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26th Annual Conference
9-11 February 2014

                                   

     Convener: Professor Ghilad Zuckermann

Jews, Judaism and Hybridity ~  CONFERENCE PROGRAMME

SUNDAY 9 FEBRUARY 2014

8:30 – 9:10  Registration


9:15  
~ 9:45

 

9:45   ~ 10:45


Conference Opening

Welcome to Country by Kaurna man Jack Buckskin

Opening Remarks by the Deputy Vice Chancellor of the University of Adelaide

AAJS President’s Report

Pratt Foundation Keynote Address ~  Professor Bernard Wasserstein, University of Chicago

The Smile of the Cheshire Cat: Reflections on Jewish Cultural Crossings in the 58th century

10:45-11:15    Tea/Coffee Break

 

Ira Raymond Room,
Barr Smith Library

Hughes Building,
Lecture Theatre 309

Hughes Building,
Lecture Theatre 322


11:15

~

12:45

 


SESSION 1A
:
Language & Hybridity
Chair: Kent Anderson

Ghil‘ad Zuckermann, Yitzhak Pilpel, Brian Towers, Revivalomics: Tarbutomics (Israeli Culturomics) as a Tool to Explore Hybridity and Horizontal Gene Transfer in the Hebrew Revival, 1800-2014

Michael Keren, The Blurring of the Jewish-Palestinian Divide in Sayed Kashua’s Second Person Singular

Dan Avnon, On the Hybridic Nature of Israeli Political Concepts


SESSION 1B:
Religion And Hybridity
Chair: Chris Mortensen

Vicky Schinkel, The Cross-Pollination of Philosophical Notions of Interpretation in the Late 13th Century

Seth Kunin, Crypto-Jews: Structural Mediation or Christian-Jewish Hybridity

Lauren Meath, 'Feminism, Belief and the Yoatzot Halacha Movement: Changing Israel’s Modern Orthodox Communities From Within'

 

12:45-13:45      LUNCH BREAK

ANDREW STEINER’S EXHIBITION   

13:15-13:45     AAJS AGM

Please note:

all “A” sessions take place in the Ira Raymond Room, Barr Smith Library;

all “B” sessions take place in Lecture Theatre 309, Hughes Building;

all “C” sessions take place in Lecture Theatre 322 (Sunday) / 324 (Monday), Hughes Building.


13:45

~

15:15

 

 

SESSION 2A: PANEL I:
The Abraham Institute
Convenor:
Katherine Goode

Omar Lum

Roshanak Amrein

Lynn Arnold

Archbishop Philip Wilson

SESSION 2B:
The Hebrew Bible And Hybridity 1
Chair: Marianne Dacy

 

Revd Matthew Anstey, “In the Beginning was Hybridity”: the Genesis of Hybridity in Genesis

Caryn Naomi Rogers, Isaiah: One Book, Multiple Voices

Megan Turton, Deuteronomy 24:1-4: a Study in Ancient Near Eastern and Jewish Divorce Law


SESSION 2C:
Jews In Australia And Nz
Chair: Andrew Markus

 

Lee Kersten, Sir Aubrey Lewis, an Adelaide Boy’s Career

Jessica Loyer, Jewish Sabbath Cooking in Australia: One Pot, Many Meanings

Zehavit Gross, Suzanne D. Rutland, State Integrated Schools as a Major Challenge for Jewish Education in New Zealand: a Case Study

15:15-15:45     TEA/COFFEE BREAK


15:45

~

17:15

 

 

SESSION 3A: PANEL II:
The Adelaide Jewish Community
Convener: Lynn Arnold

Racheline Barda

Rabbi Shoshana Kaminsky

Larry Lockshin

Rachel Tanny

SESSION 3B:
Yiddish And Hybridity
Chair: Michael Abrahams-Sprod

 

Martin Spigelman, Syncretic Speech – Yiddish as Spoken by Hasidim Today

Dashiel Lawrence, No Messiah for Sitka: Jewish Territorialism in Alaska

Andrew Firestone, "Warsaw Poet Yisroel Shtern (1894 - ?1942): Cabalist – and Modernist Poet."

SESSION 3C:
Youth In Asia
Chair: Huang Ping

 

Navras Jaat Aafreedi, Hybridity, Synthesis, Syncretism and Cross-Fertilization Among the Indian Jews

Jia XU, Legends of the Kaifeng Jewish Community in China: History, Adaptability and Hybridity

Myer Samra, From Buallawn Israel to Benei Menashe

17:15-17:30  short break


17:30

~

18:30

 

SESSION 4C: PANEL II (continued):
The Adelaide Jewish Community
Convener: Lynn Arnold

 

 


SESSION 4B:

Hellenism And Hybridity
Chair: Michael Keren

Marianne Dacy, Jews Amongst Polytheists and Hellenists

Panayiotis Diamadis, Clashing or Complementary? Judaism and Hellenism in Three Modern States (Hellas, Cyprus and Israel)

 

 

20:00

session 5: Special Panel III:  Aboriginal People and Jews

Uncle Boydie, Abraham Schwarz, Barngarla man Stephen Atkinson, Ghil‘ad Zuckermann et al.


MONDAY 10 FEBRUARY 2014

 

Ira Raymond Room,
Barr Smith Library

Hughes Building,
Lecture Theatre 309

Hughes Building,
Lecture Theatre 32
4


09:00

~

11:00


SESSION 6A:

Holocaust Representation And Memorialisation
Chair: Jan Lanicek

Avril Alba, The Holocaust Memorial Museum: a Syncretic ‘Sacred Space’?

Mary Griffiths, ‘Diversity Destroyed: a City Remembers 1933-1938’: Memorialising Practices and the Renewal of Democratic Identity in Contemporary Berlin.

Dvir Abramovich, The Past That Will Not Go Away: Israeli Literature and the Shoah

Helen Webberley, Yosl Bergner vs Tucker, Vassilieff, Perceval, Counihan, Nolan and Boyd. Who Influenced Whom?


SESSION 6B:

Hybridity & Modern Israel
Chair: Dan Avnon

Colin B. Picker, The Israeli Legal System and its Legal Culture: Related Hybridity

Randall S. Geller, “Tensions Between Proponents of Integration Versus Segregation as Viewed Through the Prism of the Israeli Defense Forces, 1948-1958.”

Tessa Satherley, Jews in Israel: Hybridity or Havdalah?

Michael RUAN Xiang, A General Observation and Analysis Report on Israel’s Participation in the Shanghai 2010 World Expo

SESSION 6C: PANEL IV:
Jews And China
Chair: Mobo Gao
Respondent: Huang Ping

 

Felix Patrikeeff, The Jewish Communities, China and Australia, 1924-1969

Avrum Ehrlich, China, Jews and the Hybridity of Biblical 'Philosophy', Prophecy and Morality

Deborah Cao, Popular Perceptions of Jews and Jewish Culture in Contemporary China

11:00-11:30      TEA/COFFEE BREAK


11:30

~

12:30


SESSION 7A :

The Jewish Community in
Melbourne

Chair: Suzanne D. Rutland

Andrew Markus, Judaism and Hybridity: the Post-War Melbourne Community

Miriam Munz, Melbourne’s Jewish Community 1939 – 1945


SESSION 7B
The Hebrew Bible & Hybridity 2
Chair: Caryn Naomi Rogers

Jonathan Worthen, Truth-Trial: Yahweh’s Promise of Protection and the Persian Ordeal

William Howell (Bill) Edwards, Israel on Walkabout: Anangu Insights into Old Testament Concepts

SESSION 7C: PANEL IV (continued):
Jews And China
Chair: Mobo Gao
Respondent: Huang Ping

 

12:30-13:30       LUNCH BREAK


13:30

~

15:00


SESSION 8A :

Hybridity In The Diaspora
Chair: Miriam Munz

Michael R. Cohen, From ‘Judaism in America’ to ‘American Judaism’: Cultural Hybridity and the Reconceptualization of Traditional Jewish Practice

Ran Porat, The Wandering Jew arrives at Australia: The resurrection of an ancient myth by Ausraelis (Israelis in Australia)

Shahar Burla, David Hume’s “Sympathetic Imagination” and the Diasporic Jewish Imagination


SESSION 8B:
Maimonides vs Your Monides
Chair: Seth Kunin

Chris Mortensen, Maimonides as Nominalist

Ari Lobel, The Shaping of Maimonides’ view of Divine Providence

Anna Hirsh, Ruin/Monument: Spaces Between Truth and Death

 

15:00-15:30    TEA/COFFEE BREAK


15:30

~

17:30


SESSION 9A :

Hybridity Among German Jews
Chair: Avril Alba

Michael Abrahams-Sprod, From Symbiosis to Racial Pollution: the Cases of Rassenschande (Racial Defilement) in Nazi Magdeburg

John Strehlow, German Jewish Influence on Australian Anthropology

Esther Jilovsky, Memory, Postmemory and Identity in German-Jewish Holocaust Memoirs

Gideon Greif, German Jews 1933-1939 – the Compelled Farewell From the Common Cultural Heritage and “Symbiosis”


SESSION 9B

Hybridity in Literature
Chair: Dvir Abramovich

Leah Garrett, Jewish American World War II Novels

Tsippy Levin Byron, Natalia Ginsburg (1916-1991)

Jennifer Dowling, From La Belle Maguelonne to Sheyne Mageleyne

Leah Kaminsky, The Fish Council

 


SESSION 9C: PANEL V:

Jews and Greeks
(film screening + discussion)

Michael Tsianikas and Panayiotis Diamadis

TUESDAY 11 FEBRUARY 2014

AAJS Conference Luncheon, Port Elliot, South Australia

Launch of Professor Bernard Wasserstein’s new book

Introduced by Professor Jennie Shaw, Executive Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, The University of Adelaide.

(Leaving from the Adelaide University Napier Building car park at 11am)

 

 

Registration: http://www.aajs.org.au

 

Further particulars: ghilad.zuckermann@adelaide.edu.au