Presentations

1. History of Passover and the Seder (Tisha Carver)
2. Anti-semitic art: medieval
3. Anti-semitic art: Renaissance (Alison Rosoff)
4. Voltaire and Englightenment Anti-semitism (Katelyn Cartrette)
5. Jewish-American immigration and assimilation (history) (Rebecca Kohler)
6. Josef Mengele
7. Eugenics, Social Darwinism and Anti-Semitism (Chastity Llewellyn)
8. The Midrash and the Talmud
9. Sufi and Kabbala: Mystical traditions in Judaism and / or Islam
10. Jewishness & Hollywood (An Empire of their Own: How the Jews shaped Hollywood/ Entertaining America: Jews, Movies, and Broadcasting (both available through ABC)) (Becca Bleich)
11. Art Spiegelman's Maus, a Graphic Novel (Justin Holmes)
12. Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, a Graphic Novel
13. The Qu'ran (Morgan Chappell)
14. Sunni, Shia, and other branches of Islam: Who practices what and what does it mean? (Tim Sizemore)
15. Muslims in America: a brief history, including slavery
16. Islamophobic hate crimes since from 1994-2001
17. Islamophobia since 2001 (Zack Joseph)
18. Political Islam: Islamism and Al Quaeda (Rory Branning)
19. Prophets of Dissent: Black Arts Movement (Marvin X, Sonia Sanchez, Amiri Baraka, June Jordan, Suheir Hammad (Kamilah Bush)
20. Mainstream Muslim Writers: Naomi Shihab Nye, Nahid Rachlin, Khaled Hosseini, and others (Corinne Minor)
21. Islam and Science Fiction