Nowoczesna kultura żydowska - konferencja

Zakład Studiów Żydowskich Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego oraz Littman Library of Jewish Civilization zapraszają w dniach 24-26 czerwca 2008 r. na V Wrocławska Konferencję Judaistyczną: Nowoczesna kultura żydowska: różnorodność i uniwersalizm.

Językiem konferencji jest angielski. Miejsce obrad: Oratorium Marianum. Referaty i dyskusje zostały zgrupowane w ośmiu sesjach tematycznych. Wystąpi około 25 prelegentów ze Stanów Zjednoczonych (6) , Izraela (5), Wielkiej Brytanii (3), a także Węgier, Niemiec, Kanady, Australii, Włoch, Turcji i Polski.

We wtorek 24 czerwca o godz. 9.00  gości powitają: prof. Marcin Wodziński, kierownik Zakładu Studiów Żydowskich UWr, Connie Webber, redaktor naczelna Littman Library of Jewish Civilization oraz prof. Simon J. Bronner, amerykanista i etnolog z Uniwersytetu Stanowego Pensylwanii, kierownik naukowy Holocaust and Jewish Studies Center.

PROGRAM:

TUESDAY, JUNE 24

I. 9 a.m.-10:00 a.m.

Welcome and Introductions
Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław, Poland)
Connie Webber (Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, UK)
Simon J. Bronner (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

II. 10:30 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Why (and What) Culture?
Moderator and Respondent: Moshe Rosman (Bar-Ilan University, Israel)

Mikhail Chlenov (State Jewish Maimonides Academy, Russia), "How Jews Understand They are Jews: Jewish Identities in the Modern World"

Harvey E. Goldberg (Hebrew University, Israel), "How Israeli Social Scientists Came to Recognize Culture"

Jonathan Webber (University of Birmingham, UK) "Representing Jewish Culture: The Problem of Boundaries"

III. 1:00-3 p.m.

Virtual and Authentic Jewish Culture
Moderator: Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University, USA)

Dan Ben-Amos and Batsheva Ben-Amos (University of Pennsylvania, USA),"Virtual and Authentic in Jewish Culture"

Felicitas Heimann-Jelinek (Jewish Museum Vienna), "The Rivalry Between the Virtual and the Authentic-A Misunderstanding?"

Ruth Ellen Gruber (Italy), "Beyond Virtual Jewishness: New Authenticities, Real Imaginary Places, and the Commodification of Jewish Culture"

3:15- 6:30 P.M. TOUR OF JEWISH WROCŁAW

JUNE 25

IV. 9  a.m.-10:30 a.m
Creating, Displaying, and Depicting Jewish Memory and Culture
Moderator: Richard I. Cohen (Hebrew University, Israel)

Suzanne Rutland (University of Sydney, Australia), "Presentations of, and Controversies about, Holocaust Memory in Australian Museums"

Barbara Kirshenblatt-Gimblett (New York University, USA), "Building the Museum of the History of Polish Jews: A Work in Progress"

Maren Krüger (Jewish Museum Berlin), "Communicating German-Jewish History and Culture: The Jewish Museum Berlin"

V. 11 a.m. -12:30 p.m
Representing and Performing Jewish Culture
Moderator:  Dan Ben-Amos (University of Pennsylvania, USA)

Mikel Koven (University of Worcester, UK), "Stereotyping and the Ethnic Jew: The Case of Ost und West"

Richard I. Cohen (Hebrew University, Israel) "Moses Mendelssohn as a Jewish Icon"

Shalom Sabar (Hebrew University, Israel), "Religious, Zionist, Ideal, and Militaristic - The Changing Image of the Simchat Torah Flag from Shtetl Culture to Modern Israel"

VI. 1:30-3:00 p.m.
Jewish Cultural Landscapes, Past and Present
Moderator: Joachim Schloer (University of Southampton, UK)

Agnieszka Jagodzinska (University of Wrocław, Poland), "The Jewish Cemetery Landscape as a Text of Culture"

Haya Bar-Itzhak (University of Haifa, Israel), "Diaspora and the Land of Israel in Jewish Legends."

Karen Sarhon (Ottoman-Turkish Sephardic Culture Research Center, Turkey) "Ladino: The Sound That Has Slowly Disappeared From the Wider Soundscape Of Turkey"

VII. 3:30-5:00 p.m.
Defining and Constructing Jewish Culture and Memory
Moderator: Suzanne Rutland (University of Sydney, Australia)

Joachim Schlör (University of Southampton, UK), "Migration and Jewish Memory: Means of Transport and Storage in Modern Times"

András Kovács (Central European University, Hungary), "Culture as Identity Peg: The Role of Culture in the Construction of Jewish Identity"

Steve Siporin (Utah State University, USA), "Mixed Motives: Sustaining and Defining Jewish Heritage in a Small Italian City Today"

EVENING CULTURAL EVENT: CONCERT BY BENTE KAHAN 6 p.m.

JUNE 26

VIII. 9 a.m.-11 a.m.
Jewish Culture and Jewish Identities in Contemporary Poland
Moderator: Jonathan Webber (University of Birmingham, UK)

Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Canada), "'Jewish Like an Adjective': New Inflections of Polishness in Krakow's Kazimierz"

Michael Steinlauf (Gratz College, USA), "Something Lost that Seeks Its Name: The Dybbuk in Post-Communist Poland"

Michael Schudrich (Poland) ""Poles Rediscovering Their Jewish Roots And Identity: What Does This Mean And How Does It Happen?"

IX 11:30 a.m.-12: 30 p.m.
Diversities and Unities in Modern Jewish Culture: Retrospective on the Conference and Prospect for the Future
Marcin Wodziński (University of Wrocław, Poland) and Simon J. Bronner (Pennsylvania State University, USA)

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