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Events: March 2022
Is there a Jewish Nature?
Faculty of History invites you to a lecture by Dr. Emma Zohar, which will take place on March 21 at 17:00 online on the Big Blue Button platform. The meeting will be conducted in English.
The image of Jewish life in Poland cannot be farther away from nature, agriculture, and gardening. This well-rooted image has several reasons: the common occupations of Jews in trade and finance; the restrictions on owning land and farms in Tsarist Russia; and the urbanization processes among East European Jewry. Furthermore, it was encouraged by the Zionism that wishes to define the “new world” from the “old world” by rising the approach of Halutzim and Geulat HaAretz. But, a close look on primary sources reviles that polish Jewry very much appreciated nature, if by the growing number of Jews that practiced hiking in the forests and mountains, enjoyed ski or went to soak the sun at the seaside or in holiday retreats.
The lecture will take place on March 21st at 5 pm, online via BigBlueButton: https://vc.umk.pl/b/krz-mme-u72-af3. The speech will be given in English, recorded, and then posted online.
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OPEN DAYS | YUFE Student Journey
The YUFE Consortium organizes the Student Journey Open Days. During the meetings on March 22 and 28, 2022, students of the YUFE universities will have the opportunity to learn about the course and mobility offer between campuses.
YUFE Student Journey offers the possibility of creating your own educational path and broadening European horizons. People participating in the Open Day will learn about the many opportunities offered by YUFE and will be informed about the deadlines for submitting applications to the program.
Registration for the meeting, which will take place on March 22, 2022, from 11:30 to 13:30 is valid until March 20 at this link.
Registration for the meeting, which will take place on March 28, 2022, from 11:30 to 13:30 is open until March 25 at this link.
Both meetings will be conducted in English.
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Politics in times of polarisation and hatred
The Challenge Team coordinated by Universidad Carlos III de Madrid, whose topic is “Fight against intolerance: awareness of verbal violence in political speeches and meetings”, invited a special speaker Patxi López for an on-line conference.
Patxi López is a Spanish socialist politician serving as Member of the Congress of Deputies and chair of the Constitutional Committee and, in the context of the Challenge Team, he is also a non-academic mentor.
The session called "Listening to the other: politics in times of polarisation and hatred" will allow participants to look at the hate speech topic from a political point of view and will open up a debate among students and other actors about this important and very current topic.
The session will start 23 March at 16:30 (CET) and will last till 18:30. Conference is open to all and will be provided in English (simultaneous translation Spanish-English). Registration required (registration due date: 22 March 2022).
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Like a Child in a Sweet Shop
Faculty of History invites you to a lecture by Dr. Emma Zohar, which will take place on March 24 at 17:00 online on the Big Blue Button platform. The meeting will be conducted in English.
In the lecture entitled "Like a Child in a Sweet Shop: Advertising Sweets in Jewish Newspaper in Interwar Poland" Dr. Emma Zohar will present the importance of sweets such as chocolate, chewing gum, halva, preserves, liqueurs and baked goods for Polish Jews in the 1920s and 1930s. Author will use the analysis of newspaper advertisements for many different sweets, as well as references to them in the ego documents.
Lecture of dr Emma Zohar via BigBlueButton: https://vc.umk.pl/b/krz-nwu-3we-wzj. The speech will be given in English, recorded, and then posted online.
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