YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Seminar Series Spring Semester 2008

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Co-sponsored with ISGAP, The Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy

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 NjilaÉcole 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; ENAM (École Nationale d’Administration et de Magistrature)
“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.

YIISA: The Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective” Seminar Series Spring Semester 2008

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