The New Ethnic Studies: Issues and Methods
Joint Research Workshop with The Freie Universität of Berlin
The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International & Regional Studies
The Sverdlin Institute of Latin American History & Culture
The Elías Sourasky Chair of Iberian & Latin American Studies
take pleasure in inviting you to a
Joint Research Workshop:
The New Ethnic Studies: Issues and Methods
Co-Organizers:
Raanan Rein, Stefan Rinke and Nadia Zysman
18-19 February 2015, room 496
Gilman Bldg., the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University
Free Entrance
For more information, please contact: dacenter@post.tau.ac.il
February 18
Opening Lecture: 09:30-10:30
Moderator: Leo Corry, Tel Aviv University
Jeffrey Lesser, Emory University: “It's Raining Categories and Dogmas: Remaking Ethnic Studies in the Age of Identities”
Coffee break 10:30- 11:00
Session I: 11:00-12:15
Moderator: Iris Rachamimov, Tel Aviv University
Stefan Rinke, Free University of Berlin: “The Reconstruction of National Identity: German Minorities in Latin America during the First World War”
Benjamin Bryce, University of Northern British Columbia: “Between Community and Nation: British, French and German Schools in Buenos Aires, 1880-1930”
Session II – 12:30-13:45
Moderator: Alberto Spektorowski, Tel Aviv University
Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University: “Melting the Pot? Peronism, Jewish-Argentines and the Struggle for Diversity”
Adriana Brodsky, St Mary’s College of Maryland: “Burekas, Guefilte Fish, Milanesas, and Petit Fours: Jewish Argentine Cookbooks, Ethnicity and Class in 20th Century Argentina”
Lunch break: 14:00-16:00
Session III: 16:00-17:15
Moderator: Leonardo Senkman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Nadia Zysman, Free University of Berlin: “Descosiendo Fronteras: migración judía y relaciones de género en el mundo textil de Buenos Aires y São Paulo, 1880–1960”
Mariusz Kałczewiak, Tel Aviv University and Gissen University: “Becoming Jewish-Polish... Landsmanshaftn and the Making of an Old Home”
Coffee break: 17:15-17:45
Session IV: 17:45-19:00
Moderator: Alex Kerner, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Ariel Noyjovich, Tel Aviv University: “‘Para un árabe no hay nada mejor que otro árabe’: Ciudadanía, etnicidad y nacionalidad en los discursos de Juan Perón”
Mauricio Dimant, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Ethnicity and Federalism in Latin America: The Legitimacy of Minorities in Subnational Politics in Argentina”
February 19
Session V: 10:00-11:15
Moderator: Leonardo Senkman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Valeria Navarro, University of Wisconsin-Madison: “Voices from the Non-Affiliated Jewish Community: Oral History in Recent Jewish-Chilean History”
Claudia Stern, Tel Aviv University: “The Convergence of Otherness: Arabs and Jews in Chile in the 1930’s”
Coffee break: 11:15-11:45
Session VI: 11:45-13:00
Moderator: Ori Preuss, Tel Aviv University
Jerry Dávila, University of Illinois: “Racism and Antiracism in Brazil’s Katherine Dunham Case”
Atalia Shragai, Tel Aviv University and The Open University of Israel: “Inconclusive Whiteness: U.S. Migrants in Costa Rica 1945-1980”
Lunch break: 13:00-15:00
Session VII: 15:00-16:15
Moderator: Michael Zakim, Tel Aviv University
Michael Goebel, Free University of Berlin: “The Political Networks of Africans, Asians, and Latin Americans in Interwar Paris”
Yael Mabat, Tel Aviv University: “Born Again as a ‘New Indian’: Foreign Missionaries and Local Converts in the Andean Highlands, 1910-1930”
Coffee break: 16:15-16:45
Session VIII: 16:45-18:00
Moderator: Tzvi Tal, Sapir College
Amalia Ran, Tel Aviv University: “The Chamamé and Argentinean Popular Music as Ethno-Musical Spaces”
Gabriela Jonas Aharoni, Sapir College: “Costumbrismo en telenovelas y dramas seriados argentinos o la oportunidad de discutir y re-pensar cuestiones de identidad”
