Israel Studies events at the annual conference of MESA, Washington, DC, November 22-25. For full program click here (PDF).
AIS–Association for Israel Studies Reception
Saturday, 11/22
Reception, 8:30-10:30pm, McKinley (M)
(3681) Settler-Colonialism and the Study of Zionism: Erasure, Transfer and Assimilation
Sunday, November 23, 11am-1pm
Organized by Arnon Degani
Sponsored by Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
Chair: Gabriel Piterberg, UCLA
Discussant: Lorenzo Veracini, Swinburne Inst for Social Research
Susan Slyomovics, UCLA–“The Object of Memory” and Settler Colonialism Studies 16 Years Later
Honaida Ghanim, Palestinian Forum for Israeli Studies–Judaization and De-Indigenization: Settler-Colonialism in East Jerusalem
Areej Sabbagh-Khoury, Mada Al-Carmel–The Zionist Left and Settler-Colonialism in Marj Ibn ‘Amer: Land, Population and Property
Arnon Degani, UCLA–Non-Statist and Bi-Nationalist Zionism as Settler-Colonial Agendas
(3756) Rule of Experts?: Revolutions, Doctrines, and Interventions in the Middle East
Sunday, November 23, 2m-4pm
Organized by Osamah Khalil
Seth Anziska, Columbia University–Israel, the United States and the 1982 War in Lebanon
(3925) World War One and Its Aftermath
Sunday, November 23, 2m-4pm
Chair: Weston F Cook, Jr, UNC Pembroke
Roberto Mazza, Western Illinois U–Cemal Pasha, Zionism and the Alleged Expulsion of the Jews from Jaffa in April 1917
(3792) Israel Studies in the Arab World
Sunday, November 23, 4:30m-6:30pm
Organized by Johannes Becke
Discussant: Elie Podeh, Hebrew U of Jersusalem
Hassan A. Barari, U Jordan–Israelism: Arab Scholarship on Israel, a Critical Assessment
Mostafa Hussein, Brandeis U–Israel Studies in the Arab World Between Two Dictums: ‘Whosoever Learns People’s Language Avoids Their Plot’ and ‘Know Your Enemy’
Johannes Becke, U Oxford–Hebrew in Beirut: Studying Israel in the Last Arab Frontline State
Hebatalla Taha, U Oxford–The Politics of ‘Normalisation’: The Israeli Academic Centre in Cairo
Amr Yossef, American U Cairo–Egyptian Israelists: The View from Israel
(3886) Social Media, the Digital Archive, and Scholarly Futures
Sunday, November 23, 4:30m-6:30pm
Organized by Ted Swedenburg
Chair/Discussant: Elliott Colla, Georgetown U
Rebecca L. Stein, Duke U–The Perpetrator’s Archive: Israel’s Occupation on YouTube
(4006) Special Session
Abandoned Yet Central: Gaza and the Resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Sunday, November 23, 4:30m-6:30pm
Organized by Sara Roy
Chair: Sara Roy, Harvard University
Chris Gunness, UNRWA, Office of the Commissioner General, Jerusalem
Paul Aaron, Political Analyst and Consultant, Gaza Community Mental Health Program
Bill Corcoran, American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA)
Ilana Feldman, George Washington University
Brian Barber, University of Tennessee
Susan Akram, Boston University School of Law
This session will present an overview of the past summer’s violent clashes between Israeli and Hamas forces and the ensuing destruction in Gaza. Representatives from the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) and the American Near East Refugee Aid (ANERA) will provide an “on-the-ground” analysis of the destruction and human toll of the 50-day war. Scholars will further place the recent violence in the context of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict and examine the prerequisites for a sustainable resolution of the conflict.
(3737) Religious Inclusivity and Civilizational Identity: Expanding Iranian Identities Along Religious, Ethnic, and Gender Lines
Monday, November 24, 8:30am-10:30am
Organized by Lior Sternfeld
Chair/Discussant: Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, U Toronto
Lior Sternfeld, U Texas Austin–Iran is My Homeland, Jerusalem is My Qiblah: Iranian Jews Between Zionist and Iranian Identities
(3643) Israel, the United States and a Changing Middle East
Monday, November 24, 11am-1pm
Organized by Robert O. Freedman
Sponsored by Association for Israel Studies
Chair/Discussant: Robert O. Freedman, Johns Hopkins U
Eyal Zisser, Tel Aviv U–Israel and the Arab World – Who’s First – Syria, Egypt or Lebanon?
Ilan Peleg, Lafayette Col–Israel, Netanyahu & the Palestinians: Is the Third Term the Charm?!
Rami Ginat, Bar Ilan U–The Israeli-Egyptian-American Strategic Triangle: A Reassessment in Light of the Arab Uprising
Joshua Teitelbaum, Bar-Ilan U–Israel and the Gulf Cooperation Council: New Opportunities for Cooperation?
Uzi Rabi, Tel Aviv U–Iran and Israel: Post 2013 Elections
(3697) Bridging the Rupture of 1948: The “Decolonization” and Erasure of Mandate Palestine
Monday, November 24, 2:30pm-4:30pm
Organized by Jeffrey D. Reger and Leena Dallasheh
Sponsored by Palestinian American Research Center (PARC)
Chair: Zachary Lockman, New York U
Discussant: Shira Robinson, George Washington U
Jeffrey D. Reger, Georgetown U–Uprooting Palestine: Olive Groves, Mass Dispossession, and Peasant Resistance, 1945-1955
Hilary Falb Kalisman, UC Berkeley–Learning Exile: Palestinian Students and Educators Abroad, 1940-1958
Leena Dallasheh, Rice U–Defying the Rupture, Affirming Presence: Palestinians in Nazareth Surviving 1948
Rephael Stern, Princeton U–Israel’s Postcolonial Predicament and Its Contradicting Jurisdictional Claims in 1948
(3917) Perilous Peacemaking: Israeli-Palestinian Relations Since Oslo
Monday, November 24, 5pm-7pm
Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota
Elie Podeh, Hebrew U Jerusalem–Missed Opportunities in the Arab-Israeli Conflict: The Case of the Arab Peace Initiative (2002-2014)
Maia Carter Hallward, Kennesaw State U–Choosing to Negotiate Under Sub-Optimal Conditions: The 2013 Israeli-Palestinian Negotiations
Gabriele Mombelli, U Florence–The Palestinian National Authority Security Sector: An Operational Overview
Karam Dana, U Washington–Twenty Years after Oslo: What Do Palestinians Think?
Andrew Barwig, Department of State–“New Blood” in Israel’s Knesset: Elite Circulation and Parliamentary Resilience
(3867) Urbanism and the Politics of the Mandate Period, Local versus Imperial Interests
Tuesday, November 25, 11am-1pm
Organized by Harrison Guthorn
Chair: Elizabeth F. Thompson, U Virginia
Noah Hysler Rubin, Bezalel Academy of Art and Design–Planning Palestine: British and Zionist Plans for Tiberius and Nathanya
(3893) Public Opinion in the Middle East
Tuesday, November 25, 11am-1pm
Organized by Yael Zeira
Devorah Manekin, Arizona State U–Carrots and Sticks: Policy Instruments and Public Opinion in the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
(3919) Palestinian Resistance: Spaces and Standpoints
Tuesday, November 25, 11am-1pm
Chair: Timothy Schorn, U South Dakota
Timothy Seidel, American U–Narrating Nonviolence: Postcolonial Interrogations of Resistance in Palestine
Maya Rosenfeld, Hebrew U Jerusalem–The Movement of Palestinian Political Prisoners and the Struggle Against the Israeli Occupation: A Historical Perspective
Sharri Plonski, SOAS U London–Transcending Bounded Space: The Struggle for Land and Space by the Palestinian Citizens of Israel
Julie Norman, McGill U–Prisoners Dilemma?: Prison-Based Resistance and the Diffusion of Activism in Palestine
Maryam Griffin, UC Santa Barbara–Movement as/and Non-Movement in Palestine
(3949) Transnational Cultural Production
Tuesday, November 25, 1:30pm-3:30pm
Chair: Zeynep Seviner, U Washington
Isra Ali, Rutgers, State U of New Jersey–Adaptation: Cultural Alliances and Television Production in Israel and the United States
Robert Lang, U Hartford–Ari Folman’s Waltz with Bashir: Whose Trauma?
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