Bringing together characters and storytelling from Sephardic Jewish folklore and history and weaving from Spain to Israel to Morocco and back again, Granada explores issues of identity, both religious and national, and the uncanny link among followers of a tradition separated by continents but united by a state of exile.

Alice Boone, Department of English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, lectures on “Candide in the Preserving Machine.” Open to public.

Please join the Society of Women Engineers (SWE) for an Alumnae Networking Reception on December 2, 2009, from 6 to 8 p.m. at the Columbia Club (15 West 43rd Street) in the Prospect Room.

Noam Chomsky, Institute Professor and professor emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, returns to the Heyman Center to deliver the 5th Annual Edward Said Memorial Lecture.

Ezra Tawil, English and Comparative Literature, Columbia University, will speak on "American Exceptionalism and the Question of Style." His Columbia colleagues Andrew Delbanco and Ross Posnock will serve as commentators.