The Community Sherman Lecture

The Zionist Central Council of Greater Manchester together with the Jewish Representative Council of Greater Manchester invite you to the Community Sherman Lecture to be presented by:

Professor Sander L. Gilman, Emory University, Atlanta Georgia

"Mark the Music": Jews, Music and Modern Life

 on Sunday, 10th May  2009 (8:00PM prompt - doors open at 7:30 PM)

at The Manchester Jewish Museum

190 Cheetham Hill Road, Manchester M8 8LW

All welcome, (For security RSVP to either 0161 720 8721 or 0161 740 8835)

Sander L. Gilman is a distinguished professor of the Liberal Arts and Sciences as well as Professor of Psychiatry at Emory University, where he is the Director of the Program in Psychoanalysis and the Health Sciences Humanities Initiative. A cultural and literary historian, he is the author or editor of over eighty books. The theme of the 2009 Sherman Lectures will be German-Jewish Exiles in London 1933-1950

Sunday, 10th May 2009

Sander L. Gilman will explore why Jews were so prominent in the world of high music a hundred years ago and how high culture became a tool for integrating into European society. The question about what 'Jewish music' could be was hotly debated, even shaping early Zionist thought and notions about the future State of Israel. Gilman's illustrated talk will connect the passionate violin performances of one of the most legendary Jewish exiles, Albert Einstein, with the role of minorities in our contemporary classical music scene.
 

Monday 11th until Thursday 14th May, 2009

From Monday 11th until Thursday 14th May, 2009 the Sherman Lectures by Prof. Gilman, continue at the University of Manchester, Arts Lecture Theatre,  Samuel Alexander Building (formerly Lime Grove, building 67 on campus maps) at 5.15pm each day. 

Monday 11 May

Freuds: Sigmund and Anna Confront the Present in the Past. Followed by informal kosher reception, kindly sponsored by Mr Joe Dwek.

Looking at Sigmund Freud's celebrity arrival in London, we can begin to sense the contours of an exile response to British society in the 1930s, with its complexity distorted by the sense of refuge given to the exiles. Anna's response is quite different than her father's - as it mirrors her experience of the war.

Tuesday 12 May

Anti-Freud: Elias Canetti and the Jews

Elias Canetti's seeing the Past in the Present is mirrored in the reception that his novel Auto-de-Fe, published in Vienna, has in the UK and Canetti's own struggle with the culture of England, including that of the exiles, and what it came to mean to be a Jew in a London seemingly obsessed with Sigmund Freud.

Wednesday 13 May
 
Learning to See: Ernst Kris, E. H. Gombrich and Edgar Wind Confront the Present in the Past

Ernst Kris and E. H. Gombrich come to England and create a new art history that sees the past in the present in its attempt to provide an overarching theory of art and politics. Humor plays a major role in their initial use of psychoanalysis to provide a theory of seeing.

Thursday 14 May
 
After the Shoah: H. G. Adler – From Terezin to London

After 1945 the new exiles such as H.G. Adler arrive in London from their experiences in the concentration and death camps. They react to the exiles already present in British culture. Their experiences come to be absorbed in the creative life of the child exiles who had come much earlier and whose creative lives extend into the present.

For further information:

www.mucjs.org/sherman09.htm or email cjs@man.ac.uk

Telephone 0161 720 8721 or 0161 740 8835.