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

 

 

a.oleszak@ucl.ac.uk

 

Further information about the conference

<http://www.ucl.ac.uk/hebrew-jewish/research/antiera-2.php.>

 

URL zur Zitation dieses Beitrages

<http://hsozkult.geschichte.hu-berlin.de/termine/id=13917>

 

 

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