Skip to main content

Main navigation

Home
Series
People
Depts & Colleges
Open Education

Search

Main navigation

Home
Series
People
Depts & Colleges
Open Education

Israel

Search title

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)

Bashir Abu-Manneh - Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948

Bashir Abu-Manneh discusses Emile Habibi’s The Pessoptimist and 1948.

Rami Ginat - Egyptian Communist Voices of Peace (1947-1958)

Rami Ginat discusses the Egyptian Communist Party's stance on Israel in its formative first decade of statehood.

Faisal Devji: Jewish Pecedents and Muslim Nationalism

Faisal Devji discusses the surprising relations between Pakistani nationalism and Zionism.

Pagination

First page
Previous page
Page 1
Page 2
Page 3
Current page 4
Page 5
Page 6
Next page
Last page

Footer

About
Accessibility
Contribute
Copyright
Contact
Privacy