Upcoming Events
Image courtesy of the Edut 710 project.
At a glance:
- November 11 - "Creating a Digital Archive of October 7, 2023: The Edut 710 Project"
- November 14 - Prospects for Peace in the Middle East: A Conversation with Dennis Ross & Ghaith Al-Omari
November 11, 2024
Monday, November 11
1-2 PM ET on Zoom
Free and open to all
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On October 7, 2023, Hamas launched a devastating attack on southern Israel. By October 11, Dr. Renana Keydar joined Edut 710 (Testimony 710), an ad-hoc, grassroots collective of documentary cinematographers and scholars dedicated to recording survivor testimonies. Dr. Keydar will discuss her work with Edut 710, and the project’s goal of preserving contemporary trauma testimonies with digital humanities methods. She will also consider the technological challenges and ethical considerations in building archives in times of ongoing emergency, such as how to ethically apply AI techniques to preserve and analyze sensitive testimonial materials during ongoing crises.
Renana Keydar is an assistant professor of Law and Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. She is also the Academic Director of the Center for Digital Humanities and heads the Alfred Landecker Lab for the Computational Analysis of Testimonies at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Dr. Keydar is a fellow in the Schusterman Center's 2024-25 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies (IAIS).
(Image courtesy of Edut 710)
Dennis Ross (left) and Ghaith al-Omari (right)
November 14, 2024
Thursday, November 14
5-6:30 PM in the International Lounge, Usdan Student Center
Open to the Brandeis community
A light kosher dinner will be served.
Join us for an interfaith conversation about the past, present, and future of the Israel/Palestine relations with Ambassador Dennis Ross and Ghaith al-Omari.
Dennis Ross spent more than 12 years shaping US involvement in the Middle East peace process in both the Bush and Clinton administrations.
Ghaith Al-Omari served as advisor to the negotiating team during the 1999-2001 permanent-status talks and held various other positions within the Palestinian Authority.
Though they come from different perspectives and their political opinions do not necessarily align, Ross and Al-Omari have a 25-year friendship built upon mutual appreciation and empathy and look forward to leading a meaningful and respectful dialogue at Brandeis.
This event is co-sponsored by Brandeis Hillel and the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies. No RSVP necessary.