Monday, April 16th 2012
14:00 Registration
15:00 Welcome
Ute Frevert (Berlin)
Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)
Raphael Gross (Frankfurt a. M./London)
Daniel Wildmann (London)
15:30 Introduction
Uffa Jensen (Berlin): The History of Emotions: A New Perspective on Modern Anti-Semitism?
16:15 Break
16:30 Panel 1: Writing Emotions into the History of Anti-Semitism
Jonathan Judaken (Memphis): Anxiety and Modernity: Talcott Parsons, Sartre, and the Frankfurt School on Modern Anti-Semitism
Julijana Ranc (Hamburg): Anti-Jewish Resentment and Awareness of Injustice
Comment: Detlev Claussen (Hannover)
Chair: Ute Frevert (Berlin)
18:30 Reception
Tuesday, April 17th 2012
9:00 Panel 2: Emotions and Anti-Semitic Violence
Russell Spinney (Santa Fe): Expanding the Emotional Economy of Anti-Semitism in the Weimar Republic
Stefan Wiese (Berlin): Hatred, Fear, and Joy—The Emotional Dimension of Pogrom Violence in the Late Imperial Russia
Comment: Christhard Hoffmann (Bergen)
Chair: Pascal Eitler (Berlin)
11:00 Break
11:15 Panel 3: Anti-Semitism—Rational or Irrational?
Werner Bergmann (Berlin): The Negation of Emotions in Modern Anti-Semitism
Anthony D. Kauders (Keele/Munich): Good Feelings, Bad Rationality: The Problem with Jewish Reason
Comment: Robert S. Wistrich (Jerusalem)
Chair: Benno Gammerl (Berlin)
13:15 Lunch Break
14:15 Panel 4: Emotions, Anti-Semitism and Media
Nathan D. Abrams (Bangor): Reverse Stereotypes: Anti-Anti Semitic Counter Communication in Contemporary Cinema
Daniel Wildmann (London): German TV Crime Series and German Emotions—Jews in „Tatort“
Remco Ensel (Nijmegen): Singing about Muhamad Al-Durra and the Articulation of an Emotional Conflict
Comment: Darcy C. Buerkle (Northampton/Berlin)
Chair: Raphael Gross (Frankfurt a. M./London)
17:00 Break
17:15 Panel 5: Anti-Semitism and Emotions Across Europe
Ulrich Wyrwa (Berlin) & Tim Buchen, Maciej Moszynski, Klaus Richter, Miloslav Szabó and Marija Vulesica (all Berlin): Anti Semitic Emotions in European Empires. Similarities and Differences of Anti-Semitic Feelings in Various Czarist and Habsburg Regions
Comment: Andrea Hopp (Berlin)
Chair: Stefanie Schüler-Springorum (Berlin)
19:30 Dinner (only active participants)
Wednesday, April 18th 2012
9:00 Panel 6: Emotions, Anti-Semitism and National Socialism
Alexandra Przyrembel (Berlin): Mixed Feelings. „Race Defilement“ and Anti-Semitic Violence, 1933-1938
Werner Konitzer (Frankfurt a. M.): Anger, Hatred, Revulsion—Thoughts about the Emotional Structure of Nazi Anti-Semitism
Comment: Michael Wildt (Berlin)
Chair: Jan Plamper (Berlin)
11:00 Break
11:15 Panel 7: Emotions and Postwar Anti-Semitism
Anna Parkinson (Chicago): „Death of the Adversary“. Emotions and the Affective Structure of Anti-Semitism in Postwar Psychoanalysis and Literature
Katharina Obens (Berlin): Emotional Ambivalence and Conflicting Images of the Jews—Young Germans‘ Impressions and Perceptions after Meeting a Survivor of the Holocaust
Comment: Susan Neiman (Potsdam/Berlin)
Chair: Anja Laukötter (Berlin)
13:15 Lunch Break
14:30 Final Discussion
Chair: Uffa Jensen (Berlin)