International conference ETGAR KERET

10.14-15.2015University of Keret’s Happy Campers Etgar Keret and the Fate of Israeli Culture in the World Today

University of Chicago Center for Jewish Studies Brian McHale, The Ohio State University Session Three: & Ben-Gurion University of the Negev A Map of Misreading, or, How Etgar Keret Got Heksherim Research Institute for Jewish and Postmodernism Wrong and Reinvented Israeli Chairperson: Ari Almog, University of & Culture Fiction Chicago

Cordially invite you to an international Christopher Merril, The University of Iowa Yigal Schwartz, Ben-Gurion University of the Studies conference: Parallel Universes: The Worlds of Etgar Keret Negev Etgar Keret’s World: Repetition, Morality Keret’s Happy Campers Takafumi Akimoto, Konan University, Japan and Etgar Keret, Haruki Murakami and World Post-modernism Co-chairs: Literature: the Possibility of Translation Professor Yigal Schwartz Vered Karti Shemtov, Stanford University Professor Na’ama Rokem 6:45 pm – 07:00 pm, auditorium 142 Being Stuck in the Continuous Present: Coffee Break Etgar Keret and Contemporary Hebrew Literature 07:00 pm – 7:45 pm 2:30 – 3:00 pm Wednesday, October 14, 2015 An Interview with Etgar Keret Coffee Break Vered Karti Shemtov, Stanford University 3:00 – 5:00 pm, room 319 3:30 pm – 5:00 pm, auditorium 142 Round Table Discussion: An Etgar Keret Opening Session: Authors’ Roundtable Thursday, October 15, 2015 Story Chairperson: Na’ama Rokem, Chairperson: Vered Karti Shemtov, Stanford The 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, room 319 University Greetings: Session Two: Michal Peles Almagor, The University of Chicago David Schloen, Director, Center for Jewish Studies, Dekel Shay Schory, Ben Gurion University University of Chicago Chairperson: Yiftach Ofek, University of Chicago of The Negev Rivka Carmi, President, Ben-Gurion University of Eyal Bassan, University of California, the Negev Adia Mendelson-Maoz, The Open University of Berkeley Robert J. Zimmer, President, University of Chicago Israel Keret’s Living-Dead and the Sacrifice of Israeli Shoshana Olidort, Stanford University Speakers: Masculinity Todd Hasak-Lowy 6:30 pm – 8:15 pm, auditorium 142 Maya Arad Nurit Buchweitz, Beit Berl College Etgar Keret film: $9.99 (78 minutes) Sayed Kashua Vitalities and Fatalities in Relationships in Etgar Keret Keret’s Graphic Texts (Streets of Rage, Nobody Said it was Going to be Fun, Pizzeria Kamikaze) Concluding remarks: Etgar Keret 5:00 pm – 5:15 pm Coffee Break Roman Katsman, Bar-Ilan University Etgar Keret’s Laughter: The Unbearable 5:15 pm – 6:45 pm, auditorium 142 Lightness of Banality, or What Is Israeli Humor? Session One: 12:00 pm – 1:00 pm, Chairperson: Na’ama Rokem, Lunch Break The University of Chicago 1:00 pm – 2:30, room 319

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