From: Agnieszka
Oleszak <a.oleszak@ucl.ac.uk>
Date: 15.05.2010
Subject: Konf: Antisemitism in Hungary and Poland: Genealogies,
Transitions, Practices - London 05/10
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Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies,
University College London
26.05.2010-27.05.2010, London
On 26 and 27 May 2010, the Department of Hebrew
and Jewish Studies at
University College London will host an
international conference:
Antisemitism in Hungary and Poland: Genealogies,
Transitions,
Practices.
On the first day, researchers from European
countries and the US will
discuss the genealogies of antisemitism
and focus on four crucial
arenas: religious traditions, the popular press,
visions of the body
politic, and the Communist movement. The second day
investigates the
role of antisemitism in
the period of transition by focusing on the
image of 'the Jew' in the 1980s in Polish and
Hungarian culture, the
function of antisemitism in
cultural memory, antisemitism and new media,
constituencies of antisemitic
ideology, and the conflation of other
exclusionary visions such as anti-Roma racism and
homophobia. Both
perspectives, the historical-genealogical as well as the
contemporary,
are presented by specialists on Poland and
Hungary, which invited
discussants will contrast, offering critical reflections.
The conference, organized in cooperation with
the School of Slavonic and
East European Studies (SSEES, UCL) is the
culmination of a project
initiated in 2006 by the late Professor John Klier and led by Dr
François Guesnet,
Elizabeth and Sydney Corob Lecturer in Modern Jewish
History, UCL. The main investigator is Dr Gwen Jones,
Postdoctoral
Research Associate at the
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies. The
workshop and research project are generously funded by
the Rothschild
Foundation Europe.
For further information go to:
http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/antiera-2.php.
Attendance is free, but prior registration is
required. To register, or
for the further information, please contact Ms Agnieszka Oleszak,
Project Assistant: a.oleszak@ucl.ac.uk
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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. Stanislaw 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 Zgliczynski, 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 Gerö, 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 Michal 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
Mares, Masaryk University, Brno
2.30 - 4 Panel 9:
Conflation of exclusions
Dr Alina Cala, 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
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A. Oleszak
University College London
Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Further information about the conference
<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/antiera-2.php.>
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