The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Israel Studies Colloquium

Monday, March 14, 2022, 12:30 – 2:00 PM, Berkeley Law, 297 Goldberg Room

Paula Kabablo, Spring 2022 Helen Diller Institute Visiting Professor; Professor of History, Head of the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Religious Discrimination, Diaspora, and the United Nations Voting on Israel

Monday, February 14, 2022, 12:30 – 2:00PM, Berkeley Law, 295 Warren Room

Jonathan Fox, Yehuda Avner Professor of Religion and Politics at Bar-Ilan University, the Director of the Religion and State (RAS) Project, and a Senior Research Fellow at Bar-Ilan’s Begin-Sadat Center for Strategic Studies

2020–2021

The Yemenite Children Affair: History, Access to Information, and Public Discourse

Roy Peled, Koret Visiting Professor in Israel Studies, UC Berkeley; Dov Levitan, Head of the Interdisciplinary Studies Program, Ashkelon College. Recording here.

How Space is Culturally Transformed: Religious and Aesthetic Creativity on the Israeli-Palestinian Border

Elisa Farinacci, Post Doctoral Fellow, University of Bologna

Let the Creators Sing: Informing Democracy Indices with Israeli Creators’ Voices

Daniella Wegner, Former Fulbright Scholar, Hebrew University and Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design; UC Berkeley Alumna. Recording here. 

Lessons Learned from Football Players and Epilepsy to Understand Brain Aging

Daniela Kaufer, Professor of Integrative Biology and Neuroscience and the Associate Dean of Biological Sciences at UC Berkeley. Recording here. 

Israeli Women in Combat

Ayelet Harel-Shalev, Associate Professor, The Conflict Management and Resolution Program. Recording here(link is external). 

Gil-li Vardi, Lecturer in History, Stanford University

2019–2020

Hadassah Women Build a ‘Modern Hospital’ — The Hadassah Medical Center on Mount Scopus

Stephanie Rotem, Berkeley Institute Visiting Professor; Tel Aviv University

The Growth of Religious Nationalism in Israeli Society

Alain Dieckhoff, Professor, Science Po

Special Joint Session with the Center for Democracy, Toleration, and Religion and the Berkeley Center for the Study of Religion

Israel as the State of Redemption: Political, Theological, and Cultural Implications

Eva Gurevich, PhD Candidate, Brandeis University

The Methodology of Immigration Law: The Case of Israel

Tally Kritzman-Amir, Visiting Professor, Harvard University

Israel-Gulf Relations: From Enemies to Allies of Convenience

Joshua Teitelbaum, Professor, Bar-Ilan University

Israeli Memorial Landscape: Competing Approaches to Remembrance and Forgetting

Yael Zerubavel, Professor Emeritus, Rutgers University

Antisemitism, Anti-Zionism and Criticism of Israel: Where to Draw the Line?

Dov Waxman, Gilbert Chair in Israel Studies, Y&S Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, UCLA

2018–2019

The Role of the Supreme Court in Israel’s Democracy

Asher Grunis, Former President of the Supreme Court of Israel

S.Y. Agnon: A Nobel Laureate Between Traditionalism, Modernism, and Surrealism

R. Jeffrey Saks, Rabbi, Author

Israeli Media and Politics

Anat Balint, Israel Institute Visiting Professor, San Francisco State University

The Role of Rhetoric, Discourse and Language in Marketing Contested Infrastructure: The Case of Israel

Itay Fischhendler, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

The Temple Mount: Sanctity, Nationalism and the End Point of Zionism

Tomer Persico, Koret-Hartman Visiting Professor of Jewish Thought

The Israel Museum: Between Zionism and Civic Nationalism

Hilda Nissim, Chair of History, Tel Aviv University

Economic Policy in Israel after the 2011 Social Protests: A Turning Point or Just a Blip?

Itai Ater, Israel Institute Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley; Tel Aviv University

Real Time: Hip-Hop in Israel

Uri Dorchin, Israel Institute Visiting Professor, UCLA; Zefat Academic College

2017–2018

Contemporary Left Antisemitism

David Hirsh, Professor of Sociology Goldsmiths, University of London

Arabs in the Three Branches of Power of the Israeli Political System — Politics, Identity, and Leadership

Rami Zeedan, Political Scientist, Open University of Israel

Israeli Democracy in Crisis? Between Governability and Governance

Gayil Talshir, San Jose State University, Department of Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2017–2018 Israel Institute Visiting Professor

Legal-Net: The Use and Misuse of Technology in the Regulation of Judges in Israel

Amnon Reichman, 2017–2018 Robbins Collection Visiting Professor in Comparative Law, Associate Professor of Law, Faculty of Law, University of Haifa

Israel, Palestine, and the World’s Most Intractable Conflict

Gershon Shafir, Distinguished Professor, Department of Sociology, University of California, San Diego

The Israeli Transnational Surrogacy Story — Some Empirical and Normative Reflections

Ruth Zafran, Associate Professor, IDC, Herzliya, Radzyner Law School; 2017-2018 Berkeley Institute Visiting Scholar

Black Musics, Blackness, and the Israeli Imagination

Sarah Hankins, Professor of Sound Studies, UC San Diego

PTSD and the Politics of Trauma in Israel

Keren Friedman-Peleg, Medical Anthropologist, The College of Management, Academic Studies

2016–2017

Sociology in the Garden: Beyond the Liberal Grammar of Contemporary Sociology

Nissim Mizrahi, Tel Aviv University (Anthropology and Sociology)

Who Came and Who Stayed Home? Israel’s Massive Street Protests of 2011

Michael Shalev, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Political Science, Sociology and Anthropology)

State Responsibility and the Policy of Privatization in Israel

Itzhak Galnoor, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Political Science)

Oriental Neighbors: Middle Eastern Jews and Arabs in Mandatory Palestine

Moshe Naor, University of Haifa (Israel Studies)

Grammatical Gender: Does Hebrew Language Fail Women in Math?

Tamar Kricheli-Katz, Tel Aviv University (Law and Sociology) and Tali Regev, Interdisciplinary Center in Herzliya (School of Economics)

Salvage or Restitution? The Removal of Jewish Cultural Property to Israel After the Holocaust

Shir Kochavi, Cultural Arts Director, Addison Penzak JCC

Musical and Other Cultural Cosmopolitanism in Israel

Motti Regev, The Open University of Israel (Sociology)

Israel in Africa: Medical Diplomacy and Global Health, 1959–1973

Anat Moorvile, Israel Post-Doctoral Fellow at University of California, Davis (Jewish Studies)

Limbotopia and the Changing Concept of Time in Hebrew Literature after Oslo

Vered Shemtov, Stanford University (Hebrew and Comparative Literature)

Elana Gomel, Tel Aviv University (English and American Studies)

How Come Israel Still Has a Constitution? On the Status Quo as Countermajoritarian Difficulty

Ori Aronson, Israel Institute Visiting Professor; The Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Visiting Professor of Israeli Law and Society, Bar Ilan University (Faculty of Law)

The Boundaries of Israel Studies

Itamar Rabinovich, Tel Aviv University (Middle Eastern History), Former Israeli Ambasador to the United States, President of the Israel Institute

The Dream of the Seventh Dominion: British Liberal Imperialism and the Palestine Question

Arie Dubnov, University of Haifa (History)

Israeli Society in the 21st Century: A Social Demographer’s Perspective

Calvin Goldscheider, Brown University (Sociology and Judaic Studies)

Performance, Disability, and Zionism in the work of Tamar Borer

Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University (Hebrew Literature)

The PLO Research Center: Israel Studies in the Arab World

Jonathan Gribetz, Princeton University (Near Eastern Studies and Judaic Studies)

Environmental Regulation of Israeli Offshore Oil and Gas

Tamara Lotner-Lev, University of Haifa (History)

2014–2015

Anti-Trafficking in Israel: Nationalism, Borders, and Markets

Hila Shamir, Associate Profesor at the Buchman Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University; Visiting Scholar, Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies

The Revolution of the Third Generation: Redefining Israeli Identity through Traditional Music and Song

Francesco Spagnolo, Curator of The Magnes Collection of Jewish Art and Life and a Lecturer in the Department of Music, and Yair Harel, Founder and Director of Invitation to Piyut and a leading figure in the piyut revival movement in Israel

Should Israel Entrench its Constitutional Identity?

Ruth Gavison, Professor of Law, Hebrew University in Jerusalem; One of the founders and former President of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel

How Serious Is the Threat of Dual Authority in the Israel Defense Forces?

Stuart Cohen, Professor of Political Studies, Bar-Ilan University

Was the Ottoman Institution of Petitioning the Sultan Obsolete by the End of the 19th Century?: The Case of the District of Jerusalem

Yuval Ben-Bassat, Senior Lecturer at the Department of Middle Eastern History, University of Haifa; 2014–2015 Abramson-Israel Institute Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley

On "Sheep Gone Astray": A Muslim Headscarf in a Nazareth Catholic School and a Sephardi Student in an Ashkenazi Ultra-Orthodox School

Michael Karayanni, The Bruce W. Wayne Chair in International Law, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

In the Name of Energy Security: The Struggle Over the Exportation of Israeli Natural Gas

Itay Fischhendler, Associate Professor at the Geography Department, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem; 2014-2015 Visiting Professor, UC Berkeley

Men, Money, and Materiel: How Israel Won the 1948 War

Derek Penslar, Samuel Zacks Professor of Jewish History, University of Toronto; Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, Oxford University