"JEWISH
DIASPORA-HELLENIC DIASPORA" CONFERENCE AT HAIFA UNIVERSITY ,MARCH 26TH-APRIL
1ST 2001
PROGRAM MONDAY, MARCH 26TH,2001 16.30-GATHERING - AUDITORIUM, MUSEUM
HECHT 17.00- 19.45 OPENING SESSION CHAIRPERSON: PROF. MINNA ROZEN Opening
Remarks: Prof. Maria Efthymiou, Athens University GREETINGS: PROF. AHARON
BEN-ZEEV, RECTOR, HAIFA UNIVERSITY MR. STELIOS A. PAPADIMITRIOU, PRESIDENT,
ALEXANDER S. ONASSIS PUBLIC BENEFIT FOUNDATION H.E. MR. CONSTANTINE MITZIALIS,
AMBASSADOR OF THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC IN ISRAEL H.E. MR. RAN CURIEL, AMBASSADOR
OF ISRAEL AT THE HELLENIC REPUBLIC Keynote Speeches: Prof. Avi`ezer
Ravitzky, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Pascalis M. Kitromilides,
University of Athens/ Director of the Neo-Hellenic Studies Research Centre,
National Hellenic Research Foundation 20.00- Concert Tuesday, March 27th,
2001 AUDITORIUM, MUSEUM HECHT 9.30 - 11.30, Morning session, part one:
Chairperson: Dr. Gershon Galil, Haifa University 1.Characters of Ancient
Greek Colonization Dr.Louisa D. Loukopoulou, Research Centre for Greek
and Roman Antiquity/National Hellenic Research Foundation 2.Exile - The
Biblical Perspective Prof. Bustenay Oded, Haifa University 3.Western Greek
Colonies under the Roman Ruler Prof. Panagiotis Doukellis, Ionian University
11.30-11.45, Coffee break 11.45-13.30 Morning session, part two: Chairperson:
Dr. Menahem Mor, Haifa University 1. Hellenic/Hellenistic communities
in Eretz-Israel and Jewish Communities in the Helleno-Roman World Prof.
Uriel Rappaport, Haifa University 2. Jewish Presence in Maritime Cities
of the Eastern Mediterranean during Graeco- Roman Times -Evidence and
Implications Dr. Nadav Kashtan, Haifa University 3. The Jewish Politeuma:
A pattern of Jewish Communal Life in the Greco-Roman Diaspora Prof. Aryeh
Kasher, Tel Aviv University 13.30-15.00:Lunch break 15.00-17.00: Afternoon
session Chairperson: Dr. Jenny Horowitz, Haifa University 1.Between Centre
and Periphery - Emissaries from Palestine to the Hellenic Diaspora Dr.
Ruth Lamdan, Tel Aviv University 2.Collective expatriations of the Greeks
(15th-17th cent.) Prof. Anastassia Papadia-Lala, University of Athens
3.Central and Peripheral Communities in the Greek Diaspora: Interlocal
and Local Economic-Political-Culture Networks in the 18-th-19th centuries
Prof. Olga Katsiardi-Hering, University of Athens Wednesday ,March 28th,2001,
Rabin Gallery, Rabin Building 9.30-11.30: Morning session ,Part one Chairperson:
Prof. Yossi Ben-Artzi 1.Reshaping community, identity making and power
relations in the Christian Orthodox Communities of the late Ottoman Era
Prof. Haris Exertzoglou, University of the Aegean 2.Greek Diaspora in
Southern Russia (18th-19th cent.) Prof. Vassilis Kardassis, Ionian University
3.The Greek Diaspora in Venice Prof. Chryssa Maltezou, University of Athens/Director
of the Hellenic Institute for Byzantine and Post Byzantine Studies in
Venice 11.30-11.45 : Coffee break 11.45-13.30: Morning session, Part two
Chairperson: Dr. Haya Bar-Yizhak, Haifa University 1. "Greek Diaspora"
Reconsidered: Reflections on the Study of the Greek Settlement in Vienna
:18th throught19th Centuries Ms. Vassiliki Seirinidou, University of Athens
2.Jewish Culture in Its Polish Context : An Indian Perspective Dr. Adam
Teller, Haifa University 3.The Greekness of Romaniote Jewry Dr. Julia
Krivoruchko, Haifa University 13.30-15.00 : Lunch break 15.00-17.00: Afternoon
session Chairperson: Prof. Butrus Abu-Manneh, Haifa University 1.Hellenism
Between an Ecumenical and a National Centre: from Constantinople to Athens
Prof. Paraskevas Konortas, Ionian University 2.Greek Orthodox Church networks
and Arab Nationalism in the Eastern Mediterranean 1899-1967 Dr. Sotiris
Roussos, Panteion University, Athens 3. Spain, Greece or Jerusalem? The
Yearning for a Motherland in the Poetry of Greek Jews Dr. Samuel Refael,
Bar Ilan University/ Head of the Program for Ladino Literature Thursday,
March 29th, 2001 Rabin Gallery, Rabin Building 9.30-12.00 :Morning session
Chairperson: Prof. Sophia Menashe, Haifa University 1.Periphery or Centre:
American Zionists in the Forties Dr. Zohar Segev, Haifa University 2.Who
is the Centre and Who the Periphery: Yiddish Writers in the United States
and the State of Israel (1950's) Dr. Rachel Rojansky, Haifa University
3. The Families of the Argentine Desaparecidos and the State of Israel
Dr. Efraim Zadoff , Jerusalem 4.The Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv: Presenting
Exile to a Nation State Prof. Dina Porat, Tel Aviv University/ Head of
Department of the History of the Jewish People 12.00-14.00 :Lunch break
14.00-16.00:Afternoon session: Chairperson: Prof. Kais Firro, Haifa University
1.Israel's "Law of Return" Dr. Yfaat Weiss, Haifa University 2.From Diaspora
to Transnationalism : Revisiting concepts, analytical frameworks and historical
experiences of dispersion Dr. Ioanna Laliotou, University of Thessaly
3.Jewish Diaspora Reconsidered Dr. Daniel Gutwein, Haifa University 16.00
-16.30: Coffee break 16.30-18.30: ROUND TABLE Prof. Yosef Gorni, Tel Aviv
University, Prof. Gavriel Shefer, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Dr.
Ioanna Laliotou, University of Thessaly, Prof. Maria Efthimiou, University
of Athens.
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