The U.S. and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
With Professor Ross Brann - Milton R. Konvitz Professor of Judeo-Islamic Studies
This talk reconsiders the history of the United States’ involvement with the conflict between Israelis and Arabs, from 1948 to the present. Recently a great deal of attention has been paid to political tensions between the Obama administration and the Netanyahu led Israeli government, yet there is a long history of American policy makers, realist and idealist, Republican and Democratic alike, clashing mightily with their Israeli counterparts.
Ross Brann, a native of San Francisco, studied at the University of California, Berkeley, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem, New York University, and the American University in Cairo. He has taught at Cornell since 1986 and served four terms and seventeen years as Chair of the Department of Near Eastern Studies. Professor Brann is the author of The Compunctious Poet: Cultural Ambiguity and Hebrew Poetry in Muslim Spain and Power in the Portrayal: Representations of Muslims and Jews in Islamic Spain. He has received fellowships from the Guggenheim Foundation, the National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies of the University of Pennsylvania, and was recently elected a fellow of the American Academy for Jewish Research. Brann is also the editor of four volumes and author of many essays on the intersection of medieval Jewish and Islamic culture. He is currently working on Andalusi Moorings: Al-Andalus, Sefarad, and Espana as Cultural Tropes. Brann served as one of the Cornell faculty members responsible for conceiving the West Campus House System as well as founding Alice Cook House Professor-Dean from 2004-2010. In 1996, he received the Stephen and Margery Russell Award for Distinguished Teaching from the College of Arts and Sciences and in 2007 Brann was named Stephen H. Weiss Presidential Fellow.
6:00pm cash bar reception, 6:30pm lecture, gratis. Members and guests are invited to dine at The Club following the lecture. The cost is $40 per person, inclusive of tax, gratuity and one glass of wine with dinner. Dinner reservations are required 48 hours prior to the program. Same-day cancellations and no shows will be charged.
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