Series Description: While the study of antisemitism in Latin America is often rooted in its historical legacy and foundational experiences, simplistic or reductionist analyses must be avoided. Instead, more nuanced approaches are needed, highlighting variations over time, place, and forms of expression, as well as their connections to changing contexts. The series will focus on comparative perspectives approaching Latin America today on the national, regional, and global levels.
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Los avatares del prejuicio hoy: crítica de Israel, antisionismo, y antisemitismo, del 7 de octubre a la Guerra de Gaza
[The Manifestations of Prejudice Today: Criticism of Israel, Anti-Zionism, and Anti-Semitism, from October 7 to the Gaza War]
12 Nov. 2025 “Opening Reflections: Conceptual and Political Debates”
Professor Judit Bokser Liwerant, Faculty of Political and Social Sciences UNAM, Mexico
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26 Nov. 2025 “Facing the Attack on the Legitimacy of Zionism and the State of Israel”
Dr. Luis Fleischman, Sociology, Palm Beach State College, Florida, US
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10 Dec. 2025 “Anti-Zionism and Antisemitism Today: Jewish Concerns, Dichotomies, and Questions in the Face of the Upcoming Elections in Chile”
Dr. Valeria Navarro-Rosenblatt, School of Political Science, Diego Portales University, Santiago, Chile
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7 Jan. 2026 “The Oppressed: Expressions of Anti-Jewish Hate through the Contemporary Reading of the Theology of Liberation and Post-Colonial Discourses in Latin America”
Prof. Romina Yalonetzky, Department of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, Universidad de Ingeniería y Tecnología, Lima, Peru
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21 Jan. 2026 “The Victims and their Role as Witnesses on October 7 and in the Gaza War”
Prof. Yael Siman, Department of Social and Political Science, Ibero-American University, Mexico
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4 Feb. 2026 “Antisemitism, Islamophobia and Anti-Zionism: Discrimination and Political Construction”
Prof. Alberto Spektorovski, School of Political Science, Tel Aviv University, Israel
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18 Feb. 2026 “Anti-Jewism and the Struggle of Western Civilization”
Prof. Sergio Dellapergola, Department of Jewish History and Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University, Israel
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4 March 2026 “Are Jewish Communities Responding to the Existing Level of Anti-Semitism? The Cases of the United States and Chile”
Dr. Ricardo Israel, former candidate for President of Chile
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8 April 2026 “From the Defense of Human Rights to the Fight against International Terrorism: Changes in the Uses of the Memory of the Holocaust and the Denunciation of Anti-Semitism in Javier Milei’s Argentina”
Dr. Emmanuel Kahan, National Council for Scientific and Technological Research (CONICET); Department of History, National University of La Plata, Argentina
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15 April 2026 “Approaches and Debates around Criticism of Israel, Anti-Zionism and Anti-Semitism”
Dr. Leonardo Senkman, The Harry S. Truman Research Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Prof. Luis Roniger, Department of Political Science, Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, North Carolina, US
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Prof. Monica Grin, Modern History, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Dr. Kátia Lerner, Political Science, Fiocruz), Rio de Janeiro, Brazil