Labnet: Conf. Ann: Antisemitism in Theory and Practice: Legacies in Cultural and Political Thought - London 04/08

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[Cross-posted, with thanks, from H-Soz-u-Kult.AB]

From:    Miriam Haardt <haardtm at uni-bremen.de>
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Wiener Library and the Leo Baeck Institute London, London
28.04.2008-29.04.2008, Wiener Library, 4 Devonshire Street, London, W1W
5BH

Antisemitism in Theory and Practice: Legacies in Cultural and Political
Thought

London, 28 - 29 April 2008

An international conference organised by the Wiener Library and the Leo
Baeck Institute London as a contribution to the European Network for
Research into Historical and Current Antisemitism is taking place in
London on 28 and 29 April 2008 at the Wiener Library.

The conference will look at theories of antisemitism and antisemitic
legacies in modern cultural and political theories. 

There will be 3 stages:
1. Assessing the state of the art in modern theories of antisemitism.
2. Critically examining the problematic legacies that partly fostered
these theories.
3. Discussion of praxis orientated approaches of dealing with
antisemitism in a number of European countries (UK, France, Germany,
Poland, Hungary and Russia).

Admission is free but places are limited and need to be reserved in
advance. Please contact Neil Huckstepp on +44 20 7636 7247 or by email
info at Wienerlibrary.co.uk

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Programme

Monday, April 28

10.00am  Opening (Raphael Gross / Ben Barkow)

10.30-12.00pm  Panel 1: Frankfurt School & Cultural Studies

Chair: Michael Wildt; lectures: Anson Rabinbach / Birgit Erdle, The
Legacy of Hate in Current Cultural Theory; commentary Leonard Olschner

1.30-3.00pm Panel 2: Country Reports: Germany, Poland

Chair: tba; lectures: Juliane Wetzel, Teaching on Today's Antisemitism
in Germany: Challenges and Resistance, Michal Bilewicz, Fighting
Antisemitism in the Polish Classroom: Methods and their Effectiveness;
commentary: Antony Lerman

 
3.30-5.00pm  Panel 3: History & Sociology

Chair: Klaus Holz; lectures: Shulamit Volkov, Controversies over
Antisemitism: Old and New / Jan Weyand, A Gap Between Social Theory and
Theory of Antisemitism; commentary Werner Bergmann

 
Tuesday, April 29

9.00-10.30am     Panel 4: Theology & Philosophy

Chair: Christian Wiese; lectures: Tanja Hetzer, Antisemitism and "God's
Will": The Political Theology of Paul Althaus / Christopher Clark;
commentary Katharina von Kellenbach

11.00-12.30pm  Panel 5: Country Reports: Russia, Hungary

Chair: Andras Kovacs; lectures: Monika Kovacs, Cultural, Anti-Bias and
Holocaust Education - Different Approaches in Hungary / Alexander
Verkhovsky, Antisemitism in Putin's Russia; commentary: Stella Rock

2.00-3.30pm  Panel 6: Political Theory, Social Theory & Psychoanalysis

Chair: tba; lectures: Roger Griffin, Differentialist Racism and
Aryo-Islamist Holocaust Denial: Two Case Studies in Modernist
Antisemitism / Celine Surprenant, Moses and Monotheism: The Recent
Reception of Freud's Book on Antisemitism; commentary Brian Klug

 4.00-5.30pm  Panel 7: Country Reports: France, UK

Chair: Julian Jackson; lectures: Jean-Yves Camus, (Not so) New
Judeophobia and Old Stereotypes: Antisemitism in France After 2000 /
Mike Whine, Antisemitism in Britain - a facts-based analysis; commentary
Philip Spencer

5.30-6.00pm  Peter Pulzer: Closing remarks 

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Neil Huckstepp
+44 20 7636 7247 
info at Wienerlibrary.co.uk

Homepage
http://www.wienerlibrary.co.uk/educationandoutreach/conferences.aspx 

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages
http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=9087 

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