Jews and Strangers International and Interdisciplinary Conference
SCHEDULE.
First Panel: Imagining the Stranger
9.15-9.35:
Prof Efraim Sicher (Ben Gurion University, Beer-Sheva, Israel)
‘The Daughter of Germany: The Stranger Within the Jewish Imaginary’
9.35-9.55:
Dr Maxime Decout (Lille University, France)
‘Jews as Strangers, Strangers as Jews in the Post-War French Novel’
9.55-10.15:
Prof Jonathan Gill (Amsterdam University College, the Netherlands)
‘Show Yourself to Me: Diane Arbus’s Radical Otherings’
10.15- 10.35:
Dr Søren Blak Hjortshøj (Roskilde University, Denmark)
‘Boundaries of the Stranger: the Contributing Stranger, Cosmopolitanism and the Jewish Question’
10.35-10.50: Questions
10.50-11.05: tea/coffee break
Second Panel: Jewish Stranger among Jews
11.05-11.25:
Dr Eyal Davidson (Orot Israel College and Herzog College, Israel)
‘The Attitude of the Jews in the Land of Israel toward the Marranos in the Sixteenth Century’.
11.25-11.45:
Dr Federico Dal Bo (University of Barcelona, Spain)
‘“They Are Not My People” Mysticism and Political Extremism in Henry Bean’s Script The Believer (2001)’.
11.45-12.05:
Dr Olga Tabachnikova (University of Central Lancashire, UK):
‘Russian Jewish Writers in the Post-Soviet World: The Question of Self-Identification in Literature and Life’.
12.05-12.20 Questions
12.20-13.20: Lunch by the Strudel Café
13.20-14.15: Keynote lecture, followed by 15 minutes questions: Prof Maurice Samuels (Yale University, USA) ‘Friendship and Betrayal: The Duchess de Berry, Simon Deutz, and Modern France’s First Anti-Semitic Affair’
Third Panel: Jews, Strangers and Colonialism
14.15-14.35:
Prof Shirli Gilbert (University of Southampton, UK)
‘Jewish Identity and Racism in South Africa’.
14.35-14.55:
Dr Shira Klein (Chapman University, USA)
‘Strange Brothers: Italian Jews, African Jews, and the Colonization of Africa’.
14.55-15.15:
Dr Claire Le Foll (University of Southampton, UK)
‘Jews and Poles in the Belorussian Provinces of the Russian Empire: The Confrontation of Two “Alien” Groups at the End of the Nineteenth Century’.
15.30-15.45: Tea /Coffee break
15:15-15.30: Questions
Fourth Panel: Welcoming the Stranger
15.45-16.05:
Prof Chad Alan Goldberg (University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA)
‘The Stranger in Germany and America’.
16.05-16.25:
Dr Mathias Berek (Technische Universität Berlin, Germany)
‘Rights of the Stranger in Jewish Moral: Reactions to M. Lazarus’ Ethics of Judaism in Imperial Germany’.
16.25-16.45:
Dr Catherine Bartlett (University of Surrey, UK)
‘The Orphan as the Stranger in Nineteenth-Century European Jewish Fiction’
16.45-17.00 Questions
17.00-19.00: Afternoon Tea by the Strudel Café