Special Conference

The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism presents

YIISA Symposium:
"Understanding Facets of Contemporary Antisemitism"

Friday, April 3, 2009

Yale University – Davies Auditorium
15 Prospect Street, New Haven, CT 06520

Conference Schedule

Welcome and Introduction
10:15AM - 10:30AM - Charles Small, YIISA Director - Biography

Keynote Speaker
10:30AM - 10:50AM - Yossi Klein Halevi, Senior Fellow, The Shalem Center

Session #1 (Video #1) (Video #2)

"Anti-Judaism and Antisemitism: The Jew in the European Historical Imagination"
11:00AM - 11:20AM - Anat Plocker, YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate - Biography

“Antisemitism as an Academic Topic”
11:20AM - 11:40AM - Ben Herzog, YIISA Graduate Fellow - Biography

Panel Discussion
11:40AM - 11:55AM

Lunch Break
12:00PM - 12:50PM

Session #2 (Video #2) (Video #3)

“In/Differences: Antisemitism in Relation to (Other) Racisms in the German Context”
1:00PM - 1:20PM - Annette Seidel-Arpaci, YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate - Biography

"The Psychological Mechanisms Underlie the Protocols of the Elders of Zion and their Contribution to Contemporary Manifestations of Antisemitism"
1:20PM - 1:40PM - Idit Shalev, YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate - Biography

Panel Discussion
1:40PM - 1:55PM

Refreshment Break
1:55PM - 2:10PM

Session #3 (Video #3) (Video #4)

"Israel-Bashing and Antisemitism"
2:10PM - 2:30PM - Joshua Kaplan, YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate - Biography

“Islamic Antisemitism and the Failure of Western Academia”
2:30PM - 2:50PM - Clemens Heni, YIISA Post-Doctorate Associate - Biography

"New Avenues on Campus Antisemitism"
2:50PM - 3:10PM - Cosmina Paul, YIISA Post-Graduate Fellow - Biography

Panel Discussion
3:10PM - 3:55PM

Closing Remarks
3:55PM - 4:25PM


For more information email Lauren Clark, yiisa.program@yale.edu; (203)432-5239