Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism

Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism
Conveners/organisé par:
John A. Hall, James McGill Professor of Comparative Historical Sociology, McGill
University
Till van Rahden, Titulaire, Chaire de recherche du Canada en études allemandes et
européennes, Université de Montréal
8 septembre, 2014
Hilton Garden Inn, 380 Sherbrooke Street West
Salle Charles de Bleury
8.15-8.45
Breakfast/pétit dejeuner
8.45-10.30
Empires, Nations and States
Patriotism and the Liberal State
(David Aberbach)
Beyond Nationalism? The Austrian Empire and Jewish
European History (Malachi Hacohen)
Nationalism and the Jewish Bolsheviks: Varieties of Belonging
and the Constraints of the Russian Fin-de-Siecle
(Lilli Riga)
Commentator/Commentaire:
Till van Rahden
10.30-11.00
Pause santé/Coffee Break
11.00-12.30
Vienna, Prague and Budapest
Nationalism, Ethnic Identity and Jews in the Socialist Ideology
of Otto Bauer
(Ian Reifowitz)
From Lost Traditions to Normative Legacies: The Evolving
Jewish and Habsburg Dimensions of Hans Kohn’s Theory of
Nationalism
(Adi Gordon)
Polanyi: nations/nationalism
(Gareth Dale)
Commentator/Commentaire: Scott Spector
12.30-1.30
1.30-3.00
Lunch
Life in Britain
Can parallels meet? Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on the Jewish PostEmancipatory Quest for Political Freedom
(Arie Dubnow)
Ernest Gellner on Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft, or, Down with the Binary
Opposition
(John A. Hall)
In Praise of Empires Past: Myths and Methods of Kedourie’s Nationalism
(Brendan O’Leary)
Berlin and Popper between Nation and Empire: Diaspora, Cosmopolitanism,
and Jewish Life
(Malachi Hacohen)
Commentator/Commentaire: Ivan Kalmar
3.00-3.15
Pause santé/Tea
3.15-4.30
Sister Republics
Durkheim and the War: propaganda and patriotism
(Marcel Fournier)
Between Cultural Pluralism and Cultural Zionism: Horace Kallen’s Embrace
and Rejection of Ahad Ha’am Jewish Nationalism
(David Weinfeld)
Commentator/Commentaire: Geneviève Zubrzycki
4.45-6.00
General Discussion
Rules of Engagement:
Please read the papers carefully and thoroughly before the workshop. Each paper giver
should take less than ten minutes to highlight main themes, allowing time for the
commentator and, above all, for discussion.