Centre for Jewish Studies Events
For further information, please contact Dr Yair Wallach yw11@soas.ac.uk
2012
January
25/01/12
- Israel and the European Left: A Historical Overview
Colin Shindler, Professor of Israeli Studies, SOAS
February
01/02/12
- Stanley Kubrick's Film 'The Shining' (1980): A Midrash on the Aqedah(Binding of Issac) (with film clips)
Nathan Abrams, Senior Lecturer in Film Studies, Bangor University
08/02/12
- The Image of Israel and Postcolonial Theory: Understanding the Narrative
Efraim Sicher, Ben Gurion University
22/02/12
- Being an Arab Jew in a Cosmopolitan Palestinian City
Menahem Klein, Senior Lecturer in Political Science, Bar Ilan University
29/02/12
- Soldiers, Rebels, and Drifters: Gay Representation in Israeli Cinema
Nir Cohen, Senior Teaching Fellow in Israeli Studies and Jewish Studies, SOAS and UCL
March
07/03/12
- Street Art and Graffiti in South Tel Aviv: Voices from the Urban Underground
Catherine Hezser, Professor of Jewish Studies, SOAS
14/03/12
- Is the Two-State Solution Dead?
Gershon Baskin, Israel Palestine Centre for Research and Information
21/03/12
- Palestinian Filmmaking in Israel
Yael Friedman, Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
October
10/10/12
- The longue durée in Jewish Life, Culture, and History
Prof. Gary Rendsburg, Rutgers University, USA
17/10/12
- Perish the Thought: Israel and the Search for Peace in the Aftermath of the June 1967 War
Dr Avi Raz, Oxford University
24/10/12
31/10/12
- Secularity and its Discontents: Religious Themes in Israeli Culture
Dr Yaron Peleg, Cambridge University
November
14/11/12
- The Israelite Samaritans - Past and Present and a Look at the Future
Benyamin Tsedaka, Institute of Samaritan Studies, Israel
21/11/12
- Losing the Faith? American Jews and Israel
Prof. Dov Waxman, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
28/11/12
- The Sword and the Womb: Military Service and Discriminatory Child Allowances in Israel, 1970 to 1992
Dr Rebecca Steinfeld, University of Birmingham
December
05/12/12
- Discourses of Nationalism in Ethiopian-Israeli Hip-hop
Dr Ilana Webster-Kogen, SOAS
