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The
Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies
This
endowment gift from U.C. Berkeley alumna Helen Diller supports a multi-disciplinary
visiting Israeli scholars program, and will fund fellowships and research
grants in Jewish Studies on the Berkeley campus. The gift made to
the campus by Helen and Sanford Diller came through the Jewish Community
Endowment Fund of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma
counties.
There
are two components of the program:
I. The Diller Visiting Israeli Scholars Program
This
program brings to U.C. Berkeley highly distinguished scholars from
a broad range of disciplines in the humanities, social sciences,
and the professions. The scholar will teach courses during a one
or two semester visit in any of a variety of fields on the Berkeley
campus. The holder of the position will be expected to engage in
teaching in a related department while at Berkeley as well as give
one public lecture to the community, one academic lecture as a part
of the Center for Middle Eastern Studies lecture program, and be
available to faculty and students for consultation.
The Diller Scholar, as the position will be known, will be selected
each year by a faculty committee.
II. The Diller Graduate Student Fellowship & The Diller Research
Program
The
Diller Graduate Student Fellowship program will fund graduate student
fellowships to support students focusing on Jewish studies in the
College of Letters and Sciences at U.C. Berkeley.
The Diller Research program will support research by U.C. Berkeley undergraduates,
graduates, postdoctoral students, and faculty in Jewish Studies
Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies
the Center for Middle Eastern Studies,
and Chancellor Robert J. Birgeneau present
The Annual Lecture of the Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies
"Between One State and Two: The Political and Economic Future of Israel & Palestine"-
a lecture by Arie Arnon, the 2008 Helen Diller Family Visiting Professor
Thursday, April 10, 2008 5:30 - 6:30 p.m.
Reception will follow program
Great Hall, Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley
The Israeli-Palestinian conflict is neither a purely territorial war,
as some have argued, nor merely the result of disagreements about human or
political rights. It is also an important economic dimension. Any imagined
agreement between the two sides, assuming there will be one, must be conceptualized
in terms of two possible schemes: a) ‘Two States’, i.e. the division of the
land into two states and two economic sovereign entities or b) ‘One State’,
i.e. the establishment of a single political and economic entity. Although
Israeli policy since 1967 has repudiated both the ‘Two’ and the ‘One’, it
changes character and formulations from time to time, as do Palestinian positions.
This lecture will review both past transitions and current issues to be addressed
in any future agreement, including the question of borders, Jerusalem, and
the 1948 refugees. Special attention will be paid to the economic aspects
of these issues, such as trade regimes, labour links, economic borders, and
financial and monetary arrangements. It will also suggest the necessary conditions
for economic development to ensure sovereignty for both Israelis and Palestinians.
Location of The Faculty Club
University of California, Berkeley Berkeley, CA 94720-6050
http://www.berkeleyfacultyclub.com
Directions to Campus
www.berkeley.edu/visitors/traveling.html
The Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies
cmes.berkeley.edu/programs_files/programs_diller.html
The Helen Diller Family Program in Jewish Studies is funded through the Helen Diller Family Foundation, a supporting foundation of the Jewish Community Endowment Fund of the Jewish Community Federation of San Francisco, the Peninsula, Marin, and Sonoma Counties.
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