Monday, June 16, 2014
4:00 p.m. Reception
5:00 p.m. Opening Remarks
John Shattuck, President and Rector, Central European University
François Guesnet (UCL), Michael L. Miller (Central European University)

5:30 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Keynotes
Donald L. Horowitz (Duke University)
Riots Have Narratives, But What Is the Evidence?
Steven Zipperstein (Stanford University)
Inside Kishinev's Pogrom: Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Michael Davitt and the Burdens of Truth

Tuesday, June 17, 2014
9:15 a.m. – 11:00 a.m. Violence in Pre-Modern Societies
CHAIR: David Feldman (Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism, Birkbeck, University of London)
Markéta Kabůrková (Charles University)
"There are no murderers among the Jews": Jewish Self-Stylization in Medieval Polemics
Faika Çelik (McGill University)
Narrating Domestic Violence in 16th cent Üsküdar
Adam Teller (Brown University)
Kill or Be Killed? Realities and Representations of Violence in Seventeenth Century Ukraine

11:30 a.m.– 1:15 p.m. The Great War and the Militarization of Ethnic Violence
CHAIR: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Technical University, Berlin)
Brendan McGeever (University of Glasgow)
Narratives of Violence in the Soviet Government Responses to Antisemitism and Pogroms during the Russian Revolution 1917-1921
Marc Caplan (Johns Hopkins University)
Language, Voice and the Dissimulation of Self in S. Ansky’s Destruction of Galicia
Ilse Lazaroms (Hebrew University)
Marked by Violence: Victim-Narrators and the Discourse of Belonging in Hungarian Jewish History

3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m. Rituals of Hate: The Anatomy of Popular Violence
CHAIR: Amos Morris-Reich (Haifa University)
Amy Wood (Illinois State University)
Lynching Photographs, Tortured Communities and the Making of Social Memories in the U.S.
Jeffrey Kopstein (University of Toronto)
Narratives of Betrayal and the Pogroms of 1941

5:30 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. Roundtable Discussion: Narrating Violence in Contemporary Hungary
Chair: Michael L. Miller (Central European University)
Participants: Mária M. Kovács (Central European University), Gábor Kádár (Hungarian Jewish Archives), Attila Pók (Hungarian Academy of Sciences)

Wednesday, June 18, 2014
9:00 a.m. – 10:45 a.m. World War II and the Holocaust: Oral Histories
CHAIR: Elissa Helms (Central European University)
Anna Shternshis (University of Toronto)
Victims and Perpetrators: Narratives of Violence among Soviet Jewish World War II Veterans
Diana Dumitru (State University of Moldova)
Looking into the Eyes of Your Neighbors: Jewish-Gentile Encounters in Bessarabia after the Holocaust
Martina Bitunjac (Moses Mendelssohn Center, Potsdam)
Remembering the Violence of the Second World War in the Independent State of Croatia from the Female Point of View

11: 15 a.m. – 1:00 p.m. Europe, the Roma and the Jews
CHAIR: Amy Vargas-Tonsi (Duke University)
Andrew Sloin (Baruch College)
Writing the Paris Commune in the Warsaw Ghetto
Ari Joskowicz (Vanderbilt University)
Separate Suffering, Shared Archives: Jewish and Romani Narratives of Persecution after 1945
Rainer Schulze (University of Essex)
Memory and Representation of Anti-Roma Violence: The Porrajmos and the Kosovo Conflict

2:30 p.m. – 4:15 p.m. Literary and Artistic Interpretations
CHAIR: Maurice Samuels (Yale University)
Kata Gellen (Duke University)
Narration Against Tone: The Violent Harmony of Soma Morgenstern’s Sparks in the Abyss
Marlene Schäfers (Cambridge University)
Singing with a "burning heart": Kurdish women singers and the politics of mourning in Turkish Kurdistan
Shai Ginsburg (Duke University)
Cinematic Violence, Political Critique

4:45 p.m. – 6:30 p.m. Narrative and Reconciliation: Remembering (and Forgetting) Violence
CHAIR: Zsófia Kata Vincze (ELTE)
Harvey Goldberg (Hebrew University)
Joining the Chorus while Retaining Your Voice: Jews from Libya within Israeli Narratives
Eyal Naveh (Tel Aviv University)
Narratives of Violence in an Israeli-Palestinian History Textbook
Johnny Roberto Rosa (University of Sao Paulo)
Politics of Reparation in Brazil: Coming to Terms with the Legacy of Past Wrongdoings

6:45 p.m. – 7:30 p.m. Closing Discussion
Jonathan Judaken (Rhodes College)
András Kovács (Central European University)
Diana Dumitru (State University of Moldova)
Chair: Scott Ury (Tel Aviv University)

Supporting Institutions:
Central European University – Jewish Studies Program
Birkbeck, University of London – Pears Institute for the Study of Antisemitism
Brandies University - Sarnat Center for the Study of Anti-Jewishness
Brown University – Program in Judaic Studies
Duke University – Center for European Studies & Center for Jewish Studies
Fondation pour la Mémoire de la Shoah, Paris
Salo W. and Jeanette M. Baron Foundation, New York, NY
Technische Universität Berlin – Zentrum für Antisemitismusforschung,
Tel Aviv University – The Stephen Roth Institute for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and Racism
University College London – Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies
University of Haifa – Bucerius Institute for Research of Contemporary German History and Society
University of Toronto – Centre for Jewish Studies