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Center's funds mainly to be used for grads
by Miranda Neubauer
Senior Writer
News | 10/9/07
Posted online at 9:31 PM EST on 10/8/07
/ Last updated at 4:10 AM EST on 10/8/07
Troen explained that while students cannot get a degree in Israel Studies, the Center allows students to concentrate in an area such as political science with a focus on Israeli issues.
Several faculty members expressed concern that that the Center will advocate particular stances on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since the Schusterman Foundation is outspokenly Zionist. Troen pointed out that a number of possible study areas, however, weren't directly related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I [can also] imagine students writing on Palestinian art in Israel," he said,
He emphasized that most of the Center's plans are still in their beginning stages, including to what extent it can accommodate new faculty members. He said that eventually the Center will have an office on the second floor of Lown.
Troen said that the Center is bringing Israeli author Meir Shalev to campus at the end of October in cooperation with the Ethics Center. In December, the Center will co-sponsor an event with the Crown Center for Middle Eastern?Studies on the anniversary of the establishment in 1947 of the United Nation's partition plan to divide Israel and the Palestinian territories.
"[Israel Studies] is an important topic, and [the Center] complements a lot of other initiatives that we have here at Brandeis," said Daniel Terris, director of the Ethics Center for Justice and Public Life.
Several faculty members expressed concern that that the Center will advocate particular stances on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, since the Schusterman Foundation is outspokenly Zionist. Troen pointed out that a number of possible study areas, however, weren't directly related to the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
"I [can also] imagine students writing on Palestinian art in Israel," he said,
He emphasized that most of the Center's plans are still in their beginning stages, including to what extent it can accommodate new faculty members. He said that eventually the Center will have an office on the second floor of Lown.
Troen said that the Center is bringing Israeli author Meir Shalev to campus at the end of October in cooperation with the Ethics Center. In December, the Center will co-sponsor an event with the Crown Center for Middle Eastern?Studies on the anniversary of the establishment in 1947 of the United Nation's partition plan to divide Israel and the Palestinian territories.
"[Israel Studies] is an important topic, and [the Center] complements a lot of other initiatives that we have here at Brandeis," said Daniel Terris, director of the Ethics Center for Justice and Public Life.
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