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Accepted presenters must have completed registration by March 19, 2023, to be in the program.
The final program is posted on the Program tab.
AIS members are welcome to place copies of their new publications on the AIS table in the exhibitor area - on their own cognizance.

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The 39th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies will gather on June 26-28, 2023 on the theme "Israel at 75: Archives, History and Society"

Co-chairs: Ronald W. Zweig and Avi Shilon


Program Committee

Anthropology and Sociology


Virginia Rosa Dominguez, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign

Iddo Tavory, New York University

Nissim Leon, Bar-Ilan University

 

Arab and Palestinian Society in Israel


Rami Zeedan, University of Kansas

Mustafa Abbasi, Tel Hai College

Sami Miaari, Tel Aviv University

 

Archives and Freedom of Information


Ronald W. Zweig, New York University

Yaacov Lozowick, Israel National Archive (Emeritus)

 

Disability Studies


Michal Soffer, University of Haifa

Hannah Zaves-Greene, Sarah Lawrence College

 

Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship


Arie Krampf, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Jaffa

  

Education


Tali Tadmor-Shimony, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Dina Roginsky, Yale University

 

Ethnicities


Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi, The Open University of Israel

Brian Roby, University of Michigan

Merav Alush-Levron, Tel Aviv University

 

Geography and Environment


Nir Cohen, Bar-Ilan University

Tamar Novick, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

 

History of Zionism


Yitzhak Conforti, Bar-Ilan University

Rona Yona, Tel Aviv University

David Engel, New York University (emeritus)

 

History of the Yishuv


Ronald W. Zweig, New York University

Nimrod Lin, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies

Aviva Halamish, The Open University of Israel

 

History of the State of Israel


Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Meir Chazan, Tel Aviv University

 

International Relations and Conflict Resolution


Yael S. Aronoff, Michigan State University

Lior Lehrs, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Israel in/and the Jewish World


Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College

Hizky Shoham, Bar-Ilan University

Zohar Segev, Haifa University

 

Israel in/and the Arab World


Ami Pedahzur, The University of Texas

Zvi Ben-Dor Benite, New York University

Elie Podeh, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

 

Language and Literature


Benny Hary, New York University

Roni Henig, New York University

Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University

  

Law


Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University

Ahmad Amara, NYU Tel Aviv

Karin Loevy, New York University

 

Media and Communication


Nissim Katz, Kinneret College

Yoram Peri, University of Maryland

 

Music, Visual, and Performing Arts


Shiri Goren, Yale University

Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts Amherst

 

Philosophy and Religious Thought


Motti Inbari, The University of North Carolina at Pembroke

Tomer Persico, Hartman Institute / University of California, Berkeley

 

Politics


Elisheva Rosman-Stollman, Bar-Ilan University

Csaba Nikolenyi, Concordia University

Avi Shilon, New York University / Tel Hai College

 

Settlements


Erez Maggor, Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Yair Sheleg, Shalom Hartman Institute

 

Women, Gender and Sexualities


Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Bar-Ilan University

Gilly Hartal, Bar-Ilan University

Matan Boord, Bar-Ilan University 

Please click on the tabs above for Program, Registration, Venue, Accommodations or Pre-Conference Events.


Accepted presenters must have completed registration by March 21, 2024, to be in the program.


The program will be posted on the Program tab in mid-April.

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The 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies is held jointly with the 12th Annual Conference of the European Assocation of Israel Studies.

The theme: "Israel and Israel Studies: The European and International Perspective"

Conference Chair: Marcela Menachem Zoufala


Program Committee

Anthropology and Sociology


Elisabeth Becker Topkara, Heidelberg University

Yulia Egorova, Durham University

Dani Kranz, El Colegio de Mexico

Nissim Leon, Bar-Ilan University

 

Arab and Palestinian Society in Israel


Mustafa Abbasi, Tel-Hai College

Elie Rekhess, Northwestern University

Sammy Smooha, University of Haifa (emeritus)

Rami Zeedan, University of Kansas

 

Disability Studies


Michal Soffer, University of Haifa

 

Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship


Arie Krampf, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo

Alfred Tovias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emeritus)

  

Education


Dina Roginsky, Yale University

 

Ethnicities


Bat-Zion Klorman-Eraqi, The Open University of Israel

Brian Roby, University of Michigan

Liora Sion, University of Copenhagen

 

Geography and Environment


Nir Cohen, Bar-Ilan University

Tamar Novick, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

 

History of Zionism


Yitzhak Conforti, Bar-Ilan University

Ilan Troen, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev / Brandeis University (emeritus)

 

History of the Yishuv


Aviva Halamish, The Open University of Israel

Nimrod Lin, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies

 

History of the State of Israel


Johannes Becke, Heidelberg University

Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Lukasz Tomasz Sroka, Pedagogical University of Krakow

 

International Relations and Conflict Resolution


Amnon Aran, University of London

Yael S. Aronoff, Michigan State University

Joanna Dyduch, Jagiellonian University

David Tal, University of Sussex

 

Israel in/and Europe


Olaf Glockner, University of Potsdam

Sharon Pardo, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Zbynek Tarant, University of West Bohemia

Israel in/and the Jewish World


Sara Yael Hirschhorn, University of Haifa

Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College (emerita)

Hizky Shoham, Bar-Ilan University

 

Israel in/and the Arab World


Menna Abukhadra, Cairo University

Przemyslaw Turek, Jagiellonian University

Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University

 

Israel and Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Diaspora


Ben Gidley, Birbeck - University of London

Dekel Peretz, Heidelberg University

  

Language and Literature


Rachel S. Harris, Florida Atlantic University

Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University

  

Law


Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University

Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, University of Reading

 

Media and Communication


Nissim Katz, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee

Karolina Zielinksa, Vistula University

 

Music, Visual, and Performing Arts


Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Colin Shindler, University of London (emeritus)

 

Philosophy and Religious Thought


Peter Lintl, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Yaacov Yadgar, University of Oxford

 

Politics


Irena Kalhousova, Charles University

PR Kumaraswamy, Jawaharlal Nehru University

Daniel Mahla, University of Haifa

Avi Shilon, Tel-Hai College

Alla Zakharchenko, Odessa Mechnikov National University

 

Women, Gender and Sexualities


Matan Boord, Bar-Ilan University 

Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Bar-Ilan University

Ghilad H. Shenhav, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich