Organized by Eugene Avrutin
October 13, 2014
8:30-9:00 Breakfast
9:30-9:45 Welcome
9:45-11:00 Neighborly Feuds //
Gennady Estraikh (NYU) “The Gindin Case in Moscow, April 1922.”
Michael Ostling (The University of Queensland) “Imagined Crimes, Real Communities: Witchcraft and Ritual Murder.”
Darius Staliūnas (Lithuanian Institute of History) “The Blood Libel in Nineteenth-Century Lithuania”
11:00-11:15 Coffee Break
11:15 – 1:00 – Narratives, Representation, Ritual //
Haya Bar-Itzhak (University of Haifa) ”Blood Libel: A Folkloristic Perspective.”
Magda Teter (Wesleyan University) "Sandomierz and Its Paintings as Lieux de mémoire.
Jeffrey Veidlinger (University of Michigan) “Doctor’s Plot as Blood Libel.”
1:00-3:00 – Lunch
3:00-4:45 Power, Politics, Belief //
Ellisa Bemporad (CUNY) ”Jews, State and Citizenship: Confronting the Ritual Murder Accusation in Interwar Soviet Union and Poland.”
Marina Mogilner (University of Illinois, Chicago) ”From External ‘Blood Libel’ to Internal ‘Blood Racial Stigma’: Redefining Jewish Otherness in Modern Terms in the Russian Imperial Situation.”
Joanna Tokarska-Bakir (Polish Academy of Sciences) “Polish Research on the Blood Libel, 2005-2013.”
5:00-6:00 Keynote Talk
Hillel Kieval (Washington University) “Yahrzeits, Condolences, and other Close Encounters: Neighborly Relations and Ritual Murder Accusations in Germany and Austria-Hungary.”
October 14
8:30 – 9:00 – Breakfast
Jonathan Dekel-Chen (Hebrew University) “A Half-Full Cup? Transnational Responses to the Beilis Affair.”
Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College) "Connecting the Dots: Jewish Mysticism, Ritual Murder, and the Trial of Mendel Beilis."
Harriet Murav (University of Illinois) ”Ritual Murder in the Context of Fin-de-Siecle Culture.”
10:45-11:00 – Coffee
11:00 - 12:00 Concluding Remarks by Robert Weinberg (Swarthmore College) and Eugene M. Avrutin (University of Illinois)
12:00 Boxed Lunch