The Department of Philosophy & Religion invite UTC Staff, Faculty, Students
and the Public to a free lecture/seminar.


SANDER L. GILMAN 
"Can the Experiences of the Jews Serve as a Template for Today’s Diaspora
Muslims?"
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 27TH
4:00 PM UNIVERSITY CENTER AUDITORIUM

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and
Sciences at Emory University, and Director of the Program in Psychoanalysis
as well as the Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. A cultural and
literary historian, he is the author or editor of over seventy books. Recent
titles include his Oxford University lectures, Multiculturalism and the Jews
(2006); and, Race and Contemporary Medicine:  Biological Facts and Fictions
(2007). He is also the author of the basic study of the visual stereotyping
of the mentally ill, Seeing the Insane (1982; reprinted 1996) as well as the
standard study of Jewish Self-Hatred (1986). 

In a powerpoint lecture presentation, Professor Gilman will discuss the
complex relationship of Muslims to a multicultural society in Europe and the
United States.  Many of the conflicts and difficulties experienced by
Muslims today mirror earlier debates within Diaspora Jewry and European
society concerning the ability of Jews to become true members of Western
culture.  Can the negotiations about religious practice among Jews in
Western nation states provide a template for the development of Islam in the
West?

PUBLIC INVITED!

This Event is sponsored by UTC’s Chair of Excellence in Judaic Studies, the
Keese Lecture Fund, and the Chattanooga Phi Beta Kappa Association