SEMINAR ON ANTISEMITISM IN COMPARATIVE PERSPECTIVE
2005-2006 Series
Co-sponsored by the Yale University Institution for Social and Policy Studies
and the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP)
For links to papers, click on author's name when underlined.
| FALL 2005 | |
| SEP 29 | Mark R. Cohen, Professor of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University "Antisemitism under Crescent and Cross in the Middle Ages" |
| OCT 6 | Anne Bayefsky, Senior Fellow, The Hudson Institute, Touro College Law Center "Antisemitism, Israel and the United Nations" |
| OCT 20 | Irving Abella, Professor of History, York University, Toronto "Old Wine in New Bottles: Old and New Antisemitism in Canada" Video Link |
| OCT 27 | Efraim Karsh - CANCELED |
| NOV 10 | David Hirsh, Lecturer in Sociology, Goldsmiths College, London "Antisemitism and the Left" Video Link |
| NOV 17 | Barry Kosmin, Director, Institute for the Study of Secularism in Society and Culture; Sociologist and Research Professor in Public Policy and Law, Trinity College "Judeophobia and the New European Extremism" Video Link |
| DEC 1 | Edward Kaplan, Professor of Management Sciences, Yale School of Management "Anti-Israel Sentiment Predicts Antisemitism in Europe: A Statistical Study" Video Link |
| SPRING 2006 | |
| JAN 19 | Benny Morris, Professor and Historian, Ben Guiron University, Beer Sheva "The Failure of Middle East Peacemaking, 2000 CE in Historical Perspective" Video Link |
| JAN 26 | Michael Oren, Senior Fellow, The Shalem Center, Jerusalem |
| FEB 2 | Irshad Manji, Fellow, International Security Studies, Yale University, and bestselling author of The Trouble with Islam Today: A Muslim's Call for Reform in her Faith "Muslim Anti-Semitism: Why it's not about Israel" Video Link |
| FEB 16 | Reverend Dr. Frederick J. Streets, Yale University Chaplain and faculty member with the Yale Divinity School and the Yale Child Study Center |
| MAR 2 | Morton Weinfeld, Professor and Chair in Canadian Ethnic Studies, McGill University, Montreal "Anti-Semitism in Quebec and Quebec Anti-Semitism: A Hybrid Creation of Tradition and Globalization" Video Link |
| MAR 23 | Robert Satloff, Executive Director, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy "In Search of Righteous Arabs: Heroes and Villains of the Holocaust's Long Reach into Arab Lands" Video Link |
| MAR 30 | Emanuele Ottolenghi, Research Fellow, St. Antony's College, Oxford, UK "Neither Auschwitz nor The Brotherhood of Mankind: some reflections on the current state of European anti-Semitism" Video Link |
| APR 6 | Alvin H. Rosenfeld, Director of Jewish Studies, Indiana University, Bloomington "Progressive Jewish Thought and the New Antisemitism" Video Link |
| APR 20 | Martha Nussbaum, Professor of Law and Ethics, University of Chicago "The Hindu Right in India and its Debt to German Antisemitism" Video Link |
| APR 27 | Deborah Lipstadt, Director, The Rabbi Donald A. Tam Institute for Jewish Studies, Emory University "Holocaust Denial from David Irving to Iranian Conferences: Flat Earth Theory or a Clear and Present Danger?" Video Link |
| MAY 4 | Dina Porat, Professor and Head, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Racism" and Anti-Semitism, Tel-Aviv University "New Antisemitism: The Tension Between Its Classical and Political Aspects" Video Link |
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