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• Lewis R. Gordon, UConn
• Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh, The Polonsky Academy for Advanced Study - The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute
• Vice President Daniel Weiner, UConn
• Vice Provost Jeffrey Hines, UConn

• Bruce D. Haynes, University of California, Davis, “Jews, Monsters, and Space Lasers”
• Efrat Yerday, Tel Aviv University, “Racialized Citizenship: Ethiopian Jews and the Israeli State, 1955–1975” 

• Shula Mola, Hebrew University, “The Paradox of Belonging: Ethiopian-Israeli Female Students' Cross-Group Empathy During the Iron Swords War”
• Shelly Engdau, University of Haifa, “‘Your Color Gives You Away’: Blackness, Resilience and Community Responses to Racism in Israel” (online)

• Remy Ilona, Olaudah Equiano Institute, “The Holocaust of Biafra: Anti-Semitism and Genocide in Sub-Saharan Africa”
• Itzik Itzhak Dessie, Bar-Ilan University, “Resilience and Identity: Confronting Anti-Blackness and Antisemitism Among Ethiopian Jews in Israel" 
• Walter Isaac, University of Tennessee, “Antiracist Strategies to Combat Global Antisemitism” 

• Lewis R. Gordon and Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh

• Bryan Roby, University of Michigan, “The Possibilities and Limits of ‘Afro-Asian’ Jewish Solidarity” 
• Moriya Tadela, University of Haifa, “Gender and Race in Another Place: Intersectionality and the Development of Ethiopian Feminism in Israel” 

• Jessica Valoris, Mandel Artist Fellow, “Rituals of Remembrance: Black Fugitivity and AfroJewish Creative Praxis”

• Efrat Yerday and Jessica Valoris

• Shahanna McKinney-Baldon, Global Center for Advanced Studies, “Afrofuturistic Ibbur: Researching and Performing the Great African American Khaznte, Then and Now”
• Gil Rothschild Elyassi, University of Haifa, “Whitening Jewishness” 

• Adane Zawdu Gebyanesh, The Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, and UConn 
• Jane Anna Gordon, UConn
• Lewis R. Gordon, UConn

Special thanks to UConn Staff: