Israel Studies Seminar Series, Michaelmas 2025
Wednesdays 17:15
Room 10, Faculty of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies
Wednesday 15th October – Yair Wallach (SOAS)
Settlers, Migrants, Natives: the long Ashkenazi history in the Middle East and its contradictions
Wednesday 22nd October – Ilana Webster Kogen (SOAS)
On Personhood, Blood Libel and Disaster: A Media Ethnography of Torah Scrolls in an Era of War
Wednesday 29th October – Heather Munro (UCL)
The Haredi Question: Beyond the Draft
Wednesday 5th November – Mie Astrup Jenses (National Centre for Social Research)
Wednesday 12th November – Geoffrey Levin (Emory College)
From Lahore to Jerusalem: Recalling an Unlikely Mizrahi Rights Activist
Wednesday 19th November – David Tal (Sussex)
The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship
Wednesday 26th November – David Borabeck (Oxford)
The Militant Saint: The Transformation of Sacred Sites and Saintly Figures in Post-1948 Israel
Wednesday 3rd December – Steven Wagner (Brunel)
An Anatomy of Israel’s intelligence failure prior to 7 October 2023
For further information, contact:
Prof. Yaron Peleg (yp240@cam.ac.uk)