YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism
Co-sponsored with ISGAP, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy Spring Semester 2008
Jan. 24: Professor Mark Gelber, Ben Gurion University | “Literary Antisemitism Revisited: Paul de Man and Mel Gibson”
ISPS Room A-002, 77 Prospect St.
Feb. 7: Professor Seyla Benhabib, Eugene Meyer Professor of Political Science; Director, Program in Ethics, Politics and Economics, Yale University | “Human Rights: Between Hannah Arendt and Ralf Lemkin”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Feb. 21: Symposium: “Africa and Contemporary Antisemitism“
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Dr. Hubert Ngatcha Njila
École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (EHESS); Centre d’Études Nord-Américaines (CENA), Paris | “Antisemitism in Africa: Post 9-11”Professor Shalem Coulibaly
Université de Ouagadougou, departement de philosophie; École Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature (ENAM) | “Negation of Memory: Jewish and African Responses to the New Antisemitism and Racism”
Professor Olufemi Vaughan (D.Phil.), Discussant
Professor of Africana Studies and of History; Affiliate Professor, Political Science; Associate Dean, Graduate School, Stony Brook University; Fellow, Woodrow Wilson Center
Feb. 28: Professor Steven Smith, Alfred Cowles Professor of Government, Yale University | “Leo Strauss as a Jewish Thinker”
ISPS Room A-002, 77 Prospect St.
Mar. 6: Professor András Gerő, Department of History, Central European University, Budapest, Hungary | “Antisemitic discourse in Hungary following the collapse of Communism”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Mar. 27: Professor David Cesarani, History Department, Royal Holloway, University of London | “Muslims are not the new Jews: Comparing Islamophobia and antisemitism in Britain and Europe”
ISPS Room A-002, 77 Prospect St.
Apr. 3: Professor Patrick Weil, Centre d’histoire sociale du siècle, Université de Paris 1 | “Dreyfus, Vichy, de Gaulle, Chirac: Reflections on the French-Jewish Malaise”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Apr. 10: Judge Hadassah Ben-Itto, author, “The Protocols of the Elders of Zion: Its Contemporary Relevance”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Apr. 17: Professor Gert Weisskirchen, Personal Representative of the Chairman-in-Office of the OSCE on Combating Antisemitism; Spokesman on Foreign Affairs for the SPD Group OSCE
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
Apr. 24: Professor Roni Stauber, Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism, Tel Aviv University | “The Academic and Public Debate Over the Meaning of the ‘New Antisemitism’”
Linsly-Chittenden Hall Room 101, 63 High St.
All seminars are from 4:15 – 5:45 p.m.
