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Forschungskolloquium: Israel and the Near East in Modern Times

Research Colloquium, summer semester 2010

Programm

First Session, Friday, 14.5.10, 11-14 Uhr

Julie Grimmeisen, LMU, "Frauenbilder unter jüdischen und arabischen Israelis, 1948-67"

Rakefet Zalashik, HfjS, "Prejudices and Israeli Psychiatrists: the Case of Holocaust Survivors and Oriental Jews"

Second Session, Friday, 28.5.10, 11-14 Uhr

Tal Cohen, HfjS,

The Israeli and the American Pioneering Experience and Nation-Building Process: Similarities and Differences

Dan Tamir, University of Zurich, "We should learn from the Duce": Hebrew Generic Fascism, 1922-1942

Third Session, Friday, 11.6.10, 11-14 Uhr

Najat Effenberg, University of Leipizg, Minorities and Networking: Jewish and Greek Entrepreneurs in Modern Egypt

Janine Tornow, HfjS, Proteste der Misrachim: Wadi Salin und haPanterim haShkhorim

Fourth Session, Friday, 25.6.10, 11-14 Uhr

Shelly Harten, FU, In The Mirror: A Desert. The Representation of "the Arab" in Zionist and Israeli Visual High Arts (1906-2010).

Araine Sadjed, Humboldt University, "Shopping for Freedom" - The interaction between religion and consumption in modern Iran, 1990-2010.

Fifth Session, Friday, 9.7.19, 11:15-14:00

Michal Maroz, HfjS, German Israeli Youth Exchange: First Encounter and the Perception of the Other.

Alena Mehlau, University of Heidelberg, The Psychology of Conflict Resolution: Insights from a Simulation Game of the Israeli Arab Conflict.

As part of the new Ben-Gurion Chair for Israel and Near East Studies, we establish a yearly Research Colloquium Seminar starting next spring semester 2010.

The colloquium aims to offer a platform for discussing research topics, which are related to Israel and the Near East by master and doctorate candidates.

This research colloquiums attempts to bring together Israel and Near East Studies based on the understanding that we are dealing with one region and that Israel and the Near East should be discussed as a one potential unit. Thus, putting together Israel and the Near East allows not only a scholarly wider perspective on the region due to the deep affinity between their histories, but it can also contribute to a better understanding of each history.

The research colloquium puts a strong emphasize on interdisciplinary fields and encourages the participation of students from history, economics, culture studies, gender, sociology and anthropology.

Students should be at the level of a research proposal or already begun to write their thesis. For registration please send a short abstract of the research topic and a c.v. per E-mail an Rakefet Zalashik: rz0@ix.urz.uni-heidelberg.de.

The participants of the research colloquium will meet every two weeks for a three hours session to discuss two presentations each time given in German or English. There are three ways of participation: