Barbara Epstein-public lecture

[Andrea Peto]

CENTRAL EUROPEAN UNIVERSITY 
GENDER AND CULTURE 

invites you to the following lecture 

jointly organized by the CEU Jewish Studies Program, and the Austrian Science and Research Liaison Office, Budapest


Barbara Epstein

STORIES FORM THE MINSK GHETTO UNDERGROUND



Monday 
July 3, 18:00 
Location: CEU 9 Nador St. Gellner Room 


Barbara Epstein is a professor of history at the History of National Consciousness Department at the University of California, Santa Cruz. 

Her numerous publications include Cultural Politics and Social Movements ed. With Richard Flacks and Marcy Darnovsky, (Temple UP 1995),  Political Protest and Cultural Revolution: Nonviolent Direct Action in the 1970s and 1980s (University of California Press 1991), The Politics of Domesticity: Women, Evangelism and Temperance in Nineteenth Century America. (Wesleyan UP 1981). She published extensively on "Postmodernism and the Left" and "Ambivalence about Feminism" and "At a Time of Danger and Opportunity, the Academic Left Should Take a Critical Look at Itself" in Mistaken Identites: The Second Wave of Cotroversy over `Poltical Correctness, ed. Scott Davies, Cyril Lewitt, Neil McLaughin (New York, Peter Lang, 1999.)

Her lecture is a part of her upcoming  book on Jewish resistance during WWII  which focuses on  sources of Jewish resistance - the particular significance of the Minsk ghetto underground, within the context of the ghetto underground movement throughout Eastern Europe based on  stories from people (both women) who participated in the Minsk ghetto underground.

Reception to follow

For more information please contact
Henriett Griecs
at 327 3034
or griecsk at ceu.hu 

Dr Andrea Peto
Central European University
Budapest,  Nador u. 9
H-1051
phone: 36-1-3273192
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fax: 36-1-3273191