Day I – Sunday, 18 December 2016

Mandel Building, Room 530

16:00-16:30 | Reception

16:30-17:00 | Greetings:

Menachem Ben-Sasson
President of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem

Manuela Consonni
Director of the Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

17:00 – 19:00 | Session 1: The Jewish Question of Sartre

Chair: Manuela Consonni, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Frédéric Worms, Ecole Normale Superieure

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

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 Jerusalem

Ynon Wygoda, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Reflexions Croisees: Vladimir Jankelevitch & 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 Jerusalem

Louise Bethlehem, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem

Blackness and the Body in a Transnational Frame: From “Anti-Semite and Jew” to Black Lives Matter

Revital Madar, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

A Moment of Inconsistency: Letting the Black Body into the Sphere of Western Humanity

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 Jerusalem

Eli Schonfeld, Shalem College, Jerusalem

Sartre in Jerusalem: 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

The Van Leer Jerusalem 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 Jerusalem

Michal Govrin, Tel Aviv University

Eva Illouz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem

Samir Ben-Layashi, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem

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 Jabes’ Jewish Questions as an Answer to Sartre

13:00-15:00 Lunch Break

15:00-16:00 Session 8: The Quest for Existence: Beyond the “Question”

Chair: Yona Hanhart-Marmor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Joëlle Zask, L’Universite d’Aix-Marseille

From Stigma to Identity? A Process in Question

Eran Dorfman, Tel Aviv University

The Jew as a Doppelganger 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 Jerusalem

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 Jerusalem

‘The Jews’ of Sartre and After

18:00- 19:30 Roundtable: The Premise for a Universal Humanity

Chair: Eli Lederhendler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Dan Diner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Alvin Rosenfeld, Indiana University

Eva Illouz , The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Vivian Liska, University of Antwerp

Richard Cohen, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Moshe Sluhovsky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem