2019 Yearbook - Universidad ORT Uruguay

135 LECTURES AND ACADEMIC VISITS 2019 Prof. Gustavo Perednik (Israel) Visiting professor in the Department of Jewish Studies. As part of the ORT Space at the 16th edition of the Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival, he presented his book *Chinese and Jews: Bridges and Encounters Between Two Millennia-Old Civilizations*, alongside writer Diego Fischer; he delivered the lecture “Amos Oz: Literature and Ideals,” and participated in the roundtable discussion “Claude Lanzmann: Testimony as Essence,” alongside Alfredo Friedlander and Graciela Jinich, February 3–6. He presented his book *Chinese and Jews: Bridges and Encounters Between Two Millennial Civilizations*, alongside Diego Fischer, at the ORT Pocitos campus, July 2. He delivered the lecture “The Two Historical Schools on the Shoah” in the course *Shoah: The Human Condition and Memory*, July 1–5. Dr. Alberto Spektorowski (Israel) Professor of Political Theory and Comparative Politics at Tel Aviv University. As part of the ORT Space at the 16th edition of the Punta del Este Jewish Film Festival, he delivered the lecture “Israel and the Jewish Diaspora. Unity or Conflict of Identities?”; he presented the book The Shoah: An Unresolved Phenomenon. National Socialism, Shoah, History, and Memory: Reflections by Intellectuals and Historiographical Debates, by Roberto Cyjon, and delivered the lecture “The Turbulence of the Liberal World and the Resurgence of Populism. What to Do as a Jew and as a Zionist?”, February 3–6. He delivered the lecture “Is Anti-Zionism a Form of Anti-Semitism?”, sponsored by the Israel Institute, on June 27. He delivered the lecture “The Current State of Anti-Semitism in the World” in the course Shoah: The Human Condition and Memory, July 1–5. Dr. Alberto Spektorowski Prof. Gustavo Perednik