All Topics (November 13 through January 31) Thursday, November 13 7:00 PM Robert A. Margo: "Obama, Katrina, and the Persistence of Racial Inequality” Thursday, November 20 7:00 PM Japonica Brown-Saracino: "The Last Store Standing: Commerce as Force, Symbol and Casualty in the Gentrifying American City" Tuesday, December 2 12:30 PM Simon Rabinovitch: "Interpreting and Resisting the First Soviet Show Trials: The Case of Avrom Revutsky" Thursday, December 4 8:00 PM Hebrew and Yiddish Art Songs: A Musical Salon with Benjamin Harris Sunday, January 25 12:00 PM Italian Holocaust Remembrance Day: Events Wednesday, January 28 12:30 PM CANCELLED: Yair Lior: "Cultural Crisis and Textual Transitions: The Confucian and Jewish Cases"