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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 on July 1-3, 2024.

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