Speaker: David Matas

Affiliation: Legal Scholar, University of Manitoba, Co-Chair, Canadian Helsinki Watch Group; Amnesty International: Legal Coordinator Canadian Section; League for Human Rights, B’nai Brith Canada

Title: Anti-Zionism at the UN Human Rights Council

Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: October 14, 2010

Description: David Matas discusses the prevalence and persistence of anti-Zionism within the UN Human Rights Council.

Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Affiliation: Emerita Professor of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University of New York (CUNY)

Title: "How Scapegoating Israel Diminishes the Rights of Women in the Middle East"

Convener: Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: November 18, 2010

Description: Dr. Phyllis Chesler speaks about how scapegoating Israel diminishes the rights of women in the Middle East.

Speaker: Dr. Nora Gold

Affiliation: Center for Women’s Studies, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto

Title: "I Don’t Know Why They Hate Us – I Don’t Think We Did Anything Bad to Hurt Them"

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: November 4, 2010

Description: Nora Gold speaks about the experiences of Jewish girls in Toronto (aged 10-12) with antisemitism in schools.

Title: “The Media and the Dissemination of Hatred” as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”

Date: August 24, 2010

Speakers, Affiliations, Titles

Speaker: Defne Jones

Affiliation: Indiana University

Title: “Antisemitism Through Political Cartoons in Turkey”

Speaker: Dr. Marianna Scherini

Affiliation: University of Siena

Title: “The Image of Israel and of the Israeli in British, French and Italian Daily Press During the Lebanon War 1982”

Speaker: Antonia Schmid

Affiliation: University of Wuppertal

Title: “Antisemitic Discourse in Contemporary German Film”

Speaker: Phyllis Lassner

Affiliation: Northwestern University

Title: “Humanization or Antisemitism: Representations of Perpetrators and Jews in Recent Holocaust Films”

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Speaker: Dr. Ruth Wisse

Affiliation: Harvard University

Title: "How Do We Put an End to Antisemitism: No, Really. How Do We?"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 23, 2010

Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), Dr. Ruth Wisse discusses the phenomenon of antisemitism and whether it is possible to put this genocidal hatred to an end.

Title: "Embracing the Nation: Antisemitism and Modernity" - Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Panel Discussion

Date: August 25, 2010

Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:

Speaker: Suzette Blom

Affiliation: University of Guelph

Title: "Jews, Divorce and French Revolution"

Speaker: Ilka Schroeder

Affiliation: Visiting Professor, Georgetown University; Former Member of European Parliament

Title: "Modern Antisemitism and National Identity"

Speakers and Affiliations: Catherine Power, McGill University and Sharon Power, York University

Title: "Embracing the Nation: Assimilationist and Anti-Zionist Jewish Responses to Modernity"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Speaker: Rabbi David Nesenoff

Affiliation: RabbiLIVE.com

Title: “After I Interviewed Helen Thomas: Journeying from Conflict to Resolution”

Convener: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), Rabbi David Nesenoff discusses his experiences speaking to Helen Thomas, former member of the White House press corps and opinion columnist.

Title: "400 Years of Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Nuremberg Laws" as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) conference on “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity”

Date: August 25, 2010

Speakers, Affiliations and Topic:

Speaker: Dr. Lina Gorenstein

Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo

Topic: “The Iberian Racial Antisemitism and its Modernity (16th-18th Centuries)”

Speaker: Daniela Levy

Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo

Topic: “Antisemitism Propaganda in Dutch Brazil (1630-1654)”

Speaker: Anita Novinsky

Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo

Topic: “Antisemitism: From the Holy Office to the Laws of Nuremberg: Reflections on Parallels”

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Title: "Lawfare, Human Rights Organizations and the Demonization of Israel," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Anne Herzberg

Affiliation: NGO Monitor

Topic: "NGOs and the New Antisemitism"

Speaker: Dr. Ed Morgan

Affiliation: University of Toronto

Topic: "The Metastasizing of Anti-Israel Lawfare"

Speaker: Elisabeth Kuebler

Affiliation: University of Vienna

Topic: "Durban II: Antisemitism in Cosmopolitan Global Democracy"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: Tuesday, August 24, 2010

Title: "The Islamization of Antisemitism," as part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) / International Association for the Study of Global Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).

Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:

Speaker: Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose

Affiliation: Pennsylvania State University

Title: "Muhammad and the Jews of Medina and Khaybar in Modern Islamic Antisemitic Mentalities"

Speaker: Dr. Neil Kressel

Affiliation: William Paterson University

Title: "The Demonization of Jews as 'Pigs and Apes': Theological Roots, History, Extent and Contemporary Implications"

Speaker: Dr. David Sokol

Affiliation: Author

Title: "The Grand Mufti of Jerusalem: Father of Contemporary Genocidal Antisemitism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 23, 2010