Antisemitism in the contemporary world Melbourne Australia Timetable

Antisemitism in the contemporary world

Conference Program

Sunday	Monday

Sunday 6 February, 2005
9-9:30am	Opening
9:30-10:30am	Professor Dina PORAT - Trends in global antisemitism today
10:30-12 noon	Concurrent sessions Antisemitism and the Left in Australia Barbara BLOCH/Angela BUDAI - Israel and the Australian Left since the Second Intifada Donna Jacobs SIFE - Experiences of a left activist in Sydney Dawn COHEN - The Byron Bay Experience: Strategies for changing antisemitism in alternative, left wing Australia Is there "new" antisemitism? Dr George HALASZ - is new antisemitism really 'new'? Dr Philip MENDES - Antisemitism/antizionism Dr Peter Sheldon - Antisemitism and the libertarian left Antisemitism on campus Joseph SOLOMON - Antisemitism on campus Vanessa STEINBERG - Antisemitism at LaTrobe Dr Rob BAUM - Antisemitism on campus
12 noon - 1pm	Dr Daniel PIPES - Politics of Muslim Antisemitism
1-1:30pm	LUNCH
1:30 - 2:00pm	Professor Jack JACOBS - Frankfurt School and new antisemitism
2:30 - 4:00pm	Conceptualising and identifying antisemitism Professor Colin TATZ - Differing forms of antisemitism Professor Andrew MARKUS - Dehumanising the Jew warning signs Vivienne PORSZOLT - Antisemitism under the bed Current manifestations of antisemitism in Australia Jeremy JONES - To be advised Associate Professor Danny BEN-MOSHE - Antisemitism in ideology of Australian far right Melinda JONES - Can legal strategies combat antisemitism? Jewish-Muslim relations Dr Julie RUTH - Improving Jewish-Muslim relations David BITEL - Perceptions of Australian Bangladeshis of Jews, Israel and the Middle East conflict and antisemitism Jean-Yves CAMUS - Alliance between French left and Islam
4:00 - 6:00pm	Jews and the Media panel Dan GOLDBERG (chairperson) David Knoll Tzvi FLEISCHER Michael VISONTAY Paul GRAY Barney ZWARTZ
4:00 - 5:30pm	Is antisemitism protected in Australia? Dr Rodney GOUTTMAN - Waiting for Balak - new Australian antisemitism David KNOLL - Are civil rights for Australian Jews at risk? Associate Professor Dough KIRSNER - Antisemitism resolutions by Australian parliaments Workshop Louisa FLANDER - Workshop - healing the hurts of Antisemitism
Sunday Evening
8:-9:30pm	Community Forum “When does criticism of Israel become antisemitic?”

Monday 7 February, 2005
9:00 - 10:00am	Professor Stanley WATERMAN - Judeophobia in the UK and Europe
10 - 11:30am	European Antisemitism Alissa BOZHKO - Antisemitism in Ukrainian Publications Charles GIVRE/ Justin O'CONNOR - New antisemitism in western Europe Daniel GARCIA - Confession of a Merchero Swiss Antisemitism Dr Christina SPRAETI - Left-wing antisemitism in Switzerland Dr Simon ERLANGER - Swiss antisemitism Left-wing attitudes to Zionism and Israel Emeritus Professor Sol ENCEL - Left antisemitism Itiel BERESON - Left-wing attitudes to Jews and Zionism Dr David GLANZ - Political Zionism and the erasure of dissent
11:30 - 12:30pm	Itamar MARCUS - Palestinian anti-Jewish hatred and incitement
12:30 - 1:30pm	Dr Natan KELLERMAN - Holocaust Education
1:30 - 2pm	LUNCH
2:- 4:00pm	Jews and the Left panel Dr Philip MENDES (chairperson) Ian COHEN MP Peter HOLDING Alan MATHESON Guy RUNDLE
2 - 3:30pm	Workshop Lindall KATZ - Workshop - Internalised Antisemitism Antisemitism, Islam and the Middle East today Emeritus Professor Clive KESSLER - Muslim antisemitism in history and today Dr Yitzhak REITER - Denial of Jewish affiliation to Jerusalem Associate Professor Suzanne RUTLAND - Iraq - a Zionist war? Traces of antisemitism: what is common across time and space? Dr Rachel BIRATI - Language of antisemitism in Aharon Appelfeld Bruria BERGMAN - The Prague trial - pre 1967 verificatory case of the contemporary global camouflage of antizionism as antisemitism Associate Professor Michael SCHWARTZ - The 'Riehl revival' and the Greens
2 - 3pm 4 - 5:15 pm	The US and Antisemitism Professor Kitty Millet - The opportunity of antisemitism Dr Amir HETSRONI - The Representation of Jews on Prime-Time Television Programming in the USA Closing plenum - Where to now? Itamar MARCUS Dr Natan KELLERMAN Prof. Stanley WATERMAN Prof. Jack JACOBS Australian respondents

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