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Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity (August 23-25, 2010)
The IASA/YIISA Inaugural Conference "Global Antisemitism - A Crisis of Modernity" was presented by The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism and sponsored in part by Isaac and Jessie Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town. Also in association with the The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University, and the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, Indiana University, the Rabin Chair Forum, George Washington University, the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birbeck College, University of London.
Conference Schedule
Monday, August 23, 2010 - Wednesday, August 25, 2010
8:00am - 6:00pm
Loria Center, 200 York Street, Second Floor
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
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Keynote and Plenary Speakers Included:
Irwin Cotler, McGill University, Montreal
Jeffrey Herf, University of Maryland
Richard Landes, Boston University
Deborah Lipstadt, Emory University, Atlanta
Meir Litvak, Tel Aviv University
Menahem Milson, Hebrew University; MEMRI
Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University
Milton Shain, University of Cape Town
Bassam Tibi, University of Goettingen, Germany
Ruth Wisse, Harvard University
Speakers included:
Rifat Bali, Alberto Benveniste Center for Sephardic Studies, Paris
Edward Beck, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
Ulrike Becker, University of Stuttgart, Germany; YIISA
Nicolas Bechter, University of Vienna, Austria
Doron Ben-Atar, Fordham University, New York
Heiko Beyer, University of Goettingen, Gemany
Linda Blanshay, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles
Suzette Blom, University of Guelph, Canada
Magnus Brechtken, University of Nottingham, UK
Catherine Chatterley, Univrsity of Manitoba, Winnipeg
Phyllis Chesler, City University of New York
Abraham Cooper, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Los Angeles
Shalem Coulibaly, University of Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso
David Lebovitch Dahl, University of Copenhagen
Arnold Dashefsky, University of Connecticut
Javier Dominguez Arribas, University Paris XIII
Mark Dubowitz, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Washington
Samuel Edelman, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East
Sammy Eppel, Director, Human Rights Commission, B'nai Brith, Venezuela
Samuel Feldberg, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
David Feldman, Birkbeck College, University of London
Stephen Feldman, University of Wyoming
Jonathan Fighel, International Institute for Counter Terrorism, IDC, Herzliya
Robert David Fine, University of Warwick, UK
Paul Finkelman, Albany Law School
Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Polish Academy of Sciences
Nora Gold, University of Toronto
Lina Gorenstein Ferreira da Silva, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Gloria Greenfield, Doc Emet Productions, Inc., Boston
Anne Herzberg, NGO Monitor
Arye L. Hillman, Bar-Ilan University
David Hirsh, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Defne Jones, Indiana University
Jonathan Judaken, University of Memphis
Gilbert Kahn, Kean University, New Jersey
Adam Katz, Quinnipiac University, Connecticut
Charles Richard King, Washington State University
Barry Kosmin, Trinity College, Hartford
Michael Kotzin, Jewish Federation of Metropolitan Chicago
Neil Kressel, William Paterson University, New Jersey
Marek Kucia, Jagiellonian University Poland
Elisabeth Kuebler, University of Vienna, Austria
Jacob Lassner, Northwestern University, Chicago
Phyllis Lassner, Northwestern University, Chicago
Kenneth Lasson, University of Baltimore School of Law
Leslie S. Lebl, Lebl Associates, Connecticut
Daniela Tonello Levy, University of Sao Paulo, Brazil
Kenneth Marcus, Baruch College, CUNY
Bjoern Milbradt, University of Marburg, Germany
Ed Morgan, University of Toronto
Alberto Nisman, Universidad Nacional de Buenos Aires
Hilda Nissimi, Bar-Ilan University
Anita Novinsky, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Ilana Waingort Novinsky, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
Miriam Bettina Oelsner, Sao Paulo University, Brazil
David Alan Patterson, University of Texas at Dallas
Winston Pickett, European Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, London
Catherine Power, McGill University, Montreal
Sharon Power, York University, Toronto
Walter Reich, George Washington University, Washington DC
Lars Peter Rensmann, University of Michigan
Paul Lawrence Rose, Pennsylvania State University
Alan Rosenbaum, Cleveland State University
Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University
Jennifer Roskies, Bar-Ilan University
Terry Rowden, College of Staten Island/CUNY
Shimon Samuels, Simon Wiesenthal Center, Paris
Marianna Scherini, University of Siena, Austria
Antonia Schmid, Bergische Universitat Wuppertal, Germany
David Seymour, Lancaster University, UK
David Sokol, Vermont
Peter Staudenmaier, University of Montana
Karin Stoegner, Central European University, Budapest
Robin Stoller, International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism, IIBSA, Berlin
Lara Trubowitz, University of Iowa
Daniel Tsadik, Yeshiva University, New York
Alexander Tsesis, Loyola University Chicago School of Law
Sebastian Voigt, Simon-Dubnow-Institute for Jewish History and Culture, Germany
Abraham Wagner, Columbia University
Mark Weitzman, Simon Wiesenthal Center, New York
Michael Whine, Community Security Trust, London
Barbara Wind, Holocaust Council of MetroWest, New Jersey
...and more leading scholars!
Special Events
Monday, August 23, 2010 - 8:00pm
Gala Diner
The Omni Hotel
155 Temple Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Tuesday, August 24, 2010 - 8:00pm
Reading of the Play "Peace Warriors" by Doron Ben-Atar
Sudler Hall, Second Floor
William Harkness Hall, 100 Wall Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Hotel Information
Omni Hotel
155 Temple Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Phone: 203.772.6664
The Study at Yale
1157 Chapel Street
New Haven, Connecticut
Phone: 203.503.3900
The Premiere Hotel and Suites
3 Long Wharf Drive
New Haven, Connecticut
Phone: 866.458.0232
La Quinta
400 Sargent Drive
New Haven, Connecticut
Phone: 203.562.1111
Parking
Parking is available at public lots and on-street meters. Meters are $1.25/hour. New Haven transit parking cards or vouchers are also available at the New Haven Free Public Library (133 Elm Street) or at the Vistor's Center (corner of College and Chapel Streets).
Suggested parking lots:
Chapel/York Garage: On York Street between Chapel and Crown
Neon Garage or Schiavone Lot: On Crown Street between High and College
Omni Hotel Parking Lot: 155 Temple Street
More parking information can be found by calling 203.946.8075.