May 3rd/4th 2008, Camp of the University of Vienna, courtyard 2, lecture room C1

Program

Saturday, May 3rd 2008

19.30
Introduction and greetings

20.00 – 22.00
Round table: The Impact of the Iranian threat: Islamism, Antisemitism and the nuclear program

• MEP Paulo Casaca (Partido Socialista Portugal, Socialist Group in the European Parliament, Portugal)
• Dr. Patrick Clawson (Deputy Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA)
• Yossi Melman (Journalist Haaretz, Israel)
• Prof. Benny Morris (Historian, Ben Gurion University Israel)

Chair: Simone Dinah Hartmann (spokeswoman STOP THE BOMB – Coalition against the Iranian extermination program)

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Sunday, May 4th 2008

10.30 – 12.15
The rule of political Islam in Iran and global jihadism

Menashe Amir (Former director of the Persian programme of “Voice of Israel”, Israel):
Religious and ideological motivation in Iranian domestic and international policies

Niloofar Beyzaie (Stage director and author from Teheran, since 1985 in exile in Germany, women’s rights activist):
Oppression of women and minorities in Iran

Florian Markl (Political scientist, Humboldt University Berlin):
Global Jihadism and it’s Iranian supporters

Chair: Alex Gruber (Café Critique, Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna)

12.30 – 14.15
Critique of appeasement: Iran and islamic Antisemitism as a challenge for Israel and Europe

Dr. Matthias Küntzel (Political scientist, board member Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Hamburg):
Is Europe failing to act?

Dr. Michael Oren (Historian, senior fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem):
Israel’s Worst Nightmare – The threat of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program

Bruno Schirra (Journalist and author, Berlin):
European Illusions about Iran and Islam

Chair: Dr. Elisabeth Pittermann (former member of the Vienna City Council)

15.15 – 17.00
Austrian-Iranian relations against the background of the National-socialist past

Hiwa Bahrami (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan):
Austria’s politics of appeasement

Dr. Stephan Grigat (Café Critique, Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna):
The Austrian-Iranian friendship – Foreign Policy in post-nazism

Robert Schindel (Author, Vienna):
The Austrian memory

Chair: Michaela Sivich (Journalist)

17.15 – 19.00
Round table: The need for a new antifascism

• Simone Dinah Hartmann (Spokeswoman STOP THE BOMB)
• Prof. Jeffrey Herf (Historian, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
• Kayvan Kaboli (Green Party of Iran, USA)
• Thomas von der Osten-Sacken (Political Analyst and Director of Wadi e. V. Germany)

Chair: Dr. Stephan Grigat (Café Critique, Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna)

Co-Organizers

To read the announcement in German click here