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Israel theme faculty-student seminar 2014/15
The Institute will be holding three seminar sessions over the next three months.
Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies
Student-Faculty Seminars
Join us for our first seminar of the year!
Wednesday, November 26, 2014
10:30 AM - 12:30 PM
Samuel Bronfman building, 1590 Docteur Penfield, SB-407
The line up will be featuring the research of Dr. Lorne Switzer, department of Finance. Her presentation will be on The benefits of international diversification: The case of Israel in a nexus of market development, corporate governance and structural change.
Following this presentation Dr. Loren Lerner, Project Director, Department of Art History, will present The Jerusalem Art History Journal; An undergraduate eJournal: The process and product.
She will be joined by Pata Macedo, journal designer, Department of Design and Computation Arts, and five student contributors, respectively presenting on:
- Israeli Archaeology in Jerusalem: National Heritage, Identity, and Partiality
Charlotte Parent - Symbols and Motifs: Depictions of the Heavenly Realm in Mordecai Ardon’s At the Gates of Jerusalem
Valerie Gauthier - Expressing Exile as a Shared Experience: The Work of Steve Sabella
Stéphanie Hornstein - From the Depths of the Matrixial Sea: Reviving Loss and Memory in Contemporary Israeli Art
Braden Scot - The Artistic Apocalypse: Three Religious Depictions of the End of Days
Amanda Charlebois - Representations of Jesus in Early Christian Art
Samantha Wexler
For more information, please contact Randy Pinsky, Research Associate at the Azrieli Institute of Israel Studies at azrieliinstitute@gmail.com.
We encourage you to bring a ’brown bag lunch’.