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The Modern Language Association Discussion Group on Jewish Cultural
Studies invites you to attend the following panel at the MLA’s 2007
conference in Chicago.
Friday, 28 December 2007
Reevaluating Jewish Stereotypes
10:15-11:30 a.m., Ohio, Sheraton Chicago Hotels and Towers
Chair: Lara Trubowitz, Univ. of Iowa
1. “Is ‘Jew’ to ‘Muslim’ as Anti-Semitism Is to Islamophobia? Analogization, Dissemblance, and the Politics of Stereotyping,” Matti Bunzl, Univ. of Illinois, Urbana
2. “How the Dirty Jew Became a Cultural Hero,” Josh Lambert, Univ. of Michigan
3. “Imagining the Jew in Contemporary Germany: Forms of Philo-Semitism in Literature and the Media,” Jennifer Hansen, Univ. of Virginia
EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE ELECTIONS
Each year one new member is elected to the Jewish Cultural Studies
executive committee by vote of the MLA members present at the panel. If you are interested in becoming a member of the committee (responsibilities include choosing session topics, reviewing abstracts, attending and chairing MLA sessions) please contact me (via email) so that we can present your name at the convention meeting. Additional names may also be proposed from the floor. Only MLA members are eligible for nomination.
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