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Morning session:
| Tracks | 10:00–11:10 | 11:30–12:40 | 13:00–14:10 |
| 1. Jerusalem, a city of longing | Sects and the City: Longing in Jerusalem Julian Barnett Gropius Hall | "Desperately Seeking Paradise" Reva Mann Dance Studio | After the elections: Looking back at Israeli Knesset elections Abraham Diskin Music room E16 |
| 2. Inside the Jewish mind | Image and memory in Jewish public art Ardyn Halter Music room E18 | Single in the city: Caught between law and desire Jennie Rosenfeld Music room 18 | Re-considering ritual: The role of the Mitzvot in the thought of Buber, Rosenzweig and Levinas Tamra Wright Music room E18 |
| 3. Changing places | Transcending the everyday of the Holocaust Philip and Christine Bohlman Brackenbury Room | From history to fiction: Writing a Russian Jewish novel Simon Sebag Montefiore Gropius Hall | Mediterranean city voices Ruth Davis and friends Brackenbury Room |
| 4. Goldene Medina | American Rabbis at the outbreak of World War II Marc Saperstein Music room E16 | Music in exile: Germans in America John Deathridge Brackenbury Room | Jews and News – an American perspective Lisa Cohen Gropius Hall |
| 5. No place like home | Religious amnesia and Jewish sovereignty – remembering Seder night Menachem Fisch Dance Studio | Religion, group identity, individual rights and the law David Feldman (Lawyer) Music room E16 | Here, in this world, and in body, not in spirit: A heretical vision of the redemption on Polish soil Ada Rapoport-Albert Dance Studio |
| 6. The past is another country | Who serves whom in medieval Jewish–Christian relations? Anna Sapir Abulafia Room E12 | How Jerusalem won a place in Jewish prayer Stefan Reif Room E12 | East of the Enlightenment: Jewish perspectives on Europe and the "Orient" Andrea Schatz Room E12 |
Afternoon session:
| Tracks | 14:30–15:40 | 16:00–17:10 | 17:30–18:40 |
1.Jerusalem, a city of longing | Can heritage be shared? Michael Turner Dance Studio | Drawing the lines and demarcating the borders in Israel/Palestine David Newman Brackenbury Room | Jerusalem above, Jerusalem below: A tale of two cities Adina Hoffman Music room E16 |
| 2. Inside the Jewish mind | Perversion: A Jewish perspective Howard Jacobson Gropius Hall | Can the Jewish mind produce real poetry? Peter Cole Music room E18 | Darwin's dangerous idea Daniel Reisel Music room E18 |
| 3. Changing places | Jewish–Muslim relations: The need for dialogue Edward Kessler Music room E16 | Did the Rabbis take a Canaanite perspective on entering the Promised Land? Jeremy Schonfield Music room E16 | Tales of an urban Gypsy Hadar Manor Brackenbury Room |
| 4. Goldene Medina | Top of the Yiddische Pops Laoise Davidson Brackenbury Room | Projecting the Holocaust into the present: Cinema and the popular imagination Froma Zeitlin Dance Studio | UK premiere of "Circumcise Me: The Comedy of Yisrael Campbell" Matthew Kalman Dance Studio |
| 5. No place like home | Reading from "The Maltese Dreambook" Gabriel Levin Music room E18 | A fatal allergy: Hypocrisy of the Anglo–Jewish variety Geoffrey Alderman Naomi Alderman Gropius Hall | A quest for Jewish splendour: My work as a Mitzva beautifier
David Moss Gropius Hall |
| 6. The past is another country | Russia, England and Uganda – placing the Jews at the start of the Twentieth Century David Feldman (Historian) Room E12 | Is sex impure? Medieval men and Mikveh Pinchas Roth Room E12 | Jews – At the heart of medieval Christian culture Miri Rubin Room E12 |