Stefan Vogt, Martin-Buber-Professur, Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main
Sonntag, 17. Juni 2018 (Casino 1.801)
17:00 Willkommen, Begrüßungen and Einführung
18:00 Keynote Vortrag
Chair: Christian Wiese (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Derek J. Penslar (University of Toronto/Harvard University): Declarations of (In)Dependence: Dialectics of Zionist Statecraft
19:30 Empfang
Montag, 18. Juni 2018 (Seminarhaus 3.105)
9:00 Kaffee
9:30 Session 1: Conceptualizations
Chair: Tilmann Gempp-Friedrich (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Manja Herrmann (Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg): Zionist Concepts of Authenticity as Counter-Narratives
Abraham Rubin (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Thinking Zionism with Postcolonialism in the Writings of Albert Memmi
Stefan Vogt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): Zionism as “Positioning”: Re-Conceptualizing Zionist Identity Politics
11:30 Kaffeepause
12.00 Session 2: Looking East
Chair: Claudia Willms (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Scott Spector (University of Michigan): Habsburg Zionisms between East and West
Malgorzata Anna Maksymiak (Universität Rostock): Mapping Zionism: The Term “Ostjude” in Zionist History and Historiography
13:30 Mittagspause
15:00 Session 3: Looking West
Chair: Johannes Becke (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg)
Michael Berkowitz (University College London): Marcus Garvey and Black/Jewish Relations: What’s Zionism Got to Do with It?
Mark H. Gelber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): Early Zionists and the “Negro Question” in the United States
Liora Halperin (University of Washington): Narrating and Commemorating Zionist “Firsts”: Insights from the Study of American Settler Colonialism
17:00 Kaffeepause und Transfer zum Casino
18:00 Keynote Vortrag (Casino 823)
Chair: Stefan Vogt (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main)
Ato Quayson (University of Toronto/New York University): Postcolonialism and Diaspora: Encounters, Interactions and Intersections
20:00 Empfang
Dienstag, 19. Juni 2018 (Seminarhaus 5.101)
8:30 Kaffee
9:00 Session 4: Confrontations
Chair: Stefanie Fischer (Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg/Fritz Bauer Institut)
Orit Bashkin (University of Chicago): Jews in the Middle East during World War II
Christian Wiese (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main): The Predicaments of Non-National Nationalism: Hannah Arendt's, Hans Kohn’s, and Robert Weltsch’s Anti-Colonial Thinking during and after World War II
10:30 Kaffeepause
11:00 Session 5: Culture
Chair: Mark H. Gelber (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Na’ama Rokem (University of Chicago): The Hebrew University on the World Map
Gilad Shenhav (Goethe-Universität Frankfurt am Main/Tel Aviv University): The Eye, the Tongue, and the Fatherland: Gershom Scholem and Postcolonial Critique
Dafna Hirsch (Open University of Israel): Feeding Zionist New Men: Between Westernization and "becoming Native"
13:00 Mittagspause
14:00 Session 6: Palestine and Israel
Chair: Derek J. Penslar (University of Toronto/Harvard University)
Arieh Saposnik (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): The Shaping of an East-West Hebrew Indigeneity in Palestine
Eitan Bar-Yosef (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev): A Mandate to Forget: Representations of Mandatory Palestine in British Culture after 1948
Johannes Becke (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg): Between Monumentalism and Miniaturization: Israel’s Settlement Project and the Question of Third World Colonialism
16:00 Kaffeepause
16:30 Session 7: Decolonization
Chair: Manja Herrmann (Selma Stern Zentrum für Jüdische Studien Berlin-Brandenburg)
Hanan Harif (Hebrew University Jerusalem): South-Asian Muslim Frameworks for European-Jewish Good Intentions: Hyderabad, Karachi and “Jewish Orientalism”
Rephael Stern (Harvard University): Uncertain Comparisons: Zionist and Israeli Views of India and Pakistan in the Age of Partition and Decolonization
Arie M. Dubnov (George Washington University): From New Delhi to Bandung: Zionists and Jewish Territorialists Facing the Emerging “Third World”
18:30 Abschlussdiskussion: Potentiale eines uneingestandenen Verwandtschaftsverhältnisses
19:00 Ende der Konferenz