ISGAP

Title: "Beyond the Human Rights Council: UN Human Rights Committee and Its Response to Antisemitism"

Speaker: Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias

Affiliation: Graduate Fellow, YIISA

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: February 3, 2011

Description:

Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias discusses the legal dimension of the human rights agenda within the United Nations. She examines whether there is an effective counter balance within the UN to its various highly politicized bodies, such as the Human Rights Council. While the UN emerged out of World War II and out of the ashes of the Holocaust, it continues to deny its own history and unjustly target Israel, turning the Jewish state into an international pariah. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias questions whether the UN still has the ability to act as a legitimate mechanism in combating antisemtism.

Title: "Self Hatred and Contemporary Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Doron Ben-Atar

Affiliation: Professor of History, Fordham University, New York

Title: "Without Ahavath Yisrael: Thoughts on Radical Anti-Zionism at Brandeis"

Speaker: Dr. Richard Landes

Affiliation: Department of History, Boston University

Title: "Scourges and Their Audiences: What Drives Jews to Loathe Israel Publicly and What To Do About It?"

Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld

Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Title: "Beyond Criticism and Dissent: On Jewish Contributions to the Delegitimation of Israel"

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"Roundtable: Discussions in the Study of Antisemitism"

Speakers and Affiliations

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

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

Speaker: Dr. Alvin Rosenfeld

Affiliation: Professor of Jewish Studies and English, Indiana University; Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University

Speaker: Dr. David Feldman

Affiliation: Professor of History at Birkbeck University of London; Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism

Speaker: Dr. Dina Porat

Affiliation: Department of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University

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) Inaugural "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Conference (August 23-25, 2010). Speakers discuss various topics, including Jewish self-hatred and the Jewish contribution to the delegitimization of Israel and modern manifestations of anitsemitism.

Title: "Variations of European Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Miriam Oelsner

Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo

Topic: "Antisemitism According to Victor Klemperer" Read by Samuel Feldberg

Speaker: Ilana Novinsky

Affiliation: University of Sao Paulo

Topic: "Contributions of Phenomology and Psycholanalysis for the Understanding of Antisemitism"

Speaker: Dr. Adam Katz

Affiliation: Quinnipiac University

Topic: "Antisemitism and the Victimary Era"

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 Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010), speakers discuss variations of European antisemitism.

Title: "Discourses of Contemporary Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:

Speaker: Dr. David Hirsh

Affiliation: Goldsmiths College, University of London

Title: "Struggles Over the Boundaries of Legitimate Discourse: Antisemitism and Bad Faith Allegations"

Speaker: Dr. Lars Rensmann

Affiliation: Department of Political Science, University of Michigan

Title: "Antisemitism Reloaded: The Resurgence of Judeophobia in European Extreme Right Parties and the Crisis of Global Modernity"

Speaker: Dr. Robert Fine

Affiliation: Department of Sociology, University of Warwick

Title: "Between Opposition and Denial: The Radical Response to Antisemitism in Contemporary Europe"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 24, 2010

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 topics including, the resurgence of Judeophobia in European extreme Right political parties.

Title: "Is A Legal Remedy to Iran’s Nuclear Weapons Program and Incitement to Genocide Still Possible? A Colloquium"

Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Dr. Alan Dershowitz

Affiliation: Professor of Law, Harvard University

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony

Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

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

Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Date: October 17, 2012

Description: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Dr. Alan Dershowitz and Dr. Daniel Sibony speak about whether there is still a legal remedy to Iran’s nuclear weapons program and incitement to genocide.

Speaker: Dr. Charles Asher Small

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

Title: "Globalization and Contemporary Antisemitisms: From Islamism as a Social Movement to the Acquiescence in the West"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: April 21, 2011

Description:

Dr. Charles Asher Small argues that there are many different forms of antisemtisms and explains how globalization contributes to the marginalization of various groups in society, which, in turn, impacts contemporary antisemitism. Multiculturalism, which is essential in understanding contemporary societies in the age of globalization, is based on the recognition of the “other.” If a social movement is diametrically opposed to recognizing “the other,” there cannot be peace or regional stability. He further contends that neo-liberal driven processes and policies associated with globalization are the most important driving forces impacting the economy, as well as political, social and cultural marginalization throughout the world. These forces create conditions that are largely responsible for the reemergence of contemporary antisemitism.

Speaker: Dr. Dovid Katz

Affiliation: Editor, DefendingHistory.com; Chief Analyst, Litvak Studies Institute (Vilnius)

Title: "The Unique and 'Successful' Antisemitism in the East of the European Union"

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 14, 2011

Description: Dr. Dovid Katz poses the question: "What is 'successful' antisemitism?" He contrasts the 'old' antisemitism with the 'new' antisemitism and notes that while there is a small group of scholars dealing with modern manifestations of antisemitism, the phenomenon is often regarded and taboo and not easily accepted.

Speaker: Tatenda Mujeni

Affiliation: Bennett College for Women, Greensboro, North Carolina

Title: "Concerns of Our Mothers: How Divisions in the 'Baby Boomer' Generation Affect the Contemporary Feminist Movement: The Role of Racism and Antisemitism"

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 8, 2011

Description: Tatenda Mujeni explores the divisions within the feminist movement that emerged as a result of race, religion and other issues related to identity politics.

Speaker: Dr. Moishe Postone

Affiliation: Department of History, University of Chicago

Title: "The Structuring Opposition of Capitalist Modernity; Notes on History, Antisemitism, and the Holocaust"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: March 3, 2011

Description: Professor Moishe Postone relates historical changes and public responses to the Holocaust, especially on Left, to the historically changing configurations of capitalist modernity since 1945. He argues that the public responses to the Holocaust have tended to be structured by an opposition between abstract modes of universalism and concrete particularism. He argues that such responses have shifted with the changing configuration of capitalist modernity from a status configuration of the 1950s and 60s to a subsequent neo-liberal phase. He further maintains that the character of those responses and their relation to the changing configuration of capitalist modernity can be mediated by a theory of capital, on the one hand, and antisemitism on the other.

Speaker: Dr. Dorian F. Bell

Affiliation: Literature Department, University of California, Santa Cruz

Title: "A 'Paradise of Parasites': Hannah Arendt, Antisemitism, and the Legacies of Empire"

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 7, 2011

Description: Professor Dorian F. Bell maintains that scholars of antisemitism have sometimes been loath to analogize between modern antisemitism and colonial racism, usually out of concern for maintaining the specificity of the Holocaust. Other critics, most famously Hannah Arendt, have identified a crucial step along the path to the Final Solution in nineteenth-century imperialism. Whatever the relative merits of these approaches, Dr. Dorian Bell maintains that even the latter has overlooked (or at least misapprehended) the extent to which antisemitism and empire were evolving in tandem even in the nineteenth century.