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Israel and Europe ISRAEL AND EUROPE –12 September 2012 10 Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich Mapping the Past, Shaping the Future www.soas.ac.uk/eais/conference2012 ISRAEL AND EUROPE Mapping the Past, Shaping the Future Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität, Munich 10 – 12 September 2012 MONDAY 10 SEPTEMBER 13:00-17:30 Registration LMU History Department, Schellingstraße 12, room 026 15:30-17:30 Meeting of the European Association of Israel Studies Doctoral Student Network LMU History Department, Schellingstraße 12, room 226 18:30-21:30 Opening Reception and Keynote Plenary Session The Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities, Plenarsaal (Alfons-Goppel-Str. 11) Greetings: Dr. Ludwig Spaenle, Bavarian Minister of Education Prof. Colin Shindler, SOAS, University of London Prof. Michael Brenner, LMU, Munich ‘Israel, Palestine, Europe and the Arab Spring’ Prof. Munther S. Dajani, Al-Quds University, Jerusalem Lord David Owen, British Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs (1977 - 1979) Ambassador Avi Primor, Israeli Ambassador to the European Union and Germany (1987 - 1999) Prof. Rita Süssmuth, President of the Bundestag (1988 - 1998) Moderator: Prof. Raffaella Del Sarto, European University Institute, Florence Followed by a reception In cooperation with: TUESDAY 11 SEPTEMBER Location: LMU History Department, Schellingstraße 12 08:30-10:30 – SESSION ONE Room 001 After Post-Zionism - Critical Approaches to Zionism in the 21st Century Chair: Rebecca Steinfeld, University of Birmingham, [email protected] Moshe Behar, University of Manchester, [email protected] The post-Zionist/left-Zionist Question: a Materialist Consideration Yuval Evri, Tel-Aviv University, [email protected] “Sephardic Legacy” Translated into Palestinian Yair Wallach, SOAS, University of London, [email protected] Zionism: a Political Project or an Anchor of Identity? Room 201 Germany and Israeli Literature Chair: Gideon Kouts, University Paris 8, [email protected] Regina Ehrismann, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, [email protected] German-Israeli Relations in Theatre: The cooperation of Heidelberg Theatre with Beit Lessin in Tel Aviv Anat Feinberg, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, [email protected] “Two different worlds and a cemetery between them”: the Novel ‘To Remember, to Forget’ by Dahn Ben Amotz Karen Frankenstein, Hochschule für Jüdische Studien, Heidelberg, [email protected] Between Berlin and Tel Aviv: Katharina Hacker and Chaim Be´er Room 202 Israel’s Foreign and Security Policy Chair: Clive Jones, University of Leeds, [email protected] Alan Craig, University of Leeds, [email protected] One Man's War Crimes: the Politics of Universal Jurisdiction Clive Jones, University of Leeds, [email protected] Beyond the “Leviathan”: Israel, Energy Security and a New Regional Order? Elvira King, University of Leeds, [email protected] Soft Power for Hard Impact: Christian Zionism and the European Union Simon Mabon, University of Leeds, [email protected] Perception, Rationality and Religion: Nuclear Deterrence and the Iranian Nuclear Crisis Room 226 Soft Power and Hard Power Chair: Rory Miller, King’s College London, [email protected] Natan Aridan, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, [email protected] Israel and its Advocates: Converging and Diverging Paths from AZPAC, AIPAC to J-Street Stanislav Kozheurov, Institute of Oriental Studies, Moscow, [email protected] Israel’s European Connection: Role of Military Establishment in Forging Franco-Israeli Alliance Anders Persson, Lund University, [email protected] Defining a Just Peace in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: “Legitimizing Power Europe” in Practice Room 026 Ethnic Museums in Israel and Diaspora: Which Narratives are Told? Chair: Avinoam Shalem, University of Munich, [email protected] Emanuela Trevisan Semi, Ca' Foscari University Venice, [email protected] Dynamics of Memory and Forgetting in Three Ethnic Moroccan Museums in Israel Sophie Wagenhofer, Humboldt University Berlin, [email protected] “We have our own history" - Voices from the Jewish Museum in Casablanca Piera Rossetto, Ca' Foscari University Venice, [email protected] The Libyan Jewish Diaspora (1948-1967): Notes on Lieux de Mémoire and Heritage Centers between Israel and Italy Tamar Katriel, University of Haifa, [email protected] New Jews, Old Jews, Transitional Jews: Homeland and Diaspora in Israeli Vernacular Museums Dario Miccoli, European University Institute Florence, [email protected] Virtual Archives: Memory, Internet and the History of Egyptian Jews Benedetta F. Cordaro, Ca' Foscari University Venice, [email protected] The Heritage Centre of Cochin Judaism in Moshav Nevatim: Preserving a Tradition 11:00-13:00 – SESSION TWO Room 001 The EU and Israel/Palestine: Borders and Borderlands Discussant: Stephan Stetter, University of the Armed Forces Munich, [email protected] Raffaella A. Del Sarto, European University Institute, Florence/ Johns Hopkins University, SAIS Bologna Center, Italy, [email protected] Borders, People and Territory across the EU and Israel/Palestine Benedetta Voltolini, London School of Economics, [email protected] International Law and Territorial Scope: EU-Israeli Agreements as Cases where Functional Borders Might Conflict with International Law and Territorial Borders Alfred Tovias, Hebrew University, [email protected] How have the ENP and OECD Membership of Israel Affected its Relations with the Palestinians? Bruno Oliveira Martins, University of Minho, [email protected] Sovereignty, Borders and EU’s Approach to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: The Case of CSDP Missions in Palestine Room 201 Europe in the Levant Chair: Colin Shindler, SOAS, University of London, [email protected] Tamara Or, Free University Berlin, [email protected] The Migration of Ideas: Zionism as an Outcome and Simultaneously a Stimulus of European Modernity Jerzy Wójcik, Jagiellonian University, [email protected] Rationalism in Israel-Europe Relations Iveta Leitane, University of Latvia, [email protected] Israel Studies and Nationalism Studies: Some Perplexities Across the Disciplines Shelly Gottfried, City University London, [email protected] The EU and the Oligarchy in Israel: a Central Actor, but not a Factor? Room 202 Literary representations of Israeli identity Chair: Anat Feinberg, Heidelberg University, [email protected] Lucille Cairns, University Durham, [email protected] “You can be in love with your country, your land, see Pasternak. We’re not very good at that.” Literary Inscriptions of Israel in the Work of Esther Orner Axel Stähler, University of Kent, [email protected] Amnesia Rather Than Insomnia? Responses to Anti-Semitism and Israel in British Jewish Fiction Nadezda Rumjanceva, Tel Aviv University / University of Bonn, [email protected] English Writing in Israel: Language and Identity Vered Weiss, University of Kent, [email protected] Monsters, Sovereigns, and Monstrous Sovereignties Room 226 New Elements in Israel’s Strategic Environment Chair: Tatiana Karasova, Russian Academy of Sciences, [email protected] Amnon Aran, City University London, [email protected] Containment and Territorial Transnational Actors: Israel, Hezbollah, and Hamas Rory Miller, King’s College London, [email protected] The Knowledge Economy as a Strategic Instrument: The case of Israel and the European Union Simon Waldman, King’s College London, [email protected] Contested Waters: Israeli-Turkish Rivalry in the Eastern Mediterranean Dmitry Maryasis, Moscow Institute of Oriental Studies, [email protected] Innovations’ Economy of Israel. Does It Have a Long Future? Room 026 Israel and Poland Chair: Tobias Grill, University of the Armed Forces Munich, [email protected] Bo!ena Szaynok, University of Wroclaw, [email protected] The view of Israel in the Communist Poland 1945-1989 Diana I. Popescu, University of Southampton, [email protected] The Persistence of Nostalgia: When Poles Miss their Jews and Israelis Yearn for Europe Magdalena Matuszewska, University of Warsaw, [email protected] Introducing New Narratives to Israeli Youth Groups Visiting Poland: Mapping the Past and Shaping the Future 13:00-14:30 – LUNCH BREAK Reception of the Israeli European Policy Network with Stephan Stetter Greetings: Shimon Stein, Israeli Ambassador to Germany (2001 – 2007) Next to Room 001 14:30-16:30 – SESSION THREE Room 001 Israeli Identity between East and West Chair: Michael Brenner, University of Munich, [email protected] Aviva Halamish, Open University of Israel, [email protected] Europe in Zionist Nostalgia: Between Negation of Exile and Search for Identity Shelly Salamensky, UCLA, [email protected] Homelessness and “Homefulness” in ‘And Europe Will Be Stunned’ and ‘Drop the Monkey’ Yuval Moshkovitz, Birkbeck College, University of London, [email protected] The Role of “the European” in the Construction of an Imagined ‘Israeli national identity’ Ruth Bevan, Yeshiva University, New York, [email protected] Can the Europeans Meet the Challenge of the Middle East? Room 201 Peace movement, reconciliation, dialogue Chair: Michael Wolffsohn, University of the Armed Forces Munich, [email protected] Toni Baum, SOAS, University of London, [email protected] “Waking up” and “Tuning in”: an Ethnographic Study of Israeli-Palestinian Sulha Reconciliation Leonie Fleischman, City University London, [email protected]
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