CONTEMPORARY TOOLS FOR DECODING GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM

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25TH ANNUAL JEWISH AMERICAN HOLOCAUST & LITERATURE SYMPOSIUM

FEATURES DR. CHARLES ASHER SMALL, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR OF ISGAP

WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 13, 2019 11:30 AM @ THE BETSY HOTEL (MIAMI BEACH) TO DISCUSS CONTEMPORARY ANTISEMITISM — A GROWING THREAT


(Miami Beach, FL) November 8, 2019—

WHAT: On Wednesday, November 13, 11:30 a.m., there will be a showing of the documentary A NIGHT AT THE GARDEN with a subsequent discussion on CONTEMPORARY TOOLS FOR DECODING GLOBAL ANTISEMITISM with the Executive Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism & Policy (ISGAP), Dr. Charles Asher Small. Dr. Small will be joined by Margarete Feinstein as a respondent.

WHERE: The Betsy Hotel (1440 Ocean Drive, Miami Beach), as the Betsy Writers' Room commemorates the 25th Annual Jewish American and Holocaust Literature Symposium

WHEN: Wednesday, November 13, 2019 11:30 AM

BACKGROUND: The Silver Anniversary Symposium celebrates 25 shared years of intellectual inquiry within the scope of Jewish American and Holocaust literatures. Join us as we continue these shared pursuits from 11/11-13 through lunch at roundtables, panels, readings, films, an exhibit, music and more. Dr. Holli Levitsky is the Conference Chairperson.


WHO: Dr. Charles Asher Small is the Founding Director of the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP); this fall Charles began his position as a Research Scholar at St. Antony's College, Oxford Univeristy. He is the Goldman Fellow at the Harold Hartog School of Government and Policy, and a Senior Research Fellow at the Moshe Dayan Centre for Middle East and African Studies, Tel Aviv University. Previously, he was the Koret Distinguished Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University.

Charles received his Bachelor of Arts in Political Science, McGill University, Montreal; M.Sc. in Urban Development Planning in Economics, Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London; and a Doctorate of Philosophy (D.Phil), St. Antony’s College, Oxford University. Charles completed post-doctorate research at the Groupement de recherche ethnicité et société, Université de Montréal. He was the VATAT Research Fellow (Ministry of Higher Education) at Ben Gurion University, Beersheva, and taught in departments of sociology and geography at Goldsmiths’ College, University of London; Tel Aviv University; and the Institute of Urban Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.

Charles is the author of books and articles including “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Three", (2018); “Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective: Volume Two" (2016); the six Volume “Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity” (Brill and ISGAP); “The Yale Papers: Antisemitism in Comparative Perspective”, ISGAP (2015); and “Social Theory – a Historical Analysis of Canadian Socio-cultural Policies Race and the Other”, Eleven International Publishers (2013).

Charles is committed to creating scholarly programming and research on contemporary antisemitism within a human rights framework at top tier universities internationally and establishing contemporary antisemitism studies as a recognized academic discipline.