1. Second Israeli-German Students’ Conference
Cultures of War Discourse:
The state, civilians and the culture of asymmetric warfare
Hadassah Academic College
Ruhr University, Bochum, Germany
Seminar Room (-1)
7-10/4 April 2013
Conference Program Schedule
Sunday, 7th April 2013
9:30-10:00
Welcome reception
10:00-10:15 Greetings
Bertold Friedlander, President (Hadassah Academic College, Jerusalem)
Arie Naor, Head of Politics & Communication Department (Hadassah
Academic College, Jerusalem)
Thomas Scheffer (Goethe University, Frankfurt/Main)
Dalia Gavriely-Nuri, Politics & Communication Department (Hadassah Academic College,
Jerusalem)
10:15-11:30 Session 1
Zohar Kampf: The New Face of War: Transforming Media Coverage of Violent Conflicts
Oren Livio: Crossing Borders: Migrating Discourses of Militarism in Contemporary Israel
13:00-11:30 Lunch Roza Restaurant (31 Jaffa street)
14:30-13:00 Session 2
Thomas Scheffer: War Discourse and war discourses
Yael Darr: Isn’t There a War Going On? The Jewish-Arab Conflict in Israeli Children’s Literature
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-16:15
Session 3
Tamir Magal: Expressions of ethos of conflict in synagogue leaflets during operation Cast Lead in
Gaza
Yoram Schweitzer: The Israeli model of coping with suicide terrorism or Conversing with failed
suicide bombers and dispatchers - The Case of Israel
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2. Monday, 8th April 2013
9:30-10:00
Coffee
10:00-11:30
Session 1
Nirit Topol: From Unifying Jerusalem to building the Wall of Separation: The shift in the Israeli
discourse on the borders of Jerusalem
Martina Kolanoski: Knowing “improbable civilians”
13:00-11:30 Roza Restaurant (31 Jaffa street)
13:00-14:30
Session 2
Dan Mosseri: The Arab figure in Israeli caricature and comics artists
Jelena Bellmer and Isabel Laura Ebert: The Kunduz airstrike and the role of law in its assessment
as displayed in the political discourse
14:30-14:45 Break
14:45-16:15
Session 3
Itamar Cohen and Yehuda Lapian: From Glorious Victory in Six Days to Judgment on Yom Kippur:
The Surprise of Yom Kippur War - The Cultural Dimension
Jan Schank and Julian Meyer: Categorizing War in Computer Games and in their Classification - A
Comparison
David Adler Uri: Disseminating Hegemony. Practices of De- and Recontextualization in the
Global War on Terror
Afternoon Tour – Market/Old city
Tuesday, 9th April 2013
9:30-10:00
Coffee
10:00-11:30
Session 1
Adi Vaknin: The image of the IDF in cartoons that published during the period between the Six
Day War and Yom Kippur war
Lina Render and Paul Eisermann: References to the Category of ‘Soldiers’ as Means of Legitimizing
War and Circumscribing the Imagined Community
11:30-11:45 Break
11:45-13:15
Session 2
Adili Shimoni: The Israeli peace discourse between “The Six Day” and “Yom Kipur” wars
Bastian Hammerschmidt and Steffen Geerlig: Accounting for an airstrike: Changing Categories in
a military report
13:15-13:30 Break
13:30-15:00
Session 3
Vajani Zarges and Isabella Mann: War-normalizing effects of the parliamentary inquiry into the
Kunduz airstrike. The case of a pacifist party.
Julian Meyer and Jana Borusku: A Discourse Analysis of the threats presented by German
ministers of defense in the context of a security discourse
15:00-16:30 Festive Lunch – Ticho’s House, 9 Harav Kook Street
Wednesday, 10th April
11:30-12:30 Tour – Israeli Museum
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