For a year and a half, the acclaimed photo-journalist, Israel‘s most celebrated war photographer Micha Bar-Am allowed director Ran Tal to enter his vast archive of negatives. Composed entirely of images that Bar-Am took over more than fifty years, “1341 Frames of Love and War” reveals the enormous price that comes along with documenting atrocities and wars. It provides an intimate portrait of an artist and a meditation on memory, violence and identity. A complex love letter to the power, beauty and horror of photographic imagery, it is an epic journey of self-doubt and questioning through the camera.
This event is organized by Judaic Studies Department & The Center forIsrael Studies and sponsored by Richard Byrne ‘83 Judaic Studies Endowment.
On Thursday, October 12th at 7:30 pm at Binghamton University's Casadesus Hall, celebrated Jazz musicians and historians Allen Lowe and Lewis Porter will present “The Jewish Encounter with Jazz,” performing compositions by Jewish composers (including their own) and discussing the key intersections between Jews and American Jazz. Saxophonist, guitarist, and music historian, Allen Lowe was named Artist of the Year in the 2021 Jazz Times Readers’ Poll. A former attendee of Harpur College he is author of numerous books, including Turn Me Loose White Man: How to Listen to American Music 1900-1960 which was nominated for the Ralph Gleason Award. Scranton native Lewis Porter, is a pianist, composer, and music historian, a long-time teacher of Jazz Studies at Rutgers University and the author of acclaimed biographies of Lester Young and John Coltrane.
This event is sponsored by the Margolis Lectureship in Judaic Studies, the College of Jewish Studies (CJS), and the Harpur College Visiting Speaker Fund; and it is co-organized by Judaic Studies Department, Music Department, and CJS.
Film screening of The Jews and the Blues, and discussion
Jarrod Tanny (UNC presents: Soviet Jews, Jazz, and Crime
On Zoom
Friday | May 10th, 2024 | 2 - 4 p.m. | LT 1310
Refreshments will be served
We will hand out a present to each of our graduating students, certificates, and graduation cords.