Some Lecture Topics: The Colors of Jews Feminism and Diasporism The Right to Say Yes: Women's Sexual Autonomy Radical Jewish History (including women's history) Jews in the Civil Righis Movement The Politics of Art African American- Jewish Relations Racism, Anti- Semitism and Class A Progressive Approach to Fighting Antisemitism Women, Violence, and Resistance Women and War Poetry and fiction readings and workshops Some past venues: SUNY-Stony Brook Syracuse Univ UCalifornia-Berkeley UCalifornia-Santa Cruz San Francisco State UMichigan Minnesota State Univ-St. Cloud Minnesota State Univ-Mankato UMinnesota UWashington-Seattle Portland State New York Univ Sarah Lawrence, Rutgers Hunter College/ Brooklyn College/ Queens College, CUNY CLAGS/ UPennsylvania Claremont Colleges Columbia Univ UIowa-Iowa City UHaifa Union College Simmons Skidmore Colgate SUNY-New Paltz Connecticut College SUNY-Buffalo return home |
Readings and Events 2008monthly or so, Sundays noon-1 p.m. Melanie interviews writers, poets and thinkers on Beyond the Pale WBAI fm 99.5 Sunday, March 2, 2008, 7: p.m. Progressive Jewish Alliance and Kehilla Community Synagogue invite you tn evening Honoring Melanie's work, Kehilla Community Synagogue, 1300 Grand Avenue in Piedmont, CA Reading, onversation, and Book Signing Sliding scale admission: $5 - 25 2007 Sunday, October 28, 7:p.m., Seattle Lecture, World Jews,Jewish Federation, Hugo House Monday, October 29, 7:p.m.>, Seattle Elliott Bay Books Reading, The Colors of Jews Thursday, November 1, 7:p.m.Portland Reading The Colors of Jews Saturday, November 3 interview on KPFA 9:a.m. The Morning Show Sunday, November 4,noon-2:p.m. San Francisco Jewish Community Center Bookfest Reading, The Colors of Jews Sunday, November 4, 4:-6:p.m., Berkeley Cafe Leila, 1724 San Pablo sposored by Women in Blaack & others Reading, The Colors of Jews Monday, November 5, 9:30 a.m.-5:30 p.m. Phila. Talk at conference Jews and Race, Temple Univ. Sunday, November 10, noon-1: p.m. Tables turned, Melanie gets interviewed WBAI 99.5, Beyond the Pale (available on line) Wednesday, November 28, 1:p.m. State University of New York, Stony Brook Reading, The Colors of Jews b>Friday, November 30, 6:30-8:30p.m.NYC Shul of New York, Hope Martin Studio, 39 W. 14th St.,#508 Reading, The Colors of Jews Sunday, December 16, 3:30-5:p.m. The City Congregation for Humanistic Judaism, 15 W. 86th St., Manhattan Reading, The Colors of Jews 2008 Tuesday, January 29 6:30 p.m. Seeking Justice, Speaking Truth: An Evening of Celebration and Performance in Support of the Khalil Gibran International Academy, founded to celebrate Arabic language and culture. Melanie read along with Rashid Khalidi, Carmen Colon, Roopa Singh, at ParkSlope United Methodist Church, Brooklyn. Tuesday, October 23, 2007 7:00 p.m. Book Party and signing, The Colors of Jews sponsored by Center for New Words and Jewish Women's Archives, at Simmons College, Boston. Saturday, August 25, 2007 5:15 p.m. Book Party/ The Colors of Jews Joshua's Upstairs, 51 Tinker st., Woodstock Sponsored by The Golden Notebook. Thursday, June 14, 2007 Book Party/ The Colors of Jews Workmens' Circle 45 E. 33rd St NYC co-sponsored by Jews for Racial & Economic Justice Friday, March 10 Saturday, 2007 Left Forum, NYC, panel The Cult of True Victimhood, with Alyson Cole, Saru Jayaraman, others... Sunday, March 25-Monday, March 26, 2007 "Choosing Diaspora," talk at conference, No Direction Home: Rethinking Jewish Geography. Berman Center for Jewish Studies, Lehigh University, Bethlehem, PA. 2006 November 16, 2006 with Sonia Sanchez presented Grace Paley with a Risk-Taker Award at the Jews for Racial & Economic Justice 10th Annual Marshall Meyer Risk-Taker Award Extravaganza. Also honored Tony Kushner and the Transport Workers Union Local 100. Brotherhood Synagogue, New York City. Wednesday, November 8, 2006 "Shifitng Constructions of race and violence, and the right to say yes," i>Saul O. Sidore Memorial Lecture Series: Complicating the Legacy of Andrea Dworkin, University of New Hampshire Durham, NH Thursday, October 19 - Sunday, October 22, 2006 Talk at Syracuse University, Conference on Feminism and War Syracuse, NY Saturday, March 25 - Monday, March 27, 2006 Talk at Facing the Challenge Within: A Progressive Scholars' and Activists' Conference on Anti-Semitism & the Left DoubleTree Hotel Newark Airport Elizabeth, NJ Friday, May 26 - Monday, May 29, 2006 Talk on anti-Semitism: a progressive Jewish perspective, at annual conference of the Congress of Secular Jewish Organizations Rutgers University, Newark, NJ Wednesday, June 7, 2006 I will be meeting with Intergenerational Study Group on my book The Colors of Jews, at Jews for Racial & Economic Justice. Friday, January 20, 2006 Talk at Workmen's Circle- Arbeter Ring in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. "Jews and the Civil Rights Movement" New York City Invite me to speak: |
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