Israeli studies expert to present seminar

Sep 10, 2003

A Senior Research Fellow in Israel Studies, the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and the Middle East Centre, St Antony's College, Oxford, Dr Emanuele Ottolenghi, will be a special guest speaker at a seminar at the University of Wollongong tomorrow (Thursday 11 September).

Born in Bologna, Italy, Dr Ottolenghi is a freelance consultant to Oxford Analytica, RoyalUnited Service Institute for Strategic and Defence Affairs, Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He is also University Research Fellow, Oxford University.Conversant in five languages, he is a columnist for the Italian Daily, Il Foglio.

From October this year to January next year he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Truman Institute for the Advancement of Peace, the Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Media please note: The seminar will be held at 12.30pm, Thursday 11 September, in the Postgraduate Common Room, (room number 1064) of Building 19. It has been organised by UOW's School of History and Politics.

Further information: Contact Dr Greg Melleuish, Head of the School of History and Politics, ph: 4221- 4395.

For more information, contact:

media@uow.edu.au
University of Wollongong
Ph: (02) 4221 5942; fax (02) 4221 3128