NEW WEBINAR SERIES
Updated Schedule and Format, Registration Information
Panel 1: “Critical Theory in Light of October 7”
The first panel in our series of webinars in response to October 7 will take place on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at noon Eastern Standard Time. Register for the webinar here.
In light of the vigorous response we received to our recent conference announcement, the Telos-Paul Piccone Institute is enhancing the format and expanding the schedule of its initiative about Israel, Hamas, critical theory, and the university. These changes will allow us to cultivate and refine a carefully sustained conversation while events in the Middle East and on campus continue to unfold.
Rather than—as originally announced—hosting just a single, digital gathering on January 12–13, we will instead be hosting a webinar series on different aspects of the topic each month for one full year.
We continue to plan for an in-person conference on the subject as well, to be convened in early October 2024, and we expect to make an announcement about its location shortly.
All of this will lay the groundwork for a special issue of Telos in 2025. We intend for this special issue to be a distinctive memorial statement on the role of critical theory in the response to the Hamas atrocities, as well as a permanent resource for scholars and educators working to improve the intellectual and ethical environment of higher education.
“Critical Theory in Light of October 7,” the first webinar in our series, will take place on Sunday, January 7, 2024, at noon Eastern Standard Time. All panels thereafter will take place on the seventh day of each month, also at noon EST, throughout 2024. Each panel will last between 90 to 120 minutes.
Our first panel features presenters Cary Nelson and Abe Silberstein, with respondent Manuela Connsoni. Nelson’s remarks are titled “Anti-Semitism, Not Theory Itself, Is the Problem.” Silberstein will present “Whose Postcolonialism? The Coming Struggle over Palestine in the Academy.” Series organizer Gabriel Noah Brahm will moderate.
Cary Nelson was President of the American Association of University Professors from 2006 to 2012, and he is emeritus professor of English and Jubilee Professor of Liberal Arts and Sciences at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Abe Silberstein is a writer and critic based in New York. His essays have appeared in the New York Times, Ha’aretz, The Forward, the Times Literary Supplement (UK), and Dissent, among other publications. Manuela Connsoni is Pela and Adam Starkopf Chair in Holocaust Studies and Director of the Vidal Sassoon Center for the Study of Antisemitism at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Full biographies are provided below.
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To contact Prof. Brahm, write to brahm at telosinstitute dot net. |