Speaker: Dr. Elhanan Yakira

Affiliation: Schulman Professor of Philosophy, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Title: "Anti-Zionism as an Intellectual Phenomenon"

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: April 19, 2010

Description: Dr. Elhanan Yakira speaks about anti-Zionism as an intellectual phenomenon.

Title: YIISA Researchers' Seminar - Part #2

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Michelle Sieff

Affiliation: YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate

Topic: "The Ultimate Betrayal: Human Rights Groups, Genocide and Totalitarianism in the Postwar Era"

Speaker: Ulrike Becker

Affiliation: YIISA Graduate Fellow

Topic: "Post-war Antisemitism: Germany's Foreign Policy Toward Egypt and the Palestinians"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: April 21, 2010

Title: Yom Hashoah Commemoration (Part 2)

Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Stella Bengel

Affiliation: Shoah Survivor

Speaker: Ambassador Hannah Rosenthal

Affiliation: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, State Department, Washington, DC

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Date: April 12, 2010

(Sponsored in part by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.)

Speaker: Berthe Kayitesi

Affiliation: PhD Candidate, University of Ottawa

Title: “Our World of Contradictions: Antisemitism, Antitutsism and Never Again”

Date: March 4, 2010

YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Speaker: Michael Whine

Affiliation: Director of Government and International Affairs, Community Security Trust; Consultant, European Jewish Congress

Title: “Two Steps Forward, One Step Back – Diplomatic Progress in Combating Antisemitism”

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

Date: April 26, 2010

YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Description: Michael Whine discusses the challenges in combating modern manifestations of antisemitism and the diplomatic progress that has, or has not, been achieved.

Title: "Conceptual Approaches to 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 Topics:

Speaker: Nicolas Bechter

Affiliation: University of Vienna

Topic: "Anticapitalism and Antisemitism in the Current Economic Crisis"

Speaker: Heiko Beyer

Affiliation: University of Goettingen

Topics: "But There Are No Longer Any Antisemites: An Experimental Study on the Communication Latency of Antisemitic Attitudes"

Speaker: Robin Stoller

Affiliation: International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA)

Topic: "Modern Capitalist Societies, Impersonal Power and Exploitation Structures, Nation States and Antisemitism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Title: Yom Hashoah Commemoration

Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Stella Bengel

Affiliation: Shoah Survivor

Speaker: Ambassador Hannah Rosenthal

Affiliation: Special Envoy to Monitor and Combat Antisemitism, State Department

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

Affiliation: Founder and Executive Director, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)

Date: Monday, April 12, 2010

(Sponsored in part by the Anti-Defamation League (ADL) and the Jewish Federation of Greater New Haven and the Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life at Yale.)

Speaker: Kenneth Stern

Affiliation: Director, Antisemitism and Extremism, American Jewish Committee (AJC)

Title: “The New Interdisciplinary Field of Hate Studies and Its Relevance to Understanding and Combating Antisemitism”

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

Date: April 13, 2010

YIISA/ISGAP Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective Seminar Series

Title: "Law, Modernity and 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 Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Alexander Tsesis

Affiliation: Loyolya University, School of Law

Topic: "Internet, New Media, Traditional Stereotypes, Overt Bigotry and the International Regulation of Hate Speech"

Speaker: Dr. Stephen Feldman

Affiliation: University of Wyoming

Topic: "Great Expectations: Antisemitism and the Politics of Free-Speech Jurisprudence"

Speaker: Kenneth Lasson

Affiliation: University of Baltimore

Topic: "Theoretical Basis, Historical Antecedents, Contemporary Manifestations and Legal Dimensions of Modern Campus Antisemiitism"

Speaker: Dr. Kenneth Marcus

Affiliation: Baruch College, CUNY

Topic: "U.S. Civil Rights: Antisemitism and Post Radicalism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 23, 2010

Speakers: Gerald Barad, Producer/Writer; Eric Forman, Supervising Producer

Title: "The Battle of Durban II" (2009) Post-Screening Discussion

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: January 27, 2010