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THE JUDAIC STUDIES DISTINGUISHED LECTURERS SERIES in cooperation with The Burnett Honors College and Central Florida Hillel
announce a public lecture with:
 Prof. Sander Gilman
Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University
Multiculturalism and the Jewish Experience
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 7:30 PM
Student Union, Pegasus Ballroom GHI (First Floor)
He will also conduct a seminar on
Jewish Identity and Contemporary Jewish Literature in the Diaspora
Tuesday, October 30, 2007, at 10:30 AM
Student Union, Cape Florida Room 316 AB (Third Floor)
THE LECTURE AND SEMINAR ARE FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC
Dr. Sander Gilman has been Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences at Emory University since 2005. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books, including a basic study of the visual stereotypes of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, and a study of Jewish Self-Hatred. For twenty-five years he was a member of the humanities and medical faculties and Cornell University, where he held the Goldwin Smith Professorship of Humane Studies. For six years he held the Henry R. Luce Distinguished Service Professorship of the Liberal Arts in Human Biology at the University of Chicago and for four years was Distinguished Professor of the Liberal Arts and Medicine and creator of the Humanities Laboratory at the University of Illinois at Chicago. He was president of the Modern Language Association in 1995. He was awarded a Doctor of Law degree (honoris causa) at the University of Toronto in 1997 and has been elected an honorary professor of the Free University in Berlin.
Parking is free; permits should be secured through the Campus Visitors Booth prior to both the lecture and seminar.
More Information
For further information, contact:
The Office of Judaic Studies
(407) 823-5039 or 823-5129
Colbourn Hall 201E
University of Central Florida
Orlando, FL 32816-1992
Funded by grants from Friends of Judaic Studies
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