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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

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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

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Mustafa Abbasi, Tel-Hai College

Elie Rekhess, Northwestern University

Sammy Smooha, University of Haifa (emeritus)

Rami Zeedan, University of Kansas

 

Disability Studies

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Michal Soffer, University of Haifa

 

Economics, Business, and Entrepreneurship

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Arie Krampf, Academic College of Tel Aviv-Yaffo

Alfred Tovias, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (emeritus)

  

Education

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Dina Roginsky, Yale University

 

Ethnicities

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

Brian Roby, University of Michigan

Liora Sion, University of Copenhagen

 

Geography and Environment

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Nir Cohen, Bar-Ilan University

Tamar Novick, Max Planck Institute for the History of Science

 

History of Zionism

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Yitzhak Conforti, Bar-Ilan University

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

 

History of the Yishuv

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Aviva Halamish, The Open University of Israel

Nimrod Lin, Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies

 

History of the State of Israel

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Johannes Becke, Heidelberg University

Orit Rozin, Tel Aviv University

Lukasz Tomasz Sroka, Pedagogical University of Krakow

 

International Relations and Conflict Resolution

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Amnon Aran, University of London

Yael S. Aronoff, Michigan State University

Joanna Dyduch, Jagiellonian University

David Tal, University of Sussex

 

Israel in/and Europe

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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

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Sara Yael Hirschhorn, University of Haifa

Donna Robinson Divine, Smith College (emerita)

Hizky Shoham, Bar-Ilan University

 

Israel in/and the Arab World

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Menna Abukhadra, Cairo University

Przemyslaw Turek, Jagiellonian University

Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv University

 

Israel and Muslim-Jewish Relations in the Diaspora

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Ben Gidley, Birbeck - University of London

Dekel Peretz, Heidelberg University

  

Language and Literature

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Rachel S. Harris, Florida Atlantic University

Ilana Szobel, Brandeis University

  

Law

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Lisa Fishbayn Joffe, Brandeis University

Reuven (Ruvi) Ziegler, University of Reading

 

Media and Communication

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Nissim Katz, Kinneret College on the Sea of Galilee

Karolina Zielinksa, Vistula University

 

Music, Visual, and Performing Arts

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Olga Gershenson, University of Massachusetts - Amherst

Colin Shindler, University of London (emeritus)

 

Philosophy and Religious Thought

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Peter Lintl, German Institute for International and Security Affairs

Yaacov Yadgar, University of Oxford

 

Politics

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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

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Matan Boord, Bar-Ilan University 

Lilach Rosenberg-Friedman, Bar-Ilan University

Ghilad H. Shenhav, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich