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Conference Participation | Apartheid--The Global Itinerary

Conference Participation

2019

Hashahar, Y. 2019. "Trans-Saharan Trajectories: Afromodernity and the Limits of the Critique
of Pan-Africanism," "The Momentous Sixties: Reflections on an African Decade," 6-8 January 2019, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba. 

Berkman, K. "Remember Sharpeville: Sharpeville and cultural memory in the poetry
of the exiled South African poets, Dennis Brutus and Keorapetse Kgositsile,"  "The Momentous Sixties: Reflections on an African Decade,"  6-8 January 2019, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba.  

Bethlehem, L.  "Stenographic Fictions: Representations of the Rivonia Trial (1963 -
1964) in Dissident South African Literature."  "The Momentous Sixties: Reflections on an African Decade,"  6-8 January 2019, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba.   

Zalmanovich, T. "From Cottesloe to the Program to Combat Racism: World Council of Churches
and the Turn to Violence in South Africa Turbulent 1960s,"  "The Momentous Sixties: Reflections on an African Decade,"  6-8 January 2019, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem and the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba.     

2018

Zalmanovich, T. 2018. "Trevor Huddleston and the use of Celebrity in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, 1948-1960," "Celebrity and Protest in Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle,” 29 October 2018, Center of African Studies, University of Copenhagen. 

Sela, Tal. “The Engagement of Jean-Paul Sartre in the Struggle Against Apartheid: Not Merely a Newsworthy Commodity," 29-31 October 2018, Celebrity and Protest in Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Center of African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Berkman, Karin. "“Mandela's Earth": Literary Celebrity and the Figure of Mandela in Wole Soyinka's Nobel Prize Address and Poetry," 29-31 October 2018, Celebrity and Protest in Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Center of African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Mikel Arieli, Roni. “Celebrity or Notoriety: Archbishop Desmond Tutu's Pilgrimage to Israel-Palestine (1989) and the Performance of Political Protest,” 29-31 October 2018, Celebrity and Protest in Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Center of African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Bethlehem, Louise. “Like Stars in the Southern Hemisphere: Celebrity, Agency and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle,” Keynote, 29-31 October 2018, Celebrity and Protest in Africa and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle, Center of African Studies, University of Copenhagen.

Sela, Tal. "Intellectuals and The Public Debates: The Case of Jean-Paul Sartre," 13-15 September, 2018, Perceptions of Apartheid in Western Europe 1960-1990, University of Hamburg. 

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Screening Solidarity in Late 1960s Britain: Racism, Anti-Apartheid, and a Televised Debate," September 13-15 2018, The European perception of South-African Apartheid, 1949-1994, University of Hamburg. 

Bethlehem, Louise. "Restlessness Unbound: The Cold War and the Circulation of Anti-Apartheid Expressive Culture," September 2-6, 2018, Department of English Studies (DEST) University of South Africa (UNISA) Fourth Biennial Conference--Boundaries, Magaliesburg, South Africa.

Hashachar, Yair. "Musical Pan-Africanism in Guinean Music: Between the Cosmopolitan and the Indigenous", 9-12 August, 2018, Second International Symposium of the ICTM Study Group On African Musics, University of Ghana, Legon.

Ben-Sadia, Noa. “'Shir Cushi”: African-American Spirituals "Making Alyia" to Israel during the 1950's", 25 June, 2018, "Minheret HaZman" conference, Beit Berl College. 

Hashachar, Yair. "Musical Pan-Africanism – Ideology, Aesthetics and Platforms", 19-22 June, 2018, Tenth International Doctoral Workshop in Ethnomusicology, Center for World Music (CWM) at the University of Hildesheim.

Ben-Sadia, Noa. “'Local Blackness”: African-American Spirituals in Israel during the 1950's and 1960's", 19 June, 2018, Da'at HaMakom conference for Culture and Periphery, Dimona.  

Bassel, Tiferet. "Imagined Geographies and Political Solidarities in Lotus Magazine: the case of Alex La Guma", 19 June, 2018. Cultural Studies Department Seminar, Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Internet for Historians A Workshop"(Visiting Scholar), June 13-17, 2018, Department of International Studies, Trier University, Germany.

Salem, Daniel. “'Time for the Gown to Come to Town”: Kwame Nkrumah and the University Elite", 4-5 June, 2018, Keywords in African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Sela, Tal. "Negritude vs Ars Poetica", 4-5 June, 2018, Keywords in African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Hashachar, Yair. "Indigenous Pan-Africanism in Guinean Music During the First Republic"4-5 June, 2018, Keywords in African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Berkman, Karin. "The Language Question in Africa", 4-5 June, 2018, Keywords in African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "'What Is Needed Is an Ecumenical Act of Solidarity:' Religion and the Anti-Apartheid Struggle", 4-5 June, 2018, Keywords in African Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev.

Hashachar, Yair. "Indigenizing Pan-Africanism in Guinean music during the First Republic, 1958-1984", 3-4 June, 2018, The 3rd Annual International Summer Workshop in Ethnomusicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Racism, Anti-Apartheid, and Solidarity in the “Rivers of Blood” Moment, Windrush (1948) and Rivers of Blood (1968): Legacy and Assessment", May 24-25 2018, The University of Picardie Jules Verne, Amiens, France.

Salem, Daniel. "Home to Guinea: Stokely Carmichael and the Internationalization of the Black Struggle", 8 May, 2018. "Cultural Studies Symposium: Perspectives on 1968", Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hashachar, Yair. "Music, Afro-modernity and the Pan-African Imagination", 25 April, 2018, Bimat Africa, Tel Aviv University.

Salem, Daniel. "Towards a Postcolonial University: Kwame Nkrumah and the Professors", 14 April, 2018. "Pan-Africanism and Beyond: Transnational Visions of Social Change in Africa", Africa Tribune, the African Studies Program, Tel Aviv University. 

Bassel, Tiferet. "Inhabiting Solidarity: Alex La Guma and Lotus Magazine", January 20, 2018, Small Magazines, Literary Networks and Self-Fashioning in Africa and Its Diasporas Symposium, University of Bristol, Bristol.

2017

Bethlehem, Louise. "Discussant--South African Perspectives." December 4, 2017, “The Partition that Never Was: The 70th Anniversary of the United Nations Partition Plan (Resolution 181)”. Minerva Humanities Center, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv. 

 Zalmanovich, Tal. "Anti-Apartheid Activism, Anti-Racism Campaigns, and Solidarity in Post-Imperial Britain", November 3-5, 2017, North American Conference on British Studies, Denver, Colorado.

Salem, Daniel. "The All-African People’s Conference (1958): African Independence and its Transnational Reverberations", October 22, 2017, 18th Annual International Graduate Student Conference on Transatlantic History, The University of Texas at Arlington, Texas.

Mikel-Arieli, Roni. "From Johannesburg to East Berlin: Ahmed Kathrada’s reflections on Apartheid in Eastern Europe (1951-1952)," June 14, 2017, "Life Narratives- Self-Representation in an Age of Human Rights,"  International Symposium, Johannesburg Holocaust & Genocide Centre, Johannesburg. 

Bethlehem, Louise. "Fugitive Memoir: Transnational Life-Writing and Decolonization in Africa", July 6-9, 2017, American Comparative Literature Association Annual Meeting, Utrecht University, Utrecht.

Hashachar, Yair. "Musical Pan-Africanism: Beyond the Black Atlantic," July 3, 2017, Transnational Connections: Musical Dialogues Between Global Peripheries International Summer Workshop, University of Haifa, Haifa.

Giladi, Rotem. "A Stepchild of Decolonisation? The United Nations, the Rivonia Trial, and the Making of Human Rights", June 8, 2017, The United Nations and Decolonization after World War ll Conference, Tulane University, New Orleans.

Giladi, Rotem. "Israel, Apartheid, and the United Nations: 1949-1952", May 19, 2017, Israel Researchers Forum, Tel Aviv University.

Giladi, Rotem. "Israel, Apartheid, and the United Nations: 1949-1952", May 18, 2017. The Annual International Conference of the Israel Political Science Association (ISPSA), The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo. 

Salem, Daniel. "Zionism in Pan-African Discourse: Between Analogy and Antithesis", May 18, 2017. The Annual International Conference of the Israel Political Science Association (ISPSA), The Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "The Most Photographed Christian after the Pope: Religion and Celebrity in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle", May 3, 2017, Panel on Celebrity and Solidarity in the Struggle Against South African Apartheid, The Center of Cultural Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

Hashachar, Yair. "Miriam Makeba as a Musical Pan-Africanist Stardom", May 3, 2017, Panel on Celebrity and Solidarity in the Struggle Against South African Apartheid, The Center of Cultural Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

Bassel, Tiferet. "Constructing Mandela as Global Celebrity through Photography", May 3, 2017, Panel on Celebrity and Solidarity in the Struggle Against South African Apartheid, The Center of Cultural Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv.

Zalmanovich, Tal. “Screening Politics: The Television Debate as a Political Space”, April 19, 2017, Africa Tribune, The African Studies Program, Tel Aviv University.

Bethlehem, Louise. “On Trial: Laws of Circulation and the Circulation of Law in Anti-Apartheid Expressive Culture,”  3-6 April, 2017, Cultural Solidarities: Colonial Modernity, Anti-Apartheid, and World-Making Networks, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Chakrabarti, Gautam. "From Moscow with Love: Soviet Interventions in the Theatre of India's Post/Colonial Modernity," 3-6 April, 2017, Cultural Solidarities: Colonial Modernity, Anti-Apartheid, and World-Making Networks, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Talve-Goodman, Sarika. “The Carceral State in Cold War Liberal and Radical Counter-Imaginaries,”  3-6 April, 2017, Cultural Solidarities: Colonial Modernity, Anti-Apartheid, and World-Making Networks, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Multiracial Solidarity: Trevor Huddleston and Anti-Racism in Post-Imperial Britain", 3-6 April, 2017, Cultural Solidarities: Colonial Modernity, Anti-Apartheid, and World-Making Networks, Wits Institute for Social and Economic Research, University of Witwatersrand, Johannesburg.

2016

Talve-Goodman, Sarika. “Blackness and the Body in a Transnational Frame: From Sartre’s Anti-Semite and Jew and Fanon to Black Lives Matter,” 18-20 December, 2016. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, International Conference on “Anti-Semitism, Race, and Gender,” panel on Fanon and Sartre.

Hashachar, Yair. "Exile, Creativity and Temporality- Miriam Makeba, Between the U.S. and Guinea," 14 December 2016. “African Music: Extended Panel,” Africa Tribune, The African Studies Program, Tel Aviv University.

Levi, Ron. "Pan-Africanism, National Identity Construction and Transnational Aspirations in the Zaire '74 Music Festival," 14 December 2016. “African Music: Extended Panel,” Africa Tribune, The African Studies Program, Tel Aviv University.

Hashachar, Yair. "Thinking the Musical in Pan-Africanism: Past Crossroads, Future Directions," 8-10 November 2016. 1st World Festival of Negro Arts: Past and Present (1966-2016): International Symposium, Dakar, Senegal.

Hashachar, Yair. “Performing Pan-Africanism within the Nation-State: The Quinzaine artistique et culturelle nationale in Guinea,” 20-22 October 2016. The Winthrop-King Institute International Conference: “The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals,” Tallahassee, Florida State University.

Levi, Ron. “The Musical Diplomacy of a Landless Ambassador: Hugh Masekela between Monterey '67 and Zaire ’74,” 20-22 October 2016.  The Winthrop-King Institute International Conference: “The Performance of Pan-Africanism: From Colonial Exhibitions to Black and African Cultural Festivals,” Tallahassee, Florida State University.

Bethlehem, Louise. “Double-Take: Memoir and the Temporality of Decolonization,” 28 August – 1 September 2016. Third International Interdisciplinary Biennial Conference: “Time,” Muldersdrift, South Africa.

Bethlehem, Louise. “Miriam Makeba in Conakry: Between Apartheid and Authenticité,” 10-15 July 2016. The 17th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "A Vocabulary of Intimacy: Pauline Podbrey and the Role of the Memoir of Interracial Love in the Anti-Apartheid Struggle."  10-15 July 2016. The 17th Triennial Conference of the Association for Commonwealth Literature and Language Studies (ACLALS), Stellenbosch University, South Africa.

Bethlehem, Louise and Ron Levi, “Rumbles of the Occult: Political Violence in Zaire circa 1974,” 26-29 June 2016. “Intersections: Holocaust Scholarship, Genocide Research, and Histories of Mass Violence,” 5th Global Conference on Genocide of the International Network of Genocide Scholars The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Mikel-Arieli, Roni. "Contemplating the Holocaust on Robben Island: Ahmed Kathrada Reads the Diary of Anne Frank," 26-29 June 2016. “Intersections: Holocaust Scholarship, Genocide Research, and Histories of Mass Violence,” 5th Global Conference on Genocide of the International Network of Genocide Scholars The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Tal, Nitzan. ”‘Cry, the Beloved Country’: Hegemony, Dissidence and Holocaust Memory in the
Hebrew Reception of Alan Paton, 1948-1954,” 26-29 June 2016. “Intersections: Holocaust Scholarship, Genocide Research, and Histories of Mass Violence,” 5th Global Conference on Genocide of the International Network of Genocide Scholars The Hebrew University of Jerusalem The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Lessons from South Africa: Bishop Trevor Huddleston and Enoch Powell MP Debate Race Relations on TV, " 22-24 June, 2016.  “Britain and the World” Conference, King’s College, London.

Hashachar, Yair.“Multi-Modal Transnationalism in Africa,” 6 June 2016. “Researching Africa: Between the Singular and the Transnational” Workshop, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Zalmanovich, Tal. "Researching Britain from Africa," 6 June 2016.  “Researching Africa: Between the Singular and the Transnational” Workshop, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Mikel-Arieli, Roni. "Between Memory and Civil Religion: American Reception of Broadway Adaptations of Anne Frank’s Diary and Alan Paton’s Cry, the Beloved Country in Light of the Early Civil Rights Struggle in America," 14-15 April 2016.  Holocaust and Civil Rights International Symposium, University of Sussex.

Levin, Ayala. “Bauhaus Vernacular: The Modernist Workshop in Early 1960s Africa,” 6-10 April 2016.  Society of Architectural Historians Annual Conference, Pasadena.

Levin, Ayala. “Popular Art and the Semiotics of Citizenship: Julian Beinart’s Documentation of the Western Native Township, Johannesburg,” 1-2 April 2016. The New York African Studies Association (NYASA) Annual Conference: Music and the Arts of Africa and the Diaspora, New York.

Levin, Ayala. “Popular Art and the Semiotics of Citizenship: Julian Beinart’s Documentation of the Western Native Township, Johannesburg,” 11-12 March 2016. Re-Imagining the African City: The Arts and Urban Politics, University of Basel.

Hashachar, Yair. "Pan Africanism and the Nation-State: The Case of the National Festival in Guinea," Emergent Research in African Studies. The Tamar Golan Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 10-11 January 2016.

Levi, Ron. "Black and Soul Power under Mobutu's Gaze: The Sound-Event of 'Zaire '74,'" Emergent Research in African Studies. The Tamar Golan Center, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beersheba, Israel. 10-11 January 2016.

2015

Bethlehem, Louise. “The Restlessness of Apartheid: Miriam Makeba and Transnational Historiography,” 14-16 December 2015. The Relevance of Regions and Area Studies in a Globalized World International Conference, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hashachar, Yair. “Miriam Makeba’s Creativities of Exile: From the US to Guinea,” 3-6 December 2015. Annual Meeting of the Society for Ethnomusicology, Austin, TX.

Giladi, Rotem. “Race, Apartheid and International Law: An Early Israeli Perspective,” 5-7 November 2015. Battle on International Law – International Law in the Decolonization Period, International Workshop, Forum Transregionale Studien, Berlin.

Levin, Ayala. “Entangled Apartheids: Afridar Neighborhood in Israel, 1950-1958,” 14-17 October 2015. “Entangled Histories, Multiple Geographies,” European Architectural History Network, Belgrade.

Giladi, Rotem. “Moments of Resilience: Race in International Law,” 22-24 September 2015. Conceptual Change in History, Conference Reinventing the Foundations of the European Legal Culture 1934-1964 project (www.foundlaw.org - an ERC-funded project) & the Oulu Centre for Theoretical and Philosophical Studies of History, University of Helsinki.

Bethlehem, Louise. “Restless Itineraries: Exiled South African Jazz Musicians and Transnational Historiography,” 29-31 May, 2015. International Conference “Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art and Performance in Popular Movements,” The Centre for Anthropological Research, The University of Johannesburg.

Hashachar, Yair. “Shifting Cosmopolitanisms: Miriam Makeba in Guinea,” 29-31 May, 2015. International Conference, “Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art and Performance in Popular Movements,” The Centre for Anthropological Research, The University of Johannesburg.

Levi, Ron. “Zaire '74: Politicizing the Sound Event,” 29-31 May, 2015. International Conference, “Cultures of Struggle: Song, Art and Performance in Popular Movements,,” The Centre for Anthropological Research, The University of Johannesburg.

Povzner, Anton. “The Formalist Dominant: Between Aesthetic and Political Analysis,” 18 March 2015.  English Department Graduate Symposium, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

2014

Bethlehem, Louise. “Apartheid—The Global Itinerary: An Overview,” 30 December 2014. Roundtable, The Departmental Seminar, in collaboration with the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the ERC project APARTHEID-STOPS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Hasachar, Yair. “The Politicization of Miriam Makeba,” 30 December 2014. Roundtable, The Departmental Seminar, Program in Cultural Studies, in collaboration with the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the ERC project APARTHEID-STOPS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Levi, Ron. "Hugh Masekela's 'Stimela': The Soundtrack of The Rumble in The Jungle,” 30 December 2014. Roundtable, The Departmental Seminar, Program in Cultural Studies, in collaboration with the Harry S. Truman Research Institute for the Advancement of Peace and the ERC project APARTHEID-STOPS, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.