THE TIMETABLE
Time | BLACK Room | PURPLE Room | ORANGE Room | PINK Room | RED Room | CYAN Room |
10:00–11:05 | AB Yehoshua | Anthony Julius | Stefan Reif | Gary Webber | Nathan Abrams | |
11:05–11:20 | Break | 15 mins | ||||
11:20–12:25 | Jonathan Freedland | Daniel Mendelsohn in conversation with Philippe Sands | Janet Soskice | Raphael Zarum | Jennie Rosenfeld | Rob Marcus |
12:25–12:45 | Break | 20 mins | ||||
12:45–1:50 | Emanuele Ottolenghi | AB Yehoshua in conversation with Nicholas de Lange | Daniel Boyarin | David Lehmann | Katie Green | Clive Lawton |
1:50–2:10 | Break | 20 mins | ||||
2:10–3:15 | Simon Baron Cohen | Ruth Deech | Janet Reibstein | David Hillman | Katie Green | Chaim Milikovsky |
3:15–3:35 | Break | 20 mins | ||||
3:35–4:40 | David Abulafia | Naomi Wolfe | Ed Kessler and Joseph Meri | Yossi Ben Artzi | Vivi Lachs | Laliv Clenman |
4:40–4:55 | Break | 15 mins | ||||
4:55–6:00 | Daniel Cainer | Miri Rubin | Marc Saperstein | Diana Lipton | Daniel Squires | Pinchas Roth |
6:15–6:45 | CLOSING | CEREMONY |
THE SESSIONS
Nathan Abrams: "I'll have what she's having: Jews, food, sex and film"
David Abulafia: "A Mediterranean people? The Jews in the history of the Mediterranean"
Simon Baron Cohen: "Zero degrees of empathy"
Yossi Ben Artzi: "History, land and politics in Israel"
Daniel Boyarin: "Jesus kept kosher: Mark 7 as a Sugya"
Daniel Cainer: "Jewish chronicles"
Laliv Clenman: "Kol HaPosel Pasul (any person who declares another unfit is themselves unfit)"
Nicholas de Lange: [in conversation with A.B. Yehoshua]
Ruth Deech: "Campus antisemitism and extremism"
Jonathan Freedland: "A very narrow bridge: on being a critical friend of Israel"
Katie Green: "Reel Israel"
David Hillman: "Shakespeare, Freud and Jewishness"
Anthony Julius: "How much should we care about anti-Semitism?"
Edward Kessler: "Isaac and Ishmael: what's next?"
Vivi Lachs: "Hanging out dirty washing in private – Yiddish songs of London"
Clive Lawton: "Ignored for too long – European Jewry and the shape of the future"
David Lehmann : "Marry off; marry in; marry young; but never marry out': how the shiddouch system works"
Diana Lipton: "Window shopping at Abraham's Idol Shop: Jewish responses to other people's gods"
Rob Marcus: "Thomas Hodgkin and the Jews"
Daniel Mendelsohn: "Galicia Mon Amour"
Josef Meri: [in converstation with Ed Kessler]
Chaim Milikovsky: "How did the Rabbis lose 156 years? The Jewish chronology of the world"
Emanuele Ottolenghi: "Under the shadow of Iran's nuclear bomb"
Janet Reibstein: "Why bother: Why and what makes people stay in relationships?"
Stefan Reif: "The personalities behind the Genizah and the major discoveries made"
Jennie Rosenfeld: "Kosher sex"
Pinchas Roth: "Benjamin of Cambridge and other medieval English rabbis"
Miri Rubin: "Norwich, 1150: the birth of 'ritual murder'?"
Philippe Sands: [in conversation with Daniel Mendelsohn]
Marc Saperstein: "Christian doctrine and the Nazi Death Camps"
Janet Soskice: "The Incredible Twins, Solomon Schechter and the age of Bible hunting"
Dan Squires: "The problem of torture"
Gary Webber: "Mediation. How to save your marriage and solve the Israeli / Palestinian conflict all in one session!"
Naomi Wolf: "Civil liberties and the London Riots"
AB Yehoshua: "Is there any continuation of the Zionist Revolution?" & "Literature and Culture", in conversation with Nicholas de Lange
Raphael Zarum: "The Naked Truth – How Adam and Eve were thrown out of Eden"
