Wednesday, April 30
4:00–4:15
Welcome and Opening Remarks
Maurice Samuels (Yale University)
4:15–6:30
Panel 1: From the Enlightenment to 1848 and Beyond
Chair: Isaac Nakhimovsky (Yale University)
- David Bell (Princeton University)
Jews in the French Enlightenment Imagination - Antoine Lilti (Collège de France)
Was Voltaire an anti-Semite? The Enlightenment on Trial - Helena Rosenblatt (CUNY)
Freedom of Religion and the First Liberals: Madame de Staël and Benjamin Constant on Judaism - David Sorkin (Yale University)
The Invention of Emancipation Politics - Paul Hanebrink (Rutgers University)
Jews, Liberalism, and the Long Shadow of “Judeo-Bolshevism”: The Case of Hungary
Thursday, May 1
9:00–10:45
Panel 2: Theorists of Liberalism and the “Jewish Question”
Chair: Seyla Benhabib (Yale University)
- Steven Smith (Yale University)
Spinoza’s Jewish Question: His or Ours? - Ronnie Grinberg (University of Oklahoma)
The New York Intellectuals, Gender, and Liberalism in the Age of McCarthy - Rebecca Kobrin (Columbia University)
Columbia University, Antisemitism and the Making of Lionel Trilling’s The Liberal Imagination - Malachi Hacohen (Duke University)
Jewish History and the End of the Liberal Era
11:00–12:45
Panel 3: Is Illiberalism Bad for the Jews?
Chair: Yair Listokin (Yale University)
- Franklin Foer (The Atlantic)
Was American Jewish Liberalism a God That Failed? - James Loeffler (Johns Hopkins University)
Fearless Speech: On the Possibility of Jewish Liberalism - Elisabeth Zerofsky (New York Times)
Is the New European Far Right Philosemitic?
2:00–3:45
Panel 4: American Liberals and Zionism
Chair: Eliyahu Stern (Yale University)
- Noah Feldman (Harvard University)
Between Idealism and Idealization: American Liberal Zionism from Brandeis to the Present Crisis - Joshua Leifer (Yale University)
The Making and Unmaking of American Liberal Zionism - Susie Linfield (New York University)
Zionism and Antizionism: The End of Liberalism?
4:00–5:30
Panel 5: Roundtable
Chair: Samuel Moyn (Yale University)
- Zack Beauchamp (Vox)
- M. Gessen (New York Times)
- Michelle Goldberg (New York Times)
- Adam Gopnik (The New Yorker)