Diversities 2006

Diversities - Bet Debora in Budapest
4th Conference of the European Jewish Women, Activists, Academics, and Rabbis
23-27 August, 2006
Central European University, Department of Gender Studies
1051-Budapest Nádor 9.

 

IMPORTANT: Pre-registration is required till 16 August! www.esztertaska.eu

Program

23 August, Wednesday
Optional excursions
Side Events (own cost):
Excursion in Jewish Budapest (Jewish Museum, Jewish District, Synagogue)

Official Program begins
18.00 Afternoon: Official Opening at CEU (1051-Budapest Nádor 9)
Speaker: Alice Shalvi: "Remembering the past, living the present, preparing the future."
Room István György Tóth
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Photo Exhibition - The 1^st, 2^ndand 3^rd Bet Debora conferences - photos by Silke Helmerdig and Malin Kundi
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Reception - Music: Klezmer R's

24 August, Thursday - Rosh Hodes Elul

9.00-10.00 Plenary: Key note speaker: Shulamit Reinharz
The Politics of American Jewish Women's Organizations Today
Room István György Tóth
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10.00-11.30: Session: Inter-religious and inter-cultural dialog session (Shulamit Reinharz, Alice Shalvi, Marina Calloni, Svenka Savic)
Chair: Eleonore Lappin
Room István György Tóth
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11.30-12.00 Coffee break
Room Gellner
Exhibition opening
Double Emancipation - Exhibition on History of Hungarian Jewish Women
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exhibition

12.00-13.30 Panel meetings:
1. Book presentation (Sandra Lustig : Turning the Kaleidoscope - Perspectives on European Jewry, Ewa Mlodawska, Mira Mayer: Bulgarian Society - Racism and anti-Semitism, Eleonore Lappin: Female Jewish Press, Svenka Savic: Jewish Women in Novi Sad)
Chair: Judit Gazsi
Room Gellner
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2. Historical traditions (Elisa Klapheck, Dr Shira Koren, Esther Jonas-Maertin, Dona Danon)
Chair: Andrea Sturovics
Room István György Tóth
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13.30-14.30 Lunch

14.30-16.30 Panel meetings:
1. Female Jewish Activists and discussion on volunteering (Lara Dämmig, Toby Axelrod, Sandra Lustig)
Chairs: Eszter Lányi
Room Gellner
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2. Transforming traditions (Emily Silverman, Valérie Rhein, Chia Longman, Esther Kontarsky)
Chair: Katalin Kelemen
Room István György Tóth
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17.00-17.30 Coffee break
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17.30-18.30 Evening session in Bálint House http://www.jcc.hu/2006/index_html.html
Introduction of the Hungarian Jewish cultural life
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18.30-19.30 Dinner in Bálint House

19.30 Cultural event in Bálint House

Forever yours - Norwegian documentary film directed by Monica Csango, 2005

Chair: Vera Surányi
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25 August, Friday:
9.00-10.30 Plenary: Report from Eastern Europe I. (Marine Solomoshvili, Solmaz Yosifova, Tania Reytan-Marincheshka, Erzsébet Simon - WIZO, Ewa Mlodawska, Mira Mayer, Ágnes Peresztegi) Setting up mailing list, Networking, Planning next conference
Chair: Lara Dämmig /Ágnes Peresztegi
Room István György Tóth
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10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Meet the press - Pre-registration is required (rulli@ceu.hu)

11.00-12.30 Plenary: Report from Eastern Europe II. (Marine Solomoshvili, Solmaz Yosifova, Tania Reytan-Marincheshka, Erzsébet Simon - WIZO, Ewa Mlodawska, Mira Mayer, Ágnes Peresztegi) Setting up mailing list, Networking, Planning next conference
Chair: Lara Dämmig/Ágnes Peresztegi
Room István György Tóth

12.30-13.30 Lunch

13.30-15.00 Panel meetings:
1. Education (Katalin Pécsi, Silvia Heim - Croatia, Dina Sosberger - Serbia, Tamar Bloch Lauder Javne Music School)
Chair: Zsuzsa Fritz
Room István György Tóth
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2. Psychology, Trauma ( Judit Wirth, Judit Herman)
Room Gellner
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15.00-15.30 Coffee Break

15.30-17.00 Session: Jewish women in historical perspectives Shulamit Reinharz, Eleonore Lappin, Dóra Sárdi/ Eszter Andor (http://www.centropa.org/, Edit Jankov, Andrea Sturovics)
Chair: Andrea Pető
Room István György Tóth
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19.00 Sabbath service in Bálint House (Sim Shalom Katalin Kelemen and WIZO Hungary)
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26 August Saturday
Evening event: CEU Dormitory www.ceucenter.hu - garden party and music
19.00 Havdalah
Presentation of new Hungarian spice boxes
Bemutato2.ppt
Chair: Zsuzsa Toronyi

27 August Sunday
Beginning of Jewish Cultural Festival http://www.jewishfestival.hu
Tickets for the Concert in the Synagogue
Optional excursions: Visiting Synagogue of Mád, North Hungary and the local Jewish community (own cost, bus rent) and University of Miskolc

Parallel events:
Exhibition on History of Hungarian Jewish Women - double emancipation
Double Emancipation - Exhibition on History of Hungarian Jewish Women

Side Events during the conference (own cost):
Excursion in Jewish Budapest (Jewish Museum, Jewish District, Synagogue) http://www.bpjewmus.hu/ and www.zsido.hu
Visit at the Holocaust Memorial Center, Budapest www.hdke.hu
One- day excursion to Jewish Sites to Budapest