Opening remarks to the 4th session by Academy Member Prof. Sammy Smooha, University of Haifa, at the international conference on The Legacy of Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt, Commemorating the One Hundredth Anniversary of His Birth that took place on May 8, 2024 at the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Jerusalem
Program:
Greetings: David Harel, President of the Academy
1st session: Democracy
Chair and discussant: Tamar Herman, The Open University of Israel
Luis Roniger, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Wake Forest University | Populism and the Art of the Possible
Larry Diamond, Stanford University | Why is Democracy in a Global Recession?
Alexander Yakobson, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem | Democracy and Nation-State Today – a Comparative Review
Yuli Tamir, Beit Berl College | The Paradox of Democratic Education
2nd session: Religion
Chair and discussant: Guy G. Stroumsa, Academy Member, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yaacov Yadgar, University of Oxford | Modernity, Secularism, and Tradition
Adam Seligman, Boston University | Charisma, Human Rights, and Belonging
3rd session: Israeli Society
Chair and discussant: Aviva Halamish, The Open University of Israel
Pnina Motzafi-Haller, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev | His Sociology is Poetic: Reflecting on Eisentstadt’s Impact on my Work
Moshe Hellinger, Bar-Ilan University | Can Israel be a More Jewish and More Democratic State?
Yoav Peled, Tel Aviv University | Boundary or Frontier? The Green Line in Functionalist and Critical Israeli Sociology
Nohad Ali, Western Galilee College and Samuel Neaman Institute | Palestinian Citizens in Israel: A Sociological Portrait
4th session
Sammy Smooha, Academy Member, University of Haifa
Ilana Silber, Bar-Ilan University | The Multiple Voices of S.N. Eisenstadt
Keynote speaker: Björn Wittrock, Uppsala University | Shmuel Noah Eisenstadt: Outline of an Intellectual Biography
Michael Ajzenstadt - On behalf of the family
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