Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism – The Beinner Family Speaker Series

Brandeis Center Founder and Chairman Kenneth L. Marcus will lead a Beinner Family Speakers Series webinar for the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism at Indiana University Bloomington on Sunday, October 23, at 12:00 EDT. His session is titled ‘The Wayward Healer: latrogenic Antisemitism and the Perils of Intervention,’ and registration for the event is now open.

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The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism (ISCA) is part of Indiana University Bloomington and was founded in 2009 by Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld. ISCA, through their lectures and publications, aims to clarify what is new and what has been inherited from the antisemitic lexicons of the past.

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The Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism is hosting the Beinner Family Speakers Series this fall. This series aims to discuss topics of antisemitism as explored from the diverse perspectives and communities of the presenters. For more details, please contact Brandeis Center Academic Advisory Board member and Director, Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism Dr. Alvin H. Rosenfeld.

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Here is a list of the remaining lectures offered this fall and how to register for them:

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Martin Kramer, an historian of the Middle East and Israel at Tel Aviv University and the Walter P. Stern Fellow at The Washington Institute for Near East Policy, presents: ‘Semites, Anti-Semites, and Bernard Lewis: The Life and Afterlife of a Seminal Book’ on Sunday, October 2 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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Thane Rosenbaum, a law professor, legal and Middle East analyst, novelist, essayist, and Distinguished University Professor at Touro University, presents: ‘Occupation, “Apartheid,” and “Ethnic Cleansing”: The Trifecta Libel Against Israel’ on Sunday, October 16 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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Ofir Winter, a research fellow at INSS and a lecturer at the Department of Arabic and Islamic Studies at Tel Aviv University, presents: ‘Making Peace with the Jews? Contemporary Islamic Arguments for and against Normalization’ on Sunday, October 30 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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Ben Cohen, the Senior Correspondent for The Algemeiner, presents: ‘Pandemics, Hate Crimes, and Riots: Media Coverage of Antisemitism Since 2020’ on Sunday, November 6, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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Franziska Haug, a research assistant at the Institute for German Literature and its Didactics at the Goethe-University Frankfurt am Main, presents: ‘The Function of Antisemitism in Queer-Feminist Discourse’ on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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Yana Grinshpun, a senior Lecturer at Sorbonne Nouvelle University, presents: ‘Judeophobia and “Islamophobia” in Today’s France: Symbolism, Doxa, and Reality’ on Sunday, December 4, 2022, at 12:00 p.m. EDT. Register here.

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