Feb

27 2017

Salon Style Series: Lines in the Sand, Lecture 5

5:30PM - 7:00PM  

LINES IN THE SAND: DIVERSITY OF THE JEWISH EUROPEAN EXPERIENCE

Please join the Jewish Federation of Greater Charlotte and the College of Liberal Arts & Sciences at UNC Charlotte for a salon-style series exploring some of the major themes of Jewish history in Europe (and its empires) from the early Middle Ages through the Dreyfus affair.    

Five lectures by noted scholars in the UNC Charlotte Department of History will focus on the Mediterranean, England, the Spanish and Dutch empires, and France, respectively.

All lectures are from 5:30 - 7:00 pm. Location details provided at time of registration. Please RSVP to info@jewishcharlotte.org or by calling 704.944.6757.

February 27: Dr. Christine Haynes, “Beyond the Dreyfus Affair: The History of Jews in France”. Dr. Christine Haynes received her Ph.D. in History from the University of Chicago in 2001.  Since 2002, she has taught modern European history at UNC-Charlotte.  She has written on a variety of topics related to nineteenth-century French history, including a book on debates over the regulation of print (Lost Illusions: The Politics of Publishing in Nineteenth-Century France, published by Harvard University Press in 2010).  She is now completing a book manuscript on the occupation of France by the Allied powers of Europe following the Napoleonic Wars, from 1815 to 1818.