David Hirsh
Sociology, Goldsmiths College, University of London
will give two talks:
"On Anti-Racist Anti-Zionism"

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
12:30 p.m.
340 Ingraham Hall
 1155 Observatory Dr.

AND

"Summer 2006:
Antisemitism Goes Mainstream"

Tuesday, 10 October 2006
7:30 p.m.
Pyle Center
702 Langdon St.
Sponsors:
The Center for German and European Studies,
the Department of Sociology,
the Center for Jewish Studies, the Havens Center,
the Graduate Students Israel Education Initiative, Hillel,
and the Madison Jewish Community Council
David Hirsh teaches in the Sociology Department at Goldsmiths College, University of London. His research interests are in antisemitism, Israel/Palestine, nationalism, fundamentalism, cosmopolitanism, socio-legal studies, genocide, crimes against humanity and cosmopolitan law. He was the holder of the Sociological Review Fellowship 2001-2, which enabled him to write Law Against Genocide: Cosmopolitan Trials, published in 2003. This book was awarded the British Sociological Association Philip Abrams Prize for the best first book in sociology in 2004. David is the editor of the Engage website, which was set up to intervene in the campaign for a cultural and academic boycott of Israel. He is also on the Editorial board of Democratiya and the Academic Committee of ISGAP, the Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, based at Yale University. David endorses the Euston Manifesto. David studied Sociology at City University, London, did an MA in Philosophy and Social Theory at Warwick University, and wrote his PhD in the Sociology Department at Warwick on crimes against humanity. In the last year David has had pieces published in Dissent, in Progress, the Jerusalem Post , and Ha'aretz.