Your time in Bloomington may be over, but your education doesn't have to be. The College of Arts and Sciences' Food for Thought series is coming to Chicago.
Reconnect with the College and meet other IU alumni with this lifelong-learning series.
December's Food for Thought will feature a presentation from faculty expert Günther Jikeli, an associate professor of Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies who also serves as the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism's Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor. Professor Jikeli will be discuss the resurgence of antisemitism in the U.S. and explore why antisemitic ideas seem to be increasingly popular in mainstream society.
Hosted at the Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center in Skokie, a catered reception is included in the price of registration and admission is discounted for IUAA members and College donors. During this event, guests are welcome to participate in any of the museum’s featured exhibitions at no additional costs.
"Antisemitism: The New Unease in Europe and the U.S." | Until very recently, the resurgence of antisemitism was seen mainly as a problem in European countries. However, we now see that similar developments can be traced in the U.S., coming in different forms from white supremacists, the political left and Islamist extremists – and antisemitic ideas seem to be more and more popular also in mainstream society. What can research do to better understand such trends?
Speaker biography | Günther Jikeli holds the Erna B. Rosenfeld Professorship at the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and is an associate professor in Jewish Studies and Germanic Studies at Indiana University. His latest book (with Olaf Glockner) “Das neue Unbehagen. Antisemitismus in Deutschland heute” [The New Unease. Antisemitism in Germany Today] was published this summer. In 2015, he published European Muslim Antisemitism with IU Press. In 2013, he was awarded the Raoul Wallenberg Prize in Human Rights and Holocaust Studies. Jikeli has just been recognized by The Algemeiner as one of “The Top 100 People Positively Influencing Jewish Life.”
If you have any questions about the Food for Thought series, please e-mail Director of Alumni Relations Vanessa Cloe.
