9th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries

• 9:30-9:45: Registration and coffee
   
• 9:45-10:00: Welcome: Karin Hofmeester (IISH, Amsterdam and University of Antwerp) & Veerle Vanden Daelen (Cegesoma, Brussels and University of Antwerp)
   
• 10:00 – 12:00: Session 1: Holocaust History in the Low Countries
  Chair: Pim Griffioen (NIOD, Amsterdam)
  • Laurien Vastenhout  (NIOD, Amsterdam): The Jewish Councils of Western Europe under Nazi Occupation: A Comparative Analysis
  • Laurence Schram (Kazerne Dossin, Mechelen): A history of the Belgian assembly camp: The Dossin barracks in Mechelen, 1942–1944
  • Vincent Scheltiens (Cegesoma, Brussels): Brussels, a Safe Haven? A History of the Jews in the Capital, 1930-1950
  • Angela Boone (Independent researcher, Driebergen): The deportation of German Jewish Holocaust survivors from the Netherlands to Germany in the period 1945-1950
• 12:00-13:30: Lunch break
   
• 13:30 – 15:30 Session 2: Integration and Identity
  Chair: Pascale Falek-Alhadeff (Jewish Museum, Brussels)
  • Huibert Schijf (em. University of Amsterdam): Russian Jewish immigrants in two Amsterdam streets, 1850 -1914
  • Janiv Stamberger (University of Antwerp): Yiddish culture and Yiddishist ideology in interwar Belgium
  • Anick Vollebergh (Radboud University, Nijmegen): Negotiating ‘living together’ and ‘integration’: the tenuous position of Antwerp’s Jews in the Flemish politics of autochthony
  • Maria Ch. Sidiropoulou (Aristotle University, Thessaloniki): The Transformation of Jewish Identity: Comparing Greece and Netherland
• 15:30 – 15:45: Coffee break
   
• 15:45 – 16:45: Session 3: Jewish literature
  Chair: Arvi Sepp (University of Antwerp)
  • Marc P. Lalonde (Concordia University, Montreal): Sources of the Self and the Search for Authenticity: The Diary of Etty Hillesum
  • Jens Bertels (University of Antwerp): Arnon Grunberg: perceptions of Jewish identity in historical perspective
• 16:45 – 17:00: Concluding remarks (Karin Hofmeester & Veerle Vanden Daelen)

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Accommodation

Directions

Location: University of Antwerp, city campus, building R, room R.107, Rodestraat 14, 2000 Antwerpen.

CALL FOR ABSTRACTS

9th Contact Day Jewish Studies on the Low Countries
Institute of Jewish Studies - University of Antwerp
Tuesday 10 May 2016

The Institute of Jewish Studies organizes for the ninth time an interdisciplinary conference at the University of Antwerp concerning Jewish Studies on the Low Countries. The purpose of the conference is to facilitate contacts between researchers working within this area of study. We especially encourage young researchers to participate in the workshop. We also hope for contributions from more established researchers, in order to establish a positive exchange between different research generations. We especially invite papers and/or sessions that are explicitly comparative in character, and welcome themes and disciplines within Jewish Studies concerning the Low Countries. Proposals need not be limited to a specific historical period and presentations may include works in progress. Both individual and panel proposals are possible. The conference language is English. Please submit an abstract of maximally 400 words and a short CV by 30 January 2016.

For further information please contact:
Karin Hofmeester: kho@iisg.nl
Veerle Vanden Daelen: veerle.vandendaelen@cegesoma.be