Curriculum Vitae ARIE M. DUBNOV
Department of History George Washington University E-mail: [email protected] Phillips Hall 330 Tel: +650-804-4323 801 22nd Street, NW Personal website: Washington, DC 20052 https://gwu.academia.edu/ArieDubnov
1. Professional & Academic Appointments: Jan.2017 Associate Professor. Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies, History Department, George Washington University. 2013-17 Senior Lecturer. School of History & General History Department, University of Haifa. 2009-13 Acting Assistant Professor. Department of History, Stanford University. 2008-09 Lecturer. Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, The Open University of Israel. 2005-09 Teaching Assistant & Adjunct Lecturer. School of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 2004-09 Academic Coordinator and Administrative Manager. The George L. Mosse Program in History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the University of Wisconsin-Madison.
2. Education: Ph.D. Department of History, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2009. MA History School (honors program), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2003. magna cum laude BA European History & Philosophy (double major), Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2002. magna cum laude
3. Publications List: * Book: ---, Isaiah Berlin: The Journey of a Jewish Liberal (New York: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2012), 316pp.
Edited books: ---, Zionism – A View from the Outside, editor (with Florsheim, Ella and Tsirkin-Sadan, Raphael), (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute and the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Hebrew University, 2010), 124 pp. [In Hebrew]
Special Issues (Guest Editor): ---, Jacob Talmon and Totalitarianism Today: Legacy and Revision, special issue of History of European Ideas, vol. 34 no. 2 (2008).
* Copies of selected publications are available for download on my personal website. Arie M. Dubnov – CV
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (English):
1. ---, "Notes on the Zionist passage to India, or: The analogical imagination and its boundaries," Journal of Israeli History, vol. 35, no. 2 (2016), 1–39. 2. ---, "The Missing Beat Generation: Coming of Age and Nostalgism in Arik Einstein’s Music," Jewish Social Studies, vol. 21, no. 1 (2015), 43–88. 3. ---,"‘Those New Men of the Sixties’: Nihilism in the Liberal Imagination." Rethinking History, vol. 17, no. 1 (2013), 18-40. 4. ---, "What is Jewish (if anything) about Isaiah Berlin's political philosophy?," Religions (special issue: Between Religion and Ethnicity: Twentieth-Century Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture), vol. 3, no. 2 (2012), 289–319. 5. ---, "Zionism on the Diasporic Front," The Journal of Israeli History: Politics, Society, Culture, vol. 30, no. 2 (2011), 211–224. 6. ---, "Anti-Cosmopolitan Liberalism: Isaiah Berlin, Jacob Talmon and the Dilemma of National Identity," Nations and Nationalism, vol. 16, no. 4 (2010), 559–578. 7. ---, "Priest or Jester? Jacob L. Talmon (1916-1980) on History and Intellectual engagement," History of European Ideas, vol. 34, no. 2 (2008), 133-145. 8. ---, "A Tale of Trees and Crooked Timbers: Jacob Talmon and Isaiah Berlin on the Question of Jewish Nationalism," History of European Ideas, vol. 34, no. 2 (2008), 220–238. 9. ---, "Between Liberalism and Jewish Nationalism: Young Isaiah Berlin on the Road towards Diaspora Zionism," Modern Intellectual History, vol. 4, no. 2 (2007), 303–326. 10. ---, "Liberal or Zionist? Ambiguity or Ambivalence?: Reply to Jonathan Hogg," Eras, vol. 7 (2005) [online]
Articles in Peer-Reviewed Journals (Hebrew): 1. ---, "From Hilberg to Arendt (and back?): A few comments on The Destruction of the European Jews and the Banality of Evil," Tabur: Yearbook for European History, Society and Thought (The Richard Koebner Center, Hebrew University), vol. 7 (2017), 54–62. [in Hebrew]. 2. ---, "Jewish Nationalism in the wake of World War I: A ‘State-in-the-Making’ or The Empire Strikes Back?," Israel: Studies in Zionism and the State of Israel, vol. 24 (2016), 5–36 [in Hebrew]. 3. ---, "The Return from India, or: The Analogical Imagination and Its Limits," Theory & Criticism, vol. 44 (2015), 41–76 [in Hebrew]. 4. ---, "The Giant Shadow of Isaiah Berlin and Jacob Talmon," Kivumim Hadashim, vol. 15 (2007), 123–46 [in Hebrew]. 5. ---, "Examining the concept of virtú in Machiavelli's Prince: new perspectives," Hayo-Haya: A Young Forum for History, vol. 2 (2003), 26–43 [in Hebrew].
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Chapters in books: 1. ---, "Diaspora, Jewishness, and Difference in Isaiah Berlin’s Thought," in Brian Smollett and Christian Wiese (eds.), Reappraisals and New Studies of the Modern Jewish Experience: Essays in honor of Robert M. Seltzer (Leiden & Boston: Brill, 2015), 208–234. 2. ---, "‘True Art Makes for the Integration of The Race’: Israel Zangwill and the Varieties of the Jewish Normalization Discourse in fin-de-siècle Britain," in Geoffrey Alderman (ed.), New Directions in Anglo-Jewish History (Boston: Academic Studies Press, 2010), 101–134. 3. ---, " Introduction: A Question of Perspective," in Dubnov et al (eds.), Zionism – A View from the Outside (Jerusalem: The Bialik Institute and the Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Hebrew University, 2010), 7–19 [In Hebrew].
Encyclopedia Entries (Refereed): 1. ---, "Offene Gesellschaft/Open Society," Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, herausgegeben von Dan Diner (Stuttgart / Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler [Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften], 2011-13), Band 4 (2014), 1–7 [in German, tr. Philipp von Wussow]. 2. ---, "Freiheit/Freedom," Enzyklopädie jüdischer Geschichte und Kultur, herausgegeben von Dan Diner (Stuttgart / Weimar: Verlag J.B. Metzler [Im Auftrag der Sächsischen Akademie der Wissenschaften], 2011-13), Band 2 (2012), 378–382. [in German, tr. Philipp von Wussow] 3. ---, " Berlin, Isaiah," Encyclopedia Hebraica, new edition (Jerusalem: forthcoming 2017), Vol. 1, 00–00 [In Hebrew].
Review Essays: 1. Turkish Blueprints [review of Stefan Ihrig, Atatürk in the Nazi Imagination]," Journal of Levantine Studies (The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute), vol. 5 no. 2 (Winter 2016) [online]. 2. ---, "B. Z. Kedar, ed., Chaim Weizmann: Scientist, Statesman and Architect of Science Policy," Modern Judaism, vol. 36 no. 2 (2016), 208–214. 3. ---, "A History of Violence [review of Hillel Cohen, Year Zero of the Arab-Israeli Conflict, 1929]," The Marginalia Review of Books (February 1, 2016) [online]. 4. ---, "Ex Libris [review of Gish Amit, Ex Libris: Chronicles of Theft, Preservation, and Appropriating at the Jewish National Library]," Judaica Librarianship (Association of Jewish Libraries Publishing), vol. 19 (Spring 2016), 93–102. 5. ---, "The Ultimate Literary Martyr of The Cold War [review of Peter Finn and Petra Couvée, The Zhivago Affair: The Kremlin, the CIA, and the Battle over a Forbidden Book]," Ha’aretz Literary Supplement (November 13, 2015), 8–9. [in Hebrew] 6. ---, "The Rumors about Britain’s Death have been Greatly Exaggerated [review of Linda Colley, Acts of Union and Disunion: What Has Held the UK Together - and What Is Dividing
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It?]," Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly (Tel-Aviv University & The Historical Society of Israel), vol. 128 (Fall 2014), 117–119. [in Hebrew] 7. ---, "Stephan Wendehorst, British Jewry, Zionism, and the Jewish State, 1936-1956," Britain and the World: Historical Journal of the British Scholar Society, vol. 7 no. 1 (March 2014), 121–126. 8. ---, "Haim Otto Rechnitzer, Prophecy and the Perfect Political Order: The Political Theology of Leo Strauss," Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History (The Historical Society of Israel), vol. 74 no. 4 (December 2013), 540–546. 9. ---, "A Post-Post-Zionist Credo [review of Eyal Chowers, The Political Philosophy of Zionism: Trading Jewish words for an Hebraic Land]," The Review of Politics, vol. 75 no. 4 (2013), 713– 716. 10. ---, "Scholarly Exchange: Zionist Politics [rejoinder to me review of Eyal Chowers, The Political Philosophy of Zionism]," The Review of Politics, vol. 76 no. 4 (2014), 717–719. 12. ---, "Jacob Shavit and Jehuda Reinharz, Glorious, Accursed Europe: An Essay on Jewish Ambivalence," Zion: A Quarterly for Research in Jewish History (The Historical Society of Israel), vol. 72 no. 4 (2007), 491–497. [in Hebrew]
Forthcoming (accepted for publication): ---, "Can parallels meet? Hannah Arendt and Isaiah Berlin on the Jewish Post-Emancipatory Quest for Political Freedom," Leo Baeck Institute Year Book (2017)
Manuscripts under Review: ---, "The Dream of the Seventh Dominion: Liberal Imperialism and the Zionist Question."
Columns, Op-Eds & Non-academic publications: 1. --- (co-authored with Tamar Novick), "They Also Walked Through The Fields: The story of the Kadoorie School in Tulkarem," Haokets, November 27, 2016. [online, originally published in Hebrew and Arabic; English translation forthcoming] 2. --- "Popper did not understand Berlin," tr. Saman Safarzaee, Andisheh Pouya (Tehran, Iran), vol. 2, n. 8 (June-July 2013]), p. 121. 3. --- (co-authored with Hanan Harif), "Zionisms: Roads Not Taken on the Journey to the Jewish State," Maarav (ambush): Online Israeli art and culture magazine, eds. Eyal Danon, Ran Kasmy- Ilan & Udi Edelman (The Israeli Center for Digital Art, Holon; published together with the exhibition Where to?, April 29, 2012): http://www.maarav.org.il/english/ 4. ---, (co-authored with Amit Kravitz), "The Liberal Hedgehog and Zionist Fox [marking the 100th anniversary of Isaiah Berlin’s Birth]," [In Hebrew], Haaretz, June 12, 2009 5. ---, "Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem and the Ethics of Collective Responsibility," Sh’ma: A Journal of Jewish Responsibility, vol. 40, n. 669 (April 2010/Nisan 5770), 7-9.
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6. --- , "Lessons from Isaiah Berlin's liberal Zionism," The Jewish Chronicle (London), February 1, 2013, p. 28. Reprinted in The Third Narrative (North America): http://thirdnarrative.org/liberal- zionism-articles/lessons-from-isaiah-berlins-liberal-zionism/
Work in Progress: ---, Dreamers of the Third Empire: Imperial Federalism and the Jewish Question (book manuscript) ---, Partitions: Towards a Transnational History of 20th Century Territorial Separatism (a collection of essays, co-edited with Laura Robson; the volume will also include my chapter entitled "The Architect of Two Partitions or a Federalist Daydreamer? The curious case of Reginald Coupland.") ---, (co-editor, together with Abigail Jacobson): special issue, “A Sykes-Picot Moment? Border Making, International Intervention and the Uncertain Legacy of WWI Diplomacy in the Middle East,” Journal of Levantine Studies. ---, "Jabotinsky, Vladimir (Ze’ev)," encyclopedic entry, 1914-1918-online: International Encyclopedia of the First World War (Freie Universität Berlin: Friedrich-Meinecke-Institut, Center for Digital Systems:
4. Teaching: "Zionism, anti-Zionism, post-Zionism: Wars of Ideas" (grad seminar); "A Critical History of Modern Israel" (BA level survey course) – George Washington University (2017) "Citizenship, Refugeeism and Nationalism: Hannah Arendt in Historical Perspective" (combined MA and advanced BA seminar); "The British Empire: A History" (BA level survey course) – University of Haifa (2016) "Totalitarian Movements and Political Religions in the 20th century" (BA level survey course; taught offline and converted into an online course) – University of Haifa (2015) "Zero Year: Political Thought After Destruction" (advanced BA seminar, co-taught with C. Cohen-Skalli) – University of Haifa (2015) "What is History? Towards a Common Language" (MA level course; methods and historiography; selected filmed lectures are available on YouTube); "The Historian’s Craft" (first year graduate workshop, designed for students writing their prospectus) – University of Haifa (2014-16) "The Humanities: Past Practices, Present Perplexities and Direction for the future" (MA course) – University of Haifa (2014) "Modern Intellectual History, Pt. I: The Age of Light or Times of Crisis?" (17-18th century); "Modern Intellectual History, Pt. II: The Age of Grand Ideologies" (19th century); "Facing the Abyss:
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Postwar Jewish Intellectuals and the Crisis of Modernity" (20th century) – Stanford University (2011-13). "Zionism & Its Critics"; "What is Anti-Semitism?"; "Tel-Aviv: Site, City, Symbol"; "Gentlemen & Jews: Major Themes in the History of the Jews of Modern England, 1650-1917" – Stanford University (2009-11). "History of the Zionist Movement, 1881-1914" – The Open University of Israel (2008-09). "Introduction to the History and Philosophy of Science" – Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005-09). "European History 1914-1945, through the lens of popular cinema" – Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2004-05). "Introduction to World History" – Hebrew University of Jerusalem (2005-09).
5. Prizes, Research Grants and Fellowships:
2017 Henry Levinson Emerging Scholar in Jewish Intellectual History, UNC Greensboro in collaboration with the North Carolina Research Triangle. 2016-19 ISF (Israel Science Foundation), Grant No. 1012/16: "Dreamers of the Third Empire: Imperial Federalism and the Jewish Question," individual grant (PI). 2016 Dorset Visiting Fellowship, Oxford Seminar in Advanced Jewish Studies (OSAJS), "Jews, Liberalism, Anti-Semitism: the Dialectics of Inclusion (1780-1950)," Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Oxford University. 2014 Participant, International Decolonization Seminar, the National History Center, the American Historical Association, and the John W. Kluge Center of the Library of Congress in Washington DC. 2014 Award Recipient, Hecht Foundation & The Herzl Institute for Research and the Study of Zionism and History. 2012 Affiliated Researcher, The Europe Center at the Freeman Spogli Institute for International Studies (FSI), Stanford University. 2011 Richard and Rhoda Goldman Visiting Professor in Israel Studies. 2010 Grant Recipient, AICE (American-Israeli Cooperative Enterprise) Publication Grant. 2009 Fellow, Research Group on Postwar History of European Jewry, Institute of Contemporary Jewry, Hebrew University. 2008 Scholarship Recipient, The Mark Uveeler Special Doctoral Scholarship, Memorial Foundation of Jewish Culture 2007 Award Recipient, The Jacob L. Talmon Prize in History for PhD dissertations in history, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities 2006 Award Recipient, Mark and Ruth Luckens International Prize Best Essay in Jewish thought, University of Kentucky 2006 Award Recipient, for PhD candidates, The Ben-Zion Dinur Centre for Research in Jewish History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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2005 Herzl Fellow, the Bernard Cherrick Center for the Study of Zionism, the Yishuv and the State of Israel, Hebrew University. 2003-2005 Fellow and Exchange Student, George L. Mosse Program in History, University of Wisconsin-Madison.
6. Collaborative Research & Other Academic Activities
2016 Organizer and international research workshop leader (with Dr. Abigail Jacobson): The Sykes-Picot Moment in the Middle East: Border Making, International Intervention and the Uncertain Legacy of WWI Diplomacy in the Middle East, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. 2013 Organizer and international research workshop leader (with Dr. Sinai Rusinek), International Research Workshop: Innovative Technologies for the Historical Research of Intellectual Networks, The National Library of Israel. 2013 Organizer and international workshop leader, Partitions: Towards Transnational History of Twentieth Century Territorial Separatism, Stanford Humanities Center. 2012-13 Researcher, Humanities + Design lab, research and design program, the Stanford Humanities Center and CESTA (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis), Stanford University. 2012-14 Participating member, Partition Legacies: Separations and Partitions in the Twentieth- Century, Research Group, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and University of Haifa. 2012-13 Pre-Major Advisor (freshmen & sophomore students), Stanford University 2008 Assistant Editor, Yad Vashem Studies, Peer review journal committed to a multi-faceted examination of all aspects of the Holocaust. 2008-2009 Participating member, History of Concepts (Begriffsgeschichte), Research Group, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 2003-2005 Founding Member and Assistant Editor, Hayo-Haya: A Young Forum for History, journal of the History School, Hebrew University of Jerusalem (http://hayohaya.huji.ac.il/).
7. Editorial Board of Scholarly Journals 2014-2015: Studies in Ethnicity and Nationalism (SEN), journal of The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism, the London School of Economics and Political Science.
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8. Scientific Collaborations & Other Professional Activities 2016: Organizing Committee, International Workshop, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, "The Sykes- Picot Moment of the Middle East: Border Making, International Intervention, and the Uncertain Legacy of WWI Diplomacy in the Middle East." 2015-16: Organizing Committee, Israel Historical Society’s 39th Annual Conference, "Power/Knowledge." 2014-17: Israel’s representative in COST (EU Cooperation in Science and Technology) Action N° IS1310 "Reassembling the Republic of Letters," (EU Framework Programme Horizon 2020). 2014-Present: Board of Directors, Yad Chaim Weizmann (Weizmann Archives), Rehovot. 2013-2014: Research Partner, Humanities + Design lab, Digital Humanities research and design program (PI: Prof. Dan Edelstein), the Stanford Humanities Center and CESTA (Center for Spatial and Textual Analysis), Stanford University, USA
9. Community Outreach Invited Talks: 2017 (upcoming): Speaking Engagements on occasion of the centenary of the Balfour Declaration in various Israeli and European institutions. 2016: "The Making of a Liberal Sage: Reassessing Isaiah Berlin’s Legacy," The David Patterson Lecture, Clarendon Institute, Oxford University. 2016: "Narratives of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict," Panel Discussant, The Stanford Center on International Conflict and Negotiation (SCICN). 2013: "What is Dead and What is living in the Spiritual Zionism of Ahad Ha’am Today?," Israel National Defense College, IDF. 2013: "How could transnational intellectual history enrich our understanding of the history of Zionism and the State of Israel?" Hillel Graduate forum, Stanford Univeristy 2013: "What is Jewish (if anything) about Isaiah Berlin’s political thought?," Institute of Jewish Studies, University College London. 2012: "The Hill and the Plaza," Yitzhak Rabin Memorial Lecture, The Israeli House – San Francisco (Consulate General of Israel for the Pacific Northwest). 2012: "The Two Amos Ozs," public lecture at the Silicon Valley Jewish Film Festival. 2011: "Arik Einstein and the birth of Israeli Nostalgia," The Oshman Family Jewish Community Center, Palo Alto. 2011: "Moshe Shamir, Uri and the Tsabra Myth," Congregation Netivot Shalom, Berkeley.
In Popular Media: Igal Sarna, "Akedah ba’wadi [interview]," Yediot Aharonot, Friday, December 16, 2016, 23. 8 Arie M. Dubnov – CV
Dan Schifrin, "Historian Links Up Seminal Jewish Thinkers on Digital Map," The Jewish Weekly (California), March 14, 2013: http://www.jweekly.com/article/full/67986/the-space-between- historian-links-up-seminal-jewish-thinkers-on-digital-map/ Radio interview with Gilad Halpern about the Émigrés Lab at TLV1 (English-language Internet Radio broadcasting from Tel Aviv, Israel), January 2014: http://tlv1.fm/arts-culture/the-tel-aviv- review/2014/01/31/a-land-flowing-with-body-milk-and-honey-lozenges-the-tel-aviv-review/
Humanities Talkshow Host: 2014-2015: Humanities Chats / Holei Ru’ach [in Hebrew]: a series of one-on-one conversations on humanities (broadly defined) with prominent authors, artists and humanities scholars about a broad-range of topics, airs from the studios of University of Haifa’s Academic Channel and available online: humanities-chats.haifa.ac.il/
10. Selected Conference Presentations, Workshops and Invited Lectures: ---, "The Architect of Two Partitions or a Federalist Daydreamer? The Curious Case of Reginald Coupland," Partition and Empire: Ireland, India, Palestine and Beyond, International Conference, University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign, September 2016. ---, "Partition as a Traveling Theory? Imperial Federalism, ‘[de]-Dominionization’ and the India-Ireland- Palestine triangular," Imperial Comparison, International Conference at All Souls College, Oxford, July 2016. ---, "The Toynbee Affair: Genocide, ‘Unmixing of Peoples,’ and the Clash of Civilizations in the British interwar liberal imagination," Intersections: Holocaust Scholarship, Genocide Research, and Histories of Mass Violence, Conference of the International Network of Genocide Scholars, Jerusalem, June 2016. ---, "On the Corner of Ahad Ha’am and King George Streets: Cultural Zionism and Federalist Imperialism in the thought of Alfred Zimmern, Leon Roth and Richard Koebner [in Hebrew]," Colonial Encounters: Culture, Society and Economy in the Mandate Period, Conference of the Inter-University Forum for the Mandatory Palestine, Univeristy of Haifa, April 2016. ---, "An endangered species? Pathos, Mythos and Tragedy in our definitions of the term ‘intellectual’ [in Hebrew]," Power & Knowledge, 39th Annual Conference of the Israel Historical Society, Jerusalem, May 2016. ---, "The Dream of the Seventh Dominion, Or: Some Roads Not Taken in the History of Pre-Statehood Zionism," Berkeley Institute for Jewish Law and Israel Studies, University of California, Berkeley, November 2015. ---, "The Problem of Small Nations: Lucien Wolf and Lewis B. Namier as Two Variants of Anglo-Jewish Transnational Politics," 46th Annual meeting of the AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Conference, Baltimore, December 2014 ---, "A View from the Island: British and Anglo-Jewish theories of nationalism, 1917-1958," Jewish Conditions, Theories of Nationalism [workshop], Université de Montréal, September 2014.
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---, "Jewish Nationalism in the wake of World War I: A ‘State-in-the-Making’ or The Empire Strikes Back?," Hundred Years to the First World War - global and regional aspects of the "Great War", The Zalman Shazar Center for Jewish History & The Israeli Historical Society, Jerusalem, June 2014. ---, "Digital Humanities and the Historian: Enemies, A Love Story?" INFO 2014 - Teldan Information Systems Annual Conference, Tel Aviv, May 2014. ---, "Where is Digital-Humanities-Israel?" EVA / MINERVA 2013: The Xth Jerusalem Conference on the Digitisation of Cultural Heritage, Jerusalem, November 2013. ---, "The Idea of Jewish Sovereignty: The Case of Lewis B. Namier and Isaiah Berlin," Nazarian Center for Israel Studies, University of California, Los Angeles, February 2012 & Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester, February 2013. ---, "The Missing Thaw Generation: Coming of Age and Nostalgia in the works of Yaakov Shabtai and Arik Einstein," 43rd Annual meeting of the AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Conference, Washington DC, December 2011 ---, "Diaspora Zionism, ‘Liberalism of Fear’ and Isaiah Berlin’s ‘philosophical anthropology’," European Jewish Émigrés and the Shaping of Postwar Culture: Conference in Memory of Lilian Furst, National Humanities Center, April 2011. ---, "(Re)producing the Sabra myth, 1947-1967-2008: The case of Moshe Shamir’s He Walked Through the Fields," Forging the Nation: Ritual and Performance in the (Re)production of Nations, London School of Economics, April 2011 and Israeli Law, Economy and Society Colloquium, UC Berkeley, March 2011. ---, "Anti-Cosmopolitan Liberalism?," IB @ 101: Symposium on Isaiah Berlin and his Contemporaries, University of Colorado, Denver, March 2011 ---, "Zionist Mandarin or Internationalist Idealist? Lewis B. Namier’s Wilsonian Moment," AJS 42nd Annual Conference, Boston, December 2010. ---, "What is ‘Counter-Enlightenment’?" Culture & Catastrophe in Modern European History: International Conference in Honor of Steven E. Aschheim, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, June 2010. ---, "From the Totalitarian discourse to the Siege Syndrome? Thoughts on Talmon’s transition to Jewish History," Ahead of His Time: The Intellectual Legacy of Jacob L. Talmon, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities, June 2010. ---, "A Tale of Two Statesmen and One Philosopher: Isaiah Berlin between Chaim Weizmann and Winston Churchill," Israel and the World: the 26th Annual AIS (Association for Israel Studies) Conference, University of Toronto May 2010. ---, "Letting Go of Diaspora: Tel Aviv and the Beginning of Israeli Nostalgias," At Home in Diaspora/ Diaspora at Home, Stanford University, April 2010. ---, "The Rise and Fall of the Mythological Sabra: Moshe Shamir’s Hu Halach Ba-sadot (‘He Walked Through the Fields’) after 60/40 years," public lecture hosted by the Taube Center for Jewish Studies, Stanford University, December 2009. ---,"What is Jewish (if anything) in Isaiah Berlin's philosophy?" Fifteenth World Congress of Jewish Studies, Jerusalem, August 2009. 10 Arie M. Dubnov – CV
---,"Nihilism and the Dilemma of the Liberal Intellectual: From Turgenev to Berlin and back," The Concept of Nihilism: The Limits of Political Critique, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, June 2009 ---,"The Anti-Cosmopolitan Liberals: Isaiah Berlin and Jacob Talmon and the dilemma of national identity," Nationalism and Globalisation: The 19th Annual ASEN (Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism), London School of Economics, April 2008 ---, "The Voyage of a Metaphor: 'Jewish Normalization' and the Dialectics of Zionism," 40th Annual meeting of the AJS (Association for Jewish Studies) Conference, Washington DC, December 2008 ---, "On Diaspora Zionism and 'The Need to belong': Sir Isaiah Berlin and the Nationalist Predicament," New Approaches: Home, Nation, and Landedness in Modern Jewish Identity, Harvard University, May 2008. ---, "Isaiah Berlin between Chaim Weizmann and Winston Churchill: A Tale of Two Statesmen and One Philosopher," The Churchill Era and Beyond, Churchill College, University of Cambridge, February 2008. ---, "When a Crooked Timber meets the Field Tree: The Zionist discourse of Isaiah Berlin and Jacob Talmon, Jacob Talmon and Totalitarianism Today: Legacy and Reassessment, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities in collaboration with the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, December 2006. ---, "Isaiah Berlin between Zionism and liberalism, or: Why is it difficult to write an intellectual biography?," The young researchers forum of the Chaim Weizmann Institute for the Study of Zionism, Tel Aviv University (chair: Prof. Anita Shapira), July 2006 [in Hebrew]. ----, "Isaiah Berlin beyond the Context of British Liberalism," Midwest Conference for British Studies (MWCBS), 51st Annual meeting, University of Notre Dame, Indiana, Sep. 2005.
11. Membership in Professional Associations: The American Historical Association (AHA) The Israeli Historical Society (Zalman Shazar Center) The Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism (ASEN) The British Scholar Society The Association of Jewish Studies (AJS) The European Association for Israel Studies (EAIS)
12. Scientific Evaluation & Manuscript Review:
Academic Presses: Cambridge University Press Stanford University Press Yale University Press
11 Journals: Modern Intellectual History (Cambridge University Press) Jewish Social Studies (Indiana University Press) Journal of Jewish Identities (Youngstown State University Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies) Nations & Nationalism (Wiley, on behalf of the Association for the Study of Ethnicity and Nationalism) Jewish Historical Studies (‘Transactions’) (Jewish Historical Society of England) Iyunim Bitkumat Israel (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev) Cathedra Quarterly (Yad Ben-Zvi Institute, Jerusalem) European Journal of Political Theory (SAGE) The European Legacy (Routledge) Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly (Tel-Aviv University and the Zalman Shazar Center) Historia – Journal of the Historical Society of Israel
13. Institutional Responsibilities: 2013 – 2017 Organizer and Coordinator of the School of History’s Colloquium, University of Haifa 2013 – 2017 Member of MA Studies Committee, School of History, University of Haifa 2013 – 2015 Member of Committee for the advancement of Digital Humanities, University of Haifa
14. Languages: Hebrew – Native speaker English – Mother tongue level Russian – Fluent (reading and writing) French – Passive mastery (reading) German – Passive mastery (reading)