Monday, May 3, 2010
Opening
17.00-17.30 Registration and refreshments
Opening Session (In Hebrew)
Chairperson: Prof. Ortzion Bartana, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
17.30-18.15 Greetings: Prof. Michael Zinigrad, Ariel University Center
Mr. Yuli Edelstein, Minister of Information and the Diaspora
Prof. Israel Nebenzahl, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Ariel University Center
Dr. Uri Zur, Head of the Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Prof. Ortzion Bartana, Introduction
18.15-18.45 Joel Fishman, Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, George Orwell on the Intellectuals of His Time, and the Key Concepts: Intellectuals, Terror and Political Correctness
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
Terror and Values
9.00-9.30 Reception and refreshments
9.30-11.00 Session One: Terror and Values: Historical Precedents (in English)
Chairperson: Dr. Uri Zur, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Richard Landes, Boston University, Intellectuals and Terrorism: from "Useful Idiots" to "Useful Infidels"?
Anna Geifman, Boston University, The Liberal-Left Opts for Terror
Irma Ratiani, Maka Elbakudze, Tbilisi State University, Anti-totalitarian Text - The Reaction of Literature against Intellectual Terror
Paul Hollander, University of Massachusetts, The Appeal of Righteous Political Violence for Intellectuals
11.30-12.30 Session Two: Intellectuals in the Shadow of Terror: The Present vis-à-vis the Past (in Hebrew)
Chairperson:
Golda Akhiezer, The Hebrew University, Jewish Identity and National Consciousness: A Case Study of Radical Participation in the Russian Empire, 1881-1917
Meir Seidler, The Beauty and the Beast:Sartre's Relation to Baader-Meinhof
David Bukay, Haifa University, Islam and Terrorism: Religious and Cultural Foundations
Eliezer Shargorodsky, The Open University of Israel, The 21st Century Version of the Blood Libel.
15.00-16.30 Session Three: Intellectuals and Terror in Israel and in the World (in Hebrew)
Chairperson: Prof. Noach Milgram, Ariel University Center
Ron Schleifer, Ariel University Center, Political Warfare in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: Organization, Messages, Methods
Ronen A. Cohen, Ariel University Center, The Other Voice - An Intellectual Debate inside the Islamic World between the Western Agenda Devotees and those Embracing a Mistaken Interpretation of Islam
Yossi Goldstein, Ariel University Center, The Organized Terror against Britain, November 1945-June 1946
Yuval Arnon-Ohanna, Ariel University, Center, War and Peace Negotiations: Approaches in Islam versus Approaches in the West
17.00-18.30 Session Four: Round Table: "The Fatal Attraction" and Its Causes (In Hebrew)
Chairperson:Prof. Yossi Goldstein, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Alek D. Epstein, The Open University of Israel, Intellectuals' Fascination with Totalitarian Utopias
Yitzhak Klein, Efrata College, Jerusalem, Darkness at Noon: Israeli Academics Justify Terror against Israel
Noach Milgram, Ariel University Center, The Road to Violence Is Paved with the Misguided Intentions of Left Wing Intellectuals
Uri Milstein, Ariel University Center, The Attitude of Intellectuals towards Terror, according to the General Theory of Security: The Survival Principle
Wednesday, 5.5.2010
Images of Terror
9.00-9.30 Reception and refreshments
9.30-11.00 Session Five: Literary Representations of Terror (in English and in Hebrew)
Chairperson: Dr. Nitza Davidovitch, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Helena Tolstoy, The Hebrew University, “Azefovzhina” in the works of A.Krandiyevskaya
Ortzion Bartana, Ariel University Center, Self-Hate, the Wandering Jew Model and the Deceit of the Six-Day War in the Pseudo-Intellectual Hebrew Prose
Leonid Katsis, The Russian University of the Humanities, Moscow, Problems of Terrorism in Unknown Articles by Zeev Jabotinsky (1903-1905)
Helena Rimon, Ariel University Center, The Poetics of Lucrimax and the Historiography of the Hebrew Literature
11.30-13.00 Session Six: Terror and the Cinema (In Hebrew)
Chairperson: Dr. Ziva Feldman, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Hananel Rosenberg,The Hebrew University, "The Interview with the Terrorist": Israeli Youth's Reception of the Television Meeting with the Enemy
Yuval Rivlin, Israeli Films: The Act of Terror in Israeli Cinema
Kinneret Guterman, College of Management Academic Studies, Rishon Lezion, Representation of Terror, Arabs and Muslims in American Popular Media
Sariel Birnbaum, The Hebrew University, Egyptian Cinema as a Way to Fight Islamic Terror
13.45-16.00 Lunch - Trip to Tel Shilo
16.00-18.30 Session Seven: Terror, Mass-Communication and Society (In Hebrew)
Chairperson: Dr. Amnon Shapira, Israel Heritage Department, Ariel University Center
Elina Bardach-Yalov, Bar Ilan University, The Russian Dilemma: Are the Media the Oxygen of Terrorists?
Amnon Lord, Makor Rishon, The Intellectuals’ Temptation: The Political Warfare Strategy of Willi Münzenberg
Eyal Pascovich, Ariel University Center, Social-Civilian Apparatuses of Terrorist Organizations and their Intellectual (Religious and Social) Justification
19.00-20.30 Closing Session: The Role of Mass Media in Shaping the Image of Terror
Chairperson: Dr. Ronen Cohen, Department of Israeli and Middle Eastern Studies, Ariel University Center
Minister of Science, Prof. Rabbi Daniel Hershkovitz, Ben Dror Yemini (Maariv), Dov Kontorer (Vesti) Sophy Ron-Moria (Makor Rishon)
20.45 Festive Dinner (by invitation)
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