DECEMBER 17, 2023
- REPEAT FROM JUNE 9, 2019
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"Antisemitism
Affects All of Us" |
with Dr. Charles Asher
Small |
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FULL TWO HOURS
HOUR 1
HOUR 2
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About our guest:
Dr.
Charles Asher Small is the
Founding Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global
Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP). He is currently a Senior Research
Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East and African Studies
at Tel Aviv University and the Goldman Fellow at the School of
Political Science, Government and International Affairs at Tel Aviv
University. He will also be a Visiting Academic and Senior Member of
St. Antony’s College, Oxford University.
Charles was the Koret Distinguished Fellow at the Hoover
Institution, Stanford University and the Founding Director of the
Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA),
the first interdisciplinary research center on antisemitism at a
North American university. At Yale, he lectured in the Political
Science Department, as well as a Program on Ethics, Politics and
Economics, and directed a post-doctorate and graduate studies
fellowship program at YIISA. He was also an Associate Professor and
the Director of Urban Studies at Southern Connecticut State
University (SCSU), as well as an Assistant Professor at Tel Aviv
University in the Department of Geography. Charles was also the
VATAT (Ministry of Higher Education) Fellow at Ben Gurion
University; and a professor in the Departments of Sociology and
Geography at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London; Tel Aviv
University; and the Institute of Urban Studies at the Hebrew
University of Jerusalem.
As the Founding Director of ISGAP, Charles has convened
groundbreaking academic seminar series, conferences and programming
in the emerging field of contemporary antisemitism studies at
Harvard University, Yale University, Columbia University, Stanford
University, Fordham University, McGill University, University of
Miami, La Sapienza University in Rome, the Sorbonne in Paris, the
National University of Kyiv, the CNRS (the French National Center
for Scientific Research or Centre national de la recherche
scientifique), and other top-tier universities around the world.
Charles founded and directs an annual innovative, cutting-edge
professor training program at St. Johns’ College, Oxford University,
which trains professors from around the world to develop new courses
on contemporary antisemitism and then teach them at their respective
home universities upon completion of the course for academic credit.
Charles is the author of numerous books and articles including: The
ISGAP Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Two
(2016); The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective:
Volume One (2015); the six volume Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of
Modernity (2013); and Social Theory – a Historical Analysis of
Canadian Socio-cultural Policies Race and the Other (2013). Volume
Three of the ISGAP papers will be published in 2018.
Charles received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, McGill
University, Montreal; M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in
Economics, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College
London; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil), St. Antony’s
College, Oxford University. He completed post-doctorate research at
the Groupement de recherche ethnicité et société, Université de
Montréal.
Charles lectures throughout the world as an expert scholar on
antisemitism. He was a Visiting Professor at McGill University, Cape
Town University, La Sapienza University in Rome, and the University
of Lithuania. Charles has been a guest scholar and lectured at
hundreds of universities throughout the world. Charles also
addressed the European Parliament, United Nations, Israeli Knesset,
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), the
Kigali International Forum on Genocide, as well as the Australian,
British, Canadian, Chilean and Italian Parliaments, the German
Bundestag, as well as various leading think tanks in China, India,
Europe and the Americas. Charles submitted evidence to the British
and Canadian All-Party Parliamentary Inquiries into Antisemitism and
continues to help inform public policy. He has also served as a
consultant and policy advisor in North America, Europe, Southern
Africa, and the Middle East.
Charles has been active on issues relating to human rights
throughout his life. He was the Chairperson of the African National
Solidarity Committee of Canada and worked with the ANC leadership
and the international anti-apartheid movement. He was also active in
the Student Struggle for Soviet Jewry chairing the SSSJ in the early
1980s at McGill University, as well as the struggle for Ethiopian
Jewry. He has also been engaged in promoting rights of the First
Nations in Canada.
Charles is committed to safeguarding human rights and democratic
principles and conducting scholarly programming and research on
contemporary antisemitism at top tier universities internationally,
as well as helping to establish contemporary antisemitism studies as
a recognized academic discipline.
More Info: http://charlesashersmall.com/
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https://isgap.org/ |
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Antisemitism is one of the most complex and, at
times, perplexing forms of hatred. It spans centuries of history,
infecting different societies, religious, philosophical and
political movements, and even civilizations. In the aftermath of the
Holocaust some have even argued that antisemitism illustrates the
limitations of the Enlightenment and modernity itself.
Manifestations of antisemitism emerge in numerous ideologically
based narratives and the constructed identities of belonging and
otherness such as race and ethnicity, nationalist and
anti-nationalist movements. In the contemporary context of
globalized relations it appears that antisemitism has taken on new
complex and changing forms that need to be decoded, mapped, and
exposed.
The academic study of antisemitism, like prejudice more generally,
has a long and impressive intellectual and research history. It
remains a topic of on-going political importance and scholarly
engagement. However, unlike prejudice and discrimination directed at
other social groups, antisemitism is almost always studied outside
an organized academic framework. A key element of the ISGAP mission
is to develop the study of critical contemporary antisemitism
studies, and ensure that it becomes an accepted component of
university education and curriculum.
The mission of ISGAP is to explore antisemitism within a
comprehensive, interdisciplinary framework from an array of
approaches and perspectives as well as global, national and regional
contexts. This mission encompasses the study of such subjects as
changing historical phases of antisemitism, how antisemitism relates
to other forms of hatred, to what extent it is unique, how some
societies are able to resist antisemitism, and how policies could be
developed and utilised to combat it.
ISGAP is committed to creating high calibre academic programming,
such as the ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute for Curriculum Development
on Critical Antisemitism Studies, international seminars series,
research projects that address pertinent contemporary subject
matter, and policy development to map, decode and confront
contemporary antisemitism effectively. Eminent scholars and
researchers are invited regularly, to present seminar papers and
engage in research projects at both conceptual and empirical levels.
The encouraging of the publication of analytical studies that
examine a prejudice that remains widespread, recurrent, and often
overlooked within the ‘academy’ is a central objective of the
mission.
ISGAP, founded in 2004 is the first interdisciplinary research
center dedicated to the study of antisemitism based in North
America. ISGAP is dedicated to creating an international perspective
and presence, essential in a globalising world. ISGAP aims to create
a vibrant space, within the classroom of universities throughout the
world in which high calibre scholarship, discussion and debate can
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