Program

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