Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz to Present Howard B. Schonberger Peace andSocial Justice Memorial Lecture at UMaine
Contact: Ann Schonberger, 581-1229
Note: Kaye/Kantrowitz is with a slash rather than a hyphen.
Melanie Kaye/Kantrowitz, an influential writer, poet, activist, scholar and teacher, will deliver the Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Justice Memorial Lecture at the University of Maine. Kaye/Kantrowitz’s lecture, titled “To Be a Radical Jew in the 21stCentury,” will take place at 7:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in 100 Donald P. Corbett Business Building. The lecture will draw from her 2007 book “The Colors of Jews.”
In addition to the Schonberger lecture, Kaye/Kantrowitz will present “Nice Jewish Girls: Lesbian and Feminist Activism 25 Years Later” at 12:30 p.m. Thursday, Nov. 13, in the Bangor Room of the Memorial Union. Both talks are free and open to the public.
Kaye/Kantrowitz currently teaches at Queens College/CUNY in Jewish studies, history, and comparative literature. She has taught in a variety of fields including women’s studies, urban studies, race theory, public policy, gender studies, and queer studies. She has written or edited a variety of books, including “The Tribe of Dina: A Jewish Women’s Anthology,” “My Jewish Face & Other Stories,” “The Issue is Power: Essays on Women, Jews, Violence, and Resistance” and “The Colors of Jews: Racial Politics and Radical Diasporism.” Her writing is included in a number of anthologies, including “Nice Jewish Girls: A Lesbian Anthology.”
About the lecture series: Howard Schonberger was a history professor at UMaine and a political activist in the Bangor for 20 years prior to his death in 1991. In 1992, his family and friends established the annual Howard B. Schonberger Peace and Social Justice Memorial Lecture. The series celebrates his life as a scholar and activist by inviting speakers who represent that balance of commitments.