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CURRICULUM VITAE Bashir Bashir CURRICULUM VITAE Bashir Bashir Personal Open University of Israel Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication Derekh ha-Universita 1 P.O.Box 808 Ra'anana, 4353701, Israel +972-9-7781695 [email protected] Higher Education A. Undergraduate and Graduate Studies Period of Study Name of Institution Degree Year of and Department Approval of Degree 2001-2006 London School of PhD 2006 Economics- Department of Government 1999-2000 London School of MSc 2000 Economics- Department of Government 1994-1998 Hebrew University of BA 1998 Jerusalem- Department of Political Science and Department of Sociology and Anthropology 1 B. Post-Doctoral Studies Period of Study Name of Institution, Department and Year of Host Completion 2009-2010 Europe in the Middle East-The Middle 2010 East in Europe- Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin 2006-2008 Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship- 2008 Department of Political Science- Hebrew University of Jerusalem 2006 Kreitman Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Declined Ben-Gurion University Academic Ranks and Tenure in Institutions of Higher Education Years Name of Institution and Rank/Position Department 2018-Present The Open University of Israel Associate Professor 2016- Present The Open University of Israel Senior Lecturer 2018-Present The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Senior Research Fellow 2015-Present Bruno Kreisky Forum for Senior International Dialogue Research Fellow 2013-2014 European University Institute- The Research Global Governance Program Fellow 2012-2016 Brigham Young University Senior Jerusalem Centre for Near East Lecturer Studies 2012-2017 The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute Research Fellow 2010-2011 Syracuse University- Maxwell Civic School of Citizenship Education and Leadership Fellow 2007-2009 Hebrew University of Jerusalem- Research Research Fellow in the Gilo Centre Fellow for Democracy, Citizenship and Civic Education 2006-2008 Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Adjunct Department of Political Science Lecturer 2 2005-2006 Queen’s University (Canada)- Visiting Philosophy Department Lecturer 2003-2005 London School of Economics and Tutor Political Science- Government Department Offices in Academic Administration 2018 Member of the Open University’s Planning Committee for the Dov Lautman Conference 2017 Member of the Open University’s Committee for the “Israeli Hope in Academia” 2016-Present Member of the Open University’s Steering Committee for the Expansion of Higher Education for the Arab Society in Israel Scholarly Positions and Activities outside the Institution 2016-Present Member of the Scientific Editorial Board of The Van Leer Institute Press 2015-Present Membership in Editorial of Journal and Press Houses: Member of the Editorial Board of the Journal “Theory and Criticism” 2017-Present Member of the International Editorial Advisory Board of the “Journal of Ethnic and Cultural Studies” 2017-Present Member of the Editorial Board of the “American Journal of Qualitative Research” 2015 Scholarship Committee: Committee Member for Interviewing and Selecting the Said Foundation Fellows for Graduate/ Post Graduate Studies in the UK Referee for Academic Journals: Ethics; American Political Science Review; British Journal of Sociology; Constellations; Political Studies; Ethnicities; Citizenship Studies; Ethical Perspectives; Contemporary Levant; Res Publica; International Journal of Middle East Studies; Journal of Educational Media, Memory, and Society; Journal of Levantine Studies; Theory and Criticism; Education, Citizenship and Social Justice; Review of International Studies; Journal of Social Philosophy; Cooperation and Conflict; The Middle East Journal; Nations and Nationalism; Memory Studies; Quest. Issues in Contemporary Jewish History; Third World Quarterly; Nations and Nationalism; International Journal of Politics, Culture and Society; Journal of Intercultural Studies; London Review of Education Referee for Academic Journals: Columbia University Press; Van Leer Press Referee for Research Funds: 3 Referee for Israel Scientific Fund (ISF) Participation in Scholarly Conferences A. Active Participation Date Name of Conference, Subject of Role Place of Conference Lecture/Discussion 5-7 January, The Great Unraveling: Formation of New Commentator 2018 The Prospect of Nations Radical Transformation in the Middle East- Yale University- Lisbon, Portugal 6-8 January, Between the Human Commentator 2017 and the Divine: Sources of Order and Disorder in the Middle East- Yale University, Marrakech, Morocco 25th of May, Zionism and The Memories of Keynote 2017 Antisemitism- the Holocaust and Lecture Birkbeck College, Nakba and the University of London Politics of Bi- nationalism in Israel/Palestine 17-19 May, Envisioning New Teaching Political Lecture 2016 Possibilities of Theory under Multicultural conditions of Education- KAME- Conflict Seoul National University 10-12 Israel-Palestine: The Holocaust and Lecture November, Lands and People- Nakba: Reflections 2016 Watson Institute for on Memory, International Studies, History and Trauma Brown University 9-11 The Exceptionalism Commentator January, of Tunisia? 2015 4 22-26 June, Global Migration, Democracy, Lecture 2015 Structural Inclusion, Citizenship, and the and Citizenship Politics of Education across Reconciliation Nations- University of Washington, Seattle, USA 17-19 Transformations- Yale On Citizenship: A Lecture January, University, New Levantine 2014 Haven, USA Approach and Re- imaging Israel/Palestine 18-19 May, Global Conflict and Four Discourses on Lecture 2014 Conflict Management: the Question of Israel/Palestine and Israel/Palestine Beyond- University of Oxford 17 May, History and Memory: Neutralizing Lecture 2012 Global and Local History in Divided Dimensions- Europe Societies Centre, Stanford University 26 October- Series of Lectures in Multidimensional Series of 3 November, Japan: Kyoto Citizenship; Lectures 2012 University; University Partition and Its of Tokyo; and Tokyo Alternatives University of Foreign Studies 1 November, Harvard College Alternatives to Public Lecture 2010 Palestine Solidarity Partition: New Committee- Harvard Visions for Israel/ Kennedy School, Palestine Harvard University 17 Europe Centre Alternatives to Lecture November, Luncheon Seminar, Partition: New 2010 Stanford University Visions for Israel/ Palestine 22-24 June Israel/ Palestine: The Politics of 2009 Mapping Models of Reconciliation and Lecture Statehood and Paths Bi-national to Peace-York democracy in University, Canada Israel/Palestine 23-24 Beyond Apology and What is Left of Lecture October, Utopia: Critical Civil Society 2009 Engagement with Good Governance in the Arab World- University of Windsor, Canada 5 23-24 Middle East Working Out of the Impasse: Lecture September, Group-Virginia Tech, The Politics of 2008 USA Reconciliation in Palestine/ Israel 25-28 Tsinghua University, Teaching Political Lecture October, China Philosophy in 2007 Conflict Zone: The Case of Palestine/ Israel- with Avenr de-Shalit B. Organization of Conferences or Sessions Date Name of Conference, Subject of Role Place of Conference Conference 2014-2018 Arab Engagements Anti-Semitism; Organizer Biannual with the Jewish Decline of Imperial International Question; Jewish Order and Rise of Workshop Engagements with the National Order; Arab Question- Bruno Regionalism and Kreisky Forum for Borders; Arab and International Jewish Nationalism Dialogue, Vienna 7- 9 March Transitional Justice in Transitions to New Co-organizer 2013 Israel/Palestine- Political Order in Global Governance Divided Societies: Program, European Comparative University Lessons for Institute, Florence Israel/Palestine 2012-2014 Alternatives to Rethinking Self- Organizer Biannual Partition- Bruno Determination; International Kreisky Forum for Sovereignty; Workshop International Partition; Exile; Bi- Dialogue, Vienna nationalism 20-22 Transitional Justice in Historical Co-organizer March, 2012 Israel/Palestine- Reconciliation and Global Governance Transitional Justice Program, European in Israel/Palestine University Institute, Florence Scholarships, Awards and Prizes 2017-2018 Forum of Young Scholars in Social Sciences and Humanities of the Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 6 2015-2017 Maof Fellowship for Distinguished Arab Scholars, The Council for Higher Education 2015 Bruno Kreisky Scholarship for Young Scholar 2013 Distinguished Robert Schuman Fellowship- European University Institute, Florence 2006-2008 Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Scholarship, Hebrew University 2006 Kreitman Post-doctoral Scholarship, Ben-Gurion University (Declined) Teaching A. Teaching Responsibility for Open University Courses Year Name of Course Degree Role (coordinator, instructor, Academic Supervisor) 2017 12015-Social MA Academic Supervisor Democracy in Western Europe 1875-2000 2017 12019- Genocide, MA Academic Supervisor Politics, and Memory 2017 10976-Distinguished BA Co-Instructor Students’ Seminar 2017 10538-Modern BA Academic Supervisor Political Ideologies 2017 10342-Religion, BA Academic Supervisor State, and Politics 2017 10326-Themes in BA Academic Supervisor Modern Democracy 2016 12045-Contemporary MA Instructor Liberal Democratic Theory and Its Critics 2016 10611-Introduction to BA Academic Supervisor Political Thought B. Other Teaching Experience Year Name of Course Degree Academic Institution 7 2015 62444-Politics of BA/MA Hebrew University of Reconciliation: Global Jerusalem and Local Perspectives 2014- 56840 Multiculturalism MA Hebrew University of 2015 and Public policy in Jerusalem Divided Democracies 2013
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