| 25 Aug 2010 |
YIISA/IASA “GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: A CRISIS OF MODERNITY” CONFERENCE:
PLENARY: “An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
CHAIR: Jennifer Roskies, Bar-Ilan University/YIISA
Professor Phyllis Chesler, City University of New York: “The History and Psychological Roots of Antisemitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Stalinization and Palestinianization”
Thyme Siegel, Independent Research: “Sisterhood Was Powerful and Global: Where Did It Go?”
Gloria Greenfield, Doc Emet Productions: “The Empress’s New Clothes”
Dr. Nora Gold, University of Toronto: “Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community”
PANEL: “Hannah Arendt and Antisemitism: A Critical Appraisal”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis: “Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism and Her Story of Modernity”
Professor Peter Staudenmaier, University of Montana: “Hannah Arendt’s Analysis of Antisemitism: A Critical Appraisal”
PANEL: “Conceptual Approaches to Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Nicolas Bechter, University of Vienna: “Anticapitalism and Antisemitism in the Current Economic Crisis”
Heiko Beyer, University of Goettingen: “But There Are No Longer Any Antisemites: An Experimental Study on the Communication Latency of Antisemitic Attitudes”
Robin Stoller, International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA): “Modern Capitalist Societies, Impersonal Power and Exploitation Structures, Nation States and Antisemitism”
PANEL: “Models for COmbating Antismeitism: The Case of the United Kingdom”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Gilbert Kahn, Kean University: “The Community Security Trust: Why is it Protecting British Jewry?”
Professor Barry Kosmin, Trinity College: “Fighting Antisemitism in the UK: Moving from Reaction to Pro-action”
Dr. Winston Pickett, Former Director, European Institute for the STudy of Contemporary Antisemitism: “Countering Antisemitism in Britain: Do Calibrated Responses Work?”
PANEL: “Understanding the Impact of German Antisemitism and Nazism”(Vimeo Link)
Sebastian Voigt, Simon-Dubnow-Institut fur Judische Geschichte und Kultur, Leipzig, Germany (Institute for Jewish Studies): “Leftist Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The German Leftist Party as an Example of a European Trend within the Leftist Movement?”
Ulrike Becker, University of Stuttgart/YIISA: “German Foreign Policy Towards Egypt After WWII”
Bjoern MIlbradt, University of Marburg: “Conceptualizing Contemporary Antisemitism in Germany: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Results on a Flexible Prejudice”
Karin Stoegner, Central European University: “Antisemitism and Nationalism in ‘Postnational’ Europe?”
KEYNOTE: Rabbi David Nesenoff, RabbiLIVE.com: “After I Interviewed Helen Thomas: Journeying from Conflict to Resolution” (Vimeo Link)
PANEL: “400 Years of Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Nuremberg Laws”(Vimeo Link)
Dr. Lina Gorenstein, University of Sao Paulo: “The Iberian Racial Antisemitism and its Modernity (16th – 18th centuries)”
Daniela Levy, University of Sao Paulo: “Antisemitism Propaganda in Dutch Brazil (1640-1654)”
Anita Novinsky, University of Sao Paulo: “Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Laws of Nuremberg – Reflections on Parallels”
PANEL: “Embracing the Nation: Antisemitism and Modernity” (Vimeo Link)
Ilka Schroeder, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Former Member of European Parliament: “Modern Antisemitism and National Identity”
Suzette Blom, University of Guelph: “Jews, Divorce and French Revolution”
Catherine Power, McGill University and Sharon Power, York University: “Embracing the Nation: Assimilationist and Anti-Zionist Jewish Responses to Modernity”
PANEL: “Antisemitism and the United States” (Video Not Available)
Professor Barry Kosmin, Trinity College: “Philo-semitism, Philo-Judaism and Pro-Israelism in the US Today: What Factors Make People Immune to the Appeal of Antisemitism?”
Professor Terry Rowden, College of Staten Island, CUNY: “The Jew Who Loved Me: African America and the ‘Romance’ of Antisemitism”
Dr. Charles Richard King, Washington State University: “Renewed Antisemitism: Race, Science and ‘The Jewish Problem’ in the Writings of Kevin MacDonald”
Professor Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School: “The Switzerland Treaty of 1851″
PANEL: “Variations on European Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link)
Ilana Novinsky, University of Sao Paulo: “Contributions of Phenomology and Psychoanalysis for the Understanding of Antisemitism”
Prfoessor Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University: “Antisemitism and the Victimary Era”
PANEL: “Antisemitic Propaganda in Europe” (Vimeo Link)
Dr. Magnus Brechtken, University of Nottingham: “Full Zionism on Madagascar? The ‘Antisemitic International’ and the Idea of “Compulsory Segregation’ in the 1920s and 1930s”
Professor Javier Dominguez Arribas, University of Paris XIII: “The Judeo-Masonic Enemy in Francoist Propaganda (Spain, 1936-1945)”
David Lebovitch Dahl, University of Copenhagen: “How ANtisemitic Were the Antisemities? A Case of Debate Over Antisemitic Propaganda Among Intransigent Italian Catholic Clerics Around 1882″
Leslie Lebl, Lebl Associates: “The EU, the Mideast and Antisemitism”
PLENARY: “Self Hatred and Contemporary Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link)
Professor Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham University: “Without Ahavath Yisrael: Thoughts on Radical Anti-Zionism at Brandeis”
Professor Richard Landes, Boston University: “Scourges and Their Audiences: What Drives Jews to Loathe Israel Publicly and What To Do About It?”
Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University: “Beyond Criticism and Dissent: On Jewish Contributions to the Delegitimation of Israel”
PLENARY: “Roundtable: Discussions in the STudy of Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link)
Dr. Charles Small, YIISA, Yale University
Professor Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University
Professor David Feldman, Birbeck College, University of London
Professor Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University |
| 24 Aug 2010 |
YIISA/IASA “GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: A CRISIS OF MODERNITY” CONFERENCE:
PLENARY: “Contemporary Antisemitism and the Deligitmization of Israel”(Vimeo Link)
Chair: Daniel Goldhagen, Harvard University
Professor Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University: “The Iranian President, the Canadian Professor, the Literary Journal and the Holocaust Denial Conference that Never Was”
Professor Walter Reich, George Washington University: “The Rabbi and the President: Don’t Give Us the Holocaust at the Expense of Israel”
Professor Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University: “Are Events in the Middle East Indeed the Source of Global New Antisemitism?” Anne Bayefsky, Director, Touro Institute on Human Rights and the Holocaust; Senior Fellow, Hudson Institute: “Antisemitism and the International Human Rights System”
PANEL: “Discourse of Contemporary Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Robert Fine, University of Warwick: “Between OPposition and Denial: The Radical Response to Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe”
Dr. David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London: “Struggles Over the Boundaries of Legitimate Discourse: Antisemitism and Bad Faith Allegations”
Professor Lars Rensmann, University of Michigan: “Antisemitism Reloaded: The Resurgence of Judeophobia in European Extreme Right Parties and the Crisis of Global Modernity”
PANEL: “Confronting and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Edward Beck, Walden University: “Engagin, Educating and Empowering Faculty to Address Issues of Antisemitism in the Academy”
Professor Samuel Edelman, California State University, Chico: “Short Term and Long Term Strategies for Faculty Partnering with the Community and Students to Enhance Faculty Effectiveness in Reducing Antisemitism as Anti-Israelism on Campus”
Dr. Linda Blanshay, Simon Wiesenthal Center: “Antisemitism on California University Campuses and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Response”
PANEL: “Antisemitism in the Aftermath of the Holocaust”(Vimeo Link)
Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Institute of Legal Studies of the Polish Academy of Sciences: “Penalizing Holocaust Denial – A View From Europe”
Professor Marek Kucia, Jagiellonian University, Krakow: “Antisemitism in Contemporary Poland: Global and Local”
Barbara Wind, Holocaust Council of MetroWest: “The Effect of the Resurgence of Antisemitism on Holocaust Survivors”
PANEL: “Lawfare, Human Rights Organizations and the Demonization of Israel”(Vimeo Link)
Anne Herzberg, NGO Monitor: “NGOs and the New Antisemitism”
Professor Ed Morgan, University of Toronto: “The Metastasizing of Anti-Israel Lawfare”
Elisabeth Kubler, University of Vienna: “Durban II: Antisemitism in Cosmopolitan Global Democracy”
KEYNOTE: Professor Bassam Tibi, University of Goettingen: “The Islamist Islamization of Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link)
PANEL: “The Iranian Threat”(Vimeo Link)
Professor David Patterson, University of Texas, Dallas: “Hitler, Hamas and Jihadist Jew Hatred”
Dr. Samuel Feldberg, University of Sao Paulo: “Antisemitism, Holocaust Denial and Iran’s Nuclear Path: An Assessment of Risk”
Dr. Wahied Wahdat-Hagh, European Foundation for Democracy: “The Terrorist Group Fedayine Islam and Its Relevance for the Islamists and Antisemitism in Iran”
PANEL: “Social Theory and Contemporary Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link Coming Soon)
Dr. Catherine Chatterley, University of Manitoba: “The Antisemitic Imagination”
Professor Alan Rosenbaum, Cleveland State University: “Philosophical Reflections on Antisemitism Today”
Dr. David Seymour, Lancaster University: “Antisemitism as a State of Exception”
PANEL: “Discourses of Antisemitism in Relation to the MIddle East”(Vimeo Link)
Dr. Shimon Samuels, Simon Wiesenthal Center: “Judicial Jihad in the Service of Hamas, Antisemitism and Intimidation: Proposals for Countermeasures”
Michael Whine, Community Security Trust: “London: Progress in Combating Antisemitism at the International Level”
Dr. Michael Kotzin, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago: “The Language of the New Antisemitism”
Barak Seener, Middle East Director, The Henry Jackson Society: “The Disconnect Between the Academic Community and Policy Establishment on Antisemitism”
PANEL: “The Media and the Dissemination of Hatred” (Vimeo Link)
Defne Jones, Indiana University: “Antisemitism Through Political Cartoons in Turkey”
Dr. Marianna Scherini, University of Siena: “The Image of Israel and of the Israeli in British, French and Italian Daily Press During the Lebanon War 1982″
Antonia Schmid, University of Wuppertal: “Antisemitic Discourse in Contemporary German Film”
Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University: “Humanization or Antisemitism: Representations of Perpetrators and Jews in Recent Holocaust Films”
PLENARY: “Global Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link)
Professor Milton Shain, University of Cape Town: “Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the “New South Africa’”
Professor Shalem Coulibaly, University of Ouagadougou: “Africa and Antisemitism: Myth or Reality? From Indifference to Antisemitic Temptation?”
Samuel Eppel, Director, Human Rights Commission, B’nei Brith Venezuela: “Chavez’s Conversion, From Active Military to Militant Antisemite”
Professor Alberto Nisman, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires; General Prosecutor in the Terrorist Attack Against the Argentine Jewish Community Center: “International Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Islamic Fundamentalism’s Attacks in Argentina”
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| 23 Aug 2010 |
YIISA/IASA “GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM: A CRISIS OF MODERNITY” CONFERENCE:
PLENARY: “Welcome and Introductions” (Vimeo Link)
Rabbi James Ponet, Director, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale University
Deputy Provost Frances Rosenbluth, Social Sciences and Faculty Development, Yale University
Aviva Raz Schechter, Director for Combating Antisemitism, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Israel
Charles Small, Executive Director, YIISA, Yale University
KEYNOTE: Professor Menahem Milson, Hebrew University and Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “Video Clips from MEMRI” (Vimeo Link Coming Soon)
PLENARY: “Radical Islam and Genocidal Antisemitism” (Vimeo Link Coming Soon)
CHAIR: Professor Charles Hill, Yale University
Professor Menahem Milson, Hebrew University and Middle East Media Research Institute (MEMRI): “Arab and Islamic Antisemitism Today”
Rifat Bali, Research Associate, Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies and Culture, Paris: “Conspiracy Theories, Antisemitism and Jews in Turkey Today”
Col. (Ret.) Jonathan Fighel, The International Institute for COunter Terrorism (ICT), Herzliya: “The Jihad Flotilla to Gaza: Provocative – Antisemitic – Not Humanitarian”
Professor Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland: “Nazi Propaganda to the Arab World and Its After-Effects in Postwar Militant Islam”
KEYNOTE: Professor Ruth Wisse, Harvard University “How Do We Put an End to Antisemitism: No, Really, How Do We? ” (Vimeo Link)
PANEL: “Christianity and Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Dr. Hilda Nissimi, Bar-Ilan University: “religion, Liberalism and Empire in Britain: Antisemitism as Lynchpin”
Professor Lara Trubowitz, University of Iowa: “Wyndham Lewis, Christian Theology and the Artfulness of Antisemitism, or Redefining Tolerance in an Era of Refugees”
Mark Weitzman, Simon Wiesenthal Center: “The Actor, the Bishop and the Future of Jewish-Catholic Relations”
PANEL: “The Islamization of Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Paul Lawrence Rose, Pennsylvania State University: “Muhammad and the Jews of Medina and Khaybar in Modern Islamic Antisemitic Mentalities”
Dr. Neil Kressel, William Paterson University: “The Demonization of Jews as ‘Pigs and Apes’: Theological Roots, History, Extent and Contemporary Implications”
Dr. David Sokol, Author: “The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: Father of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism”
PANEL: “The Internet and the Proliferation of Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Abraham Wagner, Columbia University: “Antisemitism in the Internet Era”
Professor Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center: “Digital Antisemitism”
Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies: “Terrorist Media as an Operational Weapon Used by Hezbollah, Hamas and Other Terrorist Groups to Spread Antisemitism?”
PANEL: “Law, Modernity and Antisemitism”(Vimeo Link)
Professor Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore: “Theoretical Basis, Dimensions of Modern Campus Antisemitism”
Professor Stephen Feldman, University of Wyoming: “Great Expectations: Antisemitism and the Politics of Free-Speech Jurisprudence”
Professor Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University, School of Law: “Internet, New Media, Traditional Stereotypes, Overt Bigotry and the International Regulation of Hate Speech”
Professor Kenneth Marcus, Baruch College, CUNY: “U.S. Civil Rights: Antisemitism and Post Racialism”
KEYNOTE: Itamar Marcus, Director, Palestinian Media Watch: “The Central Role of Palestinian Antisemitism in Creating the Palestinian Identity” (Vimeo Link Coming Soon)
PLENARY: “Islamism and the Construction of Jewish Identity”(Vimeo Link)
CHAIR: Dr. Risa Sodi, Director, Language Program, Italian Language and Literature, Yale University
Professor Daniel Tsadik, Yeshiva University: “Iran and ANtisemitism: Some Historical Notes”
Professor Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University: “The Roots of Modern Muslim Antisemitism: Jews and the Traditional Concept of Tolerance in Islam”
Professor Meir LItvak, Director, Center for Iranian Studies, Tel Aviv University: “Antisemitism in Iran: Continuities and Changes”
GALA DINNER (Vimeo Link)
Mr. David Messer, Chairman, YIISA External Advisory Board: “Welcome”
Dr. Charles Small, Executive Director, YIISA: “Global Antisemitism and the Crisis of Modernity”
Professor Irwin Cotler, McGill University: “Genocidal Antisemitism: Ahmadinejad’s Regime as a Case Study”
Rabbi James Ponet, Director, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale: “Concluding Remarks” |
