09:00 – 09:30 Gathering, Registration and Greetings

• Prof. Raanan Rein, Vice President, Tel Aviv University & Head, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies
• Prof. David Newman, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev State Secr. (ret.)
• Michael Mertes, Resident Representative, Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel
• Dr. Sharon Pardo, Director, Centre for the Study of European Politics and Society, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

09:30 – 11:00 Panel 1: Normative Power and Discourse in EU Foreign Policy

• Blanc Emmanuelle, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"The EU in Motion through Emotions: The Influence of Fear on the European Migration Policy towards the Mediterranean Countries"

• Hila Zahavi, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"The discourse of “Otherness” in the EU’ Foreign Relations with Israel"

• Ziv Idov, University of Haifa

"EU’s Foreign Policy: the Case of Belarus"

• Yoav Friedman, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"From Multilateralism to Bilateralism; Euro Mediterranean Human Rights Network"

11:00 – 12:15 Panel 2: Islam in Europe: Convergence and Confrontation

• Ari Varon, Tel-Aviv University & Sciences Po

"Europe’s Islamic Awakening Interacting with Secularism"

• Nina Wiedl-Menashe, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Emergence, Development and Missionary Work of Salafi-Network in Germany"

• Yuri Teper, Bar-Ilan University & Dima Course, Bar-Ilan University

"The Muslim Question in Post-Soviet Russia: Locating the Muslim “other” in the Nation building process"

11:00 – 12:15 Panel 3: Diversity and Creativity through the Urban Lens in Europe (W.A. M. Minkoff Senate Building, George Shrut Conference room, 2nd Floor)

• Jonathan Rokem, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"The Future of Diversity in Divided Cities: A Comparative Study of Urban Division and Diversity in Stockholm, Berlin & Jerusalem"

• Eitan Bluer, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"The Economic Empowerment of European Cities: the Role of the Creative Class"

12:30 – 13:30 Keynote Speech

• Prof. Dr. Beate Neuss, Deputy Chair of the Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung & Prof. of International Politics at Chemnitz University of Technology, Germany

"How Broad is the Atlantic? Do North Americans and Europeans Need to Adjust their Transatlantic Politics?"

14:45 – 16:15 Panel 4: From Theology to Nation-State Building: Has Western Political Thinking Changed?

• Boaz Ahad-Ha’am, University of Haifa

"The Roots of European Nationalism and their Impact on the Modern Deaf Identity"

• Daniel Rosenberg, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"The Neo-Conservatism and the European Project"

• Yaron Girsh, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Theology Disguised as Pedagogy: The Educational Philosophy of Nietzsche as a Discourse of Salvation"

14:45 – 16:15 Panel 5: Critical Knowledge Production: The German Question via Science, Education and Museums Europe (W.A. M. Minkoff Senate Building, George Shrut Conference room, 2nd Floor)

• Amir Teicher, Tel-Aviv University

"Social-Mendelism: The Effects of Mendel’s Theorems on the Formation of Human Sciences in Germany, 1900-1936"

• Shamir Yeger, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Ideological Education in the Third Reich: Between Propaganda and Reality"

• Noam Tirosh, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Between “Alone in Berlin” and “White Rose”, the German Resistance and the Israeli Society – A New Love Story?"

• Jonathan Kaplan, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Nationalism and "The German question" in the GDR Historiography – Territory, Culture and Enemies"

16:30 – 18:00 Panel 6: Rethinking European Identity, Memory and Citizenship

• Lea David, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

"Constructing Collective Memory in Post-War Serbia"

• Ido Porat, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Third Generation’s Collective Memory of the Holocaust in Germany"

• Anna Novikov, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem

"Identity Construction in the Mirror of European Diplomacy: The Case-Study of Upper Silesia"

• Yossi Harpaz, Princeton University

"Israelis with a European Passport: Dual Citizenship between National Identity and Economic Instrumentality"