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Schusterman Scholars Seminars

Schusterman scholars and visiting academics deepen their academic study of Israel in bi-monthly seminars. Below listed are seminars from previous years:

Fall 2012

• Pnina Lahav, Boston University School of Law: The American Identity of Golda Meir
• Ute Deichmann, Ben Gurion University of the Negev and Koeln University: The Difficult Beginning of Israeli-German Scientific Cooperation
• Asaf Romirowsky, Scholars for Peace in the Middle East, Philadelphia: Refugee Relief: the Quakers and the Arab-Israeli Conflict
• Uri Zaki, B’tselem USA: The Mammoth in the Room: The Israeli Occupation - Facts, Myths, Politics and Narratives
• Dor Guez, Photography and Video Artist, Israel: On The Rose Art Museum Exhibition, "Dor Guez: 100 Steps to the Mediterranean"
• Charles Asher Small, Institute for the Study of Global Anti-Semitism, New Haven: Is it Possible to Study Contemporary Antisemitism in the Academy Today?: Conceptual and Political Impediments
• Ilana Pardes, Harvard Divinity School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Agnon's Moonstruck Lovers: The Song of Songs in Israeli Culture
• Emily McKee, Schusterman Center Post-Doctoral Fellow, Anthropology: Water Governance and the Politics of Scale: Middle-Eastern Cross-Border Conservation

Spring 2012

• Tsafrir Goldberg, Mandel Center for Studies in Jewish Education: The Politics and Practice of Israeli High School History Curriculum about the Jewish-Arab Conflict
• Eitan Bar-Yosef, University of Pennsylvania: Cry, The Beloved Country - Blackface, Mimicry, and Ethnicity in the Israeli Theater of the 1950s
  
• Oded Haklai, Queen's University: Palestinian Ethnonationalism in Israel
• Rivka Neriya Ben-Shahar, HBI Scholar/Sapir Academic College: The Creation of a New Women's Religious Culture: An Integrated Perspective
  
• Eric Fleisch, Schusterman Scholar, NEJS: American Jewish Philanthropy to Israel in the Post-UJA Era
  
• Efraim Inbar, Bar-Ilan University: The Arab Uprising and Israel
  
• Abigail Jacobson, Research Fellow, Crown Center for Middle East Studies: Wallahi, al-Umma Matat...": The Ihsan Tourjman Diary as Source for Study of Jerusalem during WWI
  
• David Jacobson, Director, Program in Judaic Studies, Brown University: The Emergence of Talmudic Legends in Contemporary Israeli Culture
  

Fall 2011

• Laura Ligouri, Schusterman Scholar, Brandeis Anthropology: Reflections and Reconstructions of the Psyche in Israeli Theater
• Michael Kassen, AIPAC President-elect: A Discussion on the Role of AIPAC
• Michael Feige, Schusterman Visiting Professor, Anthropology, NEJS: The Changing Concept of Home among the West Bank Settlers
• Charles D. Freilich, Senior Fellow Belfer Center, Kennedy School: National Security Decision Making Process in Israel
• Yigal Schwartz, Ben Gurion University: Hebrew Literature in Europe - The 'Austro-Hungarians' versus the 'Russians'
• Michal Ben-Josef Hirsch, Schusterman Post-doc Politics/Heller School: Beyond Kumbaya - Using Symbolic Reparation in the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
• Michael Keren, University of Calgary: We Are Coming Unafraid - The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War
  
• Uri Bialer, Schusterman Visiting Professor History, NEJS: The History of Israel's Foreign Policy as an Area of Study

Spring 2011

• Yuval Jobani, Schusterman Post-doc NEJS: Man and Nature - AD Gordon on Secular Jewish Identity
• Benni Neuberger, Open University: On the Stability of Israel's Democracy
• Alain Deickoff, CNRS/Universite de Quebec: The Recognition of Israel as a Jewish State
• Guy Abutbul, Schusterman Scholar, Sociology: The Construction of Ethnic Identities in the Israeli Middle Class
• Yoram Peri, University of Maryland: The Military's Political Role in the Middle East and in Israel
• Rachel Fish, Schusterman Scholar, NEJS: Michel Warshawski and the Zionist Idea
• Avinoam Patt, University of Hartford: 'The People Must be Forced to go to Palestine' - a New Assessment of Zionism among the Survivors of the Holocaust
• Adi Gordon, University of Cincinnati: On Jews and Other Nations - The Intellectual Biography of Hans Kohn

Fall 2010

• All seminar participants: Topics on Chanukah
• Ceynep Zivcik, Schusterman Scholar, Politics: Turkey and Israel - The Role of the Military in Civil Society
• Dan Ben-David, Tel Aviv University: A Macro Perspective of Israel's Society and Economy
• Mitchell Bard, AICE: The Arab Lobby
• Nahshon Perez, Visiting Professor Boston University : The Privatization of Jewishness in Israel: On Markets, Pork and the Sabbath
  
• Gerald Steinberg, NGO Monitor: Monitoring NGOs
• Uzi Rebhun, Hebrew University: Demography, Social Prosperity and the Future of a Sovereign Israel
• Pnina Lahav, Boston University: A Small Nation Goes to War: Israel's Cabinet Authorization of the 1956 War
  
• Sammy Smooha, Haifa University/Brandeis University: Is Israel Western?

Spring 2010

• Liora Halperin, Harvard University Center for Jewish Studies: Language Diversity in the Yishuv
• Sayed Kashua, Writer-in-Residence, Haaretz columnist, novelist, screenwriter
• Aviva Halamish, Open University of Israel, Brandeis University: Soviet Influences on Israeli Culture in the Early Years
• Andi Arnovitz, HBI Artist in Residence Brandeis University: Tear/ Repair [kriah/ichooi]
• Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief, New York Times: Covering the Middle East in 2010: A Report from the Field
• Maoz Azaryahu, Haifa University/Brandeis University Anthropology: Asher Hiram and the Architecture of Military Cemeteries
• Dalia Ofer, HBI Guest, Brandeis University: Parenthood in the Shadow of the Holocaust
• Yarden Fanta-Vagenshtein, Harvard Research Fellow: Education: The Ethiopian-Israeli Community
• Shay Rabineau, Schusterman Scholar, NEJS: Hiking Trails in Israel

Fall 2009

• Michal Ben-Josef Hirsh, Schusterman Politics Post-doc, Politics: Until the Messiah do us Part: An Ideational and Political Alliance Between Israel and American Christians
• Daphne Tsimhoni, Princeton University: Between the Star and the Crescent: The Position and Dilemmas of Palestinian Christians, in Between Israel and the Palestinian Authority
• Alex Weingrod, Professor Emeritus Ben-Gurion University: The New Israeli Minorities
• Edwin Seroussi, Hebrew University: Music in Israel Today: Processes and Experiences
• Yoram Bilu, Schusterman Visiting Professor/Anthropology: The Messianic Self: Towards a Comparative Analysis of Habad and Braslav in Israel

Spring 2009

• Mordechi Inbari, Schusterman Post-doc/NEJS: Rabbi Amram Bloi and the History of Neturei Karta
• Randy Geller, Schusterman Scholar/NEJS: Framing the Druze Question: A Unique Minority in the Jewish State    
• Nili Gold, University of Pennsylvania: Writing Literary Biography
• Gabi Sheffer, Hebrew University: The Study of Civil-Military Relations in Israel: A New Perspective
• Nira Yuval Davis, University of East London: Belonging and the Politics of Belonging
• Hagar Lahav, Sapir Academic College, HBI: The State of Journalism in Israel
• Paula Kabalo, Ben Gurion University of the Negev/Boston University: Challenging Disempowerment in 1948: The Role of the Jewish Third Sector during the Israeli War of Independence
• Gannit Ankori, Hebrew University, Brandeis University: Israeli Art

• Benny Gidron, Schusterman Visiting Professor/Heller School, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Civil Society: The Missing Link in Israel Studies
• Guy Ben Porat, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev: Secular but illiberal? Paradoxes of Israeli Democracy
• Ronit Matalon, Haifa University: On Memory & Autobiography
• Dr. Maina Chawla Singh, University of Delhi/American University: 'Being Indian--Being Israeli': Ethnicity and Identity Among Indian Jews in Israel
• Etgar Keret, Writer: Girl on the Fridge, Jellyfish
• Yaacov Ariel, University of North Carolina: Christian Zionism
• Joseph Ringel, Schusterman Scholar/NEJS: What Is A Sephardi? A Debate Between R. Ovadiah Yosef And R. Eliyahu Zinni

Spring 2008

• Natan Aridan, Ben Gurion University: Israeli Diplomacy and Diaspora Communities 1948-1957
• Ofir Abu,Schusterman Scholar/Politics: Nationalism, Religion and the Breakdown of the Israeli-Palestinian Peace Process
• Motti Inbari, Schusterman Post-doc/NEJS: Who Will Build the Third Temple: Jewish Fundamentalism and the Temple Mount
• Motti Inbari, Schusterman Post-doc/NEJS: Theology of the Disengagement: Rabbinical Response to a Crisis of Faith
• Rachel Fish, Schusterman Scholar/NEJS: Bi-Nationalism: Nation-State Creation or Intellectual Framework
• Guy Abutbul Selinger, Schusterman Scholar/Sociology: From Mizrahiyut to Sephardiyut: The Construction of a New Political Subject