2021 AAJS Conference
‘Jews as Active Citizens, Past and Present’
ACT Jewish Community
28 February – 1 March 2021
Full paper abstracts and biographies of speakers are accessible here.
Introduction by Kim Rubenstein: Jews and Active Citizenship: Some Conceptual Underpinnings; and Kim Rubenstein, Sue Silberberg, Sarah Charak, Elizabeth Offer, Diane Deane: Jewish Australian Membership in the 19th and 20th Centuries (Session video below)
Max Kaiser, Mark Ellison, Helen Webberley: Antifascism, Patriotism and Allegiance before, during and after WWII (Session video below)
Kim Rubenstein, Jo Dixon, Ron Levy, Talia Avrahamzon, Marc Itzchaki: Participatory citizenship and peace-making in Israel (Session video below)
Alon Meltzer, Ben Ezzes, Sean Goltz, Tracey Dowdeswell: Community, Membership and Technology (Session video below)
Keren Hammerschlag, Viva Hammer, Dovi Seldowitz, Deborah Mayersen: Jewish Women as Active Citizens (Session video below)
Matthew Zagor, Kim Cunio, Tim Hollo, Naomi Gould: Political and Professional Activism and Jewish Identity (Session video below)
Anna Hirsh, Sara Dehm, Andrew Kilsby, Eloise Chandler, Katherine Biber, Ana Vrdoljak: Responses to and Stories of Jewish Migration and Statelessness (Session video below)
Kim Rubenstein, Nicole Maor, Adi Lustigman, Suha Naser: Nationality Status, Statelessness and Vulnerability: Australia and Israel Compared through One Story (Session video below)
Ghil’ad Zuckermann, Orna Triguboff, Anna Hueneke: Nationhood, Language and Jewish Spirituality (Session video below)
International keynote address by Moshe Simon-Shoshan: R. Eleazar b. R. Shimon: Model Citizen or Murderer? Between Aggada and Halakha, Ethnos and Empire (Session video below)
Australian keynote address by Mareike Riedel: Between Insider and Outsider: Law and the Construction of Jewish Difference (Session video below)
Sarah Charak, Lynne Swarts, Jonathan Kaplan, Keren Hammerschlag: Imagery and the Other: Representations of Jews as Ambiguous Citizens (Session video below)
Marc Mierowsky, Anne Newstead, Marianne Dacy: Complications of Jewish Citizenship from Philo to Spinoza (Session video below)
Ruth Balint, Peter Balint, Jennifer Balint: Scholarship as Active Citizenship: Justice, Toleration, Migration (Session video below)
Deborah Rechter, Avril Alba, Daryl Karp: Museums, Citizenship and Politics (Session video below)
Anita Jawary, Benjamin Kunde, Anne Black, Paul Sandringham, Patrick West: Biographies of Active Jewish Citizens across Disparate Societies and Cultures (Session video below)
Graham Segal, Jacquie Seemann, John Zeleznikow: The Law of the Land: Religious Practice and Modern Australia (Session video below)
Garry Sturgess, Suzanne Rutland, Michael Gawenda: Contrasting the Leibler Stories: Two Remarkable Brothers and Their Distinctive Lives (Session video below)
Concluding panel: Kim Rubenstein, Josh Burns, Mark Dreyfus, Julian Leeser: In conversation with Australia’s Jewish parliamentarians (Session video below)