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“Rabbinic Drinking: What Beer and Wine Teach About Rabbinic Literature”

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs
Lecture “Rabbinic Drinking: What Beverages Teach About Rabbinic Literature” by Jordan D. Rosenblum, University of Wisconsin - Madison, whose book “Food and Identity in Early Rabbinic Judaism” (Cambridge University Press, 2010), explores the intersection between early rabbinic food regulations and identity construction, and was the subject of an NPR interview with Jean Feraca.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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“Cursed Paradise: The Russian Annexation of Crimea” by Dimiter Kenarov ’03

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Russian, and European Studies
Dimiter Kenarov ‘03, is a freelance journalist and poet. He has covered the Balkans and the Black Sea region for a number of print and online publications, including Esquire, Foreign Policy, The International New York Times, The Nation, Outside, The Atlantic, and VQR. He is teaching the Winter Term course “Garden of the Empire”: History and Myth in Crimea.

Robert A. Jones '59 Conference Room

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Grassroots Solidarity in an Age of Hostility: Building Alternative Relationships Between the U.S. and Cuba

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Rohatyn Center for Global Affairs, Sociology/Anthropology, and Latin American Studies
Lee Schlenker and Marcel Lueiro Reyes, a Cuban popular educator, will talk about their work with Witness for Peace and the Martin Luther King Jr. Memorial Center in Havana, Cuba. Both are engaged in the struggle for a more inclusive and democratic socialism. Marcel is eager to discuss the perception of U.S. policies on the island as well as the influence of people from the U.S. on Cuban baseball, music and film.

Axinn Center 103

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