Schedule
Important deadlines
December 21, 2022: Paper submission opens.
February 10, 2023: Submission of applications and paper proposals.
March 01, 2023: Confirmation of approved applications and paper proposals.
June 01, 2023: Submission of advanced paper draft and bio (maximum 100 words).
June 13, 2023: Submission of presentation materials, if applicable.
18-19 June 2023: Conference.
Sunday, June 18th
9:30 – 09:45 Gathering and Light Refreshments
09:45 – 10:00 Greetings
Amal Jamal, Head of the Walter-Lebach Institute for the Study of Jewish-Arab Coexistence (Tel Aviv University)
Galili Shahar, Head of the Program for Jodeo-Arabic Cultural Studies (Tel Aviv University)
10:00 – 11:30 Opening Workshop for Participants - Introduction and Orientation
Ariel Handel (Bezalel Academy), Ido Fuchs, Jad Kadan and Orphée Senouf-Pilpoul (Tel Aviv University)
11:45 – 12:00 Coffee break
12:00-13:30 Panel 1: Conceptualizing Violence
Chair: Tal Ben Zvi (Bezalel Academy)
Symbolic Violence and (De)colonized Approach in Humanitarian Care of Gender-Specific Trauma Among Refugee Women by Nena Mocnik (Universitat Pompeu Fabra)
De-emoting Violence in Fictionalizing Nuclear History: ‘Slow Hope’, Nuclear Literacy and Intermediate Ecocriticism by Inna Sukhenko (University of Helsinki) [via Zoom]
Contrived Violence, Manufactured Agnst and Indifferent Control: A Local Perspective by Amal Jammal (Tel-Aviv University)
13:30 – 14:30 Lunch
14:30-16:00 Panel 2: Violence and More-than-Human
Chair: On Barak (Tel Aviv University)
Robots, AI, and Violence: Intelligent Entities as Symbols of and Triggers for Human Aggression by Jo Ann Oravec (University of Wisconsin-Whitewater) [via Zoom]
They’re Just Animals: Sacrificing the Non-Human for the “Greater Good” by Rachael Franke (University of Fribourg)
Environmental Activism and Violence by Ari Ofengenden (Tulane University)
16:00-16:30: Coffee break
16:30-18:00 Panel 3: Atmospheres of Violence
Chair: Chen Misgav (The Open University)
Fighting Fire with Fire by Leonidas Koutsoumpos (National Technical University of Athens)
Being Made by Violence: May 2021 in Jaffa and Jerusalem by Zohar Elmakias (Columbia University)
The Emotional Logic of Female Suicide Bombing by Namrata Hazarika (Indian Institute of Technology Delhi)
18:10: Dinner for participants on campus
Monday, June 19th
10:00-11:30 Panel 4: Intersecting Violence
Chair: Yofi Tirosh (Tel Aviv University)
The Colonial and Sexual Oppression of Palestinian LGBTQI+ People: Between Rainbowashing Policies and Practices of Resistance by Chiara Langerame (Università degli Studi di Salerno) [via Zoom]
Intimate Partner Violence and Masculine Subjectivation by Auréliane Couppey (The Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales)
Symbolic Violence Against Ahmadiyyas in Malabar, India; A Cultural Perspective by Hafeesha Thoppil Babu (University of Sussex)
11:30-11:50 Coffee break
11:50-13:30 Panel 5: Studying Violence and Violent Studies
Chair: Anat Matar (Tel Aviv University)
Affirming Educative Violence? Ori Rotlevy (Tel Aviv University) and Itay Snir (Yezre'el Valley Academic College)
Is Boycott a Form of Violence? An Argumentative Perspective by Ruth Amossy (Tel Aviv University)
Listening Affects: Evocations on Sound/Silence as a Mode of Decolonial Thinking/Being/Doing/Theorising by Girinandini Singh (University of Cambridge)
13:30-14:15 Lunch Break
14:15-15:45 Panel 6: Reading Narratives of Violence
Chair: Eran Dorfman (Tel Aviv University)
Violating Violence: Destructing the Female Sheet by Anat Danzinger (Tel Aviv University)
The Doomsday Economy: Colonial Violence, Environmental Catastrophe, and Burning Tires in Palestine by Ido Fuchs (Tel Aviv University)
15:45-16:00 Coffee break
16:00-18:00 Keynote Lecture
Chair: Galili Shahar (Tel Aviv University)
On Abolitionism by Daniel Loick (University of Amsterdam)
Respondent: Amal Jammal (Tel-Aviv University)
18:30: Dinner for Participants at a restaurant