2014 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

112 2014 Yearbook of Jewish Studies Julián Schvindlerman, B.A. (Argentina) Professor at the Center for the Study of Religion, State, and Society at the Marshall T. Meyer Latin American Rabbinical Seminary. He presented his latest book, *Triangle of Infamy: Richard Wagner, the Nazis, and Israel*, on May 20. Jay Rosen (Israel) Director, International programme Conflict Resolution and Mediation, Tel Aviv University. He was received by the Academic Vice Rector, Julio Fernández, on March 25. Dr. Gustavo Perednik (Israel) Visiting Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies. He delivered the lectures “A Century That Began Fourteen Years Late” on May 26, and “The Voice of the 20th Century” on May 27. He presented his book *Since the Eichmann Trial: On Nazism, the Shoah, and Its Trivialization*, published by Universidad ORT Uruguay, alongside journalist Leonardo Haberkorn, professor of Journalistic Genres in the School of Communication and Design, on July 23. He delivered the lectures “Rationality and Irrationality in Discourse on the Jews,” August 27 and 28, and “Patrick Modiano: A General Approach to the Work of the Recent Nobel Prize Winner in Literature,” November 17. Elad Dokow (Israel) Rabbi at Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. He delivered the lecture “Judaism and Game Theory. From Moses to the Nobel Laureates,” June 2. Dr. Alberto Spectorowski (Israel) Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. He delivered the lectures “Israel. A Jewish State, a State for Jews, or a State for its Citizens? The Debate of the Decade,” June 10; “Israel and the Middle East in the Face of Regional Changes,” June 12; “What Future for Peace in the Middle East? Israelis, Palestinians, and American Mediation,” June 17; and “Gaza and the Endless Spiral of Violence. How Long?” July 28. Dr. Efraim Zadoff (Israel) A secular humanist rabbi and graduate of the Tmurá Israel International Institute of Secular Humanist Judaism in Jerusalem. He led the seminar “Secular Jewish Identity in the 21st Century,” October 20 and 21. CONFERENCES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2014 Dr. Gustavo Perednik