Saturday, March 8th 2008
International Conference
The Iranian threat The Islamic republic, Israel's struggle for existence and European reactions
May 3rd/4th 2008, Camp of the University of Vienna, courtyard 2, lecture room C1
Alserstraße/Spitalgasse, trams 5, 33, 43, 44
Conference languages: English / German (simultaneous transla! tion)
Please plan for possible checking at the entrance.
Patronage: Dr. Brigitte Bailer-Galanda, Kammerschauspielerin Elisabeth Orth
Program:
Saturday, May 3rd 2008
19.30 Introduction and greetings
Dr. Ruth Contreras (Scholars for Peace in the Middle East)
Simone Dinah Hartmann (STOP THE BOMB)
Dr. Joanna Nittenberg (Illustrierte Neue Welt)
20.00 - 22.00 Round table: The Impact of the Iranian threat: Islamism, Antisemitism and the nuclear program
Dr. Patrick Clawson (Deputy Director for Research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy, USA)
Yossi Melman (Journalist Haaretz, Israel)
Prof. Benny Morris (Historian, Ben Gurion University Israel)
N. N. (t.b.a.)
Chair: Simone Dinah Hartmann (spokeswoman STOP THE BOMB – Coalition against the Iranian extermination program)
Sunday, May 4th 2008
10.30 - 12.15 The rule of political Islam in Iran and global jihadism
Menashe Amir (Former director of the Persian programme of "Voice of Israel", Israel):
Religious and ideological motivation in Iranian domestic and international policies
Niloofar Beyzaie (Stage director and author from Teheran, since 1985 in exile in Germany, women's rights activist):
Oppression of women and minorities in Iran
Florian Markl (Political scientist, Humboldt University Berlin):
Global Jihadism and it's Iranian supporters
Chair: Alex Gruber (Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna)
12.30 - 14.15 Critique of appeasement: Iran and islamic Antisemitism as a challenge for Israel and Europe
Dr. Matthias Küntzel (Political scientist, board member Scholars for ! Peace in the Middle East, Hamburg):
Is Europe failing to act?
Dr. Michael Oren (Historian, senior fellow at the Shalem Center, Jerusalem):
Israel's Worst Nightmare – The threat of the Iranian Nuclear Weapons Program
Bruno Schirra (Journalist and author, Berlin):
European Illusions about Iran and Islam
Chair: Dr. Elisabeth Pittermann (former member of the Vienna City Council)
15.15 - 17.00 Austrian-Iranian relations against the background of the National-socialist past
Hiwa Bahrami (Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan): Austria's politics of appeasement
Dr. Stephan Grigat (Café Critique, Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna):
The Austrian-Iranian friendship – Foreign Policy in post-nazism
Robert Schindel (Author, Vienna):
The Austrian memory
Chair: Michaela Sivich (Journalist)
17.15 - 19.00 Round table: The need for a new antifascism
Simone Dinah Hartmann (Spokeswoman STOP THE BOMB)
Prof. Jeffrey Herf (Historian, University of Maryland, College Park, USA)
Kayvan Kabouli (Green Party of Iran, USA)
Thomas von der Osten-Sacken (Political Analyst and Director of Wadi e. V. Germany)
Chair: Dr. Stephan Grigat (Café Critique, Lecturer Institute for political science Vienna)
Inquiries:
DI Simone Dinah Hartmann
Phone: +43 650 344 88 58
Email: info@stopthebomb.net
