26th Annual AIS Conference
10 – 12 May 2010
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies and
Center of Jewish Studies at the University of Toronto
“Israel in the World”
Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox--needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world, which David Ben Gurion articulated so succinctly with his “Um Shmum.” These tension-laden tendencies reflect not only strong cultural dispositions along with issues arising from Israel’s troubled birth, development, and existence, but also some of the deep ruptures in what it means to be Israeli in a globalizing world. We therefore aim to reflect upon Israel’s delicate balance between its desire to be different from a world that it simultaneously genuinely needs and that it also wants to be a legitimate member of.
Banquet Dinner – 10 May 2010
by Keynote speaker: Prof. Michael Walzer
American political philosopher and public intellectual.
Chair of Program Committee:
Prof. Emanuel Adler
Andrea and Charles Bronfman Chair of Israeli Studies emanuel.adler@utoronto.ca
Co-Chair of the Program Committee:
Prof. Oded Haklai
haklai@post.queensu.ca
Conference Coordinator:
Sylvia Adler
sadler@artsci.utoronto.ca
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