Scientific Program
Sunday 19th June 2016
09:30-09:45 – Gathering
09:45-10:00 – Greetings
Chair: Miri Gur-Arye, Head of Scientific Committee
Yaad Rotem, Dean, College of Law & Business
Boaz Shnoor & Eyal Katvan, Organizers
10:00-10:30 – Opening Lecture
Chair: Khalid Ghanayim
Aharon Barak, Human Dignity as a Constitutional Value and a Constitutional Right
10:30 – 10:45 Break
10:45-12:35 – Session I – Cultural Honor
Chair: Shulamit Almog
Richard F. Hamm, Honor in the Post-Civil War American South: cultural holdover or useful adaptation
Dov Cohen, Cultural syndromes: Honor, face, and dignity
Ann Goldberg, Honor, Political Culture, and Hate Speech Law in West Germany
Raphael Cohen-Almagor, Blasphemy in 19th Century: A Millian Perspective (In Memory of Jack Pole)
12:35-13:30 – Lunch
13:30 – 15:00 – Session II – Kavod: Honor in Mandatory Palestine
Chair: Pablo Lerner
Eyal Katvan & Boaz Shnoor, Honor in Informal Courts in Mandatory Palestine
Yair Seltenreich, Personal honor and mobilized society in Eretz-Israel of the late 1930s
Roy Marom, Well Earned Respect: Strongmen [Zuʿama] Ethics in Mandatory Palestine
15:00 – 15:15 – Break
15:15-16:45 – Session III – Literarily: Honor and Literature
Chair: Orit Kamir
M Lindsay Kaplan, Defamation and Gender in Shakespeare and the Culture of Early Modern England
Shulamit Almog & Alexander Feldman, Posing Somdomite” [sic.]: Dignity, Defamation and the Regulation of (homo)Sexual Identity
Rinat Kitai-Sangero, The Concept of Honor in Shakespeare’s Roman Plays
16:45 – 17:15 – Break
17:15 – Shuttle to Tel-Aviv
18:00-19:45 – Tour
20:00 – Dinner
22:00 – Shuttles to Ramat-Gan, Jerusalem and Haifa
Monday 20th June 2016
09:30-10:00 – Gathering
10:00-11:00 – Session IV – Honor: Israeli Style
Chair: Itay Lipschits
Meytal Nasie, The Role of Respect and Disrespect in Conflicts: The Case of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Omer Aloni, Games of Honor: Reflections of Orientalist Perspectives in Early Israeli Law
11:00 – 11:15 Break
11:15-12:15 – Session V – Dignity/Honor in the Criminal Law I
Chair: Eyal Katvan
Miri Gur-Arye, Human Dignity of Offender
Antony Duff, Sandra Marshall, Punishment with Honour?
12:15 – 12:30 Break
12:30-13:30 – Session VI – Dignity/Honor in the Criminal Law II
Chair: Boaz Shnoor
Tatjana Hörnle, Honor killings – reactions in German criminal law
Badi Hasisi, Deborah Bernstein, Family Honor Killing – sexuality, disobedience and the interplay between them. Challenging and consolidating patriarchal control
13:30 – 15:00 – Lunch
15:00 – 16:30 – Session VII – Honor and Dignity
Chair: Ronit Kedar
Joseph David, Human dignity and Religious Freedom
Khalid Ghanayim, Different aspects of Dignity and Honour
Steven Wilf, Virtual Honor: Artist Dignity in an Electronic Age of Mechanical Reproduction
16:30-16:45 –Break
16:45-18:00 – Session VIII – Honor: Conceptual Framework
Chair: Miri Gur-Arye
Stephen Darwall, Orders of Dominance, Honor, and Accountability
Daniel Statman, When should honor be protected? From intent to humiliate to hurting feelings
18:15 – Shuttles to Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem
Tuesday 21st June 2016
09:30-10:00 – Gathering
10:00-11:30 – Session IX – Honor from a Jewish Perspective
Chair: Shelly Kreiczer-Levy
Israel Yuval, Societies of Honor and Societies of Shame in Medieval European Jewry
Amihai Radzyner, Pride and Prejudice: Breach of Promise, Shiduchin and Honor: Between Jewish and Israeli Law
Meron Piotrkowski, A Case of Hybris/Dishonor in the Jewish Politeuma of Heracleopolis
11:30 – 11:45 – Break
11:45-12:15 – Session X – Special Lecture
Orit Kamir, Contemporary Escape from Dignity to Honor
12:15 – 13:45 – Lunch
13:45 – 14:15 – Session XI – Closing Lecture
Menachem Mautner, Respect as a Norm of Avoidance and as a Norm of State Activism
14:15 – 14:30 – Break
14:30 – 15:00 – Concluding Remarks
Eyal Katvan & Boaz Shnoor
15:30 – Shuttles to Tel-Aviv and Jerusalem