Wednesday 26 May
UCL, Chandler House B02
8.45 am – Registration, Tea & Coffee
9 am - Welcome, opening
Dr François Guesnet, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL
Dr Gwen Jones, Hebrew and Jewish Studies, UCL
9.30 – 11 Panel 1:
The impact of religious thought and the religious establishment on anti-Jewish attitudes
Prof. Brian Porter, University of Michigan:
Why Do They Hate Us? Explaining Cultures of Violence
Dr Csaba Fazekas, University of Miskolc:
The Christian Churches and the Problems of Antisemitism in 19th and 20th- century Hungary
Prof. Mária M. Kovács, Central European University
Bishop Ottokár Prohászka's Advocacy of anti-Jewish Legislation in Interwar Hungary
DISCUSSANT: Dr Richard Butterwick, UCL-SSEES
11 – 12.30 Panel 2:
Jews in the popular press, 1870s and 1880s
Ms Kati Vörös, University of Chicago
Between Freedom and Order: Inciting Images, Hungarian Jews, and the Liberal State in the Late Nineteenth Century
N.N.
DISCUSSANT: Prof. Peter Pulzer, Oxford University
12.30-1.30 – LUNCH
1.30 – 3 Panel 3:
Visions of the Body Politics: Dmowski and Horthy
Dr Grzegorz Krzywiec, Polish Academy of Sciences
Between Redemption and Realpolitik. Roman Dmowski’s solution to the Jewish Question
Prof. László Karsai, University of Szeged
Regent Horthy and the Holocaust. New Questions, Old Answers
DISCUSSANT: Dr Marius Turda, Oxford Brookes
3 – 4.30 Panel 4:
Jews and Communism
Prof. Stanisław Krajewski, University of Warsaw
Communism as a Problem for Jews
Dr Gwen Jones, UCL
Jerusalem on the Danube: Hungarian Variants on
the Judeo-Bolshevik Myth
DISCUSSANT: Prof. Viktor Karády, Central European University
4.30 – 5.00 - Coffee
5 – 6.30 Panel 5:
Envisioning ‘the Jew’ in the 1980s
Stefan Zgliczyński, Le Monde diplomatique, Warsaw
Notes on Antisemitism in Poland at Two Turning Points: 1980-81 and 1989-90
Prof. András Kovács, Central European University
The Hidden "Jewish Question": the Continuity of Antisemitism in Communist and post-Communist Hungarian Society
DISCUSSANT: Dr François Guesnet, UCL
Thursday 27 May
UCL, Chandler House B02
9.15 am – Tea & Coffee
9.30 – 11 Panel 6:
Antisemitism and cultural memory
Dr Karen Auerbach, University of Southampton
Jews between State and Society in Poland after the Holocaust: A Case Study of Antisemitism and Obstacles to Integration in Modern Jewish History
Mr Adam Ostolski, Warsaw Medical University
Public Memory in Transition: Antisemitism and the Memory of World War Two in Poland, 1980-2010
Prof. András Gerő, Institute of Habsburg History, Budapest
Antisemitic Discourse in post-Communist Hungary. Old and New Cultural and Political Elements
DISCUSSANT: Dr Gwen Jones, UCL
11 – 12.30 Panel 7:
Constituencies
Dr Michał Bilewicz, University of Warsaw
Three Forms of Antisemitism in Current Poland. Their Antecedents and Consequences
Prof. Pál Tamás, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
The Radical Right in Hungary; Is it New or Old?
DISCUSSANT: Dr Lars Fischer, Centre for the Study of Jewish-Christian Relations, Woolf Institute, Cambridge
12.30-1.30 – LUNCH
1.30 – 2.30 Panel 8:
Mediality and the Internet
Dr Mihály Szilágyi-Gál, ELTE, Budapest
The Ethical Dilemmas of Banning Hate Speech: The Hungarian Case since 1989
Dr Hanna Kwiatkowska, London
Old and New Fora for Antisemitic Discourse: Reflections on Poland since the 1990s
DISCUSSANT: Prof. Miroslav Mareš, Masaryk University, Brno
2.30 – 4 Panel 9:
Conflation of exclusions
Dr Alina Cała, Jewish Historical Institute, Warsaw
Ideology of Antisemitism as the Model of Modern Hate-Speech
Claude Cahn, University of Nijmegen
Dynamics of Anti-Romani Sentiment and Action in Hungary
DISCUSSANT: Dr Richard Mole, UCL-SSEES
4-4.30 TEA AND COFFEE
4.30-5.30 Concluding Discussion
Prof. Zvi Gitelman, University of Michigan
Prof. András Kovács, Central European University