Title: "Islamism and the Construction of Jewish Identity"

Topics, Speakers and Affiliations:

Topic: "Iran and Antisemitism: Some Historical Notes"

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tsadik

Affiliation: Associate Professor of Sephardic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University

Topic: "The Roots of Modern Muslim Antisemitism: Jews and the Traditional Concept of Tolerance in Islam"

Speaker: Dr. Jacob Lassner

Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of Jewish Civilization in the departments of History and Religion, Northwestern University

Topic: "Antisemitism in Iran: Continuities and Changes"

Speaker: Dr. Meir Litvak

Affiliation: Associate Professor, Department of Middle Eastern History; Director, Alliance Center for Iranian Studies, Tel-Aviv University

Convener: Dr. Risa Sodi, Director, Language Program, Italian Language and Literature, Yale University

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 23, 2010

Description: In this session, part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss topics such as antisemitism in Iran and the roots of modern Muslim antisemitism.

Title: "The Internet and the Proliferation of Antisemitism"

Topics, Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Dr. Abraham Wagner

Affiliation: Professor of Law, Columbia University; Visiting Professor, New York University; Senior Fellow, Center for Advanced Studies on Terrorism

Topic: "Antisemitism in the Internet Era"

Speaker: Rabbi Abraham Cooper

Affiliation: Associate Dean, Simon Wiesenthal Center

Topic: "Digital Antisemitism"

Speaker: Mark Dubowitz

Affiliation: Executive Director, Foundation for Defense of Democracies

Topic: "Terrorist Media as an Operational Weapon Used by Hezbollah, Hamas, and Other Terrorist Groups to Spread to Antisemitism?"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 23, 2010

Description: In this session, part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA)Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss topics such as how the Internet and the age of technology is contributing to the spread of global antisemitism.

Speaker: Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose

Affiliation: Professor of European History and Mitrani Professor of Jewish Studies, Pennsylvania State University

Title: "Thinking about Antisemitism and Antisemitisms: Cultures, Emotions, Contexts"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: December 2, 2010

Description:

As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA) "Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective" seminar series, Dr. Paul Lawrence Rose speaks about antisemitism as well as antisemitisms. He notes that it is necessary to look at each form of antisemitism from within its context, country and culture and examine whether there is one eternal antisemitism or whether there are many forms and variations of antisemitism.

Title: "Welcome and Introductions"

Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Rabbi James Ponet

Affiliation: Director, Joseph Slifka Center for Jewish Life, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Speaker: Deputy Provost Frances Rosenbluth

Affiliation: Social Sciences and Faculty Development, Yale University, New Haven, CT

Speaker: Aviva Raz Schechter

Affiliation: Director for Combating Antisemitism, Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

Affiliation: 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 23, 2010

Description: Speakers make opening remarks for the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010).

Title: "Models of Combating Antisemitism" panel as part of the YIISA/IASA Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference from August 23-25, 2010

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Gilbert N. Kahn

Affiliation: Professor of Political Science, Kean University

Topic: "The Community Security Trust: Why is it Protecting British Jewry?"

Speaker: Dr. Barry Kosmin

Affiliation: Research Professor in the Public Policy & Law Program, Trinity College; Founding Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture

Topic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the UK: Moving from Reaction to Pro-action"

Speaker: Dr. Winston Pickett

Affiliation: Former Director, European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism

Topic: "Countering Antisemitism in Britain: Do Calibrated Responses Work?"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Description: This panel discussion is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Anti-Semitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including: "The Community Security Trust: Why is it Protecting British Jewry?"; "Fighting Antisemitism in the UK: Moving from Reaction to Pro-action" and "Countering Antisemitism in Britain: Do Calibrated Responses Work?"

Title: "An Uncertain Sisterhood: Women and Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Phyllis Chesler

Affiliation: Professor of Psychology and Women's Studies, College of Staten Island (CUNY).

Topic: "The History and Psychological Roots of Antisemitism Among Feminists, Their Gradual Stalinization and Palestinianization"

Speaker: Thyme Siegel

Affiliation: Writer and Instructor of Women’s Studies;

Topic: "Sisterhood was Powerful and Global: Where Did It Go?"

Speaker: Gloria Greenfield

Affiliation: President and Founder, Doc Emet Productions

Topic: "The Empress's New Clothes"

Speaker: Dr. Nora Gold

Affiliation: Writer-in-Residence and an Associate Scholar at the Centre for Women’s Studies in Education, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto.

Topic: "Fighting Antisemitism in the Feminist Community"

Convener: Jennifer Roskies, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs; Doctoral candidate, Bar-Ilan University; Research Consultant, ISGAP

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including, the history of antisemitism within the feminist community and how to combat this phenomenon.

Title: "Global Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Milton Shain

Affiliation: Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa

Topic: "Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the 'New South Africa'"

Speaker: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly

Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Ouagadougou in the West African country of Burkina Faso; Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP.

Topic: "Africa and Antisemitism: Myth or Reality? From Indifference to Antisemitic Temptation?"

Speaker: Dr. Samuel Eppel

Affiliation: Director, Human Rights Commission, B’nei Brith Venezuela

Topic: "Chavez's Conversion, From Active Military to Militant Antisemite"

Speaker: Dr. Alberto Nisman

Affiliation: Federal Prosecutor and Chief Investigator of the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires

Topic: "International Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Islamic Fundamentalism's Attacks in Argentina"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 24, 2010

Description: This plenary session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010).

Title: "Understanding the Impact of German Antisemitism and Nazism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Sebastian Voigt

Affiliation: Research Associate, Simon-Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Leipzig, Germany (Institut fur Judische Geschichte und Kultur)

Topic: "Leftist Antisemitic Anti-Zionism: The German Leftist Party as an Example of a European Trend within the Leftist Movement?"

Speaker: Ulrike Becker

Affiliation: University of Stuttgart

Topic: “German Foreign Policy Towards Egypt After WWII”

Speaker: Bjoern Milbradt

Affiliation: University of Marburg

Topic: “Conceptualizing Contemporary Antisemitism in Germany: Theoretical Approaches and Empirical Results on a Flexible Prejudice”

Speaker: Karin Stoegner

Affiliation: Central European University

Topic: “Antisemitism and Nationalism in ‘Postnational’ Europe?”

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2010

Description: This panel discussion is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discussed topics including, Leftist antisemitic anti-Zionism and conceptualizing contemporary antisemitism in Germany.

Title: "Discourses of Antisemitism in Relation to the Middle East"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Shimon Samuels

Affiliation: Director for International Relations, Simon Wiesenthal Center

Topic: "Judicial Jihad in the Service of Hamas, Antisemitism and Intimidation: Proposals for Countermeasures"

Speaker: Michael Whine

Affiliation: Government and International Affairs Director, Community Security Trust

Topic: "London: Progress in Combating Antisemitism at the International Level"

Speaker: Dr. Michael Kotzin

Affiliation: Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago

Topic: "The Language of the New Antisemitism"

Speaker: Barak Seener

Affiliation: Middle East Director, The Henry Jackson Society

Topic: "The Disconnect Between the Academic Community and Policy Establishment on Antisemitism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 24, 2010

Description: This session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss topics including, the language of the new antisemitism and proposals to combat modern manifestations of antisemitism within the international arena.

Title: "Antisemitic Propaganda in Europe"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Magnus Brechtken

Affiliation: Associate Professor in German History and Politics, University of Nottingham

Topic: "Full Zionism on Madagascar? The 'Antisemitic International' and the Idea of 'Compulsory Segregation' in the 1920s and 1930s"

Speaker: Dr. Javier Dominguez Arribas

Affiliation: University of Paris XIII

Topic: “The Judeo-Masonic Enemy in Francoist Propaganda (Spain, 1936-1945)”

Speaker: David Lebovitch Dahl

Affiliation: University of Copenhagen

Topic: "How Antisemitic Were the Antisemites? A Case of Debate Over Antisemitic Propaganda Among Intransigent Italian Catholic Clerics Around 1882"

Speaker: Leslie Lebl

Affiliation: Fellow, American Center for Democracy; Principal, Lebl Associates

Topic: "The EU, the Mideast and Antisemitism"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 25, 2011

Description: As part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss various aspects of antisemitic propaganda in Europe.