CARLSBAD, California (Press Release)–The Agency for Jewish Education continues its monthly Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies, a new lecture series in Carlsbad, with Professor Oren Meyers of the University of Haifa. Meyers’s lecture will take place in the Schulman Auditorium of the Carlsbad Dove Library on Nov. 22 at 7:00 pm. His lecture is titled, “Israel’s Memory Wars.”
Throughout the last two decades an ongoing debate over the facts and meanings of the Israeli past has surged across various public arenas. The talk discusses the development of the debate between “new/critical” Israeli scholars and their “traditional/institutional” counterparts regarding issues such as Israel’s actions during its 1948 War of Independence. The talk will also address at the specific role played by the Israeli media in fueling and stirring the debate.
Dr. Meyers is a lecturer in the Department of Communication, University of Haifa. He received his B.A. from the Hebrew University (1995). While studying in Jerusalem he worked as a reporter and an editor for two city newspapers. Later, he received an M.A. (1999) and a Ph.D. (2004) from the Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania. His research interests focus on journalistic practices and values, Israeli collective memory, popular culture and the security discourse in Israeli society. His studies have been supported by the Burda Center for Innovative Communications Research, the Memorial Foundation for Jewish Culture, the Israel Science Foundation and other foundations.
Future lectures will feature professors speaking on their own areas of research.
In January, Professor Sandy Lakoff of UCSD will speak on “Faith and Fanaticism: Religion as an Obstacle to Peace in the Middle East.” Professor William Propp, UCSD will speak on “The Unmanned Steward: A Universal Tale-Type from the Hebrew Bible to Freud” in February. Other speakers include professors Ghada Osman, Glenn Levine and Rebecca Moore.
The Scholar Lectures on Jewish Studies is a program of the Agency for Jewish Education made possible by the Leichtag Family Foundation and is free and open to the public. For more information on this or future talks in the series, contact the Agency for Jewish Education, (858) 268-9200 ext.102 or www.ajesd.org .
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