Lecturer of Modern and Contemporary Art Dr. Noit Banai (SMFA/Tufts faculty) is participating in two upcoming events.

On March 3, 2013, she will speak at the opening reception of the Salvador Dali exhibition at Boston University's Hillel House Rubin Frankel Gallery. The exhibit, "Aliyah, The Rebirth of Israel," leads the effort to give Dalí's enormous body of limited-edition graphic suites its due recognition amid the growing critical awareness and appreciation of his later work. Published in 1968 in honor of Israel's 20th anniversary, Dalí's Aliyah portrays the history of the Jewish people's return to their homeland, and the exhibit is a complete collection of the 25 signed, colored lithographic reproductions of original mixed-media paintings by Salvador Dalí.

On March 6, 2013, Banai will introduce and moderate the discussion "The Perils and Paradoxes of Remembrance: Dissecting France's Duty to Memory" by Richard J. Golsan at the Tufts University Center for Humanities. He addresses the question: Do remembrance, commemoration and other efforts to come to terms with past traumas always serve a healing and binding function in national communities? Through a discussion of the 1990s trials for crimes against humanity, political scandals, as well as recent fiction, Golsan will explore the perils and paradoxes of what the French call "le devoir de mémoire"–"the duty to memory."