Diversities – Bet Debora in Budapest
4th Conference of the European Jewish Women, Activists, Academics, and Rabbis
23-27 August, 2006 – Central European University, 1051-Budapest Nádor 9.
Program
23 August, Wednesday
Optional excursions
Side Events (own cost):
Excursion in Jewish Budapest (Jewish Museum, Jewish District, Synagogue)
Official Program begins
18.00 Afternoon: Official Opening at CEU (1051-Budapest Nádor 9)
Speaker: Alice Shalvi: “Remembering the past, living the present, preparing the future.”
Room István György Tóth
Exhibition, Reception – Music: Klezmer R’s
24 August, Thursday
9.00-10.00 Plenary: Key note speaker: Shulamit Reinharz
Room István György Tóth
10.00-11.30: Session: Inter-religious and inter-cultural dialog session (Shulamit Reinharz, Alice Shalvi, Marina Calloni, Svenka Savic)
Chair: Eleonore Lappin
Room István György Tóth
11.30-12.00 Coffee break
Room Gellner
Exhibition opening
12.00-13.30 Panel meetings:
1. Book presentation (Sandra Lustig: Turning the Kaleidoscope – Perspectives on European Jewry, Ewa Mlodawska, Moshe Shalvi: Encyclopedia of Jewish Women, Mira Mayer: Bulgarian Society for Racism and anti-Semitism, Eleonore Lappin: Female Jewish Press, Svenka Savic: Jewish Women in Novi Sad)
Chair: Judit Gazsi
Room Gellner
2. Historical traditions (Elisa Klapheck, Dr. Shira Koren, Esther Jonas-Maertin, Dona Danon)
Chair: Andrea Sturovics
Room István György Tóth
13.30-14.30 Lunch
14.30-16.30 Panel meetings:
1. Female Jewish Activists and discussion on volunteering (Lara Dämmig, Toby Axelrod)
Chairs: Sandra Lustig and Eszter Lányi
Room Gellner
2. Transforming traditions (Emily Silverman, Valérie Rhein, Chia Longman, Esther Kontarsky)
Chair: Katalin Kelemen
Room István György Tóth
17.00-17.30 Coffee break in Bálint House
http://www.jcc.hu/2006/index_html
17.30-18.30 Evening session
Introduction of the Hungarian Jewish cultural life
18.30-19.30 Dinner in Bálint House
19.30 Cultural event in Bálint House
Chair: Vera Surányi
25 August, Friday:
9.00-10.30 Plenary: Report from Eastern Europe I. (Marine Solomoshvili, Solmaz Yosifova, Tania Reytan-Marincheshka, Erzsébet Simon – WIZO, Ewa Mlodawska, Mira Mayer, Ágnes Peresztegi) Setting up mailing list, Networking, Planning next conference
Chair: Lara Dämmig /Ágnes Peresztegi
Room István György Tóth
10.30-11.00 Coffee Break
Press conference
11.00-12.30 Plenary: Report from Eastern Europe II. (Marine Solomoshvili, Solmaz Yosifova, Tania Reytan-Marincheshka, Erzsébet Simon – WIZO, Ewa Mlodawska, Mira Mayer, Ágnes Peresztegi) Setting up mailing list, Networking, Planning next conference
Chair: Lara Dämmig/ Ágnes Peresztegi
Room István György Tóth
12.30-13.30 Lunch
13.30-15.00 Panel meetings:
1. Education (Alice Shalvi, Katalin Pécsi, 2 participants from East Europe)
Chair: Zsuzsa Fritz
Room István György Tóth
2. Psychology, Trauma (Judit Wirth, Judit Herman)
Room Gellner
15.00-15.30 Coffee Break
15.30-17.00 Session: Jewish women in historical perspectives Shulamit Reinharz, Eleonore Lappin, Dóra Sárdi / Eszter Andor (http://www.centropa.org/, Edit Jankov, Andrea Sturovics)
Chair: Andrea Pető
Room István György Tóth
19.00 Sabbath service in Bálint House (Sim Shalom Katalin Kelemen and WIZO Hungary)
26 August Saturday
Evening event: CEU Dormitory www.ceucenter.hu – garden party and music
19.00 Havdalah
Presentation of new Hungarian spice boxes
Chair: Zsuzsa Toronyi
27 August Sunday
Beginning of Jewish Cultural Festival http://www.jewishfestival.hu
Tickets for the Concert in the Synagogue
Optional excursions: Visiting Synagogue of Mád, North Hungary and the local Jewish community (own cost, bus rent) and University of Miskolc
Parallel events:
Exhibition on History of Hungarian Jewish Women – double emancipation
Photo Exhibition – The 1st, 2nd and 3rd Bet Debora conferences – photos by Silke Helmerdig and Malin Kundi
Book launch: Ester’s Bag: Untold stories
Side Events during the conference (own cost):
Excursion in Jewish Budapest (Jewish Museum, Jewish District, Synagogue) http://www.bpjewmus.hu/ and www.zsido.hu
Visit at the Holocaust Documentation Centre www.hdke.hu
One- day excursion to Jewish Sites to Budapest