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Library lectures, Wednesday, April 30

Posted 4/24/2003


10 -11 a.m.
Parents Enrichment Fund Lecture Hall / 126 Memorial Library

• Evolving Directions in Academic Research and Resources Series
Jill Casid, assistant professor of Visual Culture Studies,
UW-Madison Art History Department

Casid studies the visual arts, material culture, postcolonial studies, the history of science and technology, and transnational approaches to visual culture. She is both a researcher and artist. She will talk about her research and teaching and her use of resource materials, including library resources.

The lecture is sponsored by the UW-Madison Libraries/ASHIND (Area Studies, Social
Sciences, and Humanities Interdisciplinary) Group.

4:30 p.m.
Parents Enrichment Fund Lecture Hall / 126 Memorial Library

• Venice: The Days of the Shoah
Film with introduction by Renata Segre,
Former head of the Diaspora Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, Venice

Renata Segre, a distinguished visiting scholar of Italian Jewish history, will introduce a film
that chronicles the lives and fate of Venetian Jews between 1938 and 1945. This presentation traces their history from the anti-Semitic decrees of Mussolini in 1938 to the deportations to the death camps following the German occupation of Italy in September 1943. Italian Jews shared the fate of many others in conquered Europe; out of approximately 45,000 Italian Jews, more than 8,000 lost their lives in the Holocaust.

Professor Segre, a Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries grant-in-aid recipient, will be available for questions following the film.

This presentation is cosponsored by the Friends of the UW-Madison Libraries and the George L. Mosse Program in History, UW–Madison.

 

 

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