The second Hebrew University-Oxford University Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference: "The I
FECHA/DATE/DATA: 27-28/03/2017
LUGAR/LOCATION/LUOGO: Ioannou Centre for Classical and Byzantine Studies (Oxford, England)
ORGANIZADOR/ORGANIZER/ORGANIZZATORE: Maren Niehoff (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) ; Teresa Morgan (University of Oxford)
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Monday 27th March
10.00-10.30 Arrival at the Ioannou Centre
10.30-11.00 Welcome and Introduction
Teresa Morgan, Maren Niehoff
11.00-1.00 Gender Issues
Dorin Erteschik: To Protect Oneself or to Protect Himself? An Examination of the
Legal Protection of Self-Defense as a Masculine Doctrine
Deborah Regal: Female entrepreneurship in China
Jimi Cullen: Women’s Pleasure: Biological vs Socio-Cultural Factors
Ofer Kronenfeld: The Gay Experience in Amos Guttman’s Films
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
Parallel sessions 1 & 2
2.00-3.30 Between East and West
Yifat Unger: The Question of Sati
Adie Abir: Salman Rushdie’s Midnight’s Children: The Man as a Nation
Matthew Carlos: Monastic Beginnings: the Individual and Society in Ancient India
Noa Lerinman: Cross-Cultural Psychology
4.00-5.30 Religion as a Factor in Self-Definition
LaRae Ferguson: Paul and the magnetism of charis
Bnaya Dreyfuss: Conversion as a Means of Exchange. The Mass Conversion of
Polish Jews, 1759-1764
Ohad Vilk: Religion and the Search for Meaning within the Scientific Community
Parallel session 3 (with tea break)
2.00-5.30 Literary and Rhetorical Constructions of Society and Self
Henry Bowles: The social animus: suasion and psychē in the Institutio Oratoria
Omri Levin: Nostalgia Isn’t What it Used to Be: Truth and Collective Memory in
Stefan Zweig’s “The World of Yesterday”
Eviatar Oren: Michael Kohlhaas and Society as a (Breakable) Contract
Ofri Tauber: Scout’s Maturation Process in To Kill a Mockingbird
Gilad Gaibel: Fundamentalism in Saramago’s Blindness
Yotam Sade: The Protagonist of Tales of the Otori: Lack of Selfness as the
Ultimate Selflessness
Yoav Har-Tal: Robert Burton’s Melancholic Utopia
7.00 CONFERENCE DINNER, ORIEL COLLEGE
Tuesday 28th March
10.30-1.00 Philosophical Reflections on the Individual in Society
Helena Nicholson: Seneca, Stoicism, and Roman Society: Aliter loquitur, aliter vivis (‘You talk one way, you live another’)
Lyndon Drake: Economic justice: towards a Biblical theory of capital
Amit Pinsker: (In)Equality – A Timeless Question?
Bar Luzon: Davidson’s Three Varieties of Knowledge
Ayala Hadad: Ethics and empirical Bumps – the phenomena of pain as a case study
1.00-2.00 LUNCH
2.00-4.00 Socially Determined Selves
Jordan Maly-Preuss: Socially operant conceptions of the self in Xenophon's Anabasis
Gillian Hamnett: The reluctant conscript
Avishai Green: Double Agents as a Metaphor
Asor Witzman: Savior Siblings
4.30-5.30 Final discussion
All sessions, together with lunch, coffee, and tea breaks, take place in the Ioannou Centre.