Women Write Buber 100th Anniversary of I and Thou (1923)
כנס בינ”ל בנושא: “נשים כותבות בובר. 100 שנים לאני ואתה”.
הכנס יתקיים באונברסיטת חיפה, ב 17 וב 18 ביולי 2023. במגדל אשכול, קומה 30.
Women Write Buber 100th Anniversary of I and Thou (1923)
–July 17-18, 2023 –
Ofer Observatory, 30th Floor of Eshkol Tower, University of Haifa
Monday, July 17, 2023
9:30 a.m. | Opening Cedric Cohen-Skalli (University of Haifa)
Ronen Pinkas (University of Potsdam)
Irene Aue-Ben-David (Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem)
Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig)
Paul Mendes-Flohr (University of Chicago / Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:30 a.m.| I and Thou: Buber and Female Scholarship
Chair: Irene Ben-David (Leo Baeck Institute, Jerusalem)
Abigail Gillman (Boston University) – “Bertha Pappenheim’s Dialogue with Martin Buber” Rakefet Anzi (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Women in Adult Education: Martin Buber and Nechama Leibowitz“
Silvia Richter (Goethe University Frankfurt) – “The Life of Dialogue: Martin Buber and Etty Hillesum”
1:45 p.m. | Feminism: Dialogical Perspectives
Chair: Annabel Herzog (University of Haifa)
Cornelia Muth (University of Applied Sciences and Arts Bielefeld) – “Martin Buber’s Theory of Knowledge and Its Feminist Elements”
Noa Avron Barak (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Writing a Dialogical Art History: Martin Buber and Feminist Art History in Israel”
Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig) – “Femininity and Frauendenken in Buber’s Thought“
3:30 p.m. | Environmentalism and Dialogue
Chair: Asher D. Biemann (University of Virginia)
Hava Tirosh-Samuelson (Arizona State University) – “Martin Buber and the Challenges of the 21st Century: Ecology and Technology”
Claudia Welz (Aarhus University) & Essi Ikonen (Aarhus University) – “Listening to Nature: Martin Buber’s Philosophy of Dialogue and Environmental Ethics”
4:45 p.m. | Body and Dialogue
Chair: Viola Alianov-Rautenberg (University of Haifa)
Sarah Scott (Manhattan College) – “The Body that Questions: Embodiment in Martin Buber’s Moral Philosophy”
Liora Bing-Heidecker (Independent scholar) – “Martin Buber’s Dance: ‘Making a Symbol Out of the Man of Our Generation’”
18:00 p.m. | Keynote Speaker
Introduction: Cedric Cohen Skalli (University of Haifa)
Vivian Liska (Hebrew University of Jerusalem / University of Antwerp) – “Woman as World: Subjectivity and Singularity in Martin Buber’s Dialogical Writings”
Tuesday, July 18, 2023
9:30 a.m. Introduction Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig)
Tamar Goldschmidt & Heike Breitenbach (Goethe University Frankfurt) – Reading Unpublished Letters from the Family Estate
10:45 a.m. | I and Thou: Buber and Female Scholarship
Chair: Paul Mendes-Flohr (Hebrew University)
Katharina Baur (University of Augsburg) – “The Invisible Woman: Paula Buber – The Person of I and Thou”
Bettina Bannasch (University of Augsburg) – “Ladies’ Philosopher and Salon Lady: Martin Buber and Auguste Hauschner”
1:30 p.m. | Buber and Literature
Chair: Vered Lev Kenaan (University of Haifa)
Einat Davidi (University of Haifa) – “Isabel, Achab and Elijah as a Psychomachic Triangle: Martin Buber’s Elijah as an Auto Sacramental Play”
Galit Hasan-Rokem (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – “Myth and Experience: Women, Heroes and Dialogue”
Leena Eilittä (University of Helsinki) – “Ich, Du und Es in Ingeborg Bachmann’s Malina”
3:15 p.m. | Towards a New Philosophical Paradigm
Chair: Hagi Kenaan (Tel Aviv University)
Yael Sela (Teichler) (University of Potsdam) – “Dialogues of Hearts: Martin Buber and bell hooks on Love”
Libera Pisano (University Pompeu Fabra, Barcelona) – “In the Beginning Is Narration: Reading Martin Buber through Adriana Cavarero”
4:30 p.m. | Bible, Feminism and Theopolitics
Chair: Benjamin Pollock (Hebrew University)
Claire Sufrin (Northwestern University) – “Martin Buber’s Bible as a Feminist Resource” Randi Rashkover (College of William & Mary) – “Buber’s Theopolitics, the Beautiful Soul and the Needs of the Hour”
5:45 p.m. | Keynote Speaker
Introduction: Ronen Pinkas (Potsdam University)
Leora Batnitzky (Princeton University) – “Mothering Beyond Essence? Martin Buber, Bertha Pappenheim and Donald Winnicott”