Events archive
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr Moshe Behar (Manchester)
7 March 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Recent years have witnessed the framework of Setter Colonialism gaining hegemonic explanatory dominance among attempts to elucidate the Palestine/Israel trajectory. Scrutiny of many texts in this (... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Ayala Panievsky (Cambridge)
28 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
The Israeli news media has transformed significantly in recent years, due to an unprecedented wave of anti-media populism and online harassment. In this talk, I examine how and why Israeli... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Professor Anat Scolnicov (Winchester)
21 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Israel was originally to have a Constitution, but it never did as the issue proved divisive on religious grounds, among others. An unwritten constitution developed in its place. This is the legal... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Loaay Wattad (Tel Aviv)
14 February 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
This study seeks to analyse the ways in which Little Red Riding Hood was instrumentalized in the Palestinian critical and subversive discourse. Although this text is usually presented as a children’s... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Professor Amos Morris- Reich (Tel Aviv)
7 February 2023 - 3:00pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Focusing on the relationship between Zionism and science in the first two decades of the Zionist movement, the argument of this paper is threefold. First, that a relationship was established with the... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Prof. Menachem Hofnung (Hebrew University)
24 January 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
What are the social and economic costs of using cohorts of local informers to ensure military control of a hostile territory? In 1994, an Israeli NGO (B’Tselem) published a study that analysed the... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Dr James Eastwood (Queen Mary)
17 January 2023 - 2:15pm
Seminar Room 1, St Anne's College Woodstock Road OX2 6HS
Thousands of families in Israel are demanding to know what happened to their children. In Autumn 2022, a first-of-its-kind exhibition at the Brunei Gallery, SOAS, brought their story to an... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Ronny Miron (Bar Ilan University)
7 June 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
It is argued that secularization creates a fundamental change, to the point of break, in the history of culture, or alternatively, starts a new history. This statement assumes a relation between... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Gideon Katz (Ben-Gurion University)
24 May 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
The fear of Judaism is an important theme in Israeli culture. By analyzing Israeli dystopias and essays we have the chance to “look” closely at this fear, and its images. The main one is the image on... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Gideon Katz (Ben-Gurion University)
24 May 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
The fear of Judaism is an important theme in Israeli culture. By analyzing Israeli dystopias and essays we have the chance to “look” closely at this fear, and its images. The main one is the image on... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Nitzan Lebovic (Lehigh University, Pennsylvania)
17 May 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
The story of the early Zionist settlement in Palestine could be told from the viewpoint of failure and melancholia. An untold history of this period ignores the high rate of suicides and cases of... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Tony Shaw (Hertfordshire), Giora Goodman (Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee)
10 May 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
From Frank Sinatra's early pro-Zionist rallying to Steven Spielberg's present-day peace-making, Hollywood has long enjoyed a 'special relationship' with Israel. Based on a newly-published book by... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Matan Flum (UCL)
3 May 2022 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
Seminar Room 5, St Anne's College
The Israeli ma’abarot (transition camps) are one of the most ignored chapters in Israeli political, historical and cultural discourse. In 1952 there were 132 ma'abarot in Israel and 250 thousand... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Haggai Ram (Ben Gurion University)
30 November 2021 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
ZOOM Online Webinar
After a century of prohibition, we are witnessing a dramatic shift in cannabis culture and policy around the world from a “killer weed” and a cause of racial degeneration to an accepted recreational... Read more
Israel Studies Seminar
Hagar Kotef (SOAS)
23 November 2021 - 2:15pm to 4:00pm
The MEC Board Room, The Kirdar Building, St. Antony's College
In this talk, based on her book, The Colonizing Self , Kotef explores the cultural, political, and theoretical apparatuses that enable people and nations to construct a home on the ruins of other... Read more