The Sue and Leonard Miller Center for Contemporary Judaic Studies, along with the School of Communication and UM Hillel, presents Professor Pablo Utin, Schusterman Visiting Artist Fellow, who will lecture on “A History of the Arab-Israeli Conflict Through the Lens of Israeli Films” on Tuesday, November 9 from 5 to 7:30 p.m. at the Miller Center Auditorium, 105 Merrick Building, Coral Gables campus. RSVP at [email protected], call 305-284-6882, or fax 305-284-5274. Free and open to the public. Seating is limited.

The Arab-Israeli conflict has always been one of the main topics in Israeli films. Starting with examples from pre-state Zionist feature films, this lecture will analyze the representation of the conflict between Jews and Arabs as portrayed through the lenses of Jewish-Israeli filmmakers. After a short survey of the development of the conflict and its cinematic representation in the past, the lecture will then focus on more recent Israeli films dealing with this conflict. These films, which are products of the social psychology generated by the politics of disengagement, are also outstanding cinematic works of art. The lecture will try to portray the relationship between the social and the artistic aspects of this reality. The lecture will include the screening of clips from prominent Israeli films.

The School of Law’s International Graduate Law Programs Lecture Series continues on Tuesday, November 9 with “Putting the OECD’s Harmful Tax Practices Project in Context,” presented by Patricia Brown, director of the Graduate Program in Taxation at UM Law. Brown’s lecture will take place from 12:30 to 1:50 p.m. at the Law Library, Reading Room D201. For more information, visit www.law.miami.edu/iglp or e-mail [email protected].

Pediatric Grand Rounds will be held on Tuesday, November 9 from 8 to 9 a.m. in the Mailman Center for Child Development, eighth-floor auditorium. Barry Gelman, associate professor of clinical pediatrics and director of the Pediatric Residency Training Program, will present “Medical Education Update: 2010.” For more information, please contact Javier Salazar at 305-585-6042 or [email protected].

The Departments of International Studies and Political Science will present “The Forum on Armed Conflict and Humanitarian Crises: North Korea” on Tuesday, November 9 from 7 to 9:30 p.m. at the Whitten Learning Center, Room 110. Scheduled speakers include Bruce Bagley, professor and chair of the Department of International Studies, who will present “North Korea and the ‘West’: Strategic Stakes and Policy Options;” Roger E. Kanet, professor in the Department of International Studies, who will speak on “Russia’s Incoherent Korea Policy;” Ramon E. de Arrigunaga, Lieutenant Colonel, United States Air Force (Retired) and a faculty member at the University of Miami, who will present “Korean Armed Conflict;” and Lieutenant Colonel Daniel Tobias, U.S. Army, Special Operations Command-South, who will speak on “Korea: Past, Present and Future.”

Online registration is now available for the Eighth Annual Pediatric Brain and Spinal Cord Injury Conference at www.pedibrain.org. The conference is sponsored by the Department of Neurosurgery and The Miami Project to Cure Paralysis at the Miller School of Medicine and will be held on Monday and Tuesday, November 8-9 at the Miami Beach Resort, 4833 Collins Avenue, Miami Beach. Visit the website for complete details.