TOWN & GOWN TALKS: 2022-2023
Available 2022-2023 Videos:
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Amy Simon - March 28, 2023Empathy in Holocaust Studies
Amy Simon is the William and Audrey Farber Family Chair in Holocaust Studies and European Jewish History. She holds a joint appointment with James Madison College and the Department of History in the College of Social Science and is a core faculty member of the Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel. Dr. Simon is a former fellow and researcher at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. Her research focuses on questions of victim/perpetrator relationships during the Holocaust, the so called “grey zones” of behavior that characterized that time, the world of Holocaust victim perceptions and emotions, and issues of representation and language within Holocaust studies. She especially uses the lens of empathic history to better understand Jewish experiences and perceptions in the Nazi ghettos. She is the recipient of a Saul Kagan Claims Conference Fellowship as well as the Leon Milman Memorial Fellowship at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, D.C. where she also worked as a researcher on a digital humanities project.
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Yael Aronoff - February 07, 2023Prospectives for Israeli-Palestinian Peace: Past Efforts and Current Challenges
Yael Aronoff is the Director of the Michael and Elaine Serling Institute for Jewish Studies and Modern Israel and is the Serling Chair in Israel Studies at Michigan State University. She is also Professor of International Relations at James Madison College. Dr. Aronoff’s book, The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard Liners Opt for Peace, was published by Cambridge University Press (2014) and she co-edited a book with Dr. Ilan Peleg and Dr. Saliba Sarsar entitled, Continuity and Change in Political Culture: Israel and Beyond Lexington Books (2021). She has given over 100 public lectures and is a Lecturer in the Association of Jewish Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program and in the Association of Israel Studies Distinguished Lectureship Program.
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Sarah Reckhow - JANUARY 10, 2023Anchor Institutions in Hard Times: Local Public Services and COVID-19
Sarah Reckhow is an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at MSU. Her research and teaching interests include urban politics, education policy, nonprofits and philanthropy, and racial and ethnic politics. Dr. Reckhow's work on urban schools has focused on policy reforms in New York City, Los Angeles, Oakland, and Detroit. Her award-winning book with Oxford University Press, Follow the Money: How Foundation Dollars Change Public School Politics, examines the role of major foundations, such as the Gates Foundation (with Megan Tompkins-Stange) to study the use of research evidence in the development of teacher quality policy debates.
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Laura Apol - January 10, 2023Poetry as a Healing Art
Laura Apol is a poet and an associate professor of literacy and curriculum in the College of Education, Department of Teacher Education. She is the author of several prize-winning collections of poetry. She also has published widely in the areas of literacy education, children's and YA literature, and arts-based research methodologies. Dr. Apol has worked in a number of international contexts (Rwanda, Indonesia), and her most recent publication, Poetry, Poetic Inquiry, and Rwanda: Engaging with the Lives of Others (Springer International, 2021), focuses on arts-based inquiry, international collaboration, and the therapeutic uses of writing in response to trauma.
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Eric Montgomery - october 25, 2022Vodun in Southern Togo:
Ritual Anthropology Eric Montgomery is an assistant professor with the MSU Department of Anthropology, an advisor for Peace and Justice Studies, and a part-time faculty member at Wayne State University. His research centers around the anthropology of religion, political economy, and globalization in Western Africa with a focus on the Ewe people of Ghana, Togo, and Benin. Dr. Montgomery will be talking about West African Vodun, a topic on which he has co-directed and produced several films and published multiple books.
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SATISH UDPA - OCTOBER 11, 2022The Future of Transport &
The MSU Autonomous Bus Satish Udpa is a University Distinguished Professor of Electrical and Computer Engineering, former Acting President of Michigan State University, former Dean of the College of Engineering, and a former Chair of the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering. His research interests span the broad area of materials characterization and nondestructive evaluation. Professor Udpa is currently serving as the Interim Director of Mobility.
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David Firestein - September 27, 2022Taiwan and the US-China Relationship:
Hard Realities and Inconvenient Truths David Firestein is a world-class expert on Chinese-American relations who is based in Austin, Texas, but has strong ties with MSU. Currently, Mr. Firestein is the inaugural president and CEO of the George H. W. Bush Foundation for U.S.-China Relations (Bush China Foundation) and a founding and current member of the Foundation’s Board of Directors. A decorated career U.S. diplomat from 1992–2010, Mr. Firestein specialized primarily in U.S.-China relations. Among the honors he garnered during his diplomatic career were the Secretary of State’s Award for Public Outreach (2006) and the Linguist of the Year Award (1997). Mr. Firestein is the author or co-author of three books on China, including two China-published Chinese-language best-sellers, as well as a large number of China-focused monographs, policy reports and articles.
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