Program
September 7th
9h Opening session
9:30 - 11:30 Panel I
New and recurrent forms of antisemitism
1. Rethinking Antisemitism in the Present Moment
David M. Seymour, City Law School, London
2.Anti-imperialism, the Holocaust, Genocide: reflections on the development and spread of a new antisemitic revisionism
Philip Spencer, Birkbeck University of London
3. Phantom Enemies: antisemitism without jews, Germany, France and the U.S.
William I Brustein and Luke W Gramith, West Virginia University
4. Zionism as protected characteristic
David Hirsh, Goldsmiths, University of London and Lesley Klaff, Sheffield Hallam University
5. Antisemitism as a Challenge for Police Officers. Results of an Empirical Study
Marc Grimm, Department of Sociology at Wuppertal University, Germany
Chair: Karin Stogner, Lehrstuhl für Soziologie, Universität Passau
11:30 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 Panel II
Institutional Antigypsyism!? Conceptual, Theoretical, and Empirical Considerations
1. Institutional Antigypsyism in Municipal Practice Empirical Findings, Conceptual and Methodological Considerations
Tobias Neuburger, TU Berlin / RISC Berlin
2. Expert Knowledge in Policing An Element of an Institutional Antigypsyism
Markus End, TU Berlin
3. The Role of Antigypsyism within Early International Police Cooperation
Laura Soréna Tittel, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen
4. What is the Economic Effect of Antigypsyism? Rethinking the Concept of Racial Capitalism
Anna-Sophie Schönfelder, Justus-Liebig-University of Giessen
Chair: Alfredo Alietti, University of Ferrara, Italy
13:30-14:30 Lunch
14:30 -16:30 Panel III
School and education as a tool against discrimination
1. Countering Antisemitism through Holocaust Education. A cross-national comparison
Elke Rajal, University of Passau, Germany
2. School-Community Partnership for Reversing Inequality and Exclusion: the Role of Communities and Education to Prevent Racism
Béla Kardon, Hungarian Regional Centre for Information & Scientific Development
3.Racisms through the gazes and voices of children. A qualitative research in primary schools in Italy
Annalisa Frisina, F. Gaia Farina, University of Padova
4.Human Rights, Minorities and Inequalities in Education
Maria José Casa-Nova, Institute of Education, university of Minho
5. Stigma and Discrimination based on Non-Native Accent
Meltem Yilmaz Sener, VID Specialized University, Norway
Chair: Patrícia Jerónimo, JusGov, School of Law, University of Minho
16:30 - Coffee break
16:50- 18:30 Panel IV
The otherness: identities and perceptions of the other
1. Jews and other ‘others’ – intersectional entanglements in Germany’s long 19th century
Christine Achinger, University of Warwick
2. Uncompetitive identities. The Holocaust chapter of the Macedonian-Bulgarian War on Identity
Péter Krasztev, Hungarian Regional Centre for Information & Scientific Development
3.Ticket Mentality – critical theory and its explanation of polarizing society
Enrico Pfau, Carl von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Germany
4. Populism, Antisemitism, Proteophobia
Chad Alan Goldberg, University of Wisconsin–Madison, USA
5.Comparative Analysis of hate crime victimisation among Various Religious Groups
Maya Flax, University of West London
Chair: David M. Seymour, City Law School, London
September 8th
9h-11 Panel V
Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia I
1.Antisemitism, Changes and Challenges in Combating Antisemitism in the MENA Region. Morocco as an example
Kim Robin Stoller, International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA)
2. Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia in the Practice of Portuguese Courts
Patrícia Jerónimo, Research Centre for Justice and Governance (JusGov), University of Minho
3. Domains of commonality, difference and social relations between Gypsy, Roma and Travellers and their neighbours in the UK
David Smith, Anglia Ruskin University, UK
4. Antisemitism and antigypsyism in the Iberian Peninsula: traumas and remembrance beyond Europe
Marcos Toyansk, Laboratory of Studies on Ethnicity, Racism and Discrimination at the University of São Paulo (LEER-USP)
Chair: Christine Achinger, University of Warwick
11h Coffee break
11:20 - 13:10 Panel VI
Antisemitism, Racism and Xenophobia II
1. Czech Antisemitic Websites and their Creators in the Past Twenty Years – Ideology, Geolocation, Emerging Trends and Challenges
Zbyněk Tarant, University of West Bohemia
2. Conspiratorial social critique and antisemitism
Balázs Berkovits, Comper Center, University of Haifa, and Stephen Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University
3. Creating an “Illiberal Democracy”: Populism, Racism and Antisemitism in Hungary
Stephen Pogany, School of Law, University of Warwick
4. Conspiracy of ethnic replacement
Claudia Hassan, University of Rome Tor Vergata
5. Human Microphones for Democracy: Israelis, Sound and Protest Against the New Judicial Reform
Yaron Jean, Oranim College, Tivon, Israel
Chair: Karin Stogner, Lehrstuhl für Soziologie, Universität Passau
13:10 -14:40 Lunch
14:40 -16:15 Panel VII
Populism, autocracy, democracy
1. Biopolitics and Political Technologies of a new populist competitive autocracy in Hungary
Ágnes Kövér-Van Til, Institute of Social Studies, ELTE Faculty of Social Sciences, Hungary
2.The hate face of National Populism
Ireneusz Krzeminski, Dep. of Sociology, Warsaw University
3.Social, political, historical and institutional context of racism in Italy from the 1980s to today
Nadan Petrovic, La Sapienza University of Rome/UNAR
4. Psychoanalysis in Reverse: Leo Löwenthal's Analysis of Authoritarian Agitation and Contemporary Populism
Katrin Henkelmann, University of Oldenburg; Andreas Stahl, university of Oldenburg
Chair: Kim Robin Stoller, International Institute for Education and Research on Antisemitism (IIBSA)
16:15 Coffee break
16:45 – 17:45 Book launches: an introduction
CLOCKWORK ENEMY: Xenophobia and Racism in the Era of Neo-populism. Edited by Alfredo Alietti and Dario Padovan
BOOK SERIES: Studies in Contemporary Antisemitism
David Hirsh
18:00 -19:00 RN31 Business Meeting
