The S. Daniel Abraham Center for International & Regional Studies The Sverdlin Institute of Latin American History & Culture The Elias Sourasky Chair of Iberian & Latin American Studies The Kahn Institute for History of the Mediterranean Basin Have the pleasure to invite you to: An International Workshop The Franco Regime in the International Scene Co-Organizers: Raanan Rein and Joan Maria Thomàs 5-6 November, 2014, room 133, Gilman Bldg., the Lester and Sally Entin Faculty of Humanities, Tel Aviv University Wednesday, November 5, 2014 Thursday, November 6, 2014 Gathering 15:30 – 16:00 Session IV 11:30 – 13:00 Moderator: Lior Ben David, Tel Aviv University Opening Lecture 16:00 – 16:45 Moderator: Leo Corry, Tel Aviv University Greetings: Carmen Álvarez Rodríguez, Instituto Cervantes de Tel Aviv Lorenzo Delgado Gómez-Escalonilla, CSIC, Madrid: “El estudio del franquismo en perspectiva internacional: allegro ma non troppo” Session I 16:50 – 18:15 Moderator: Atalia Shragai, Tel Aviv University, the Open University of Israel Wayne H. Bowen, Southeast Missouri State University: “From Enemy to Ally: Harry Truman and the Franco Regime” Joan Maria Thomàs, Universitat Rovira i Virgili: “Carlton JH Hayes y el Régimen de Franco” Session II 18:20 – 19:40 Moderator: Gerardo Leibner, Tel Aviv University Xavier Moreno Juliá, Universitat Rovira i Virgili: “Franco y su régimen a ojos de la Alemania nacionalsocialista” Silvina Schammah Gesser, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Ciencias, museos y fascismo: El Madrid franquista en perspectiva comparada” Thursday, November 6, 2014 Session III 9:30 – 11:00 Moderator: Alberto Spektorowsky, Tel Aviv University Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University: “El antifranquismo en la Argentina” Leonardo Senkman, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Argentina, el franquismo y los exiliados republicanos: una reevaluación” Coffee break 11:00 – 11:25 Inbal Ofer, The Open University of Israel: “‘Becoming comrades’: The Experience of Jewish volunteers from Palestine to Spain and Back” Efraim Davidi, Tel Aviv University: “De la orfandad a la adopción – La actitud del establishment laborista en Israel hacia los voluntarios en las Brigadas Internacionales (1936-1977)” Lunch break 13:00 – 15:25 Session V 15:30 – 16:45 Moderator: Pablo Bornstein, Tel Aviv University Guy Setton, Tel Aviv University: “Is an Embassy Really Necessary? Israeli - Spanish Relations in the 1960s” Martina Weisz, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Franco y el mundo árabe: orígenes y devenires de una larga amistad” Coffee break 16:45 – 17:10 Session VI 17:15 – 19:30 Moderator: Nahuel Ribke, Tel Aviv University Gabriela Jonas Aharoni, Sapir College: “La guerra civil española en el cine europeo y americano: tres lecturas a contrapunto de una realidad en constante cambio” Florinda F. Goldberg, Tel Aviv University and Hebrew University of Jerusalem: “Guerra y exilio en novelas de la segunda generación”