Saturday, Feb. 15
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
7:00PM
Film screening: Avi Mograbi, Avenge But One of My Two Eyes
Discussants:
Yael Shenker, Film Production and Theory, Sapir Academic College
Shai Ginsburg, Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies and Jewish Studies, Duke University
Sunday, Feb. 16
John Hope Franklin Center, Room 240
9:00-10:30AM Opening Session
Miriam Cooke, Braxton Craven Professor of Arab Cultures, Asian and Middle Eastern Studies, Duke University
Abdullah T. Antepli, Muslim Chaplain, Duke University
11:00AM-12:30PM Session 1
Siegfried Kracauer, "The Mass Ornament"
Walter Benjamin, selection from the Arcades Project
Discussant:
Maya Barzilai, The Department of Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
12:30-14:00PM: Lunch
14:00-15:30PM:
אווה אילוז, מבחר מתוך תרבות הקפיטליזם
אווה אילוז, "עייפנו מהעדתיות"
אווה אילוז, "כך הפכה ישראל ממקום מפלט לנרדפים למדינה מתבדלת, כוחנית וגזענית"
Discussants:
Omri Herzog, Department of Cultural Studies, Sapir College
Omri Grinberg, Department of Anthropology, University of Toronto
16:00-17:30 PM:
יהודה ליבס, "על המיתוס היהודי וגלגולו"
שלום רוזנברג, "מיתוס המיתוסים"
יהודה ליבס, "תגובה",
Discussant:
Haim Weiss, Department of Hebrew Literature and Program of Folklore Studies, Ben Gurion University of the Negev
Monday, Feb. 17
Franklin Humanities Institute
9:00-10:30AM
ישראל זרחי, "סמבטיון"
Julia Kristeva, selection from Black Sun
Recommended: Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, The ten lost tribes: a world history
Discussant:
Nitzan Lebovic, Department of History, Lehigh University
11:00AM-12:30PM
Robert M. Polhemus, selection from Lot's Daughters: Sex, Redemption, and Women’s Quest for Authority
א"ב יהושע, 'יום שרב ארוך, יאושו, אשתו ובתו
Discussant:
Shira Stav, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben Gurion University of the Negev