CONCURRENT SESSIONS: FRIDAY, 2:00-3:00
Session 1 Moderator: Dr. Judith Lorber
'Forgetting' the Holocaust:
Ethical Dimensions Carlton Room
Of the Israeli-Palestinian
Conflict
Dr. Leonard Grob, Professor Emeritus of Philosophy, Farleigh Dickinson
University
Jewish Displaced Persons
after the Holocaust Carlton Room
And the Creation of the
State of Israel
Avinoam Patt,
Professor, University of Hartford
Session 2 Moderator: Dr. Carol Austad
Israeli and Palestinian
Religious Identities: Conflicting Camp Room
Influence on Support for
Political Action and Violence
Ms. Janice Adelman, Doctoral
Student, Claremont Graduate University
Religious Dimensions in
Peacemaking Camp Room
Yehezkel Landau, Professor, Hartford
Seminary
Session 3 Moderator: Dr. Barbara
Epstein
Bypassing The Gatekeepers: Philbrick Room
A Wire Service for
Peace-Building News
Dr. Harriet Feinberg
Academic Objectivity,
Political Neutrality, and Other Philbrick Room
Barriers to Israeli-Palestinian
Reconciliation
Dennis Fox, Professor
Emeritus, University of Illinois at Springfield
Session 4 Moderator: Dr. David Blitz
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Resolution - 1849 Room
A Model Based on
Psychological and Counseling Principles
Dr. Moises Salinas,
Professor, Central Connecticut State University
Hope as Universal and
Particular: 1849 Room
Philosophical and
Theological Perspectives
Sarah Heidt,
Professor, Eastern Michigan University / Ecumenical Theological Seminary
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: FRIDAY, 3:00-4:00
Session 5 Moderator: Dr. Leonard Grob
Online Argument Between
Israelis and Palestinians Carlton Room
Dr. Donald Ellis, Professor,
University of Hartford
Listening to the Other: Levinas and Reconciliation in Israel-Palestine Carlton Room
Sarah MacMillen,
Professor, Duquesne University
Session 6 Moderator: TBA
Islamic Fundamentalism
within the Green Line Camp Room
Mr. Hazza
Abu-Rabbia, Lecturer, Central Connecticut State
University
Arabs in Israel Must Take
Vigorous Role for Final Camp Room
And Just Peace in the Holy
Land
Dr. Massoud
Eghbarieh, Chairman, Beit Berl College
Session 7 Moderator: Dr. Judith Lorber
Israel and the US Left Philbrick Room
Barbara Epstein, Professor,
University of California, Santa Cruz
True Peace Based on Human
Rights versus Philbrick Room
The Endless "Peace
Process"
Dr. Mazin
Qumsiyeh
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: SATURDAY,
10:00-11:00
Session 8 Moderator: Dr. Leonard Grob
Lessons for
Israeli-Palestinian Negotiation from Nepal's Camp Room
New Ministry for Peace and
Reconstruction
Ms. Shiri
Barr, SIT Graduate Institute
Israeli and Palestinian
Peacemakers: Can They Talk the Talk? Camp Room
Dr. Eric Budd, Professor,
Fitchburg State College
Session 9 Moderator: Dr. Judith Lorber
Teaching and Directing in
Israel Carlton Room
Michael Rutenberg,
Professor, Hunter College
Teaching During the Intifada
Carlton Room
Mr. Adam Schonbrun,
Lecturer, College of Safed, Israel
Session 10 Moderator: Dr. Barbara
Epstein
Israel and Palestine
On-Campus: Philbrick Room
Academic Involvement in
Peace Oriented Student Activism
Ms. Tammy Shapiro, Union of
Progressive Zionists
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: SATURDAY, 1:00-2:00
Session 11 Moderator: Dr. Judith Lorber
When Israel and the Arabs
Were Allies Camp Room
Dr. Peter Feinman, President, Institute of History, Archaeology, and
Education
Constructing the Myth of
Egyptian-Israeli Brotherhood: Camp Room
Ali Salem's Drive to Israel,
the Biblical Exodus, and the Problems of Peace
Mr. Daniel Levine, Doctoral
Candidate, Johns Hopkins University
Session 12 Moderator: Dr. Carol Austad
Adolescents Coping with the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict Carlton Room
Dr. Hanna Laufer, Lecturer, The Academic College of Emek Yezreel
Identity Changes in Former
Combatants Involved in Carlton Room
Israeli-Palestinian
Reconciliation Activities
Chaya Rubin, M.A. Ferkauf Graduate School of Psychology, Yeshiva University
Session 13 Moderator: Dr. Shizuko Tomoda
The Psychology of
Israeli-Palestinian Peace Philbrick Room
Dr. Aharon
Ahuvia, University of Michigan-Dearborn
The Cultural Psychology of
Coexistence: Philbrick Room
Israeli and Palestinian
Youth in (American) Dialogue
Phillip Hammack,
Professor, University of California, Santa Cruz
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: SATURDAY, 2:00-3:00
Session 14 Moderator: TBA
Domestic Constraints and
International Negotiations: Camp Room
Increasing the Bargaining
Space in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
Mr. Matthew Gottfried,
Graduate Student, UCLA
Whether the Two-States
Formula: Camp Room
Bush and the Middle East
Peace Process
Mohamad Husam,
Professor, Qatar University and University of Central Oklahoma
Session 15 Moderator: Dr. David Blitz
Patterns of Religiosity
Among Palestinians in Israel and Carlton Room
The Change in Religious
Landscape Since 1948
Dr. Ibrahim Abu Rabi',
Hartford Seminary
An Israeli-Palestinian
Experience Through Poetry Carlton Room
Ms. Sawsan
Awwad, University of Hartford
Session 16 Moderator: Dr. Shizuko Tomoda
Peace and Pollution:The Political Economy of
Toxic Waste Philbrick Room
In the Case of the Israeli
Palestinian Peace Process
Mr. Jamie Levin and Mr. Ilan Alleson, University of
Toronto
Urban Planning Policy: The
Case of Jerusalem Philbrick Room
Mr. Jonathan Rock, European
Project Manager, Town and Country Planning Association
CONCURRENT SESSIONS: SATURDAY, 5:00-6:00
Session 17 Moderator: Dr. Barbara
Epstein
Economic Cooperation as a
Pathway to Peace Camp Room
Dr. Michael Littman,
Professor, SUNY College at Buffalo
The Prospects for a Two
State Solution Between Camp Room
the Israelis and Palestinians
Given the Current Situation in Gaza
Andrew Winnick,
Professor, Cal State University, Los Angeles
Session 18
Peacebuilding at the Ground Level:
Research on Personal and Carlton Room
Institutional Success and
Challenges at the Arava Institute for Environmental
Studies
Ilan Alleson, University of Toronto; Rabbi Michael
Cohen, Arava Institute;
Stuart Schoenfeld, York Universit; Galya Sipos Randor,
University of Guelph;
Osama Suliman, York University and Arava
Institute; Asaf Zohar, Trent University