INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism: The Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950)
This Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies and the concluding conference have been made possible through the generous support of the following organizations: The Dorset Foundation, and The Polonsky Foundation
Day One: Monday 13 March
LIVING LIBERALISM

9:45 Welcome: Abigail Green (Oxford) and Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’Foscari, Venice/OCHJS)
10:00 Opening Address: Chair: Martin Goodman (Oxford)
David Sorkin (Yale) Towards a History of Emancipation Politics
11:00-11:30 Coffee (in the Common Room)

1. Jewish Paths: Liberal, secular, religious
11:30-13:15 (1) Chair: Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’Foscari, Venice/OCHJS)
Derek Penslar (Harvard/Oxford) Theodor Herzl on Religion: Lourdes, Cairo, Jerusalem
Cristiana Facchini (Bologna) Luigi Luzzatti and the theory of religious toleration
Todd Weir (Groningen) Secularism and world view: Jewish liberals in Wilhelmine Germany and Cold-war America
Discussant: Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt/OCHJS)
13:15-14:15 Lunch (in the Common Room)

14:15-15:45 (2) Chair: Abigail Green (Oxford)
Anne Summers (Birkbeck) Varieties of Exclusion: Anglo-Jewish Women Between Worlds, c. 1880-1940
Luisa Levi D’Ancona (Oxford) Jewish men and women in Italian culture wars: philanthropy and cremation
Discussant: Laura Leibman (Reed/OCHJS)
15:45-16:15 Tea (in the Common Room)

16:15-18:00 2. Creating Anti-Semitism
Chair: Jonathan Kwan (Nottingham/OCHJS)
Marcel Stoetzler (Bangor) Resonances of the dispute on Antisemitism in classical German sociology: Lazarus, Simmel, Weber
Tom Stammers (Durham) Parasites on the patrimoine: Antisemitism and the art market in nineteenth-century France
Simon Levis Sullam (Ca’ Foscari, Venice/OCHJS) “The Conquest of the World by the Jews”: Forging Antisemitism in the 1870s. The case of Osman Bey
Discussant: Lisa Leff (American University/OCHJS)
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18.45 KEYNOTE LECTURE
at the Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies, 66 St Giles’
Christopher Clark (Cambridge) Jews and the End of Days
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Day Two: Tuesday 14 March
MAKING AND UNMAKING LIBERALISM

3. Liberalism, Zionism, Empires
9:15-11:00 (1): Mediterranean Empires
Chair: Michal Friedman (Carnegie Mellon)
Julie Kalman (Monash) Power and the Dialectics of Exclusion: Algerian Jews and the Making of Empire in the Mediterranean
Ozan Ozavci (Utrecht) ‘Le Jeune Turc’, Zionism and Liberals in the Late Ottoman Empire
Ethan Katz (Cincinnati/Hebrew University) Colonial Jews Beyond Zionism: The Algiers Insurgency of 1942 and the Waning of Franco-Jewish Liberalism
Discussants: Julia Phillips Cohen (Vanderbilt/ OCHJS) & James McDougall (Oxford)
11:00-11:30 Coffee

11:30-12:30
(2): Comparative perspectives: the Anglo-Sphere and the Habsburg and Russian Empires
Chair: Derek Penslar
Roundtable: Arie Dubnov (George Washington/OCHJS), Malachi Hacohen (Duke/OCHJS), Matthew Silver (Max Stern College/OCHJS), Michael Silber (Hebrew University/OCHJS)
12:30-13:30 Lunch

13:30-15:15 4. From Liberalism to Human Rights
Chair: Duncan Bell (Cambridge)
Abigail Green (Oxford) Liberal causes, Jewish causes: 1848 – 1859 – 1905
James Loeffler (Virginia) Chasing the Ghost: Minority Rights in Jewish Political Discourse
Samuel Moyn (Harvard) From Jewish Internationalism to Jewish Human Rights
Discussants: Jaclyn Granick (Oxford) and Nathan Kurz (Birkbeck)
15:15-15:40 Tea
15:40-16:40 5. After the War
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Harvard)
Julie Mell (North Carolina State/OCHJS) Gender, Economic Liberalism, Antisemitism: Selma Stern, Hannah Arendt, Toni Oelsner and the Dialectics of Exclusion
Kei Hiruta (Oxford) Rethinking Liberalism in the Age of Totalitarianism: Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin 16:30-16.40 (short recess)
16:45-17:45 6. Concluding Roundtable: The Dialectics of Inclusion Chair: David Rechter (Oxford)
Participants: Ruth Harris (Oxford), Duncan Bell (Cambridge),
David Feldman (Birkbeck), Pierre Birnbaum (Paris I)
Date: 13 February 2017, 9:45 (Monday, 5th week, Hilary 2017)
Venue: Clarendon Institute, Walton Street OX1 2HG
Venue Details: ALL Sessions will be held in the Catherine Lewis Lecture Room at the Clarendon Institute (except for the Keynote Lecture)
Speaker: Various Speakers
Organising department: Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies
Organisers: Abigail Green, Simon Levis Sullam
Booking required?: Required
Booking email: registrar@ochjs.ac.uk
Audience: Members of the University only
Editor: Laura Spence