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International Conference

May 3rd/4th 2008, Camp of the University of Vienna, courtyard 2, lecture room C1

Speakers

• Menashe Amir, director of Kol Israel’s (Voice of Israel) Persian section. He started his journalistic work in Iran at the age of 17. Today he is one of Israel’s most veteran journalists and broadcasters and the chief editor of Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs website in Persian (http://www.hamdami.com). He has served for many years as an expert on Iranian issues to radio stations and television networks in Israel and abroad and also provides professional consultation on the subject to governmental offices and research centers all over the world
• Hiwa Bahrami, representative of the Democratic Party of Iranian Kurdistan in Austria (http://www.pdki.org/), co-author of  “Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer” (Studienverlag 2008)
• Niloofar Beyzaie, born in Tehran, since 1985 in exil in Germany, author and theater director in Frankfurt/Main (http://www.nbeyzaie.com/frameset.htm), founder of the group „Daritsche“, Women rights activist, published about feminism in Iran, the rights of homosexuels, cinema in Iran, movies in exil, feminism and film
• Paulo Casaca, Partido Socialista Portugal, MEP, member of the social-democratic parliamentary group in the European parliament and the European Friends of Israel, Co-author of an open letter against the Iranian nuclear weapon program signed by over 130 members of the European parliament.
• Patrick Clawson, deputy director for research at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy (http://www.washingtoninstitute.org); he has written for „The New Republic“ as well as op-ed articles in „New York Times“, „Wall Street Journal“, and „Washington Post“; author of more than thirty scholarly articles in „Foreign Affairs“, „Washington Quarterly“, „International Journal of Middle East Studies“ and „Middle East Journal“; editor of „Iran's Strategic Intentions and Capabilities“ (University Press of the Pacific 2004), author of „Eternal Iran: Continuity and Chaos“ (Palgrave 2005, with Michael Rubin)
• Stephan Grigat, lecturer for political science at the Vienna University (http://homepage.univie.ac.at/stephan.grigat/); he writes for „Konkret“ and „Jungle World“, co-founder of the group Café Critique (http://www.cafecritique.priv.at), author of „Fetisch und Freiheit. Die Rezeption der Marxschen Fetischkritik, die Emanzipation von Staat und Kapital und die Kritik des Antisemitismus“ (ça ira 2007), Editor of „Transformation des Postnazismus. Der deutsch-österreichische Weg zum demokratischen Faschismus“ (ça ira 2003) and „Feindaufklärung und Reeducation. Kritische Theorie gegen Postnazismus und Islamismus“ (ça ira 2006), co-editor of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Simone Dinah Hartmann, works as a freelance writer and computer scientist in Tel Aviv and Vienna, coordinator and spokeswomen of „STOP THE BOMB – Coalition against the Iranian extermination program“, she has written for the „Jerusalem Post“, „Der Aufbau“ and „Jungle World“ and is co-auther of „Transformation des Postnazismus. Der deutsch-österreichische Weg zum demokratischen Faschismus“ (ça ira 2003), co-editor of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Innsbruck - Wien – Bozen 2008)
• Jeffrey Herf, professor of history at the University of Maryland, USA; author of „Reactionary Modernism: Technology, Culture, and Politics in Weimar and the Third Reich“ (Cambridge University Press 1986), „Divided Memory: The Nazi Past in the Two Germanys“ (Harvard University Press 1997) and „The Jewish Enemy. Nazi Propaganda During World War II and the Holocaust“ (Harvard University Press 2006)
• Kayvan Kaboli, Spokesperson of the Green Party of Iran (http://www.iran-e-sabz.org/), Los Angeles, USA
• Matthias Küntzel, German publicist and political scientist (http://www.matthiaskuentzel.de/); Board member of Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (http://www.spme.net/); author of „Jihad and Jew-Hatred: Islamism, Nazism and the Roots of 9/11” (Telos 2007) and „Islamischer Antisemitismus und deutsche Politik“ (Lit 2007), co-author of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Florian Markl, historian at the National Fund of the Republic of Austria for victims of national socialism; works on his PhD at Humboldt University Berlin on Palestinian terror attacks in Austria; co-author of „Transformation des Postnazismus. Der deutsch-österreichische Weg zum demokratischen Faschismus“ (ça ira 2003), „Feindaufklärung und Reeducation. Kritische Theorie gegen Postnazismus und Islamismus“ (ça ira 2006) and „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Yossi Melman, a senior commentator with the Israeli daily „Haaretz“; author of „The Nuclear Sphinx of Tehran: Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and the State of Iran“ (Caroll&Graf 2007, with Meir Javedanfar); co-author of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Benny Morris, professor of Middle East history, Ben Gurion Universität Beer Sheva, Israel; author of „The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited“ (Cambridge University Press 2004), „Making Israel“ (University of Michigan Press 2007) and „1948: A History of the First Arab-Israeli War“ (Yale University Press 2008), co-author of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Michael Oren, senior fellow at the Shalem Center (http://www.shalem.org.il/) in Jerusalem, Israel. He has written for „The New York Times“, „The Wall Street Journal“, and „The New Republic“, of which he is a contributing editor; author of „Power, Faith and Fantasy. America in the Middle East 1776 to the Present“ (W. W. Norton 2007) and „Six Days of War. June 1967 and the Making of the Modern Middle East“ (Oxford University Press 2002), co-author of  “Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer” (Studienverlag 2008)
• Thomas von der Osten-Sacken, Co-founder and Associate of the NGO „Wadi e.V.“ (http://www.wadinet.de) which works mainly in Northern Iraq, Co-editor of „Saddams letztes Gefecht? Der lange Weg in den 3. Golfkrieg“ (Konkret 2002) and „Amerika. Der ‚War on Terror’ und der Aufstand der alten Welt“ (ça ira 2003), co-author of  „Der Iran – Analyse einer islamischen Diktatur und ihrer europäischen Förderer“ (Studienverlag 2008)
• Robert Schindel, writer in Vienna, Author of „Gott schützt uns vor den guten Menschen. Jüdisches Gedächtnis – Auskunftsbüro der Angst“ (Suhrkamp 1995), „Gebürtig“ (Suhrkamp 2002) and „Mein liebster Feind. Essays, Reden, Miniaturen“ (Suhrkamp 2004),
• Bruno Schirra, journalist, Berlin, Germany; he has written for „DIE ZEIT“, „Die Welt“ and „Cicero“; author of „Der Iran – Sprengstoff für Europa“ (Econ 2007) and „Ihr liebt das Leben, wir den Tod. Menschen im Herzen des Islamismus“ (Herder 2008)