2018 AAJS Conference
11-12 February, St Catherine’s College, 2 Park Rd, Perth
‘Narratives and Counter-Narratives: Jews, Nation and Nationhood’
President’s Report by Prof Ghil`ad Zuckermann
Opening Address by Prof Seth Kunin: By the Rivers of Babylon Today
Ophir Munz-Manor: “Take Pity on Zion, Rebuild the Walls of Jerusalem”: Congregational Participation and the Construction of Memory in a Late Antique Qina for the Ninth of Av
Sherry Sufi: From Cavemen to Countrymen: The Linguistic Roots of Tribalism
Gili Kugler: Egypt without Slavery: Ezekiel’s Alternative Tradition of Israel in Egypt
Anne Sarzin: Between Two Worlds: Sailing from Past Memories towards Safe Harbours
Jonathan C. Kaplan: Southern Heimat: Viennese Jews in Sydney and Cultural Identity During the Immediate Pre- and Post-War Era
Anne Atkinson: The Buraks’ Journey: Exile and Identity
Association AGM
Tessa Tribe: Subverting Holocaust & Genocide Narratives: Survivor Expressions of Trauma and Remembrance in Punk Music
Suzanne D. Rutland: Revising the Concepts of Holocaust Memory and National Trauma
Anna Hirsh: Heavenly Realms: A Model of the Old Czestochowa Synagogue
Frieda Hodge: Early Testimonies of Sheerit Ha Pletah Recorded by the Historical Commissions in Post-War Germany
Moshe Y. Bernstein: Memory, Emotions and Kaifeng Jews: The Historical and Contemporary Constructs of Sino-Judaic Cultural Identity
Dan Ben-Canaan: Suitcase Memories: Imagined Past, Imagined Communities: Problems of Geography, Memory and Motives in the Presentation of Jewish Life in Harbin and Shanghai
Tiejiang Zhang: On the Historical Role of Harbin, the Jews’ Largest Activity Center in the Far East
Shahar Burla: Plus61J, Australian Jewry and the New Model of Engagement with Israel
Ran Porat: Distinctiveness, Zionist Narratives and Hidden Agendas: ‘Anti-Semitism industry professionals’ Theory among Ausraeli Jews
Australian Jewry Community Panel Respondents Suzanne D. Rutland and Simon Lawrence (Director of Jewish Studies, Carmel School)
Keynote Address by Rev. Hon. Dr Lynn Arnold, AO: Jewish Influences on the Development of Spanish and Western Christian Thought
Conference Dinner at St Catherine’s College
Morning Keynote Address by Prof Alexandra Ludewig: In Memoriam: Steinberg’s Historic Ord River Expedition in Contemporary Emotions
Jennifer Creese: Fearing Alone and Together: An Anthropological Analysis of Individual and Communal Jewish Fear
Anne-Louise Dadak: Food & Memory
Alan Dench: ‘By the Waters of Jajiwurra’: Memory and Emotion in a Martuthunira Performance
Jewish Communities Worldwide Panel respondent Ghil`ad Zuckermann
Stephen Cook: Memory and Emotion in the Shaping and Interpretation of the Story of Jonah
Deborah Berry: Women of the Wilderness
Ruth Henderson: Remembering Jerusalem: The Apostrophe to Zion from Qumran Cave 11 (11QPsa)
Shoshana Jordan: Kri’á veTépher (The Tear and the Mend): Unraveling the Self
Ned Curthoys: The Incorporation of the Enlightenment into Jewish Historical Experience: The Case of Hannah Arendt
Closing drinks