Series Description: This bi-weekly “lunch and learn” forum brings together scholars and experts for focused discussion of contemporary antisemitism and related ideological, political, and cultural developments. The series is designed to foster rigorous interdisciplinary engagement with key debates and emerging research in the field.
Convened by: Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founding Director and President of ISGAP, and Director of the ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme in Critical Contemporary Antisemitism Studies, Discrimination, and Human Rights at the Woolf Institute, Cambridge, UK, and Research Fellow at St. Edmund’s College, University of Cambridge
25 Feb. 2026 “Critical Perspectives on Contemporary Antisemitism”
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founding Director and President of ISGAP
11 March 2026 “Antisemitism on the Left and the Right: Their Connection and How to Fight Them Simultaneously”
Natan Sharansky, ISGAP Chair
25 March 2026 “Longue Durée Without Inevitability: Rethinking Antisemitism and Historical Explanation”
Batsheva Neuer, ISGAP Fellow, Institute for National Security Studies (INSS); PhD Candidate, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
22 April 2026 “What Happened on Campus After 10/7″
Prof. Cary Nelson, ISGAP Faculty; Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts & Sciences Emeritus, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
6 May 2026 “Grand Imam Tantawi and Al-Azhar University’s 80-Year Jihad Against Israel and the Jews”
Andrew Bostom, Author, Former Associate Professor of Medicine and Researcher, Brown University Medical School
20 May 2026 “A Swivel-Headed, Hands-On Approach to Understanding and Combating the Resurgence of Antisemitism”
David Harris, ISGAP Executive Vice Chair
3 June 2026 “The Secret War Against Hate: American Resistance to Antsemitism and White Supremacy”
Prof. Steve Ross, Distinguished Professor, Dean’s Professor of History, Myron and Marian Casden Director of the Casden Institute for the Study of Jewish Role in American Life, University of Southern Califnornia
17 June 2026 “Reading Antisemitic Imagery in 2026: What It Means and Why It Matters”
Dr. Steven Samols, Postdoctoral Fellow, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Programme for Critical Antisemitism Studies
