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<div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>From: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christy Gray via Englishfaculty <englishfaculty@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><b>[Englishfaculty] [Englishevents] Adi M. Ophir (Brown University) - 12:30pm Thur, Jan 16</b><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">January 14, 2025 at 5:40:51 PM PST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"englishevents@lists.ucr.edu" <englishevents@lists.ucr.edu><br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1.0);"><b>Reply-To: </b></span><span style="font-family: -webkit-system-font, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Christy Gray <christy.gray@ucr.edu><br></span></div><br><div><meta charset="UTF-8"><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;">The Department of Hispanic Studies and Department of English present:<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;">Adi M. Ophir (Brown University) will give a talk titled: Jewish Anti-Zionism Now – On Moral Duty and Political Imagination<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 15pt; font-family: Helvetica; color: white;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima; color: windowtext;">Adi Ophir is a distinguished scholar of political theory, critical thought, and theology, currently serving as visiting professor at the Cogut Institute for the Humanities and the Center for Middle East Studies at Brown University. At the Cogut Institute, he directs the Political Concepts initiative, exploring key terms in political discourse. Ophir is also Professor Emeritus at Tel Aviv University and the founding editor of Theory and Criticism, Israel’s leading journal for critical theory, as well as Mafte’ akh: Lexical Review for Political Thought. His publications include "The Identity of the Victims and the Victims of Identity: A Critique of Zionist Ideology for a Post-Zionist Age" (2000), The Order of Evils: Toward an Ontology of Morals (2005) The One-State Condition (2012, with Ariella Azoulay), Divine Violence (2013), and Goy: Israel’s Multiple Others and the Birth of the Gentile (2018, with Ishay Rosen-Zvi). His latest book, In the Beginning Was the State: Divine Violence in the Hebrew Bible (2023), examines divine violence in biblical texts, analyzing its role in shaping early political theology and modern state formation.<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;">Thursday, January 16<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 11pt; font-family: Optima;">12:30pm in INTS 1111<o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;">Christy L. Gray—Administrative Assistant III & Event Coordinator<br>University of California, Riverside | English and Philosophy<br>900 University Ave., HMNSS 1220B, Riverside, California 92521<br>office <a href="tel:(951)%20827-1456" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">(951) 827-1456</span></a> or ext. 21456 <o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;">email: <a href="mailto:christy.gray@ucr.edu" target="_blank"><span style="color: windowtext;">christy.gray@ucr.edu</span></a><o:p></o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 12pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;"><span style="font-size: 10.5pt; font-family: Optima;"><o:p> </o:p></span></div></div></div></blockquote></div></body></html>