DAY 5 - Thursday, February 22, 2018

TIMEROOMCODE CHAIR: Klaus DAVIDOWICZ
9.00 - 9.10 a.m.Lecture Hall C1

INTRO

Introduction by Chair

Klaus DAVIDOWICZ

9.10 - 9.40 a.m.Lecture Hall C1

Leadership Talk

Leadership Talk IX

Irwin COTLER

9.40 - 10.10 a.m.Lecture Hall C1

MEDa Plenary

"Contemporary Visual Antisemitism: Words Fade But Images Remain"

Frank STERN

COFFEE BREAK

TIMEROOMCODE 
10.30 - 11.00 a.m.Lecture Hall C1

JUR Plenary

"The Critical Importance of Independent NGOs in the Battle against Antisemitism"

Calev MYERS

11.00 - 11.30 a.m.Lecture Hall C1

POL Plenary

"The Fight against Antisemitism and the Iranian Threat: Challenges and Contradictions in the Light of Adorno’s Categorical Imperative"

Stephan GRIGAT

11.30 a.m. - 12.30 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

Plenary

Concluding Discussion of Plenary Sessions

Chair: Wolfgang WIESHAIDER

LUNCH BREAK

TIMEROOMCODE 
2.30 - 3.00 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

INT 5

"Antisemitism and Anti-Americanism on the Internet"

Marc NEUGRÖSCHEL

2.30 - 3.00 p.m.Seminarraum 1

JUR 5

"The Use of Civil Rights Law to Address Campus Anti-Semitism in the United States"

Kenneth MARCUS

2.30 - 3.00 p.m.Seminarraum 2

SOC 4

"Antisemitism – a Paranoia?"

Thomas GERGELY

2.30 - 3.00 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 1

"Early Christian Anti-Judaism"

Leonard RUTGERS, read by Constanza CORDONI

2.30 - 3.00 p.m.Aula

CON 9

"Combating Antisemitism through International Action: How effective has it been?"

Michael WHINE

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

INT 6

"Antisemitic Jokes in the Internet"

Ruth WODAK

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Lecture Hall C2

ISR 4

"Comparisons between Israel and Nazi Germany in contemporary German discourse"

Linda GIESEL

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.H1 Jewish Studies

JUD 5

"The Dead Sea Scrolls and Anti-Semitism: Past Results and Future Possibilities"

Eileen SCHULLER

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Seminarraum 1

JUR 6

"Are the new forms of Antisemitism recognized in European countries' legal systems?"

Talia NAAMAT

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Seminarraum 2

SOC 5

"The Phantasm of the Jew in French Philosophy: From Jean-Paul Sartre to Alain Badiou"

Vivan LISKA

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 2

"Titus and the Burning of the Temple - Judeophobia and Judeophilia: Josephus, Sulpicius Severus, Orosius and the Talmudic Literature"

Yuval SHAHAR

3.00 - 3.30 p.m.Aula

CON 10

"The FN, Israel and the Jews"

Jean-Yves CAMUS

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

INT 7

"Solving Antisemitic Hate Speech in Social Media Through a Global Approach to Local Action"

Andre OBOLER

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Lecture Hall C2

ISR 5

"„Israel threatens to defend herself“: The Depiction of Israel in the Media"

Florian MARKL

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.H1 Jewish Studies

JUD 6

"Studies of Jews and Judaism in Post-Stalinist Soviet Union"

Gennady ESTRAIKH

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Seminarraum 1

JUR 7

"Statutory Negationism and Civil Law Measures for Fixing Defective Memory Laws - the Case of Recent Polish Legislation on Defamation of the Polish State and Nation"

Wojciech KOZŁOWSKI

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Seminarraum 2

SOC 6

"How Much Anti-Semitism is Really There? A "Continuous" View of Anti-Semitism"

Daniel STAETSKY

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 3

"Anti-Jewish and anti-Muslim views in early Byzantium"

Youval ROTMAN

3.30 - 4.00 p.m.Aula

CON 11

"Thinking locally, acting globally"

Jeremy JONES

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

INT 8

"Evaluation of Best Practices to Combat Antisemitism on Social Media "

Günther JIKELI

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Lecture Hall C2

ISR 6

"Public International Law and the Palestinian Knot"

Wolfgang BOCK

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.H1 Jewish Studies

JUD 7

"The Impact of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe’s Discovery of the “Original” Version of the Ten Commandments upon Biblical Scholarship: The Myth of Jewish Particularism and German Universalism"

Bernard M. LEVINSON

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Seminarraum 1

JUR 8

"Using Litigation To Raise The Criminal, Professional And Reputational Cost Of Expressing Antisemitism In Britain"

Gideon FALTER

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Seminarraum 2

SOC 7

"The Fundamentals of Anti-Semitism"

Sergio DELLAPERGOLA

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 4

"The Invention of “Religion” in the Codex Theodosianus Book 16"

Paula FREDRIKSEN

4.00 - 4.30 p.m.Aula

CON 12

"Sister Rose's Battle against Antisemitism"

Alan SILBERSTEIN

COFFEE BREAK

TIMEROOMCODE 
5.00 - 6.00 p.m.Lecture Hall C1

INT

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM II

Chair: Andre OBOLER, Monika SCHWARZ-FRIESEL and Ruth WODAK

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.Lecture Hall C2

ISR

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM II

Chair: Evyatar FRIESEL

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.H1 Jewish Studies

JUD

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM II

Chair: Lawrence SCHIFFMAN

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.Seminarraum 1

JUR

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM II

Chair: Aleksandra GLISZCZYŃSKA-GRABIAS

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.Seminarraum 2

SOC

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM II

Chair: Lars DENCIK

5.00 - 5.30 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 5

”The Blood-Libel and the Leper-Libel: Ancient Anti-Semitism?”

Erich GRUEN

5.00 - 6.00 p.m.Aula

CON

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM III

Chair: Dina PORAT

5.30 - 6.00 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 6

”Jews and non-Jews in Ancient Cities: Alexandria, Antioch, Caesarea, Rome”

Benjamin ISAAC

6.00 - 7.00 p.m.Seminarraum 3

ANC 6

DISCUSSION OF POLICIES TO FIGHT ANTISEMITISM

Chair: Benjamin ISAAC

7.00 - 10.00 p.m.Lecture Hall Building

Evening Event

Conference Closing Reception

by invitation only


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