Speaker: Dr. Stephen Norwood

Affiliation: History Department, University of Oklahoma

Title: "Legitimating Nazism: American Universities and the Third Reich"

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: February 24, 2011

Description: Dr. Stephen Norwood maintains that during the 1930s, American university campuses forged friendly ties with early Nazi party universities and in doing so helped enhance the Hitler regime’s prestige in the West. Many universities welcomed Nazi officials to campus and eagerly participated in Nazi propaganda. The Nazis believed universities to be critical in their efforts to disseminate propaganda, underlying the Nazi ideology which began by expelling Jews from faculty positions, burning books and ultimately ended in their desire to annihilate the Jewish people. Yet, as the Nazis continued to take steps to isolate and ostracize European Jewry, many leaders of American universities failed to take steps against the Nazi assault on academic freedom.

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Tsadik

Affiliation: Assistant Professor of Sepharadic and Iranian Studies, Yeshiva University, New York

Title: "Some Notes on Antisemitism in Iran"

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: February 10, 2011

Description: Dr. Daniel Tsadik speaks about the antisemitic tendencies of the Iranian regime and offers historical perspectives in order to better understand these modern, genocidal antisemitic beliefs.

Title: "Confronting and Combating Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy"

Speakers, Affiliations and Titles:

Speaker: Dr. Edward Beck

Affiliation: Walden University

Title: "Engaging, Educating and Empowering Faculty to Address Issues of Antisemitism in the Academy"

Speaker: Dr. Samuel Edelman

Affiliation: California State University, Chico

Title: "Short Term and Long Term Strategies for Faculty Partnering with the Community and Students to Enhance Faculty Effectiveness in Reducing Antisemitism as Anti-Israelism on Campus"

Speaker: Dr. Linda Blanshay

Affiliation: Simon Wiesenthal Center

Title: "Antisemitism on California University Campuses and the Simon Wiesenthal Center Response"

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 confronting and combating contemporary antisemitism in the academy.

Speaker: Dr. Bassam Tibi

Affiliation: Professor Emeritus of International Relations, University of Goettingen

Title: "The Islamist Islamization of 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: August 24, 2010

Description: Dr. Bassam Tibi maintains that while there are many varieties of antisemitisms, Islamism is one of the most dangerous form of antisemitism in the world. He goes on to emphasize the importance of distinguishing between Islam and Islamism. Islamism, which grows out of Islam, wants to establish an Islamist shariah state and reestablish the dominant world order.

Speaker: Susan Benesch

Affiliation: Senior Fellow and Project Director, World Policy Institute

Title: Antisemitism, Islamophobia, and the Contours of International Human Rights Law

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

Location: Harvard Law School, Cambridge, MA

Date: November 28, 2012

Description: Susan Benesch speaks about how to understand, classify and respond to various forms of hate speech that have become increasingly evident around the world. Benesch examines three primary questions:

1) How can we understand or classify these forms of inflammatory speech in the doctrinal contours of International Human Rights Law?

2) What can this law do to litigate the danger of these forms of speech?

3) Are there other remedies that should be considered?

Speaker: Stephanie Courouble Share

Affiliation: Research Fellow, Arnold and Leona Finkler Institute of Holocaust Research, Bar Ilan University; L’Institut d’histoire du temps present, Paris; The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, New York

Title: "International Holocaust Denial: A Comparative Analysis of a Public Issue"

Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Date: November 13, 2012

Description: Stephanie Courouble Share speaks about international Holocaust denial and questions whether to engage and combat Holocaust deniers or to simply ignore them. She goes on to explain the roots of Holocaust denial, while simultaneously engaging in a chronological and geographical analysis of this lethal phenomenon.

Title: "US Foreign Policy and the Rise of Islamism: The Abandonment of Human Rights and Democratic Principles? A Colloquium"

Speakers and Affiliations:

Speaker: Russell Berman

Affiliation: Department of Humanities, Stanford University; Senior Fellow, Hoover Institution

Speaker: Boaz Ganor

Affiliation: Ronald Lauder Chair for Counter-Terrorism, Interdisciplinary Center (IDC), Herzliya; Founder and Executive Director of the International Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT)

Speaker: Abraham D. Sofaer

Affiliation: Senior Fellow in Foreign Policy and National Security Affairs, Hoover Institution

Speaker: Lieutenant Colonel Brian Linvill

Affiliation: National Security Affairs Fellow, Hoover Institution

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

Location: The Hoover Institution, Stanford University

Date: October 29, 2012

Description: Speakers discuss US foreign policy, the rise of Islamism, as well as the abandonment of human rights and democratic principles.

Speaker: Dr. Daniel Sibony

Affiliation: French philosopher and psychoanalyst

Title: "The Essence of Antisemitism: Is it too Simple to be Understood?"

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

Location: McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Date: October 16, 2012

Description: Dr. Daniel Sibony explains the complexities as well as the fundamental simplicity of the phenomenon of age-old antisemitism. He notes that hatred for the Jews as a whole emanates, in part, due to the fact that the Jewish people exist despite all odds, complexities, and catastrophes.

Speaker: Dr. Harry Goulbourne

Affiliation: Honorary Professor of Sociology, London South Bank University; Visiting Professor of Sociology, University of Leeds

Title: "Religion: Enemy of 'The Open Society' in Post Imperial Britain"

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

Location: Fordham University, New York

Date: October 4, 2012

Description: Professor Harry Goulbourne speaks about race relations and multiculturalism in Britain. He discuses the many challenges, such as religion, faced by post-imperial British society and how to grapple with these issues in the context of the post-imperial condition.

Speaker: Dr. Jeffrey Herf

Affiliation: Department of History, University of Maryland

Title: "At War with Israel: Some Recent Findings on East Germany and the West German Radical Left from the 1960s to 1989"

Location: Fordham University, New York

Date: November 15, 2012

Description: Dr. Jeffery Herf examines the attitudes of the East German government and West German radical leftist organizations to the State of Israel and its adversaries. He provides new insights into the West German radicals who collaborated with Palestinian terrorist groups, and claims that East Germany, along with others in the Soviet Bloc, had a much greater impact on the Middle East conflict than generally presumed. He goes on to focus on the German Democratic Republic (GDR) and draws the conclusion that the East German government was approaching a state of war with the State of Israel.