ISCA News Archive
Call for Papers "Are Muslim-Jewish Relations Improving in the 21st Century?"
Deadline: April 1, 2022
Alvin Rosenfeld on BYU Radio
Alvin Rosenfeld on BYU Radio. Listen here
Crucial Conversations: Antisemitism in the U.S.
Marc Dollinger, Miriam Elman, and Alvin Rosenfeld, “Antisemitism in the United States,” Dallas Holocaust and Human Rights Museum.
Book Release: The Return of Religious Antisemitism?
Preface by Catherine D. Chatterley and book chapters by Gunther Jikeli, Mark Weitzman, Cary Nelson, Giovanni Matteo Quer, Ildiko Barna, Andras Kovacs, Esther Webman (z"l), Daniel Rickenbacher, and Navras J. Aafreedi.The book is available online, see https://www.mdpi.com/journal/religions/special_issues/anti
Deidre Berger in Conversation with Gunther Jikeli and Students at Indiana University
A conversation about Jews in Germany, Education on Antisemitism, Israeli-German Relations, Holocaust Remembrance, and Nazi-looted Art. Register...
Alvin Rosenfeld and David Patterson on Holocaust Education
Holocaust Education: Lessons Learned, lessons missed, and their application to contemporary manifestations of antisemitism. More...
Karl Pfeifer in Conversation with Cary Nelson and Deborah Hartmann
The first event with Cary Nelson is on Feb 23, 11.30 am EST (5.30 pm in Berlin). Watch video The second event with Deborah Hartmann is on Mar 9, 11.30 am EST (5.30 pm in Berlin). Watch video
3 Talks by Alvin H. Rosenfeld on Antisemitism
2021 Neustadt Lectures featuring Dr. Alvin H. Rosenfeld.
All three lectures were recorded and are now available to watch online.
Connecting online hate speech to offline events
Gunther Jikeli, Erna B. Rosenfeld Professor of the Borns Jewish Studies Program and the Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and associate professor of Germanic Studies, discussed his study of online hate speech and how it relates to actions and events in the offline world in an article for the IU Research Impact website following the insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.
Talk by Alvin H. Rosenfeld: Antisemitism: A Clear and Present Danger
Florida Atlantic University
Call for Papers
Conference: Antisemitism in Today's America. Manifestations, Causes, and Consequences (July 2021)
Deadline for Proposals: October 15, 2020
Datathon and Hackathon on Antisemitism Follow-up
We have been encouraged by the results of our international Datathon and Hackathon Competition Antisemitism on Social Media.
Please find an example of a successful submission linked below. We will follow up and continue our research in close cooperation with students and hope to further expand our research. Read more...
UNESCO "Addressing Antisemitism" with Ahmed Shaheed, Gunther Jikeli, Vanessa Hites, and Pamela Malewicz. Watch video
Inclusion in the time of COVID-19: International webinar addressing racism, discrimination, and exclusion
Interview with Alvin Rosenfeld in AntisemitismExposed
An In-depth Interview by Lenny Giteck in two parts
The Return of Religious Antisemitism? Special Issue of Religions
Eight papers explore the question if religion is coming back as a forceful source of antisemitism. All papers are open access.
Social Media and Antisemitism Hackathon and Datathon. Awards ceremony with keynote speakers Lee Feinstein and Elaine Monaghan
Keynote on Social Media, Hate Speech, and Free Speech in Our Increasingly Globalized World. Webinar, Sunday, July 5, 11 AM - 12 PM (Central Time) Read more and watch video of keynotes
Alvin Rosenfeld, renowned scholar of contemporary antisemitism, receives IU President's Medal
Alvin Rosenfeld received the award from IU President Michael A. McRobbie during a special ceremony on April 28, honoring Rosenfeld's 50 years at IU and many contributions to the university and his academic field.Read more
Keynote by Katharina von Schnurbein: The European Union and the Fight Against Antisemitism
Sunday, March 24, 2019, 8 p.m., Whittenberger Auditorium (IMU)
Talk by Alvin H. Rosenfeld on the Pittsburgh synagogue killings at Tel Aviv University
Lecture on "The Pittsburgh Synagogue Killings: Causes, Context, and Consequences" at Tel Aviv University's Kantor Centor for the Study of Contemporary Jewry by Alvin H. Rosenfeld, December 24, 2018.
Alvin Rosenfeld named senior fellow at Wallenberg Centre
IU professor Alvin Rosenfeld has been named a senior fellow at the Raoul Wallenberg Centre for Human Rights, a Montreal-based international consortium of government officials, scholars, jurists, students and others united to pursue justice.
Rise in violence highlights importance of IU's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism
The killing of 11 worshippers last month at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh brought the message home: Indiana University's Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism, established to study the global resurgence of the hatred of Jews, is more relevant and essential than ever.
In memory of the victims of the Tree of Life Synagogue shootings
Our deepest sympathies are with the victims and their families of the horrific shootings at Shabbat services at the Tree of Life Synagogue in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, October 27, 2018.
Alvin H. Rosenfeld spoke at Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism on "Antisemitism in Today's America," May 21, 2018
Lecture on "Antisemitism in Today's America" by Alvin H. Rosenfeld at Hebrew University's Vidal Sassoon International Center for the Study of Antisemitism on "Antisemitism in Today's America," May 21, 2018, at 10:30 a.m. in room 400, Gaster building, the Contemporary Jewry Institute, Mount Scopus Campus.
Holocaust in Film - A Conversation with Géza Röhrig
Join us on Wednesday, March 7th for a discussion of antisemitic legacies and contemporary Jewish representation in Central European media.
Attitudes Among Refugees in Germany: Pre-study published
IU scholars Assad Al-Saleh, Günther Jikeli, Haidar Khezri, and Alvin Rosenfeld have done field work in Germany for the project „Syrian and Iraqi Refugees in Germany, Antisemitism, Islamism, and Integration.“
Alvin H. Rosenfeld to speak at the 2017 World Jewish Congress
Lecture on the current state of antisemitism studies by Alvin H. Rosenfeld at the conference of the World Jewish Congress, Tel Aviv, December 11, 2017.
ISCA is sponsoring a free screening of 24 Days as part of Themester 2017: Diversity • Difference • Otherness
The screening will take place at 6:00 pm in the Global & International Studies Building, Room 0001 (Auditorium). Günther Jikeli will introduce the film and will give a short presentation after the film on hatred and violence against Jews in France, today.
Lecture series at Presidency University, Kolkata, India, with Alvin H. Rosenfeld
Professor Alvin H. Rosenfeld, ISCA's director, is giving a series of lectures in India from October 30th through November 3rd.
Launch of the new academic journal "Antisemitism Studies" (IU Press) with its editor-in-chief Dr. Catherine Chatterley
Location: Global and International Studies Building 4067, Indiana University - Dr. Catherine Chatterley is an award-winning writer and a frequent lecturer in Canada and the United States, who specializes in the study of European history, with particular emphasis on the history of antisemitism and the dynamic relationship between Jews and non-Jews in Western history. Syracuse University Press published her first book, Disenchantment: George Steiner and the Meaning of Western Civilization After Auschwitz, which was named a 2011 National Jewish Book Award Finalist in the category of Modern Jewish Thought and Experience.Time: Noon; Film time: 6:00 p.m.
Students research ways to counter antisemitism in social media
Many Americans were shocked at the anti-Jewish rhetoric on display this month at a white nationalist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. But not IU Bloomington faculty member Günther Jikeli and the students who took his contemporary antisemitism course in spring 2017.
Research report to the U.S. Department of State "Best Practices to Combat Antisemitism on Social Media"
The report was prepared for the U.S. State Department as part of the Diplomacy Lab initiative, a cooperation between Indiana University and the U.S. Department of State and its Office of Religion and Global Affairs. It is based on research by students of the Spring 2017 course “Contemporary Antisemitism in Sociohistorical Perspectives” at Indiana University under the guidance of Günther Jikeli with the assistance of David Axelrod.
Alvin H. Rosenfeld spoke on "The Convergence of anti-Semitism and the De-legitimization of Israel"
Alvin H. Rosenfeld spoke on "The Convergence of anti-Semitism and the De-legitimization of Israel" at an event by the Jewish Community Relations Council and the Jewish United Fund/Jewish Federation of Metropolitain Chicago, Chicago, IL, November 7, 2016.
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