European Academy of Religion Annual Conference 2019

The panel aims to explore the Jewish involvement in the interfaith and intercultural dialogue from historical, sociological, and theological perspective. It is organised by the Free Ebrei (Online Journal of Contemporary Jewish Identity and Cultural Association) and will present the results of the research published in the volume Jews in Dialogue: Jewish Responses to the Challenges of Multicultural Contemporaneity (part of the Brill subseries “Studies in Jewish History and Culture”). It aims to encourage conversation among scholars of different backgrounds and exchange of research results in the field of intercultural and interreligious dialogue. Thus, proposals dealing with the interreligious and intercultural relations in the State of Israel, Jewish-Christian relations in post-Holocaust Europe and America, as well as the topics of Jewish attitudes towards other cultures and religions in the most recent period, are particularly welcomed, especially case-studies.

Co-Chair:
• Magdalena Dziaczkowska (Lund University)
• Adele Valeria Messina (Università della Calabria)

Panelists:
• Miriam Jaskierowicz Arman (International Institute of Voice Development Ltd.) - Second Generation: Our Legacy, our Responsibility, our Future 
• Magdalena Dziaczkowska (Lund University) - The Immediate Responses of the American Jewish Committee to the Promulgation of Nostra Aetate 
• Clara Ferranti (Università di Macerata) - Il viatico del XXI secolo: panna e miele per rigettare il male e scegliere il bene 
• Johannes Heuman (Hugo Valentin Centre, Uppsala University) - From Jewish Resistance to Intercultural Solidarity. Antiracism and Identity Politics in immediate post-war France 
• Raanan Mallek (Masorti Rabbi, Israel) - Innovative Halakhic (Traditional Jewish Legal) Approaches to the Non-Jew 
• Lucia Morawska (RIASA - Richmond University) - Photography as Testimony, Testimonies of Photographs. Polish Photographer in a Jewish Ghetto 
• Yaron Catane (Bar Ilan University) - The Chief Rabbinate and the Vatican: Religious Potential for a Better Future 
• Simona Stillitano (Istituto Comprensivo De Amicis, Bolani di Reggio Calabria) - Il Magistero Sociale della Chiesa Cattolica: l’orizzonte dei diritti umani