporate diaspora as a basic theme or module. The project will include other events, such as gallery lectures and films, that will explore multinational and interdisciplinary theories of diaspora (schedule) The pivotal event of the project will be a conference Sunday, March 25, and Monday, March 26. Entitled “No Direction Home: Re-imagining Jewish Geography,” it will explore the far-reaching changes in how diaspora is defined, interpreted, and imagined in contemporary Jewish art, music, literature, and scholarship (sessions and participants).
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and Muriel Berman Center for Jewish Studies
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