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Moriel Ram, 'A tale of sand and snow: Bar-Lev line and the Hermon ski site as material fantasies'

Moriel Ram (SOAS) discusses how sand and snow produce potent imageries and physical realities in Israeli political culture.

Episode 6: The .01 Percent

In this episode, Israeli poet Tahel Frosh talks to us about her debut poetry collection Betsa (Avarice, 2014), financial crisis, and the value of culture.

Desert in the Promised Land: The Politics and Semiotics of Space in Israeli Culture

Yael Zerubavel (Professor Emerita of Jewish Studies and History, Rutgers University) gives a talk for the Middle East Centre, chaired by Professor Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's).

Episode 3: A Language for Grief

Interview with Israeli poet Shimon Adaf, author of Aviva-Lo (Aviva-No, 2009).

The Folly of Secularism Dialogues on the theopolitics of the nation-state: Israel in a wider context. Session 3: Israel: a dialogue between Yehouda Shenhav (Tel Aviv) and Yaacov Yadgar (Oxford)

Yehouda Shenhav and Yaacov Yadgar discuss the uses and misuses of a discourse on “Judaism” in Israel. Session 3 in a series of three.

Avner Offer: Quality of Life and Well-being in Israel Today

Avner offer discusses how to measure -- and how to understand the measurements -- of quality of life and well-being in Israel.

Eyal Chowers - The emerging notion of sovereignty in contemporary Israel

Eyal Chowers considers Israeli democracy, liberalism, and the emerging notion of sovereignty in the state

Menachem Klein - Abbas' Leadership in a State Postponed

Menachem Klein discusses the political biography and leadership of Mahmoud Abbas, President of the Palestinian Authority.

Khaled Furani - Putting Israel on the Couch: A Palestinian challenge from within the Leviathan

Khaled Furani deconstruct sovereignty, and considers some alternatives.

Netta Cohen - When climate takes command: Jewish-Zionist scientific approaches to climate in Palestine 1900-1948

How did Zionist scientist see climate in Palestine?

Brian Klug - Defining antisemitism, demonizing Zionism, excoriating Corbyn: The current controversy over the left and the Jews

Brian Klug analyses the controversy around antisemitism in the Labour Party and the limits on the criticism of Zionism.

Preventing Palestine: A Political History from Camp David to Oslo

Dr Seth Anziska (Mohamed S. Farsi-Polonsky Lecturer in Jewish-Muslim Relations, University College London), gives a talk for the Middle East Studies Centre.

Orna Sasson-Levy - Gendered citizenship: The case of Women Breaking the Silence

Orna Sasson-Levy discusses the cast of women soldiers who decide to speak

Adriana X Jacobs - A gift from Sinai: Translation and nation-building

Adriana Jacobs (Oxford) discusses the role of translation in the constitutive era of modern Hebrew literature.

David Tal - The making of alliance: The making and history of US-Israel relationships

David Tal discusses the making and history of US-Israel relationships.

Yakov Rabkin - Israel: The Russian Connection

Yakov Rabkin (University of Montreal) discusses the roots of Israeli political culture in the Zionist beginnings in the Yiddish speaking regions of the Russian Empire.

Yaacov Yadgar - The Nation-State bill and the meaning of Israel’s Jewish identity

Yaacov Yadgar discusses the recently passed Basic-Law: Israel the Nation State of the Jewish People, and discusses how it plays into Israel's Jewish Identity Crisis

Book Event: On the Arab Jew, Palestine, and Other Displacements

Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck), Kfir Cohen (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), Moshe Behar (The University of Manchester), Hakem Al-Rustom (Michigan), Ella Shohat (New York University) discuss at the book event. Chaired by Eugene Rogan (St Antony's College).

The Question of Judeo-Arabic: Nation, Partition, and the Linguistic Imaginary

Ella Shohat (New York University) gives a lecture for the middle east centre, chaired by Yaacov Yadgar (Stanley Lewis Professor of Israel Studies, St Anne's). Comments by Yuval Evri (SOAS).

Kfir Cohen - Israeli Literature as Global Literature

Kfir Cohen discusses Israeli literature as global literature (broadly defined)

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