Gustavo Perednik, Visiting Professor in the Department of Jewish Studies, delivered a presentation on behalf of the university titled “Anti-Semitism in Latin America as Reflected in the Novel ‘La bolsa’” at the “5th International Conference on Orientalism and the Asian and Arab Presence in the Hispanic and Lusophone World: Transcultural and Transmodern Readings between Eastern and Western Countries.” The event took place on April 12 and 13, 2013, at the Department of Spanish at A.I. Herzen State Pedagogical University in St. Petersburg, Russia. It was organized by that university and the University of California, Merced (United States).