המרכז הבינלאומי לחקר האנטישמיות ע"ש וידאל ששון. The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism

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1 המרכז הבינלאומי לחקר האנטישמיות ע"ש וידאל ששון The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism With the generous support of the Knapp Family Foundation International Conference, December 2016 Sartre s RÉFLEXIONS sur la Question Juive 70 Years After: Antisemitism, Race, and Gender

2 With thanks to: Conference Committee, The Authority for Research and Development, The Hebrew University of Louise Bethlehem, European Research Council (ERC) Project Apartheid -The Global Itinerary: South African Cultural Formations in Transnational Circulation, The Cultural Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Dan Diner, European Research Council (ERC) Project Judging Histories Experience, Judgement, and Representation of World War II in an Age of Globalization The Avraham Harman Institute of Contemporary Jewry, The Hebrew University of Herbst Family Professorship of Judaic Studies Institut français d Israël, Embassy of France in Israel Maison de France at the Hebrew University of The Van Leer Institute

3 Day I- Sunday, 18 December 2016 Mandel Building- Room :00-16:30 Reception 16:30-17:00 Greetings: Menachem Ben-Sasson, President of the Hebrew University of Barbara Wolffer, Cooperation and Cultural Counsellor of the French Embassy Moshe Sluhovsky, Head of the School of History and of the French Studies Program, The Hebrew University of Manuela Consonni, Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of 17:00-19:00 Session 1 The Jewish Question of Sartre Chair: Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Frédéric Worms, École Normale Supérieure Returning the Question : Sartre s Reflections on Antisemitism and the Philosophical Moment of the Liberation in France Maurice Samuels, Yale University Sartre s Jewish Question Jonathan Judaken, Rhodes College Sartre, Israel and the Postcolonial Turn Bruno Chaouat, University of Minnesota Being and Jewishness 19:15 Opening Dinner (by invitation only)

4 Day II- Monday, 19 December 2016 Mandel Building - Room 530 9:30-11:00 Session 2 The Jew as a Category of Philosophical Analysis Chair: Gal Ventura, The Hebrew University of Ynon Wygoda, The Hebrew University of Réflexions Croisées: Vladimir Jankélévitch & Jean-Paul Sartre on the Figure of the Absent Jew. Dror Yinon, Bar-Ilan University Questioning Sartre s Portrait of the Anti-Semite Rony Klein, Tel Aviv University The Jew-Figure as a Haunting Figure in Sartre s Work 11:00-11:15 Coffee Break 11:15-13:15 Session 3 Sartre, Fanon, and the Subject of Decolonization Chair: Martina Weisz, The Hebrew University of Louise Bethlehem, The Hebrew University of Sartre, Fanon and the Subject of Decolonialization: Preliminary Remarks Nina Fischer, University of Edinburgh Minor (Transnational) Intersections: Jews and Aboriginal Australians between Anti-Semitism and Racism Sarika Talve-Goodman, The Hebrew University of Blackness and the Body in a Transnational Frame: From Anti-Semite and Jew to Black Lives Matter Revital Madar, The Hebrew University of A Moment of Inconsistency: Letting the Black Body into the Sphere of Western Humanity

5 Vinzia Fiorino, University of Pisa Jean Paul Sartre, Frantz Fanon and Carla Lonzi: a Bizarre Genealogy 13:15-15:00 Lunch Break 15:00-17:00 Session 4 In Memory of Menachem Brinker Sartre in Translation Chair: Meir Bar-Asher, The Hebrew University of Eli Schonfeld, Shalem College, Sartre in : Menachem Brinker as Translator and Interpreter of the Réflexions sur la Question Juive Yoav Di-Capua, The University of Texas at Austin On the Late Arabic Translation of the Réflexions sur la Question Juive David Feldman, Birkbeck University of London British Reflections: Anti-Semite, Jew and Race Prejudice Christian Wiese, Goethe University Responses to Sartre s Essay on Antisemitism among German-Speaking Intellectuals Van Leer Institute, 43 Jabotinsky St. 18:00-18:30 Reception 18:30-19:30 Session 5 Jews and Antisemites Today Chair: Yoav Rinon, The Hebrew University of Michal Govrin, Tel Aviv University Eva Illouz, The Hebrew University of 20:00 Dinner (by invitation only)

6 Day III- Tuesday, 20 December 2016 Mandel Building- Room 530 9:30-11:00 Session 6 Antisemitism, Racism, and the Colonial Other Chair: Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Samir Ben-Layashi, The Hebrew University of Fanon, Racism, Medicine and Colonialism in North Africa Ethan Katz, University of Cincinnati The Colonial Jews outside of Sartre s Paradigm: The Réflexions Fifteen Years on and Jews of Algeria Imagined and Real Liran Razinsky, Bar-Ilan University Some Notes on Antisemitism and Racism: Sartre and Memmi 11:00-11:30 Coffee Break 11:30-13:00 Session 7 The Repetition of Modernity: Sartre and the Rest Chair: Leona Toker, The Hebrew University of Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp Le juif, c est moi. Sartre, Blanchot, Badiou Hannes Opelz, Trinity College, Dublin Being Jewish with Blanchot Tsivia Frank-Wygoda, Bar-Ilan University Edmond Jabès Jewish Questions as an Answer to Sartre 13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

7 15:00-16:00 Session 8 The Quest for Existence: Beyond the Question Chair: Yona Hanhart-Marmor, The Hebrew University of Joëlle Zask, L Université d Aix-Marseille From Stigma to Identity? A Process in Question Eran Dorfman, Tel Aviv University The Jew as a Doppelgänger in Sartre and Beyond 16:00-16:15 Coffee Break 16:15-18:00 Session 9 Après Sartre Chair: Yfaat Weiss, The Hebrew University of Renée Poznanski, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev The Jewish Question versus the Jewish Problem : Sartre amid a Strange Silence Michele Battini, University of Pisa A Reflection on the Conclusions of J.P. Sartre s Réflexions Renato Lessa, Universidade Federal Fluminense, Brazil/ University of Lisboa, Portugal Anti-Semitism, from Passion to Belief and to Conviction: Reflections on Sartre s Réflexions Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of The Jews of Sartre and After

8 18:00-19:30 Roundtable The Premise for a Universal Humanity Chair: Eli Lederhendler, The Hebrew University of Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University Eva Illouz, The Hebrew University of Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp Richard Cohen, The Hebrew University of Moshe Sluhovsky, The Hebrew University of 19:30 Closing dinner (by invitation only)

9 List of Participants Prof. Bar-Asher, Meir (Chair of the Department of Arabic Language, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Battini, Michele (Department of History, University of Pisa) Dr. Ben-Layashi, Samir (Post-Doctoral Fellow, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Bethlehem, Louise (Cultural Studies Program and Department of English, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Chaouat, Bruno (Departments of French and Jewish Studies, University of Minnesota( Prof. Cohen, Richard (Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Consonni, Manuela (Department of Jewish History and Department of Romance Studies. Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Di-Capua, Yoav (Department of History, the University of Texas at Austin) Prof. Diner, Dan (Department of History, The Hebrew University of ) Dr. Dorfman, Eran (Literature Department, Tel Aviv University) Prof. Feldman, David (Department of History, Birkbeck University of London. Director of the Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism) Prof. Fiorino, Vinzia (Department of Civilizations and Forms of Knowledge, University of Pisa) Dr. Fischer, Nina (Religious Studies and Jewish Studies, the University of Edinburgh) Dr. Frank-Wygoda, Tsivia (French Department, Bar-Ilan University) Prof. Govrin, Michal (Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University) Dr. Hanhart-Marmor, Yona (Department of Romance and Latin-American Studies, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Illouz, Eva (Department of Sociology and Anthropology, The Hebrew University of )

10 Prof. Judaken, Jonathan (Department of History, Rhodes College) Prof. Katz, Ethan (Department of History, University of Cincinnati) Dr. Klein, Rony (Department of Literature, Tel Aviv University) Prof. Lederhendler, Eli (Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Lessa, Renato (Department of Political Science, Federal Fluminense University, Brazil, and the University of Lisbon, Portugal) Prof. Liska, Vivian (Department of German Literature and Director of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp) Ms. Madar, Revital (PhD candidate, Cultural Studies Program, The Hebrew University of ) Dr. Opelz, Hannes (School of Languages, Literatures and Cultural Studies, Trinity College, Dublin) Prof. Poznanski, Renée (Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Dr. Razinsky, Liran (The Program of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar-Ilan University) Prof. Rinon, Yoav (Departments of Comparative Literature and Classics, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Rosenfeld, Alvin (Departments of English and Jewish Studies, Indiana University. Director of the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism) Prof. Samuels, Maurice (Chair of the French department, Yale University. Director of the Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism) Dr. Schonfeld, Eli (Philosophy Department, Shalem College, ) Prof. Sluhovsky, Moshe (Department of History, The Hebrew University of ) Ms. Talve-Goodman, Sarika (PhD candidate, English Department, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Toker, Leona (English Department, The Hebrew University of ) Dr. Ventura, Gal (Department of Art History, the Hebrew University of )

11 Prof. Weiss, Yfaat (Department of Jewish History, The Hebrew University of ) Dr. Weisz, Martina (The Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of ) Prof. Wiese, Christian (Fachbereich Evangelische Theologie, Goethe Universität) Prof. Worms, Fréderic (Département de Philosophie, École Normale Supérieure, Paris) Mr. Wygoda, Ynon (PhD candidate, Department of Philosophy, The Hebrew University of ) Dr. Yinon, Dror (The Program of Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, Bar Ilan University) Prof. Zask, Joëlle (Département de Philosophie, L Université d Aix-Marseille)

12 This invitation along with an ID card enables entrance to the Mount Scopus campus for the days of the conference. For on-campus parking permission please contact the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism: Tel: , Fax: