2010-2011 Seminar Series

Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Seminar Series 2010-2011

Spring 2011 Semester

Feb. 3 WLH 116 Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias Graduate Fellow, YIISA, Yale University “Beyond the Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Committee and its Response to Antisemitism” (Video Link) Feb. 10 WLH 116 Professor Daniel Tsadik Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University “Some Notes on Antisemitism in Iran” (Video Link) Feb. 24 ISPS B-012 Professor Stephen Norwood History, The University of Oklahoma “Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich” (Video Link) Mar. 3 ISPS A-001 Professor Moishe Postone History, University of Chicago “The Structuring Opposition of Capitalist Modernity; Notes on History, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust” (Video Link) Apr. 7 82-90 Wall Street Third Floor Professor Dorian F. Bell - CO-SPONSORED BY THE YALE DEPARTMENT OF FRENCH Assistant Professor, Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz “A ‘Paradise of Parasites’: Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of Empire” Paper (Video Link) Apr. 14 ISPS A-001 Professor Dovid Katz Editor, DefendingHistory.com; Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute (Vilnius) “The Unique and ‘Successful’ Antisemitism in the East of the European Union” (Video Link) Apr. 28 ISPS A-001 THE FOURTH ANNUAL PROFESSOR WILLIAM PRUSOFF HONORARY LECTURE: Dr. Charles Small Executive Director, YIISA, Yale University “Globalization and Contemporary Antisemitisms: From Islamism as a Social Movement to the Acquiescence in the West” (Video Link)

Fall 2010 Semester

Oct. 7 ISPS A-001	Professor Gregory H. Stanton Research Professor, Genocide Studies and Prevention, Institute for Conflict Analysis and Resolution, George Mason University “Iran’s Anti-Jewish Incitement to Genocide Against Israel: Is the West Asleep Again?” (Video Link)
Oct. 14 SLB 128 *7:00pm*	David Matas Legal Scholar, University of Manitoba “Anti-Zionism at the UN Human Rights Council” Paper (Video Link)
Oct. 21 ISPS A-001	Yaakov Kirschen Visting Fellow (Artist in Residence), YIISA; Cartoonist, Dry Bones “Memetics and the Viral Spread of Antisemitism Through ‘Coded Images’ in Political Cartoons” Working Paper (Video Link)
Oct. 28 ISPS A-001	Dr. Holger Knothe Post Doctorate Fellow, YIISA “Blurring the Boundaries: What is the ‘New’ in ‘New Antisemitism?’” (Video Link)
Nov. 2 53 Wall Street Room 208 12:00PM	Ambassador Gideon Meir Ambassador of Israel to Italy “Understanding the Deligitimization of Israel”
Nov. 4 ISPS A-001	Dr. Nora Gold Center for Women’s Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto “’I Don’t Know Why They Hate Us – I Don’t Think We Did Anything Bad To Hurt Them’: Jewish Girls in Toronto (aged 10-12) Reflect On Their Experiences of Antisemitism” Paper (Video Link)
Nov. 18 ISPS A-001	Professor Phyllis Chesler Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York (CUNY) “How Scapegoating Israel Diminishes the Rights of Women in the Middle East” (Video Link)
Dec. 2 ISPS A-001	Professor Paul Lawrence Rose Mitrani Professor of History, Pennsylvania State University “Thinking About Antisemitism and Antisemitisms: Cultures, Emotions, Contexts” Paper (Video Link)