Semites: Towards the History of a Concept
We cordially invite you to a workshop on: “Semites: Towards the History of a Concept”
9:45 Coffee and reception
10:00 Greetings and Introductory Remarks
Raanan Rein Vice, President, Tel Aviv University
Scott Ury, Director, Roth Institute, Tel Aviv University
10:15 Semites between Religion and Race
Chair: Miriam Eliav-Feldon, Historical Society of Israel and Tel Aviv University
Iris Idelson-Shein, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main and Ben Gurion University of the Negev Semites Avant la Lettre? Jews and Muslims in European Imagination Before 1800
Julie Chajes, Tel Aviv University
Semites, Aryans, and the Invention of Monotheism
Ofri Ilany, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Sons of Shem, Sons of Ham and the Birth of Modern Racial Concepts
11:45 Coffee break
12:00 Semites, Pan-Semites and Zionists
Chair: Ela Bauer, Kibbutzim College, Tel Aviv
Hanan Harif, Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem
Ashkenazi Semites? Pan-Semitism and the Question of Mizrahi Jews
Stefan Vogt, Goethe University, Frankfurt am Main
Zionist Theories of “Race”
Ahuvia Goren, Tel Aviv University
The Truth or a Trap? Religious-Zionist Reflections on the Jews as a Race
13:30 Lunch break
14:45 Muslims and Jews in the Public Discourse
Chair: Yaron Tsur, Tel Aviv University
Gustavo Guzman, Tel Aviv University The Chilean Right’s Changing Attitudes Towards Jews and Arabs, 1938-1978
Marcus Funk Centre for Research on Antisemitism, Technical University, Berlin
A History of the Present: Semites vs. Europe and the Reconfiguration of the Other in the German “Abendland” Discourse
Yulia Egorova Durham University, UK
Muslims and Jews in Britain Today
16:15 Coffee break
16:30 Semites between History and Language
Chair: Galili Shahar, Tel Aviv University
Felix Wiedemann, Freie Universität, Berlin
“Principal Actors of History”: The Semites as Characters in Historiographical and Philological Narratives (1781-1883)
Noah Gerber, Tel Aviv University
Judaism, Islam and the Limits of Fluidity: Yemenite Jewry in the Historical Imagination
Almog Behar, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
Sister Languages? Bi-Lingual Authors Imagining Hebrew and Arabic, Past and Future
Tel Aviv University, Naftali Building, Room 527
The event will be held in English