International Conference:

Global Antisemitism,‎

‎A Crisis of Modernity Revisited

 

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ISGAP is pleased to announce a groundbreaking international conference on critical contemporary antisemitism studies to take place at Cambridge University. In the contemporary context of globalised relations, it appears that the oldest and most complex forms of hatred, antisemitism, has taken on new and changing forms that need to be decoded, mapped and critiqued. Given the recent rise of manifestations of antisemitism globally, this interdisciplinary conference is timely and imperative. The continual minimal response by academia and the human rights community to the onslaught of antisemitism points to a growing crisis of modernity, which impacts democratic principles, notions of citizenship, and human rights. Antisemitism is also an indicator of the growth of other forms of prejudice, racism(s), sexism, gendered relations, xenophobia and discrimination.

Following the largest-ever academic conference on the study of antisemitism (at Yale University in August 2010), this conference aims to explore this phenomenon from an interdisciplinary approach and advance knowledge and understanding of the origins and manifestations of antisemitism.

The conference is open to scholars, intellectuals, and policy experts, engaged in the study of contemporary antisemitism globally, and related topics, regardless of school of thought, scientific approach, academic discipline or ideological view.

The international conference will be held at Cambridge from 31 July to 2 August 2022, in conjunction with The Woolf Institute. The registration fee is £300 pounds for in-person attendance, including accommodations and half board. £150 pounds for the virtual programme, £75 for students in the virtual programme. 

 

 

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Annual ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute

for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies

 

The ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute, Pembroke College, Oxford, scheduled for Sunday, August 7, through Friday, August 19, 2022, is now seeking Scholars-in-Residence for an intensive two-week workshop-based curriculum development program in interdisciplinary critical contemporary antisemitism studies. The program is dedicated to the development of antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.

The program is intended primarily for professors with full-time college or university positions, though exceptional faculty, doctoral and post-doctoral students will be considered. Under the guidance of leading international academics, Scholars-in-Residence will be required to develop a course syllabus and curriculum in the interdisciplinary study of critical contemporary antisemitism. The course syllabus and curriculum is to be taught at the Scholar-in-Residence’s home university for course credit, on at least two occasions, upon completion of the program.

ISGAP also has limited space for graduate and undergraduate university students with strong academic credentials, proven leadership skills, and commitment. Successful applicants will qualify as Elie Wiesel – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars, who will work on student-led projects to help combat antisemitism and racism on campus.

ISGAP is now accepting applications for the 2022 Summer Institute which will take place from Sunday, August 7, through Friday, August 19, 2022. All participants must make an application.
All scholars that are accepted to the program are expected to be present for the entire duration of the Summer Institute and attend all seminars and meetings. The tuition fee for the two-week in-person programme is $850 USD. Applicants may also apply for scholarships.

A limited number of openings exist for exceptional graduate and undergraduate students to participate in a special Elie Wiesel – Martin Luther King Jr. Scholars program that will run in part, concurrently with the Summer Institute. The tuition fee for the two-week in-person programme is $850 USD. Applicants may also apply for scholarships.

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KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Dr. Mohammed Abdullah Al-Ali, CEO and Founder, TRENDS Research and Advisory, Dubai, U.A.E.
Dr. Najat Al-Saied, Professor, College of Media and Mass Communication, American Univerisity in the Emirates, Dubai, U.A.E.
Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, U.S.A.
Professor Judit Bokser Liwerant, Department of Political Science, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM), City of Mexico, Mexico 
Dr. Ellen Cannon, Political Science and Jewish Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A.
The Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ottawa, Canada
Professor Rosa Freedman, Department of Law and Global Development, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
Ben M. Freeman, Author, Jewish Pride, London, U.K.
Professor Benny Morris, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
Haras Rafiq, Interim Managing Director, ISGAP, Cambridge, U.K.
Professor Yossi Shain, Romulo Betancourt Professor of Political Science, Tel Aviv University; Member of Knesset, Jerusalem, Israel
Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP, Israel
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.
Elder of Ziyon, Award-Winning Author and Activist, U.S.A.
 
WITH FEATURED PAPERS FROM:
Dr. Navras J. Aafreedi, Assistant Professor, Presidency University, India
Dr. Aleksandra Gliszczynska-Grabias, Assistant Professor at the Institute of Law Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences, Poland
Dr. Holly Hamby, Chair of Humanities, Fisk University, US
Dr. Joel Kotek, Professor of Political Science, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Belgium
Dr. Naya Lekht, Director of Education, Club Z, US
Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair in Holocaust Studies, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, US
Dr. Michal Vasecka, Associate Professor, Bratislava International School of Liberal Arts, Slovakia
 
 
  

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS INCLUDE

Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Director, ISGAP-Woolf Institute Fellowship Training Programme on Critical Antisemitism Studies, Cambridge, U.K.
Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Joseph and Esther Foster Professor Emerita of Judaic Studies, Brandeis University, Waltham, U.S.A.
Dr. Ellen Cannon, Political Science and Jewish Studies Department, Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, U.S.A.
Dr. Phyllis Chesler, Department of Psychology and Women’s Studies, City University, New York, U.S.A.
The Honourable Professor Irwin Cotler, Special Envoy on Preserving Holocaust Remembrance and Combatting Antisemitism, Ottawa, Canada
Professor Miriam Elman, Maxwell School of Citizenship and Public Affairs, Syracuse University, U.S.A.; Executive Director, Academic Engagement Network, U.S.A.
Dr. R. Amy Elman, William Weber Chair of Social Science, Kalamazoo College, Kalamazoo, U.S.A.
Professor Rosa Freedman, Department of Law and Global Development, University of Reading, Reading, U.K.
Ben M. Freeman, Author, Jewish Pride, London, U.K.
Katya Gibel Mevorach, Professor, American Studies Concentration, Grinnel College, Grinnel, U.S.A.
Professor Benny Morris, Department of History, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheva, Israel
Professor William Kolbrener, Department, of English and Literature, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, Israel
Dr. Joel Kotek, Department of Political Science, Free University of Brussels (ULB) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques de Paris, Brussels, Belgium
Dr. Dina Lisnyansky, Department of the Middle East and Political Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Professor Cary Nelson, Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP, U.S.A.
Professor David Patterson, Hillel A. Feinberg Distinguished Chair, Ackerman Center for Holocaust Studies, University of Texas at Dallas, Richardson, U.S.A.
Professor Uzi Rabi, Director of the Moshe Dayan Center for Middle Eastern and African Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel
Haras Rafiq, Interim Managing Director, ISGAP, Cambridge, U.K.
Benjamin Weinthal, Research Fellow, Foundation for Defense of Democracies, Israel