Day 1 (April 30, 2013)
Duke - Franklin Humanities Institute
Smith Warehouse, C170 Bay 4
114 S. Buchanan Blvd
Durham, NC 27701
10:00 - 10:15 Greetings
Ian Baucom, Eric Meyers
10:15-10:30 Opening remarks
J. Boyarin
10:30-11:45 Keynote I:
Seyla Benhabib (Yale), “Jewishness and Zionism: Thinking Disjunctions from Moritz Goldstein to Judith Butler”
11:45-1:00 Lunch
1:00-2:30 Panel 1
Martin Land (Hadassah College, Jerusalem), “Against ‘the Attack on Linking:’ Rearticulating ‘the Jewish Intellectual’ for Today”
Svetlana Boym (Harvard), "Off-Modern Jew: Estrangement and Vernacular Cosmopolitanism"
2:45-4:15 Panel 2
Yitzhak Melamed (Johns Hopkins), “Aufklärung, Jewish Protestantism, and European Islamophobia”
Konstanty Gebert (Poland), “A Theory about Jews: Contemporary Antisemitic Conceptualizations in Poland"
4:45-6:15 Panel 3
Hannan Hever (Hebrew U.), “The Figure of the Hasidic Jew: Revisiting the Buber-Scholem Debate”
Jay Geller (Vanderbilt), “The Jewish Animot: Of Jews as Animals”
Day 2 (May 1, 2013): May 1
UNC Chapel Hill - Hyde Hall
176 E. Franklin Street
Chapel Hill, NC 27599-3322
9:45 Greetings
John McGowan, Jonathan Hess
10:00-11:15 Keynote II:
Martin Jay (Berkeley), “Leo Lowenthal and the Jewish Renaissance”
11:30-1:00 Panel 4
Jim Porter (Irvine), "Auerbach's Dante"
Sarah Hammerschlag (Williams), “The Last Jewish Intellectual: Derrida and the Literary Turn in Practices of Jewish Identification”
1:00-2:00 Lunch
2:00-4:15 Panel 5
Sergey Dolgopolski (SUNY Buffalo), “Jews, in Theory”
Haviva Pedaya (Ben Gurion), "The time that was found - The Jew and the wandering Signifier"
Elliot Wolfson (NYU), “Speaking of the End and the End of Speaking”
4:30-5:30 Concluding Roundtable
Andrew Bush (Vassar), Erin Carlston (UNC), Gregory Flaxman (UNC),
Jonathan Freedman (U. Michigan)