2011 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

73 Universidad ORT Uruguay . Gustavo Perednik (Israel) Ph.D. in Philosophy from the Jewish Theological Seminary of New York. Distinguished as an Outstanding Professor at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Activities: delivered the lectures “The Jewish Condition in the Modern World,” April 11; “The Nature of Judeophobia,” April 12; “Judaism and Democracy,” May 23; “Huntington and a Jewish View of History,” May 24, “China and the Jews,” July 19, “The Great Murder of Modern Jewish History (Alexander II),” July 20, “The Real Anatevka,” November 28, and “Israel’s Nobel Laureates,” November 29. Dr. Oded Balaban (Israel) Full Professor in the Department of Philosophy at the University of Haifa. Activity: delivered the lecture series “Democracy, Religion, and Nationalism in Middle Eastern Political Discourse,” August 29, September 12, and September 26. Department of Jewish Studies Dr. David Serrano Blanquer (Spain) Professor at the Faculty of Communication at Ramon Llull University. Activity: delivered the lecture “From Kertész to Semprún: Catharsis and Atonement,” August 23. Dr. Alberto Spectorowski (Israel) Full Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. Activity: delivered a series of lectures on Israel and the Middle East, June 29 and 30, July 5 and 7; delivered the lecture “Can the United Nations Create a Palestinian State?”, October 10. Dr. Cyril Aslanov (Israel) Director of the International Center for University Education in Jewish Civilization at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Activity: delivered the lecture “The Place of Israeli Literature in World Literature,” June 14. Dr. Oded Balaban CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2011