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Australian Association for Jewish Studies Conference 2021

Join the Australian Association for Jewish Studies and the ACT Jewish Community for a conference exploring questions of Jewish status, membership, belonging, and political participation across disparate societies and historical contexts.

Click here to register and receive access to the full program. The conference will use a hybrid model – some papers will be delivered online, and some in person, and both online and in person participation is possible for all sessions. If you don’t receive the Zoom password after registering, contact us at AAJS.conf@gmail.com.

Thank you to conveners Professor Kim Rubenstein and Sarah Charak for all their work putting together the Conference.

THE 2021 CONFERENCE IS NOW OVER. To watch video recordings of the papers and panels, click here.

8:30am AEDT

Conference registration

9:00am AEDT

INTRODUCTION | Jews and active citizenship: some conceptual underpinnings ROOM 1Kim Rubenstein

9:20am AEDT

Jewish Australian membership in the 19th and 20th centuries ROOM 1Kim Rubenstein • Sue Silberberg • Sarah Charak • Elizabeth Offer • Diane Deane

10:50am AEDT

11:15am AEDT

Antifascism, patriotism and allegiance before, during and after WWII ROOM 2Max Kaiser • Mark Ellison • Helen Webberley Participatory citizenship and peace-making in Israel ROOM 1Kim Rubenstein • Jo Dixon • Ron Levy • Talia Avrahamzon • Marc Itzchaki

12:30pm AEDT

Lunch and AAJS Annual General Meeting

1:30pm AEDT

Community, membership and technology ROOM 2Alon Meltzer • Ben Ezzes • Sean Goltz • Tracey Dowdeswell Jewish women as active citizens ROOM 1Keren Hammerschlag • Viva Hammer • Dovi Seldowitz • Deborah Mayersen

2:45pm AEDT

Political and professional activism and Jewish identity ROOM 2Matthew Zagor • Kim Cunio • Tim Hollo • Naomi Gould Responses to and stories of Jewish migration and statelessness ROOM 1Anna Hirsh • Sara Dehm • Andrew Kilsby • Eloise Chandler • Katherine Biber • Ana Vrdoljak

4:00pm AEDT

4:15pm AEDT

Nationality status, statelessness and vulnerability: Australian and Israel compared through one story ROOM 1Kim Rubenstein • Nicole Maor • Adi Lustigman • Suha Naser Nationhood, language and Jewish spirituality ROOM 2Ghil'ad Zuckermann • Orna Triguboff • Anna Hueneke

5:15pm AEDT

INTERNATIONAL KEYNOTE | R. Eleazar b. R. Shimon: model citizen or murderer? Between aggada and halakha, ethnos and empire ROOM 1Moshe Simon-Shoshan

6:45pm AEDT

Tour and cocktail reception at the National Library of Australia NATIONAL LIBRARY OF AUSTRALIA

8:30am AEDT

Conference registration

9:00am AEDT

AUSTRALIAN KEYNOTE | Between insider and outsider: law and the construction of Jewish difference ROOM 1Mareike Riedel

9:45am AEDT

Imagery and the other: representations of Jews as ambiguous citizens ROOM 1Sarah Charak • Lynne Swarts • Jonathan Kaplan • Keren Hammerschlag

11:00am AEDT

11:30am AEDT

Complications of Jewish citizenship from Philo to Spinoza ROOM 2Marc Mierowsky • Anne Newstead • Marianne Dacy Scholarship as active citizenship: justice, toleration, migration ROOM 1Ruth Balint • Peter Balint • Jennifer Balint

12:30pm AEDT

Museums, citizenship and politics ROOM 1Deborah Rechter • Avril Alba • Daryl Karp

1:30pm AEDT

Lunch

2:30pm AEDT

Biographies of active Jewish citizens across disparate societies and cultures ROOM 2Anita Jawary • Benjamin Kunde • Anne Black • Paul Sandringham • Patrick West The law of the land: religious practice and modern Australia ROOM 1Graham Segal • Jacquie Seemann • John Zeleznikow

3:45pm AEDT

4:00pm AEDT

Contrasting the Leibler stories: two remarkable brothers and their distinctive lives ROOM 1Garry Sturgess • Suzanne Rutland • Michael Gawenda

5:00pm AEDT

Cocktail reception at the ACTJC

6:00pm AEDT

CONCLUDING PANEL | In conversation with Australia's Jewish parliamentarians ROOM 1Kim Rubenstein • Josh Burns • Mark Dreyfus • Julian Leeser