Pražské centrum židovských studií Filozofické fakulty Univerzity Karlovy ve spolupráci s Kantor Center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry, Tel Aviv University si Vás dovoluje pozvat na svou již 4. výroční mezinárodní konferenci s názvem BEING JEWISH IN CENTRAL EUROPE TODAY, která se koná 13. – 15. října, tradičně v Clam-Gallasově paláci. Témata letošní konference jsou vysoce aktuální. Patří mezi ně mj. reprezentace Židů a židovství v současné evropské kultuře, literatuře a médiích; téma identit(y); paměť a připomínání holocaustu; soudobý antisemitismus či interakce minorit a náboženských skupin.Konference se koná pod osobní záštitou Daniela Hermana, ministra kultury České republiky. Spolupořadatelem konference je Archiv hl. m. Prahy. Událost podpořilo Velvyslanectví Státu Izrael v České republice.
PROGRAM
13/10/2015
9:00-9:15 Opening
Doc. Mirjam Friedová, Ph.D. – Dean – Faculty of Arts, Charles University in Prague
Karel Schwarzenberg – Former Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
9:15-10:00 Keynote address
• Raphael Vago – In Search of Central Europe and its Jewry
Introduction by Hana Kubátová
10:30-12:00 Session in Honor of Yitzhak Artzi Z“L – The Legacy of the Past
Chaired by Jakub Mlynář
Avihu Ronen – The Memories of the Anti-Fascist Fight and the False Hopes for the Future: The Zionist Youth Movements and the Communist Regimes in Central Europe, 1944 – 1950
Hana Kubátová – On the Image of the Jew in Postwar Slovakia
Ruth Ellen Gruber – Reinventing the Past: Jewish Sites as ‚lieux de memoire‘
13:30-15:00 Session 2 – The Present and Future of Jewish Identities
Chaired by Pavel Sládek
András Kovács – Variations on a Theme: Empirical Investigation of Jewish Identities in Europe
Michael L. Miller – Jewish Identity between Religion and Secularism
Marcela Zoufalá – Is There an Emerging European Jewish Identity?
15:30-17:00 Session 3 – Antisemitism and its Impact
Chaired by Daniel Kumermann
Haim Fireberg – Contemporary Antisemitism in Europe: a Comparative Study between West and East
Rafal Pankowski – The Jewish Community in Poland, Civil Society Organizations and Antisemitism
Michael Shafir – The Nature of Post-Communist Antisemitism in Central Europe
14/10/2015
9:00-10:30 Session 1 – Jewish Communities and National Politics
Chaired by Clara Royer
· András Heisler – The Jewish Community and the Changing Political Environment in Hungary
· Anna Chipczyńska – The Jewish Community and Polish Politics
· Tomáš Kraus – Jewish Debates on Their Role in National Politics
11:00-12:30 Session 2 – Jews, National Minorities and Religious Communities
Chaired by Aleš Weiss
· Michal Schuster – Jewish – Roma Relations: Alliance against Racism
· Pavel Hošek – Jewish – Christian Relations: Tradition, Changed Theology and Practice
· Zbynĕk Tarant – Muslim and Jewish Relations in the Czech Republic
14:00-15:30 Session 3 – Jews in Central Europe: A Vanishing Diaspora?
Chaired by Petr Brod
· Sergio DellaPergola – The Demography of Jews in Europe – Facts, Myths and Trends
· Zsofia Kata-Vincze – Who are the Contemporary Jews of Hungary?
· Ze’ev Khanin – „Russians“, „Sephardi“ and „Israelis“: The Changing Structure of Austrian Jewry
15/10/2015
9:00-10:30 Session 1 – Culture and Society
Chaired by Jan Fingerland
· Konstanty Gebert – What is Jewish about Contemporary Central European Jewish Culture?
· Jiří Holý – Jews and Jewishness in Cinema and Literature: The Case of the Czech Republic
· Ruth Beckermann – The missing image – Vienna 1938 and Today
11:00-12:30 Round table – Central European Jewry, the EU and Israel
Chaired by Dina Porat
Ivo Schwarz – Czech Ambassador to Israel
Gary Koren – Israeli Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Ferdinand Trauttmansdorff – Austrian Ambassador to the Czech Republic
Tomáš Pojar – Former Czech Ambassador to Israel
Zvi Rav-Ner – Former Israeli Ambassador to Poland
Final Remarks – Marcela Zoufalá
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