ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute 2021 – Summary Highlights
ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies
Pembroke College, Oxford, and the ISGAP Digital Research Center
1-5 August 2021
Day One Highlights
Date: Sunday, August 1, 2021
Natan Sharansky, Chair, ISGAP; 2020 Genesis Prize Laureate; Former Chairman of the Jewish Agency, Jerusalem Israel
Joan O’Callaghan, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada
“Getting the Message Out: The Basic Principles of Effective Curriculum Design”
Rabbi Akiva Zweig, Dean (Rosh Yeshiva), Talmudic College of Florida, Miami Beach, United States
“An Authentic Jewish Orthodox View on Antisemitism, Based on the Five Books of Moses”
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Executive Director, ISGAP; Visiting Academic, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom
“Antisemitism, Globalization, Race and Israel-Bashing”
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ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies
Day Two Highlights
Date: Monday, August 2, 2021
Professor Dina Lisnyansky, Tel Aviv University, Israel
Dr. Charles Asher Small, Founder and Executive Director, ISGAP; Visiting Academic, St. Antony’s College, United Kingdom
Haras Rafiq, Trustee, Muslims Against Antisemitism, United Kingdom
“The Muslim Brotherhood’s Influence on European and North American Universities”
Professor R. Amy Elman, Kalamazoo College, United States
“Antisemitism at the Intersection of Sex and Social Justice”
Professor Sylvia Barack Fishman, Brandeis University, United States
“Fake News and the Jews: Drawing on the 2020 Pew Study of Jewish Americans”
Dr. Joel Finkelstein, Network Contagion Research Institute; Princeton University, United States
“Antisemitic Disinformation”
Dr. Ahmed Shaheed, UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion or Belief;
The University of Essex, United Kingdom
Professor Rosa Freedman, University of Reading, United Kingdom
“The United Nations Human Rights Machinery Attempts to Combat Antisemitism”
Jacob Dallal, Ministry of Strategic Affairs and Public Diplomacy, Israel
“Antizionism, Antisemitism and the May 2021 Combustion”
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ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development in Critical Antisemitism Studies
Date: Thursday, August 5, 2021
Closing Keynote Presentation: Aliza Landau, Holocaust Survivor, Israel
“If Only Night Would Not Come – The Story of Aliza Landau”
The Honourable Irwin Cotler, Chair of the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights;
Emeritus Professor of Law, McGill University;
Former Minister of Justice and Attorney General of Canada, Montreal, Canada
“A Domestic and International Action Plan for Combating Antisemitism”
Professor Aleksandra Gliszczyńska-Grabias, Assistant Professor, Institute of Law Studies,
Polish Academy of Sciences, Warsaw, Poland
“Antisemitism and the Capture of the Human Rights Discourse”
Professor Sunni Ali, Associate Professor of Educational Inquiry and Curriculum Studies,
Carruthers Center for Inner City Studies, College of Education,
Northeastern Illinois University, Chicago, United States
“A Qualitative Analysis of the Black and Jewish Experience:
How Hip-Hop and Whiteness Influences Racial Functionalism”
Professor Ansel Brown, Visiting Assistant Professor of Law,
North Carolina Central University, Durham, United States
“Common Bonds and Experiences of African and Jewish Communities”
Participant Syllabi Presentations
Closing Remarks: Dr. Charles Asher Small,
Executive Director, ISGAP; Visiting Academic, St. Antony’s College, Oxford, United Kingdom
