Programme
Saturday May 18th 2013.
The Stripe, University of Winchester
10.30 – Introduction, orientation and background: What do we hope?
Professor Mary Grey, Honorary Professor University of Winchester.
11:00 – 12: 00 – Rabbi Professor Dan Cohn-Sherbok: “Defending Balfour: Antisemitism and the Jewish State
Dan Cohn-Sherbok is Emeritus Professor of Judaism at the University of Wales, Honorary Professor at Aberystwyth University, Visiting Professor at St Mary’s University College and York St John University, and Visiting Research Fellow at Heythrop College. He is the author of numerous books dealing with Jewish history, Antisemitism and Zionism including Israel: The History of an Idea; Introduction to Zionism and Israel; The Palestinian State: A Jewish Justification; The Crucified Jew: Twenty Centuries of Christian Antisemitism; and The Paradox of Antisemitism.
12:00 -1:00 pm – Dr Dawoud El-alami “…existing non-Jewish communities…” The words that dismissed a people.
Dawoud El-Alami taught for sixteen years at University of Wales Lampeter in the fields of Islamic and Middle Eastern Law, Islamic History and the Palestine Question. Now retired he is writing in Islamic Family Law and is involved with colleagues in examining important topics from the perspectives of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. He is co-author with Dan Cohn-Sherbok of The Palestine Israeli Conflict – A Beginner’s Guide.
1:00 – 2:00 – Lunch
2:00 -2.45 – Rabbi Charles Wallach: Arthur James Balfour on the Balfour Declaration: Insights derived from his biography and beyond.
Rabbi Charles Wallach is recently retired from the full time rabbinate after a career of almost 40 years, serving congregations in South Africa, Britain, Australia and Israel. He currently acts as Visiting Rabbi to communities in Europe and the USA. Within the world of Zionism he has been a member of the Executive of the Zionist Federations in Britain and South Africa and was an official delegate to the World Zionist Congress on three separate occasions.
2:45 – 3:30 – John Bond: An Apology – the case of Australia.
From 1998 until 2006 John Bond was the Secretary of 
Australia’s National Sorry Day Committee, which enlisted nearly a million Australians in an apology to Aboriginal Australians for cruel and misguided past policies, and in initiatives to overcome the harm caused. He was awarded the Medal of the Order of Australia for service to the Australian community through the National Sorry Day Committee. He has worked with the NGO Initiatives of Change for many years, including six years in Zimbabwe and three in Ethiopia. He is now based in Oxford, England. Since 2009 he has coordinated the Caux Forum for Human Security, which annually brings several hundred people active in human security to Caux in Switzerland.
3.30 – 4.15 – Plenary discussion chaired by Dr Mark Owen.