Events archive

Israel Studies Seminar

The Emotional Scripting of Boycotts: The Nazi-Zionist Agreement in Jewish Public Culture During the 1930s

Hizky Shoham (Bar-Ilan)
25 February 2020 - 2:15pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
Abstract: Are boycotts emotional outbursts or practical political tools? The proposed paper looks at the emotional aspects of the public debate that raged in Jewish Palestine in the 1930s about the... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

The Israeli Diaspora in Berlin: Back to Being Jewish?

Larissa Remennick (Bar-Ilan)
18 February 2020 - 2:15pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
Abstract: In this lecture, I reflect on the origins and present condition of the new (post-2010) Israeli diaspora in Berlin. Based on 10 months of participant observation, I map out the main sub-... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

CANCELLED - Palestinian Arab Citizens in Israel, Equality Struggle

Hadeel Abu Hussein (Oxford)
11 February 2020 - 2:15pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
Abstract: This paper addresses the historical stages of the Palestinian Arab citizens in Israel with respect to their political formation and social experience as individuals and a collective... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar

Ethnic segregation in the Haredi education in Israel: Policies and practices

Lotem Perry-Hazan (Haifa)
4 February 2020 - 2:15pm
MEC Board Room, St Antony's College.
Abstract Haredi education has been dominated by the Ashkenazic Haredi Independent Education school network since the establishment of the State of Israel in 1948. During the 1980s the Sephardic... Read more