Israel Studies Seminar

Jonathan Leslie - Fear and Insecurity: Competing Narratives of the Iran-Israel Relationship

Jonathan Leslie considers the history of Iran's "becoming" and existential threat in Israel...

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Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies'

Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in...

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The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 1 Relig...

Timothy Fitzgerald and William Cavanaugh discuss the politics and history of the conceptual...

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The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 2: Libe...

Elizabeth Shakman Hurd and Yolande Jansen discuss the notion of the “secular,” liberal politics...

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The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Isra...

Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in...

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Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel

Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in...

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Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today

Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of...

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Ibrahim Khatib - Identity, Conflict perception and Reconciliation in the shadow of the Arab-Israeli conflict

Ibrahim Khatib discusses the correlations between identity, conflict perception, and willingness...

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Guy Burton - Rising Powers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict since 1947'

How have rising power engaged with the Arab-Israeli conflict? What does this tell us about rising...

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Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed

Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of...

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Chana Morgenstern: Fire in the Camp: Committed Arabic Literature and Mizrahi Aesthetics in Israel/Palestine

On the influence of Arab Marxism and the aesthetics of Arab commitment literature on Iraqi Jewish...

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Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan

Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives. The deceits and...

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Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948

How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine? Netta Cohen presents her doctoral research...

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Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and...

Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the...

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Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence

Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak Women's military...

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David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships

David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships. In December 1962 President...

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Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building

Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern...

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Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection

Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the...

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Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity

Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish...

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Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature

Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature are global literature (broadly defined)

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