Annual Katzin Lecture

Jewish Studies Program at UC San Diego is pleased to invite you to our Annual Katzin Lecture featuring Associate Professor Lital Levy from Princeton University.

Event is free and open to the public.

Schedule:

4:30PM - Reception

5:00PM - Lecture and Q&A

6:30PM - Post-Event Reception

Talk Description:

"The Unexpected Career of Esther Moyal: Sephardic Feminist from Cairo to Jaffa"

Meet Esther Azhari Moyal, a trailblazing intellectual who made her mark in the Arab Levant as the world burst into the 20th century. The only Jewish woman writer of Arabic in her day, she was a star of 19th-century Arab feminism, a prolific journalist and literary translator, and an activist for Jewish causes. Born in Beirut in 1873, she lived in Cairo, Istanbul, Jaffa, and Marseille. Through the unique prism of Moyal's life and work, this talk addresses early 20th c. Muslim-Jewish relations, Arab feminism, and Arab perspectives on the Dreyfus Affair.

Speaker Bio:

Lital Levy is Associate Professor of Comparative Literature at Princeton University. She received her Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and was previously a Junior Fellow at the Harvard Society of Fellows. Professor Levy's research encompasses the modern intellectual history of Arab Jews, the literature and film of Israel/Palestine, intersections of Jewish literature and world literature, and non-Western literary modernities. She is the author of the award-winning Poetic Trespass: Writing between Hebrew and Arabic in Israel/Palestine (Princeton University Press, 2014) on the cultural politics of Arabic-Hebrew bilingualism and translation, as well as numerous articles on literature, history, and cultural studies. She is currently completing The Jewish Nahda, an intellectual history of Arab Jews and modernity.

Directions:

The Faculty Club at UC San Diego does not have its own campus address. It is recommended to use a navigation system such as Google Maps and search for "The Ida and Cecil Green Faculty Club, UCSD."

Parking:

Due to limited parking in front of Faculty Club, guests are encouraged to park in the Scholars Parking Structure highlighted in Red. There will be a parking attendant handing out parking permits for guests. With this permit, guests will be allowed to park in A, B, S, and V spaces.

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