Zionism as a Cultural Movement Conference, Brown University, April 6-7, 2014

Sunday, April 6 11:00 AM-12:15 PM Pembroke 305 Keynote Address Speaker: Author, Ronit Matalon Reflections on Zionism and Writing: Literature in an Ideological Context Chair: Rachel Rojanski, Brown University

1:15-3:15 PM Panel I –The Zionist Idea and Jewish Culture

The Culture-Moment in Early Jewish Nationalism David Myers, UCLA

Bonfire at Arnona or Crucifixion at Golgotha? Bruce Saposnik, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Israel

Travel, Tourism and Cultural Zionism in Theodore Herzl's Altneuland Dimitry Shumsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

“Flowing with Milk and Honey”: Science, Cows, and the Burdens of Producing a Sacred Land Tamar Novick, University of Pennsylvania

Chair: Maud Mandel, Brown University ======3:30-5:30 PM Panel II- Power and Powerlessness in Hebrew Literature

Zionist Literature: The Impossibility of the Rhetoric of Partition, Hannan Hever, Yale University Zionism as a Cultural Movement

Oedipus in Kishinev: The Tragic Turn in Early Zionist Culture Mikhal Dekel, CUNY, City College

Politics of Powerlessness: Zionism and Sexual Violence in Early Hebrew Literature Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University

Rethinking Tel-Aviv as a Zionist Space, Barbara Mann, Jewish Theological Seminary

Chair: Ilan Troen, Brandeis University

======7:30-9:15 PM Pembroke 305 Evening Program Concert Chamber Music Performed by Israeli Musicians

Program

Oedoen Partos, Agada for Viola and Piano

Mordechai Seter, “Intimo” for Flute and Piano

Mark Lavry, Trio for Flute, Viola and Piano

Oded Zehavi, Four songs for Soprano and Piano

Musicians:

Yossi Arnheim, Principal Flutist, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Lotem Beider, Viola, Israel Philharmonic Orchestra

Irena Friedland, Piano, Israel

Claire Meghnagi, Soprano, Israel

Musical director and opening remarks: Oded Zehavi, University of Haifa

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Supported by: Ruth and Joseph Moskow Fund, Knapp Family Foundation, Scheuer Fund, Creative Arts Council, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the Department of History Zionism as a Cultural Movement

Monday, April 7 9:00-11:00 AM Brown/RISD Hillel Symposium: Ideology, Politics, and culture – The Zionist Case

Israel Bartal, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

David Engel, New York University

Derek Penslar, Oxford University and University of Toronto

Steve Zipperstein, Stanford University

Moderator: Rachel Rojanski, Brown University

11:10 AM-1:00 PM Brown/RISD Hillel Panel III: Representations and Critiques

Longing for Sinai: Zionism as a Jewish Critique of Culture in the Work of M. L. Lilienblum, Ahad Ha'am and M. J. Berdyczewski. Olga Litvak, Clark University

The Synagogue and the Library; Jewish Intellectuals and the Zionist Movement in Warsaw and Lwów at the End of the Nineteen Century Ela Bauer, Kibbutzim College, Israel

“A Cult of Labor”: Popular Representations of Zionist Pioneering in Interwar Poland Rona Yona, Tel-Aviv University

Chair: Ofer Dynes, Harvard University ======1:45- 3:15 PM Brown/RISD Hillel Panel IV: A New Visual Culture

A Knesset in the Jungle: The Building of the Sierra-Leone Parliament (1960-1961) Ayala Levin, Columbia University

Supported by: Ruth and Joseph Moskow Fund, Knapp Family Foundation, Scheuer Fund, Creative Arts Council, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the Department of History Zionism as a Cultural Movement

Between the Star of David and the Olive: Towards a Shared Symbolic Space in Israel? Hizky Shoham, Bar-Ilan University

Rethinking Cinema and the Place of the Individual in Israeli Society: The Aporia of Zionist Cultural History. Eric Zakim, University of Maryland

Chair: Omer Bartov, Brown University

3:15- 5:00 PM Brown/RISD Hillel Panel V: Zionism in Music

When Hermann Cohen Cried: Hebrew Music and the Imprint of Empire James Loeffler, University of Virginia

The Intricate Relations of "Jewish" and "Zionist": Music by Jewish and Israeli Composers, 1933-1973 Yuval Shaked, University of Haifa, Israel

Reflections: The Land of Israel and Its Representation in the Music of Ben-Haim, Partos, Engel and Lavry Oded Zehavi, University of Haifa, Israel

Chair: Mary Gluck, Brown University

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Supported by: Ruth and Joseph Moskow Fund, Knapp Family Foundation, Scheuer Fund, Creative Arts Council, The Cogut Center for the Humanities, and the Department of History