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Workshop at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
Supported by the German Federal Ministry for Education and Research
Organized by Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) in cooperation with Assaf David (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies), and Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg Center for Transcultural Studies)
Tuesday 7 February
01:00pm – 02:00pm LUNCH
02:00pm – 02:15pm WELCOME (Werner Arnold, Dean of the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)
02:15pm – 02:30pm INTRODUCTION (Assaf David, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and Johannes Becke, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)
02:30pm – 04:30pm AMBIVALENT ENMITY Chair: Elisabeth Becker-Topkara, Heidelberg University
- Performing Zionism by Performing Arabness: A Theory of Hista’arvut Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg University)
- Learning from the Enemy: The Invention of Israel Studies in the Arab World Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg University)
- The Arab ‘Uncertain Body’ and Passing in Israel Liora Sion (Copenhagen University)
- When Arabs love Dead Jews: The Politics of Memory in Egypt Tom Würdemann (Heidelberg University)
04:30pm – 05:00pm COFFEE BREAK
04:30pm – 06:00pm HYBRIDIZATION IN ISRAEL/PALESTINE Chair: Bareez Majid, Heidelberg University
- Modern Jerusalem’s Religious Shrines, Festivals and Customs: Toward Theorizing Jewish-Arab/Muslim Transculturation and Its Break Menachem Klein (Bar Ilan University)
- Transculturation and Hybridization as Characteristics of Identity and Belonging Among South-Lebanese
- Second-Generation Children Residing in Israel Lilach Grunfeld-Yona (University of Haifa)
- The Beginning of the Raise of the Shekhina is in Tiberias: Zahir al-Umar, the Urbanization of the Galilee, and Eighteenth-Century Jewish Perceptions of the Land Avi-Ram Tzoreff (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
06:30pm – 07:00pm BREAK
07:00pm – 08:00pm KEYNOTE (Alte Aula, Grabengasse 1) How Israel Became a Middle Eastern State Oren Barak
(Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
08:00pm – 10:00pm DINNER BUFFET (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies)
Wednesday 8 February
09:00am – 10:30am TRANSLATION AND EXCHANGE
- Relationality and Translation: Jewish Knowledge Production in the MENA Countries Ottfried Fraisse (Halle University)
- How Do You Say “Kibbutz Megiddo” in Arabic? The Problematics of Translating Zionist Children’s Literature into Arabic Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv University)
- Three Models of Cultural and Intellectual Relationship between Jews and Muslims in 20th-Century North Africa David Guedj (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
10:30am – 11:00am COFFEE BREAK
11:00am – 12:30pm TRANSNATIONAL PERSPECTIVES Chair: Susanne Härtel, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies
- The Alliance Israélite Universelle and the Jewish Communities of Egypt 1914-1956 Taqadum al-Khatib (Heidelberg University)
- Cultural Revivalism in Israel and China: Living Lives against the Present Johannes Becke & Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies & Heidelberg University)
- The Turkish Diaspora in Israel: Long-Distance Nationalism and Intra-MENA Divergences Tamir Karkason (Halle University) and Aviad Moreno (Ben Gurion University of the Negev)
12:30pm – 02:00pm LUNCH (optional: Guided Tour through Heidelberg’s old town, 45 minutes)
02:30pm – 04:30pm JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS BEFORE NATIONALISM Chair: Henning Sievert ,Heidelberg University
- Black, White, and Blue? Colour Terms in Medieval Judaism and Islam Teresa Bernheimer (University of Munich)
- Perspectives from a Tenth-Century Jewish Academy in the Muslim World Ronny Vollandt (University of Munich)
- Transculturation and Neoculturation among Jewish Physicians in Fatimid Cairo Nathan Gibson (University of Munich)
- Meshovah Niẓaḥat: Jewish-Christian Polemics in Kaf Naki by R. Kalifa Ben-Malka (1650–1750) of Agadir Michal Ohana (Halle University)
04:30pm – 05:00pm COFFEE BREAK
05:00pm – 06:30pm CONTESTED SPACES IN ISRAEL
- Transculturation Through the Construction of a Cultural Nexus of Place-Based Interdependency Ameer Fakhoury (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
- A Folkloric Civil Sphere? Arabs/Palestinians/Muslims in Israeli Symbolic Space Hizky Shoham (Bar-Ilan University)
- Blurring and Expanding: Cultural Processes and the Advancement of Peace Limor Yehuda (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
06:30pm – 08:30pm DINNER AND DISCUSSION
Thursday 9 February
09:00am – 10:30am JEWISH-ARAB RELATIONS IN CULTURE AND ARTS Chair: Anna Kollatz, Heidelberg University
- Zouj: Dialogical Interactions in Judeo-Arab Maghribi Popular Culture Sami Everett (University of Southampton)
- Khawaga Cohen: The Representations of Egyptian Jews in Egyptian Cinema Eyal Bizawe (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
- Cinema as a Transcultural Event: Exploring ‘Memories of Pleasure’ Sigal Yona (Ghent University)
10:30am – 11:00am COFFEE BREAK
11:00am – 12:30pm ROUND TABLE: THEORIZING TRANSCULTURATION BEYOND THE MIDDLE EAST AND NORTH AFRICA
Chairs: Johannes Becke (Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies) and Assaf David (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute)
Joachim Kurtz (Heidelberg University)
Monica Juneja (Heidelberg University)
Menna Abukhadra (Heidelberg University)
Nimrod Lin (Heidelberg University)
12:30pm – 01:00pm BREAK
01:00pm – 02:00pm LUNCH AND DEPARTURE
