Recordings
Day 1: July 19, 2023
Session 1: The Hebrew Bible as Resistance Literature - Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan University)
- Anathea Portier Young (Duke University) – Jewish Apocalyptic Literature as Resistance Literature (via Zoom)
- Joachim Krause (Bochum University) – “The Integrity of the Legal System and the Fate of the Nation: A Lesson from the Book of Amos”
- Hannes Bezzel (Jena University) – “Hast thou found me, O mine enemy?” (1Ki 21:20). Prophecy as a Corrective of Power in the Former Prophets
- Johannes Seidel (Leipzig University) – Jotham’s Fable: Judges 9
- Angelika Berlejung (Leipzig University) – Non-violent Resistance in the Hebrew Bible: What Women Can (and should) Do
Session 2: Non-Violent Resistance in Modern Times 1 – Angelika Berlejung (Leipzig University)
- Oded Steinberg (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Help as Resistance, Jews, and Armenians in the 19th Century
- Daniel Raveh (Tel Aviv University) – Debating Nonviolence: Ramchandra Gandhi, Martin Buber and J.L. Magnes in Conversation with the Mahatma
- Alexander Deeg (Leipzig) – Between Prayer and Protest: Prayers for Peace in the late years of the GDR as a paradigm of religious practices of non-violent resistance
- Nir Rotem (HUJI) – Resistance is Futile: Illiberalism vs Liberalism from a Global Perspective
- Discussion
Session 3: Non-Violent Resistance in Modern Times 2, Deborah Shmueli (University of Haifa)
- Mark Freeman (ISIP) – The Nature of Polarisation and Its Implications for Advancing Human Rights (via Zoom)
- Devorah Manekin (HUJI) The Politics of Allyship: Multiethnic Coalitions and Mass Attitudes towards Protest
- Liv Halperin (HUJI) – Combining Emotions: Hope, Anger, Joy and Love in Israeli Peace Movements
- Stefan Voigt (Hamburg) – 2nd Generation Immigrants and Non-violent Resistance (via Zoom)
Public Session, Kfar Maccabiah Hotel: Non-Violent Resistance: Practice - Alexandre (Sandy) Kedar (University of Haifa)
- Rassem Khamaisi (University of Haifa) – Non-Violent Resistance among Arab Palestinians in Israel: Consequences and Challenges
- Avner Gvaryahu Yisraeli – Breaking the Silence
- Gilad Sher (Gilead Sher, Talhami & Co., Law Offices) – Good may yet come out of Israel’s political crises
- Liat Ayalon (Bar-Ilan University) – “You Messed with the Wrong Generation”: The Mother of all Protests meets Israeli Elderly Persons
- Areej Sabbagh-Khoury (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Honor Resistance of May 2021
Day 2: July 20, 2023
Session 4: Legal Perspectives on Non-Violent Resistance - Eli Salzberger (University of Haifa)
- Frances Radai (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – Resisting Tyranny of the Majority: International Human Rights
- Amnon Reichman (University of Haifa) – Conscientious Objection in Israeli Law
- Adam Shinar (Reichman University) – Censorship and Resistance: Enforcement and Bypassing of the Film and Theater Review Board
- Ziv Bohrer (Bar-Ilan University) – Non-Violent v. Violent Disobedience to Manifestly Unlawful Orders
- Discussion
Session 5: Philosophical and Theoretical Contexts of Non-Violent Resistance - Aren Maeir (Bar-Ilan University)
- Adi Levy (University of Haifa) – Nonviolent Resistance: The Ethical Challenges
- Jonathan Yovel (University of Haifa) – A Critique of Non-violent Resistance: Lessons from Fanon, Assman and Bernstein
- Idit Shafran Gittleman (Institute for National Security Studies) – The Protest of the Reservists and the Doctrine of Double Effect
- Discussion
Session 6: Literary and Artistic Perspectives on Non-Violent Resistance - Alon Korngreen (Bar-Ilan University)
- Einat Metzl (Bar-Ilan University) – Drawing from the Impossibly Complex: Lessons from Cultural Tensions and Questions in Art-therapy Trainings in Israel
- Rachel Weissbrod (Bar-Ilan University) & Ayelet Kohn – Cativism: Illustrated Protest in Ilana Zeffren’s Art
- Gad Yair (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) – The Big Debate in German Literary Circles about Resistance during the Third Reich (via Zoom)
- Discussion
