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 March 22, 2012
| Time: | 4-5 p.m. |
| Description: | "On Sponges and Lost Love: Three Poems and a Few Comments on Arab-Jewish History in Iraq" is a lecture by Orit Bashkin, University of Chicago, who raises questions about the Jewish sense of belonging to the Iraqi community through a reading of three poems written by Iraqi Jews.
In the years 1921-1951, the Iraqi Jewish community thrived. Numbering around 150,000, this primarily urban community figured prominently in Iraq's culture, literature and economy. Bashkin explores the ways in which Iraqi Jews wrote about modernity and secularism, and the manner in which their texts shed light on sociocultural processes occurring in Iraq at the time. |
| Location: | Student Activity Center (SAC), Meeting Room 1.106 |
| URL: | More about this event... |
| Contact: | Christopher S Rose | 512-471-3582 |
| Sponsor: | Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Department of History, Institute for Historical Studies, and the Schusterman Center for Jewish Studies |
| Admission: | Free and open to the public |
| Categories: | Current Students, Everyone, Faculty, Lecture/talk, Politics & International |
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