SPEAKERS

Keynote speaker: Adam Louis-Klein

Adam Louis-Klein is a writer, philosopher, and anthropologist completing a PhD in anthropology at McGill University. His work explores Jewish peoplehood and sovereignty and contemporary anti-Jewish ideologies such as antizionism. Drawing on fieldwork in the Amazon with the Desana people, he brings a comparative lens to questions of identity, indigeneity, and collective belonging.

He has written for The Free Press, Tablet, Sapir Journal, The Hub Canada, and elsewhere. He holds degrees in philosophy and anthropology from Yale University, the New School for Social Research, and the University of Chicago. He is a postgraduate fellow at the London Centre for the Study of Contemporary Antisemitism and founder of the Movement Against Antizionism (MAAZ).

Facilitator: Cary Kogan

Cary Kogan, PhD, is professor of clinical psychology at the University of Ottawa. His interdisciplinary research program spans several topics, including mental health classification, understanding the impact of racism on the mental health of people from the Black Canadian communities, and more recently, examining the mental health effects of antisemitism in higher education. Professor Kogan is also president and co-founder of the Network of Engaged Canadian Academics (NECA, neca-rdace.org). NECA is a non-partisan network of 410 Canadian faculty members on 54 university and college campuses. NECA’s mission is to protect academic freedom, promote scholarship on Judaism and Israel, and combat antisemitism. [The opinions expressed in the workshop reflect those of Dr. Kogan and not the University of Ottawa or NECA.]