Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe
A Conference at the Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
Monday, 11 - Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Co-Ordinators: Lucille Cairns (Durham) and Andrea Reiter (Southampton)
Programme
Monday, 11 April 2011
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1
09.00 Registration
09.30 Lucille Cairns (Durham) and Andrea Reiter (Southampton): Welcome and Introduction
09.45 Cinema
Nathan Abrams (Bangor): 'Almost the same, but not quite': Jewishness in Contemporary UK Cinema
Lihi Nagler (Tel Aviv): Images of Jews in Post-Reunification German Cinema and Television
Nathalie Ségeral (Los Angeles/Paris): Frenchness, Jewishness and Identity in Karin Albou's La Petite Jérusalem
Lea Wohl (Hamburg): Dani Levy's Film Narrations: a Map of the 'Minefield' of the Contemporary German-Jewish Relationship
11.45 Coffee
12.15 Keynote Lecture
Atina Grossmann (New York): The 'Surviving Remnant' in the Early Postwar Period: Ruptures and Surprising Continuities in the New Europe
13.15 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.30 Intellectuals (1)
Devorah Baum (Southampton): Circumcision Anxiety
Maxime Decout (Lyon): Standing Apart/Being a Part: Cixous's Fictional Jewish Identities
Robert Kahn (Rouen): The Jew is Never where You Expect Him: Zagdanski and Piperno Read Proust
16.10 Tea
16.40 Intellectuals (2)
Keith Reader (Glasgow): 'Two bald men fighting over a comb?' The Quarrel between Alain Badiou and Eric Marty
Matteo Di Figlia (Palermo): Italian Jews and the Extra-Parliamentary Politics. The Assembling of an Identity
Marcy Brink-Danan (Providence, RI): Writing to Comfort Ourselves: European Jewish Journalists Reconsider the Audience
At the Austrian Cultural Forum, 28 Rutland Gate, London SW7
19.00 Zorro's Bar Mitzva. A Discussion with Filmmaker Ruth Beckermann
followed by a Reception
Tuesday, 12 April 2011
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1
09.30 Literature (1)
Bettina Codrai (Southampton): Lost in Third Space? Narrating German-Jewish Identity in Maxim Biller's 'Autobiography' Der gebrauchte Jude
Mona Koerte (Berlin): The Language of 'Things' in Contemporary German-Jewish Writing
Andrea Reiter (Southampton): 'Performing the Jew'. Recent Novels by Jewish Writers in Austria
11.00 Coffee
11.30 Literature (2)
Cathy Gelbin (Manchester): The New Jew: From the Fin de Siècle to the New Millennium
Axel Stähler (Kent): Shifting Baselines: Israel in Recent British Jewish Fiction
Olaf Terpitz (Leipzig): The Literary Production of the Russian Jewish Diaspora: Local, Global and Social Aspects
Sue Vice (Sheffield): Becoming English: Assimilation and its Discontents in Contemporary British-Jewish Literature
13.30 Lunch (own arrangements)
14.45 Space/Place/Belonging (1)
Anna Maria Droumpouki (Athens): The Art of Holocaust Memory and the Emergence of Anti-Semitism in Greece
Eszter Gantner (Berlin): European Jewry versus Hungarian Jewry? Jewish Identities in Contemporary Hungary
Diana Popescu (Southampton): Israeli Artists Imagine the 'Return' of the Jewish People to Europe
16.15 Tea
16.45 Keynote Lecture
Matti Bunzl (Illinois): Theodor Herzl's Stepchildren: the Jews of Europe and the Israeli Question
Wednesday, 13 April 2011
Room ST 274/275, Stewart House, 32 Russell Square, WC1
09.00 Space/Place/Belonging (2)
Karine Michel (IDEMEC/IECJ): Communist Jews in Former East Germany - Expressing one's Jewishness
Daniel Monterescu and Sara Zorandy (Budapest): 'Judapest': Improvising Community in Central Europe
10.00 Coffee
10.30 Space/Place/Belonging (3)
Helga Embacher (Salzburg): Solidarity with Israel and America: Jewish Reactions to the Intifada, 9/11 and the War in Iraq in France, Germany and the UK. A Comparison
Eyal Lavi (London): 'If there isn't something bad about Israel I'm actually quite pleased': News Reporting and the Ambivalence of Belonging among British Jews Today
Yuval Moshkovitz (London): The Jewish-Israeli Subject in the Diaspora - Negotiating Collective Identity between Zionist Ideology and Diasporic Reality
12.15 Keynote Lecture
Diana Pinto (Paris): Who are Europe's Jews Today? Negotiating Jewish Identity in an Asemitic Age
13.15 Closing Discussion
13.30 End of Conference
Further details and registration
To obtain further information and register for the conference, contact [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]> (tel: 020 7862 8966). Please note the closing date for receipt of registrations is Friday, 1 April 2011.
Conference Fees
All Days
£65.00
£60.00 Reduced Rate
£40.00 Student Rate
1 Day
£45.00
£40.00 Reduced Rate
£30.00 Student Rate
Reduced Rate: Fully paid-up Friends of Germanic Studies, Friends of Italian Studies, or paying members of the IGRS only
Student Rate: Students with proof of status only
A registration form can be downloaded through here: http://w01.igrscms.wf.ulcc.ac.uk/index.php?id=527
This conference is organised under the auspices of the
University of Durham
University of Southampton
and the
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies, University of London
and sponsored by the Austrian Cultural Forum
Jane Lewin
Institute of Germanic & Romance Studies
University of London School of Advanced Study
Room ST 272, Senate House
Malet Street, GB- London WC1E 7HU
Telephone 0044 (0)20 7862 8966
Website www.igrs.sas.ac.uk
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