After Jews and Arabs: Twenty Years Later

Poster collage art by Ammiel Alcalay

Thursday, November 1

Keynote Address (6:30 - 8:00 PM)

Ammiel Alcalay: “The Cosmology of Finding Your Spot: Political Memory and the Poetics of Location”

Reception (8:00 - 9:00 PM)

Coffee and light breakfast (8:30 - 9:00 AM)

Panel 1 (9:00 - 11:00 AM): Other Levants

Susan Slyomovics: “Who and What is Native to Israel? On Marcel Janco’s Settler Art and Jacqueline Shohet Kahanoff’s 'Levantinism'”
Orit Bashkin: “Globalizing the Mizrahi struggle: Sit-ins, Demonstrations, and Hunger Strikes in 1950s Israel”
Ramon Stern: “Levantinism Disguised: The Invisible Mediterranean Map between Ibel Saqi and the São Paulo Interior in Raduan Nassar’s Lavoura arcaica”

Chair: Elliott Colla

Break (11:00 - 11:15 AM)

Panel 2 (11:15 - 12:45 PM): Other Poems

Anne Waldman: “A Poetics and a Politics of the Possible”
Sami Chetrit: “When Will Our Poems Be Heard in Hebrew? After Jews and Arabs and the Rebirth of the Hebrew Arab-Jew”

Chair: Mark McMorris

Lunch Break (12:45 - 2:00 PM)

Panel 3 (2:00 - 4:00 PM) Other Travels, Other Times

Dalia Kandiyoti: “Traveling ‘through the Light of the Levantine Prism’: Alcalaian Readings of Contemporary Literature”
Amila Buturovic: “Spaces of Death as Spaces of Cultural Exchange: One Glimpse into the Ottoman Bosnia”
Janneke Stegeman: “The Text as Landscape and the Landscape in Text: Patterns of Identity Formation in Jeremiah 32”

Chair: Sylvia Önder

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