Sun 22 Sep 2024 at 5pm - 6:30pm
Caulfield (exact location tbc prior to the event)
Contact Amy Grossbard () for more information.
Following the horrific events of October 7, the violence unfolding in Israel and Gaza has continued to loom large in press, social media and in conversations more broadly in Australia and around the world.
This event aims to provide an overview on the basic concepts of international law, and how the matters before the International Court of Justice (ICJ) and International Criminal Court (ICC) are playing out on campuses here at home.
We aim to explore how international events are impacting Australia, and to provide audience members with the tools to take steps towards addressing the rising tensions locally , including issues of antisemitism, Islamophobia, online forums and community safety.
This conversation will stress the need to strengthen social cohesion during these difficult times.
As matters both locally and globally develop each week, the conversation will be guided by the most pressing issues and relevant developments.
The perspectives of panellists will help bring a nuanced conversation around our Australian society, the current international reality and work towards building social cohesion and harmony, even in the face of rising tensions.
We hope you'll join us for this important conversation: From International Courts to Campus Lawns – where Jeremie Bracka and David Slucki will assess the impacts of the Israel/Gaza War, in conversation with Melissa Castan.
About our Panelists
Dr. David Slucki is the Director of the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, and the Loti Smorgon Associate Professor of Contemporary Jewish Life and Culture at Monash University. He is a historian who has written widely on Jewish life after the Holocaust, focusing particularly on survivors and their descendants, and on representations of the Holocaust. His publications include Sing This at my Funeral: A Memoir of Fathers and Sons (2019) and The International Jewish Labor Bund after 1945: Toward a Global History(2012). He is the co-editor of Laughter After: Humor and the Holocaust (2020) and In the Shadows of Memory: The Holocaust and the Third-generation (2016). He is currently working on projects focusing on antisemitism in Australia, Holocaust denial in popular culture, and Jews and sitcoms.
Dr Jeremie M Bracka is an Australian-Israeli international law academic at RMIT University (Melbourne). He specialises in constitutional law, human rights and transitional justice. Jeremie has worked at Hebrew University, Minerva Center for Human Rights (Jerusalem) and Monash University, Castan Centre for Human Rights. His book focuses on transitional justice in ongoing conflict and the role of truth-telling in Israel/Palestine (Springer, 2020). Jeremie has been widely published in Oxford University Press, Cambridge University Press and the Melbourne Journal of International law. He has served as a legal advisor at the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda, Israel’s Permanent Mission to the U.N, Israel’s Supreme Court and the Israeli Ministry of Foreign Affairs. 
Professor Melissa Castan is Director of the Castan Centre for Human Rights Law at Monash University. She has over 25 years experience teaching, researching and publishing in Australian Public Law, Constitutional law, Human Rights Law, Indigenous Legal Issues and Legal Education.
About Our Hosts
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NIF Australia is grounded in funding civil society organisations in Israel-Palestine, to ensure a thriving Israeli society open to all – regardless of religion, ethnicity, national origin, race or gender – and nurtured by the ideals of equality, freedom, justice, security and peace.
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