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