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Standing up to the Nazi onslaught

Thursday, November 20
7:30 p.m.

Busch Campus Center
605 Bartholomew Road
Piscataway

Dean Douglas Greenberg, professor of history and executive dean of the School of Arts and Sciences, explores, “They Were My Neighbors: Jewish Survivors and their Rescuers in the Holocaust” as part of the 70th anniversary of Kristallnacht.

An evening of terror and massive violence against Germany’s synagogues, Kristallnacht marked the escalation of the Nazis’ inexorable march to power. In some cases, Dean Greenberg notes, the viciousness of the attacks against Jews was matched by the heroism of men and women who saved their Jewish neighbors from being sent to the regime’s death camps.

Dean Greenberg’s lecture, which analyzes the moral underpinnings of heroic acts, includes videos of Holocaust survivors describing their experiences. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center is sponsoring the event; to RSVP, call 732-932-2033 or e-mail cajlrsvp@rci.rutgers.edu.

“All Things Considered” considers the election

Monday, December 7
7 p.m.

Douglass Campus Center
Trayes Hall
100 George Street
New Brunswick

Michelle Norris, host of NPR’s newsmagazine “All Things Considered” will look back on the campaign just past during a talk, “Race, Gender, and the 2008 Presidential Election.” The public lecture is sponsored by the Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership.

The Senator Wynona Lipman Chair in Women’s Political Leadership is made possible by the support of the New Jersey Legislature.

Although the event is free, reservations are required. To RSVP, call 732-932-9384, ext. 331.

Women, rhetoric, and politics

Thursday, December 4
4:30 p.m. (reception at 4 p.m.)

Ruth Dill Johnson Crockett Building
162 Ryders Lane, Douglass Campus
New Brunswick

Uma Narayan, Andrew W. Mellon Professor in the Humanities and chair of the philosophy department at Vassar College, will speak on “Suspicious Centerings: Third World Women, Rhetoric of Rights, and the Politics of Rescue and Empowerment,” as part of the Institute for Research on Women’s Distinguished Lecture Series.

Narayan’s talk will examine two phenomena: the movements in various countries to “rescue” Muslim women from the veil and the enthusiasm for economically empowering Third World women through microcredit.

For more information, contact IRW at 732-932-9072 or irw@rci.rutgers.edu; http://irw.rutgers.edu.

A bountiful Thanksgiving dinner

Thursday, November 20
11:30 a.m.

Brower Commons
145 College Avenue
New Brunswick

Just in time to get your taste buds ready, Dining Services offers the faculty and staff Thanksgiving buffet. The cost is $10 in advance; registration is required to reserve a space.

To save your place at the table, call 732-932-7658 or e-mail captain.commons@rutgers.edu.

Reading by a writer of triple talents

Wednesday, December 10
7 p.m.

Stedman Gallery
Fine Arts Building
314 Linden Street
Camden

Percival Everett is the author of 15 novels, three collections of short fiction, and one volume of poetry. Among his novels are Wounded, Glyph, Erasure, and American Desert. He has won critical acclaim, including the Academy Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, and the PEN/Oakland-Josephine Miles Award for Excellence in Literature for his 1996 story collection, “Big Picture.”

Everett, whose stories have been included in the Pushcart Prize Anthology and Best American Short Stores, will follow his reading with a question-and-answer session and a reception. The event, part of the 2008-2009 Visiting Writers Series, is free and open to the public.