Below, an event at Tufts last week that will give heartburn to neocons. Notice: no one from Brandeis is participating. The neocon pursuit of corridor, their modus operandi (avoid direct sunlight – why, look at Rob’t Satloff’s dishonest interaction with Stephen Walt and MJ Rosenberg’s honest rejoinder) means there are openings in academe.
One Harvard math friend was discussing taboos with me. He said, "you mean criticizing Israel," and I smiled, for being Muslim the only taboos that I had experience with were all sexual. I said as much to him and he said that for him criticizing Israel could cause grief. He and his girlfriend attended the Finkelstein event a while ago.
The Tufts Event:
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LOOKING PAST, LOOKING FORWARD: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT APRIL 8-9, 2010
Cabot Intercultural Center 160 Packard Avenue Tufts University Medford/Somerville, Massachusetts A CONFERENCE SPONSORED BY THE FLETCHER SCHOOL OF LAW AND DIPLOMACY, AND THE UCLA CENTER FOR JEWISH STUDIES CONFERENCE CONVENERS Nadim N. Rouhana, David N. Myers * _*Conference Schedule*_ Thursday, April 8 WELCOMING REMARKS 5:15 PM – 5:30 PM Stephen Bosworth, Dean, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University David N. Myers, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA Nadim N. Rouhana, Professor of International Negotiation and Conflict Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University SESSION I: LOOKING PAST, LOOKING FORWARD: THE HISTORY AND FUTURE OF THE ISRAELI-PALESTINIAN CONFLICT 5:30 PM – 7:30 PM Chair: Peter Uvin, Academic Dean and The Henry J. Leir Professor of International Humanitarian Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Speakers: Henry Siegman, President of the U.S./Middle East Project Rami Khouri, Director, Issam Fares Institute for Public Policy and International Affairs, American University of Beirut and Editor-at-large, The Daily Star (Beirut); Fares Center Visiting Scholar Spring 2010, Tufts University _*Friday, April 9*_ 8:30 AM – 9:00 AM – REGISTRATION SESSION II: HISTORICAL ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN JEWS AND ARABS IN PALESTINE 9:00 AM – 10:45 AM Chair: Leila Fawaz, Issam M. Fares Professor of Lebanese and Eastern Mediterranean Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, and Founding Director of Fares Center for Eastern Mediterranean Studies, Tufts University. Speakers: Lital Levy, Junior Fellow, Harvard Society of Fellows and Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature, Princeton University Arab Jewish Writers and the Question of Palestine, 1903-1948 Salim Tamari, Senior Fellow, Institute for Palestine Studies, editor of The Jerusalem Quarterly, Visiting Professor, Georgetown University, Washington DC WWI, Ottoman Jerusalem and Zionism David N. Myers, Professor of Jewish History, UCLA Past and Present: Why History Matters 10:45 AM – 11:15 PM – COFFEE BREAK SESSION III: CURRENT ENCOUNTERS BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS 11:15 AM – 1:00 PM Chair: Jeswald W. Salacuse, Henry J. Braker Professor of Law, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Speakers: George Bisharat, Professor of Law, UC Hastings College of the Law "Unchain My Heart:" Overcoming the Tyranny of the "Past" Ian Lustick, Bess W. Heyman Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science, University of Pennsylvania We Have Met the Others and They Are Us: Perpetrators and Victims in "Valtz Eem Bashir" Nomi Stolzenberg, Nathan and Lilly Shapell Professor of Law, USC Law School Property and Sovereignty: The Intertwined Fate of Private and Public Land Claims to the Holy Land 1:00 PM – 2:00 PM – LUNCH BREAK SESSION IV: THE FUTURE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN ISRAELIS AND PALESTINIANS 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Chair: Eileen Babbitt, Professor of International Conflict Management Practice, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Speakers: Amnon Raz-Krakotzkin, Professor, Department of Jewish History, Ben Gurion University, and Fellow, Center of Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania Binational Thinking: Advantages, Risks, and Problems Leila Farsakh, Assistant Professor, Political Science Department, University of Massachusetts Boston The One State Option as a Political Project: Palestinian Challenges and Prospects Pnina Lahav, Professor of Law and Law Alumni Scholar, Boston University School of Law Why I Still Believe the Two-State Solution Is Preferable Nadim N. Rouhana, Professor, International Negotiation and Conflict Studies, The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy, Tufts University Historical Encounters and Visions of the Future in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Asking the Right Questions 4:00 PM – 4:15 PM – COFFEE BREAK SESSION V: 4:15 PM – 5:15 PM – WRAP-UP DISCUSSION WITH PARTICIPANTS.
