Recordings of Past Programs
Saints and Liars: The Story of Americans Who Saved Refugees from the Nazis
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God is enslaved with them: Exile, Diaspora, and the Jews in the Roman and Byzantine Era, Professor Mika Ahuvia, University of Washington, November 12, 2024
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How the IDF Formed the Israeli Film Industry in the 1950s, Professor Rachel Harris, Florida Atlantic University, November 7, 2024
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Last Train to Auschwitz: The French National Railways and the Journey to Accountability, Professor Sarah Federman, University of San Diego, October 29, 2024
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Survival on the Margins: Polish Jewish Refugees in the Wartime Soviet Union, Eliyana Adler, Penn State University, March 29, 2024
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Superman's Jewish Origins, Professor Samantha Baskind, Cleveland State University, October 25, 2023
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Violence in Israel and Gaza: What's Going On? October 24, 2023
Seven Ohio State faculty members offer basic background and perspectives on the current explosion of conflict in Israel and Gaza.
Speakers will introduce a range of regional and international contexts from their different disciplinary perspectives:
Moderator: Dorothy Noyes, Mershon Center
Peter Hahn, History - State-level historical and diplomatic background; what is Hamas?
Ori Yehudai, History - Ground-level coexistence since establishment of state of Israel
Joy McCorriston, Anthropology - Ground-level Palestinian experience since 1948
Johanna Sellman, Near Eastern and South Asian Language and Cultures - Arab regional and diasporic views, seen through culture
Christopher Gelpi, Political Science - Western and Israeli public opinion
Peter Mansoor, History - Military perspective and prospects
Kelly Garrett, Communication - Information, misinformation, and disinformation in wartime
The event was organized by the Mershon Center for International Security Studies with the collaboration of the Department of History, the Melton Center for Jewish Studies, the Middle Eastern Studies Center, and the Department of Near Eastern and South Asian Languages and Cultures.
Blackness in Israel: Rethinking Racial Boundaries, Professor Uri Dorchin, Academic College, Zefat, Israel and Professor Gabriella Djerrahian, Concordia University, November 8, 2022
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Thomas and Diann Mann Israel Series, The Holocaust and Nakba,Professor Bashir Bashir, the Open University of Israel and Professor Amos Goldberg, Hebrew University, November, 2022
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Thomas and Diann Mann Symposium, Sephardi Diaspora, Professor Jessica Marglin, University of Southern California, October, 2022
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