CJS and TAU Symposium: Revolutions, Religion, and the Politics of Negotiating Space
Monday, August 31
8:00–9:00 Breakfast Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery (WID)
9:00–9:15 Welcome/opening remarks CJS Director, Simone Schweber Conference and Collaboration Visionary, Richard Sincere Moshe Dayan Center Director, Uzi Rabi Associate Dean Greg Downey
9:15-10:45 Panel #1: Jordan Rosenblum, “’Blessings of the Breasts’: Breastfeeding in Rabbinic Literature” Jewish Law, Jewish Culture from the Rabbis to the Present Catherine Bonesho, “Rabbinic Memory of Roman Betrayal in the Prohibition of Kratesis in b. 'Avodah Zarah 8b”
Roberta Kwall, “Jewish Law, Culture and Identity: A Comparison of Israel and the U.S.”
Moderator: Jeremy Hutton
10:45-11:00 Coffee break
11:00-12:15 Panel #2 Joel Berkowitz, “In These Days of Job: Yiddish Drama After the Holocaust” Literature and its Contexts Patricia Roesnmeyer, “Translation as Cultural Strategy”
Rachel Feldhay Brenner, “Looking at the Ghetto from the Aryan Side: The War Diaries of Jarosław Iwaszkiewicz and Maria Dąbrowska”
Moderator: Mark Louden
12:15-2:00 Lunch
2:00-3:15 Panel #3: Lisa Silverman, “History, Memory, and Vienna’s Jewish Geography." Memory and its Discontents Joyce Van de Bildt, “Memoirs as an Islamic manifesto: A vision for the ideal Muslim society as expressed in Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood memoirs from the 1970s”
Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt, “Memory, politics and silence in the Jewish-Chilean community: Remembrance of the Jewish victims of State repression”
Moderator: Anna Paretskaya
3:15-3:30 Coffee break
3:30-4:45 Panel #4: Jordan Colosi, “Cultural Imagery of Jews as a Symbolic Laboratory in Nineteenth Century British Anti-Semitism and Anti-Judaism Science”
Chad Goldberg, “Modernity and the Jews in European and American Social Thought”
Esther Webman, “Rethinking the Role of Religion in the Arab Antisemitic Discourses”
Moderator: Ivan Ermakoff
5:30-7:00 Dinner
7:00 Michael Walzer Public Lecture Secular Revolutions and Religious Counter-revolutions: The Zionist Case Introduction by Steven Nadler
Tuesday, September 1
8:00–9:00 Breakfast WID
9:00-10:15 Reading groups/roundtables Discussion of Walzer’s lecture and readings in small groups with Howard Schweber
10:15-10:30 Coffee break
10:30-11:45 Panel #5: Mira Tzoreff, “The Hybrid Women of the Arab Spring Revolutions: Islamization of War and Revolution in the Middle East Feminism, Feminization of Islam”
Hayder Al-Mohammed, “New confrontations with death and dying in Iraq”
Yael Aronoff, “The Political Psychology of Israeli Prime Ministers: When Hard-Liners Opt for Peace”
Moderator: Anna Gade 12:00-1:30 Lunch
1:30-2:45 Panel #6: Aaron Dowdall, “Moving Israel “Westwards”: American Labor, the Histadrut, and Anti- The USA, Israel and Labor Communism in Israel during the 1950s”
Tony Michels, “American Marxists, Zionism, and Israel”
Tal Elmaliach, “The American-Jewish Dream of Progressive Israel: An Historical Overview”
Moderator: Chad Alan Goldberg
2:45-3 Coffee break
3-4:15 Panel #7: Duygu Atlas, “Disappearance of Non-Muslim Minorities from Public Space in Turkey: The Jewish Minorities/Non-Jewish Case of Turkish Jews” Majorities Daniel Hummel, “An ‘Apostle to the Gentiles’: Rabbi Marc H. Tanenbaum and Jewish- Christian Dialogue”
Jonathan Z.S Pollack, “ Rags! Clothes! Bottles! Jewish Scrap Dealers in North American Popular Culture”
Moderator: Amoz Bitzan
5:30-7:00 Dinner 7:00 Uzi Rabi public lecture Israel and Iran: Challenges and Chances Introduction by Chad Alan Goldberg