Past Events
Friday, April 8, 2011 at 12:00 Noon
Lunch and Learn with Tatenda Mujeni
“Concerns of Our Mothers: How Divisions in the ‘Baby Boomer’ Generation Affect the Contemporary Feminist Movement: The Role of Racism and Antisemitism”
77 Prospect Street, Room A-001 (Basement Floor)
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Tuesday, April 28th
The Dr. James Sacks Conference:
“The Psychological Impact of the Threat of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism: From Denail and Paralysis to Understanding the Challege”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall, 63 High Street, Room 101
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Friday, April 3rd from 10:00am – 4:30pm
“A YIISA Symposium on Antisemitism: Understanding Facets of Contemporary Antisemitism”
featuring:
Keynote Speaker – Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, The Shalem Center Charles Small, YIISA Director
YIISA Post-Doctorate Associates and Graduate Fellows
Davies Auditorium, 15 Prospect Street
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Thursday, April 2, 2009 @ 12:00 Noon
Benjamin Weinthal, Jerusalem Post Correspondent for Germany
“German-Iranian Economic Relations and the Failure of Germany to Combat Iranian Antisemitism”
ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A-001 Video
Wednesday, April 1, 2009 @ 4:00pm
Dr. Bassam Tibi, Senior Research Fellow, YIISA; Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Goettingen; A.D. White-Professor-at-Large, Cornell University
“The Islamist Challenge to America: Anti-Americanism and Antisemitism”
ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A-002 Video
Thursday, March 26, 2009 in Berlin, Germany
“Iran, Hamas and Hezbollah: Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial”
Speakers Include: Professor David Menashri; Dr. Matthias Kuntzel; Dr. Meir Litvak; Alexander Ritzmann; Dr. Charles Small and Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh
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Wednesday, February 4, 2009@ 12:00pm (Noon)
Dr. Mordechai Kedar , Lecturer, Department of Arabic, the Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies, Bar-Ilan University, Israel
“Islamism, Genocidal Antisemitism and the Place of the Other”
Luce Hall, 34 Hilllhouse Avenue, Room 202 Video
Thursday, January 22, 2009@ 12:00pm
Dr. Boaz Shapira, Senior Political Correspondent, Israeli Television Channel 1; Lecturer, Lauder School of Government, Diplomacy & Strategy and the Sammy Ofer School of Communication, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya
ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Room A-001 Video
YIISA Open House
Join us in welcoming new Post-Doctorate and Graduate Researchers to our center’s new location!
Wednesday, November 12, 2008, 12:00pm – 2:00pm
ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Common Area
“Iran’s Nuclear Challenge: A View from Tel Aviv”
Professor David Menashri
Director of Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University
Friday, October 17, 2008 @ 12:30pm
Institute for Social and Policy Studies (ISPS), 77 Prospect Street, Room A002
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Special Conference
Understanding the Challenge of Iran
Starting 9:00 AM, Wednesday, April 30
Linsly Chittenden Hall, Room 101
63 HIgh Street, New Haven, CT
Panel #1: The Iranian Regime and Human Rights Video
Hooshang Amirahmadi – “Iran’s Power Structure and Implications for Democratic Change”
Mehrangiz Kar – “Human Rights Situation in Iran”
Andrew Apostolou – “The State of Civil Society in Iran”
Panel #2: The Regime – Ideology, Politics & International Terror Video
Patrick Clawson – “Why Does Iran Want A Nuclear Weapon?”
Michael Rubin – “Countering Iran’s Geopolitical Designs”
Meir Litvak – “Holocaust Denial in Iran and the Arab World”
Liora Hendelman-Baavur – “Iranian Use of Internet for Propaganda and Holocaust Denial”
Panel #3: Iranian Society and “The Other” Video
Saeed Paivandi – “Discrimination and Intolerance in Iranian Curriculum”
Tom Parker – “Promoting a Culture of Human Rights in Iran”
Roya Boroumand – “The Excluded Muslims: Institutionalized Discrimination Against Muslims in the Islamic Republic of Iran”
Panel #4: International Law – Terror and Incitement Video
Gregory Gordon
“From Incitement to Indictment? Prosecuting Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for Advocating Israel’s Destruction”
David Menashri
Charles Small
Israel’s Deputy Prime Minister Lt. Gen. Shaul Mofaz
Minister of Transportation and Road Safety
Former Minister of Defense and and Chief of Staff of the IDF
“The Iranian Regime: Nuclear Ambitions, Ideology and International Challenges”
7:45 PM Wednesday, April 30
Sheffield-Sterling-Strathcona Hall (SSS), Room 114
1 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT
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Professor Michel Wieviorka, “Why Is It So Difficult to Research Antisemitism?”
President, International Sociological Association (ISA); Professor (Directeur d’etudes) Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales, Paris; Director, Centre for Sociological Analysis and Intervention (CADIS).
Monday, March 3rd at 4:00pm
Luce Auditorium (34 Hillhouse Avenue)
Wieviorka Paper
Abraham H. Foxman, National Director, Anti-Defamation League
April 16, 7PM, Location: Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University, Sylvia Slifka Chapel
Lunchtime Talk
Tuesday, October 16, 12 noon
Dr. Grahame Davies
University of Wales, Cardiff, and Goodenough College, London
Author: The Chosen People: Wales and the Jews
“From Philo-Semitic to Anti-Semitic:
Shifts in Attitude towards the Jewish People among a Western European Minority Community”
ISPS / 77 Prospect St., Rm. B012