Events
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
19/03/12
- Arab and Arab American Feminisms: Gender, Violence and Belonging
Rabab Abdulhadi
21/03/12
- Palestinian Filmmaking in Israel
Yael Friedman, Lecturer, University of Portsmouth
October
08/10/12
- The Aramaic incantation type in the Jewish transmission: chronology and contents
Christa Müller-Kessler (Jena)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
22/10/12
- Judeans in Babylonian exile and their obligations towards the crown according to cuneiform sources
Cornelia Wunsch (SOAS)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
24/10/12
31/10/12
- Secularity and its Discontents: Religious Themes in Israeli Culture
Dr Yaron Peleg, Cambridge University
31/10/12
- An evening of Bi-Lingual Poetry Reading
Ghassan Zaqtan and Fady Joudah
November
12/11/12
- The Babylonian exile and the formation of Judaism
Irving Finkel (British Museum)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
14/11/12
- The Israelite Samaritans - Past and Present and a Look at the Future
Benyamin Tsedaka, Institute of Samaritan Studies, Israel
19/11/12
- History, Orality, Narrative: Writing the Palestinian Nakba
Ibrahim Nasrallah
21/11/12
- Losing the Faith? American Jews and Israel
Prof. Dov Waxman, Baruch College and The Graduate Center, City University of New York
26/11/12
- Babylon in the Talmud, the Talmud in Babylon
Willem Smelik (UCL)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
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
10/12/12
- Building provincial elites in the Old Kingdom: strategies of power, self-presentation and relations with the royal palace
Juan-Carlos Garcia Moreno (Paris)
Lecture series on Jewish Babylonia
13/12/12
- World Literature: Networks of Circulation
Multiple Speakers
An international, interdisciplinary conference exploring networks of circulation and their relation to understandings of World Literature
