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Sunday, November 5 – 1pm-5pm

NOTE DIFFERENT LOCATION: Class of '55 Room, Van Pelt Library, Penn

To commemorate the 100th anniversary of the exoneration of Alfred Dreyfus, the University of Pennsylvania will host a conference with an international group of scholars from a variety of fields (political science, history, literature, journalism) who will reflect on the place of Jews in France and attempt to put the recent rise in anti-semitic violence into historical perspective.

Speakers include: Vicki Caron, Cornell University; Lawrence Kritzman, Dartmouth College; Scott Lerner, Franklin and Marshall College; Jonathan Steinberg, University of Pennsylvania; Patrick Weil, Centre d'Histoire Sociale du XXe siecle / Universite Paris I - Pantheon-Sorbonne; Nicolas Weill, Le Monde.

The conference is free and open to the public. For more information please contact Maurice Samuels (maurice.samuels@yale.edu ) or Kristen Stromberg Childers ( stromber@sas.upenn.edu).

Sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program Kutchin Seminar Series, in cooperation with the Library, the departments of History and Romance Languages, and the Dean's Office.