YIISA Seminar Series Current Spring 2009 Semester

Seminar Series 2008-2009

Current Spring 2009 Semester

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Jan. 22 ISPS A-002	Kenneth L. Marcus Lillie and Nathan Ackerman Visiting Professor of Equality and Justice in America, Baruch College School of Public Affairs, The City University of New York; Former Staff Director of the United States Commission on Civil Rights, Washington, DC “Antisemitism and Racism: Confronting Jew-Hatred in American Universities” Paper Video

Feb. 3 (Tues) *Special Event*	The Second Annual Professor William Prusoff Honorary Lecture: Benny Morris Professor and Historian, Ben Gurion University, Be’er Sheva “1948 as Jihad” 6:00pm – 6:45pm – Reception, ISPS, 77 Prospect Street, Common Room Please RSVP for the reception by Friday, Jan 30th. 7:00pm – 9:00pm – Lecture, Luce Auditorium, 34 Hillhouse Avenue Paper – Not for quotation unless with permission from author Video

Feb. 5 ISPS A-002	Professor Jeffrey Herf Department of History, University of Maryland “Nazi Propaganda in and towards the Middle East during World War II and the Holocaust” Paper Video

Feb. 12 Slifka Center 80 Wall Street	Dr. Shimon Samuels Director for International Relations, Paris, Simon Wiesenthal Center “From Durban to Durban: Identity Theft and Generic Hatred” Paper Video

Feb. 19 ISPS A-002	Professor Robert Wistrich Director, The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism (SICSA), Hebrew University Jerusalem “Antisemitism and Holocaust Denial in the Contemporary World” Paper Video

Mar. 5 LC 211	Dr. Catherine Chatterley Professor, Department of History, University of Winnipeg “Western Culture, The Holocaust, and the Persistence of Antisemitism” Paper

Mar. 31 (Tues) ISPS A-001 *11:00am*	Corinna Guttstadt Research Fellow, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington DC “Shifting Faces of Antisemitism in Turkey” Paper

Apr. 2 LC 102	Yossi Klein Halevi Senior Fellow, the Shalem Center, Jerusalem “Jewish Theological Implications of the New Antisemitism” 6:15pm – Reception (Please RSVP here by March 27th) 7:00pm – Lecture Paper

Apr. 23 ISPS A-002	Esther Webman Acting Director, The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism & Racism, Tel Aviv University “Continuity and Change in the Arab Holocaust Discourse”

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SPME

Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) is not-for-profit [501 (C) (3)], grass-roots community of scholars who have united to promote honest, fact-based, and civil discourse, especially in regard to Middle East issues. We believe that ethnic, national, and religious hatreds, including anti-Semitism and anti-Israelism, have no place in our institutions, disciplines, and communities. We employ academic means to address these issues.