October 26, 2010
Aviva & Samy Ofer Observation Gallery, Eshkol Tower
6:00-8:00pm
Greetings & Introduction
Amos Morris-Reich and Dirk Rupnow
Keynote Speaker
Sander Gilman, Department of Liberal Arts and Sciences, Emory University
Why is the Concept of "Race" still (again?) a Topic of Interest for the 21st century?
Discussion
Reception
October 27, 2010
Senate Room, Floor 29, Eshkol Tower
9:15
Greetings
Prof. Aaron Ben-Zeev, President, University of Haifa
9:30 - 10:45am
Foundations I
Chair/Respondent:
Rotem Kowner, Department of Asian Studies, University of Haifa
Joan-Pau Rubiés, Department of International History, The London School of Economics and Political Sciences Were Early-Modern Europeans Racist?
Susanne Lettow, Institute for Human Sciences IWM, Vienna Genealogies of Race. German Philosophy from Kant to Hegel
11:15am - 12:30pm
Foundations II
Chair/Respondent:
Snait Gissis, Cohn Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Ideas, Tel Aviv University
Martin Reisigl, Department of Linguistics, University of Vienna Linguistic Racialisation. Observations on the Dreadful Contribution of Linguistics to Racism
Veronika Lipphardt, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science "Race" in the Humanities? Biological Notions of Origin and Diversity
2:30 - 4:15pm
Art
Chair/Respondent:
Esther Levinger, Department of Art History, University of Haifa
Kymberly Pinder, Department of Art History, Theory and Criticism, The School of the Art Institute of Chicago Seeing is Believing: Race and the (De)Formation of Art History
Margaret Olin, Yale Divinity School
Formal Analysis: Art and Anthropology
Charles L. Davis II, Department of Art History, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Architectural Organicism and the Tectonic Sensibility for Race and Style
4:45 - 6:00pm
Folklore and Economical Theory
Chair/Respondent:
Sergio DellaPergola, Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Dani Schrire, The Jewish and Comparative Folklore Program, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Jews as a Folk and as a Race in Early Jewish Folkloristics
Nicolas Berg, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig Racism and Anti-Semitism in the German Speaking Political Economy - The Example of Carl Schmitts Berlin-Conference "Judaism in Law" 1936
October 28, 2010
Aviva & Samy Ofer Observation Gallery, Eshkol Tower 9:30 - 10:45am Religion
Chair/Respondent:
Fania Oz-Salzberger, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa, and Department of Modern Israel Studies, Monash University
George Williamson, Department of History, Florida State University Religion and Race in Friedrich Schelling's Philosophy of Mythology
Denise Kimber Buell, Department of Religion, Williams College "Race" in the Formation of the Study of Religion
11:15am - 12:30pm
Musicology
Chair/Respondent:
Ruth HaCohen, Scholion Research Center in Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Michael P. Steinberg, Department of History and Department of Music, Brown University Is Wagner (Still) Dangerous?
Anna G. Piotrowska, Institute of Musicology, Jagellonian University of Krakow The Concept of Race in Musicological Thought - From General Remarks to the Case Study of So-Called "Gypsy Music" in European Culture
2:30 - 4:15pm
Regions
Chair/Respondent:
Zur Shalev, Department of General History and Department of Land of Israel Studies, University of Haifa
Suzanne L. Marchand, Department of History, Louisiana State University Race, Religion and the Problem of Near Eastern Prehistory
Nigel Eltringham, Department of Anthropology, University of Sussex Joseph Deniker and the Rise (and Fall) of Scientific Racism
Christopher Hutton, School of English, University of Hong Kong Phonocentrism and the Concept of Volk: The Case of Modern China
4:45 - 6:00pm
History
Chair/Respondent:
Mitchell Ash, Department of History, University of Vienna
Derek C. Catsam, Department of History, University of Texas of the Permian Basin From Apartheid to Liberation: Race, History and South African Historiography
Bradley W. Hart, Churchill College, Cambridge University Racial History: Using the Humanities as the Foundation for International Eugenics