Title: "Global Antisemitism"

Speakers, Affiliations and Topics:

Speaker: Dr. Milton Shain Affiliation: Director of the Kaplan Centre for Jewish Studies and Research, University of Cape Town, South Africa Topic: "Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism in the 'New South Africa'"

Speaker: Dr. Shalem Coulibaly Affiliation: Professor of Philosophy at the Université de Ouagadougou in the West African country of Burkina Faso; Senior Research Fellow, ISGAP. Topic: "Africa and Antisemitism: Myth or Reality? From Indifference to Antisemitic Temptation?"

Speaker: Dr. Samuel Eppel Affiliation: Director, Human Rights Commission, B’nei Brith Venezuela Topic: "Chavez's Conversion, From Active Military to Militant Antisemite"

Speaker: Dr. Alberto Nisman Affiliation: Federal Prosecutor and Chief Investigator of the 1994 car bombing of the Jewish center in Buenos Aires Topic: "International Terrorism and Antisemitism: The Islamic Fundamentalism's Attacks in Argentina"

Location: Yale University, New Haven, CT

Date: August 24, 2010

Description: This plenary session is part of the Yale Initiative for the Interdisciplinary Study of Antisemitism (YIISA)/ International Association for the Study of Antisemitism (IASA) "Global Antisemitism: A Crisis of Modernity" Inaugural Conference (August 23-25, 2010).