Haase et al.: Geschichte der Literatur der Deutschen Demokratischen Republik

Horst Haase, Hans Jürgen Geerdts, Erich Kühne, and Walter Pallus, eds. (Geschichte der deutschen Literatur, 11. Band), Berlin: Volk und Wissen, 1976. 907 S

Let’s Talk about Vaccination

The appropriation by anti-vaxxers of pro-choice rhetoric and its transformation into claims about ‘bodily violence’ (‘My body, my choice’) heralded a shift in the debates about COVID-19 and vaccination. Central to this is the link between choice and risk. The talk will examine the history of such concepts in times of plague and the role that ‘freedom’ or ‘liberty’ plays in these debates and their precursors. The lecture will compare these debates about care and cure (or at least prevention) with the late 20th-century debates about vaccination, HPV, and risk. Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor emeritus of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as emeritus Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over one hundred books. His ‘I Know Who Caused COVID-19’: Pandemics and Xenophobia (with Zhou Xun) appeared in 2021 and his most recent edited volume is The Oxford Handbook of Music and the Body (with Youn Kim) published in 2019. He is the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane, published in 1982 (reprinted: 1996 and 2014) as well as the standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred, the title of his monograph of 1986, which is still in print. He has held positions at Cornell University, the University of Chicago, and the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been a visiting professor at numerous universities in North America, South Africa, The United Kingdom, Germany, Israel, China, and New Zealand.Sander Gilman, ‘Let’s Talk about Vaccination’, lecture presented at the symposium Violence, Care, Cure: (Self)perceptions Within the Medical Encounter, ICI Berlin, 3 February 2022, video recording, mp4, 48:20 <https://doi.org/10.25620/e220203-1

Jews and Science

Jews and Science examines the complicated relationship between Jewish identities and the evolving meanings of science throughout the history of Western academic culture. Jews have been not only the agents for study of things Jewish, but also the subject of examination by “scientists” across a range of disciplines, from biology and bioethics to anthropology and genetics. Even the most recent iteration of Jewish studies as an academic discipline—Israel studies—stresses the global cultural, economic, and social impact of Israeli science and medicine. The 2022 volume of the Casden Institute’s Jewish Role in American Life series tackles a range of issues that have evolved with the rise of Jewish studies, throughout its evolution from interdisciplinary to transdisciplinary, and now finally as a discipline itself with its own degrees and departments in universities across the world. This book gathers contributions by scholars from various disciplines to discuss the complexity in defining “science” across multiple fields within Jewish studies. The scholars examine the role of the self-defined “Jewish” scholar, discerning if their identification with the object of study (whether that study be economics, criminology, medicine, or another field entirely) changes their perception or status as scientists. They interrogate whether the myriad ways to study Jews and their relationship to science—including the role of Jews in science and scientific training, the science of the Jews (however defined), and Jews as objects of scientific study—alter our understanding of science itself. The contributors of Jews and Science take on the challenge to confront these central problems.https://docs.lib.purdue.edu/casden/1013/thumbnail.jp