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International Conference: Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics

תאריך: 
ב', 30/05/2022

An International Conference
Defining Antisemitism between History and Politics

 

Monday, 30.5.2022

17:00–19:00 Opening Session
Greetings:
Shai Lavi
Julius von Freytag-Loringhoven

Chair: Alon Confino
Keynote Lectures:
Moshe Halbertal: 'The Discourse On Antisemitism, Its Uses And Abuses'
Esra Özyürek: 'An Exponential Increase in Antisemitism Accusations in Three Cultural Shifts: The German Case'


Tuesday, 31.5.2022

10:00–10:30 Gathering
10:30–12:30 Anti-Zionism, Zionism and Jewish History
Chair: Amos Morris-Reich
Kenneth Stow: 'An Illicit Community: Some Things Don’t Change'
Joshua Shanes: 'The Definition Debate Is About Equality vs. Power'
Yossi Kugler: 'Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the Israeli Discourse'
Emilie Wiedemann: 'On the History of the New Antisemitism Concept and the 1980s'
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00 Defining and Disciplining Antisemitism
Chair: Amos Goldberg
Nike Naina Löbrich and Ann-Kathrin Steger: 'Antisemitism in German Courts since 1945: Striving for a Definition?'
Lena Salaymeh: 'The Coloniality of Recent Antisemitism Definitions'
Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias and Talia Naamat: 'Defining Antisemitism with the Language of Law'
Nira Yuval-Davis: 'Antisemitism Is a Form of Racism—or Is It?'
16:00–16:15 Coffee break
16:15–18:00 Roundtable: Reflections from and on the Field
Chair: David Feldman
Seth Anziska | Saba-Nur Cheema
Moshe Zimmermann | Michal Cotler-Wunsh



Wednesday, 1.6.2022

10:00–10:30 Gathering
10:30–12:30 Perspectives from Sociology: Concepts and Data
Chair: Dafna Schreiber
Peter Ullrich: 'With and Without Jews: Two Concepts of Antisemitism'
Sergio DellaPergola: 'Semites’ Perceptions of Antisemitism: A Social-Structural Analysis'
Ashley Mayer-Thibault: 'Defining and Organizing against the Anti-Semite Menace: Horizontal and Vertical Alliances within French Public Jewish Life'
12:30–14:00 Lunch break
14:00–16:00 Antisemitism Decentred: Comparisons, Ambiguities, Evasions
Chair: Manuela Consonni
David Mednicoff: 'The Comparative Politics of Defining Bias: Anti-Semitism, Anti-Hinduism,
and Islamophobia in the US'
Thomas Weber: 'The Canary in the Coalmine: The Flourishing of Language and Actions
that are Neither Anti-Semitic nor Free from Anti-Semitism'
Moshe Behar: 'IHRA’s Conflations, White Privilege, Non-Jewish Minorities and Arab
Exclusivity in Reverse?'
16:00–16:30 Coffee break
16:30–19:00 Closing Session
Chair: Shai Lavi
Keynote Lecture:
Bruno Chaouat: 'Understanding Antisemitism: Philosophy, Psychoanalysis, and Religion
Roundtable: Antisemitisms: A Variety of Meanings?'
Danny Trom | Karma Ben Johanan | Adi M. Ophir | Raef Zreik
 

Academic Committee:
Prof. Alon Confino, Prof. Manuela Consonni, Prof. David Feldman, Prof. Amos Goldberg,
Prof. Shai Lavi, Prof Amos Morris-Reich, Dr. Dafna Schreiber
 

For full program please see the attached file here