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August 2013
Prof. Nissim Calderon
CURRICULUM VITAE AND LIST OF PUBLICATIONS
Personal Details
Nissim Calderon Place and date of birth: 1947, Tel-Aviv Regular Military Service: 1965-1968 Office: Ben Gurion University of the Negev Department of Hebrew Literature P.O.B. 653, Beer Sheva, 84105 Phone: 972-8-6461132 Home Address: 26 Bilu st. Tel-Aviv, 64256 Phone: 972-3-6869337 e-mail: [email protected]
Education
1968-1971 – B.A, Hebrew Literature, The Art of Theartre, Tel-Aviv University
1972-1973- Master's Degree Studies toward a Direct Track to Ph.D for Distinguished Students, In
Hebrew Literature, TAU
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Final exams for Masters Degree exemption, TAU
1972-1980 – Ph.D. Degree in Hebrew Literature, TAU
Supervisor: Prof. Dan Miron
Dissertation: “Foundations of the Early Poetry of David Avidan (1954-1962)”
Employment History
2012- present- Professor, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University
2004-2012- Associate Professor, Department of Hebrew Literature, Ben-Gurion University
2001-2004- Senior Lecturer, Department of Hebrew Literature, BGU
2001- Guest senior teacher, Workshop for writing critique, BGU
1988-2002- Senior teacher, Hebrew Literature and Film Department, TAU
1986 - Film teacher, Sam Spiegel School, Jerusalem
1980-1988- Teacher, Department of Hebrew Literature, TAU
1971-1980- Teaching Assistant, Department of Hebrew Literature, TAU
Professional Activities
(a) Positions in Academic Administration
*2009-2011 - Head of "OFEC" program in BGU- academic voluntary activity in the
community
*2009-2010- Conducter, panoramic courses in Hebrew literature to all of the students in Ben
Gurion University, BGU
*2009- Chairman, Committee for ranking (Etgar Keret- Senior Teacher), BGU
*2008- Chairman, Committee for ranking (Nidaa Khoury- Senior Teacher), BGU
*2008- Member, Committee, electing Tenure-Tracks, Literature Dept., Open University
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*2007- Chairman, Committee for ranking (Yitschak Ben-Mordechay-associate professor),
BGU
*2007- Chairman, Committee for ranking (Zehava Kaspi-senior lecturer), BGU
*2007- Present– Director, Rector's Ofek Program for Academic Activities in the Community,
BGU
*2007- Member, Rector's delegation to Spain, engagement of cooporation, University of
Granada
*2005-2009- Chairperson, Modern Hebrew Literature studies, Hebrew Literature dept., BGU
*2004-2007- Director, “Monday Noon”, monthly meetings with artists and
intellectuals, on behalf of Dean of Faculty of Humanities, BGU
*2004 –2007 – Orgenizer, “Milestones in World Literature”, weekly meetings with
authors and researchers, BGU
*2003- Present – Member, Managing Committee, Heksherim Center for Research of Hebrew
Literature, BGU
*2002- 2007 - Organizer and moderator, “On Second Thought”, Meetings with authors
and scholars, BGU
1999-2001- Member, Board of Directors, Golda Institute, TAU
1999 – Academic Coordinator, “Mediating Literatures in the Mediterranean on the 20th
Century” Summer Workshop, TAU
(b) Professional Functions Outside Universities/Institutions
*2009-2010-Member, Organizing Committee, Poetry Festival in Metullah, head of jury, Teva
Reward for young poets
*2009- Member, Organizing staff, Yiddish Poatry Days, Israel
*2009- Judge, "Photograph of the year" contest, Israel
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*2008- Head of jury, Prizes for immigrant artists, Ministary of Immigrant Absorption, Israel
*2008- Head of jury, Isreal prize in Literature
*2008-2009- Member, Academic Committee, New Lexicon for Authors in Israel
*2007- Present – Member, Managing Committee, The Fund for Israeli Film
*2007- Present – Editor and moderator, Summer Meetings with rock artists, Beer
Sheva Museum
*2007- Present – Member, Organizing Committee, Tel-Aviv Yafo Centennial Year
*2007- Present – Organizor, Events of Poetry and Music, Levontin Club, Tel-Aviv (39
Events)
*2006, 2008- Member, Committee, Sapir Award for Fiction, Sapir Fund
*2001–2008 Member, Board of Trustees, Prime Minister Fund for Writers
*2004- 2007 – Member, Committee, Programs in Hebrew Literature, Ministry of Education
2004 – Member, Dovrat Committee for education system reform, Ministry of Education
2000-2004- Member, Israeli Film Council
2003 – Judge, “Doc-Aviv” Documentary Film Festival, Tel Aviv
2003- Head Judge, “Katuv” contest for beginning authors, Mifal Ha'payis
2000- 2001 – Member, “Vision 2000” project, Ministry of Education
2000-2001 – Member, "Sela” Committee, Ministry of Education
1996-2001 – Member, "Gulliver", International Dialogue Association, Amsterdam
2000 – Juror in the Mediterranean Film Contest, Haifa Film Festival
1999-2001 – Member, Pedagogic Council, Ministry of Education
1999 – Artistic Director, International Poetry Festival, Jerusalem
1998 – Judge, Short Film Category, Berlin Film Festival
1996 – Organizing member, Israeli Forum for Mediterranean Cultures, The Van Leer
Jerusalem Institute, Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Ministry of Science and Art
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1996 – Judge, Wolgin Prize Panel, Film Festival, Jerusalem
(c) Significant proffesional cunsulting
*2009- Artistic counciling for the exibit "The living Alterman", Eretz Israel Museum
1990 – Consultant, Amir Har’el’s film “Avot Yeshurun 1990”
1981-1982 – Member, Advisory Council, Drama dept., Israeli Television
(d) Editor or Member of Editorial board of Scientific or Professional Journal
1973-1976, 1980-1982 – Siman Kri’a – Hebrew Literary Quarterly
Deputy Editor, TAU
(d1) Editor or Member of Editorial board of un-refereed Journals
*2005-2007 – Bgu Review – Internet Journal
Editor (with Y. Schartz, Y. Meital, A Band), BGU
1997-2004 – Mikarov – Literary Journal
Editor (with Gadi Taub), TAU
2004- Editor (with Salman Natur) of Jewish-Arab newspaper “DU-ET”
1995 – Rechov – Literary Journal
Editor (with Gadi Taub and Yosef Sharon)
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Educational Activities
(a) Courses tought (a selection of courses from recent years)
*2009- (With Etgar Keret) A Story in a Song- Telling a story in a song, BA class,
Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
*2008- The Poatry of Chaim Gury, MA seminar, Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
*2008- Zichron Dvarim by Jacob Shabtai, MA seminar, Hebrew Literature Dept.,
BGU
*2007- The writings of Dahlia Rabikovitz, BA seminar, Hebrew Literature Dept.,
BGU
2004 – The writings of Natan Zach, MA seminar, Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
2004- Yona Wallach and her cultural environment, MA seminar, Hebrew Literature
Dept., BGU
2003 – Amir Gilboa and Avot Yeshurun – Two poets on the margins of the literary
circle, MA seminar, Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
2001 – Israeli film and Israeli literature – a comparative look, MA seminar, Hebrew
Literature Dept., BGU
2001 – Documentary film making and television, BA course, Film Dept., TAU
2001 – Multiculturalism: Theory, Israeli literature and social situation, BA course,
Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
2001 – Nathan Alterman: His poetry and cultural environment, BA seminar, Hebrew
Literature Dept., BGU
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1999-2001– Introduction to Israeli culture, BA course, Interdisciplinary Dept., Faculty of
Humanities, TAU
2001 – Joseph Haim Brenner as a writer and cultural critic, BA seminar, Hebrew
Literature Dept., TAU
2001 – David Avidan and the marks he left in Poetry, BA course, Hebrew Literature
Dept., TAU
2000 – Representation of the family in Israeli literature and film making, BA seminar,
Hebrew Literature Dept., TAU
(b) Research students
*2009 and on- Tzippy Gurion, MA, Ben Gurion University (in process).
*2008 and on- Yitschak Tzivoni, MA, Ben Gurion University (in process).
*2008 and on- David Peretz, MA, Ben Gurion University (in process).
*2007 and on- Matan Chermony, Ph.D., Ben Gurion University (in process).
*2010 and on- Zmira Ron-David, Ph.D., Ben Gurion University (in process).
Awards
(a) Honors, citation awards
1999 –Bahat Award for the book “Multiculturalism versus Pluralism in
Israel”, Haifa University,.
Scientific Publications
(a) Authored Books
*Nissim Calderon
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1. 2009 The Second Day, On Poetry and Rock in Israel after Yona Wallach
(יום שני-על שירה ורוק בישראל אחרי יונה וולך(
Zmora-Bitan, Or Yehuda.
Reviews:
26/8/09- Shimon Adaf, "An Insightful Inspection of Heartbreaking Artists and their Art",
http://cafe.mouse.co.il/view.php?t=1194629
30/8/09- Gadi Taub, "The Israeli Rock has been Waiting Long Ago for Serious Treatment",
http://cafe.mouse.co.il/view.php?t=1200513
3/9/09- Etgar Keret, "Operation without Aneasthesia"
http://cafe.mouse.co.il/view.php?t=1207156
5/9/09- Kalya Mor, "The Rocker Killed the Poet", City Mouse.
26/9/09- Eli Hirch, Book review, Yediot Achronot.
Yair Garbuz, Book review, Yediot Achronot.
28/10/09- Assaf Talmudi, "About The Hat Carrier", Ha'aretz
Dori Manor, "The Option to Eco in One's Memory", Ha'aretz
4/12/09- Uri Holander, "What Happened to Poetry after 1980", Ha'aretz
Ilan Berkowitz, "Silence Under the Flashlight", Ha'aretz
17/12/09- Tsur Erlich, "The Rock as a Spice", Makor Rishon,
30/12/09- Ben Shalev, "Quiet, Just a Moment, Please", Ha'aretz
Nissim Calderon, Ayelet Shamir Tulipman
(בזמן מלחמה) In Times of War 2002 .2
Kineret, Or Yehuda
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Nissim Calderon
3. 2000 Multiculturalism versus Pluralism in Israel
)פלורליסטים בעל כורחם: על ריבוי התרבויות בישראל(
Zmora Bitan and Haifa Universty, Or Yehuda
The Book received the “Bahat” Award, Haifa University
Nissim Calderon
(הרגשה של מקום: שישה מאמרים ) A Sense of Place: Six Essays 1988 .4
Hakibbutz Hame’uhad, Bnei Brak
Nissim Calderon
5. 1985 The Previous Chapter: On Nathan Zach at the Early 1960’s
(פרק קודם: על נתן זך בראשית שנות השישים(
The Previous Chapter: On Nathan Zach at the Early 1960’s
Hakibbutz Hame’uhad, Bnei Brak
Nissim Calderon
)בשנה השנייה למלחמה) In the Second Year of War 1984 .6
Siman Kri’a Books, Tel Aviv
Nissim Calderon
7.1980 In a Political Context: Four Essays on Writers
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)בהקשר פוליטי: ארבעה מאמרים על סופרים(
Hakibbutz Hame’uhad, Bnei Brak
(b) Editorship of Collective Volumes
1. Yurgan Nirad, Nissim Calderon, Rina Klinov. Walter Benjamin: Selected Writings Vol. 1,
Hakibbutz Hame’uhad 1999, Bnei Brak
(b1) Literary Editorship
1. Katuv-Short stories collection, 2003.
2. Smilansky Yizhar, Pages of Dispute. Zmora Bitan 1988, Tel Aviv
3. Yitzchak Ben Aharon, Curruptive Government- End of the Road, Ha'kibbutz Hame'uchad
and the Histadrut center for culture and education 1988, Tel Aviv
(c) Chapters in collective volumes- conference proceedings, Festchrifte, etc.
1. Nissim Calderon
"Details and more details, about a single line in Nurit Gertz's Fiction", a book in honor of Nurit
Gertz, Open University Press, Ranana 2013, pp 23-30.
2. Nissim Calderon
*Due Tipi di Streghe, Narrativa, Memoria, E Identita, Mimesis, 2011, pp. 19-28
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3. Nissim Calderon
"The living Alterman", Exibit's catalog about Nathan Alterman, artistic counciling for the
exibit. Eretz Israel Museum, 2010, pp.25-41
4. Nissim Calderon
"A.B. Yehoshua's Missing Cheetah", Sefer Yehoshua, Amir Benbaji, Nitsa Ben Dov (eds.),
Hakibbutz Hame’uhad, Tel Aviv 2010, pp.500-506.
5. Nissim Calderon
*"What has Happened to Hebrew Poetry in the Past 20 Years?" Israel at 60 Years-
Retrospective & Renewal, Modern Hebrew Literature No 5., Fall 2009, pp. 17-22
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*"Amos Oz, Scenes from a Village's Life", Israel at 60 Years- Retrospective & Renewal.
Modern Hebew Literature No 5., Fall 2009, pp. 316-317
7. Nissim Calderon
*"Il registro alto e il registro basso nel rock e nella poesia israeliana Tre generazioni di scrittori
a confrronto", Saggi sulla letteratura israeliana, Yigal Schwartz, Gabriella Seiner Moscati.
Editrale Scietifica, Napoli, 2009. pp. 71-80
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*Preface, Ory Bernstein, Le Temps des Auters, Editions Caracters, Paris, 2009, pp.9-11
9. Nissim Calderon
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*"A cup of coffee in a city without a concept- About Caffes in Israeli Literature|, Catalogue for
the exibit "Caffes in Tel Aviv, 1920-1980", curetor: Batya Carmiel, Eretz Israel Museum, Tel
Aviv 2007. pp. 292-295
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*"Lost spaces", catalog of exibit "Lost Spaces", Dalit Sharon and Eldad Shealtiel, 2006, pp 1-3
11. Nissim Calderon
*Preface, Avraham Avinu in New York, Ory Bernstein, Hakibbutz Hame’uhad 2006, pp. 5-10
12. Nissim Calderon and Emanuela Trevisan-Semi
*"Presentazione della opera di A. B. Yehoshua", Emanuela Trevisan-Semi(ed) - Leggere
Yehoshua, Einaudi, 2006, pp. 3-14
13. Nissim Calderon
*"Il Gattopardo mancante di Abraham B. Yehoshua", Emanuela Trevisan-Semi(ed) - Leggere
Yehoshua, Einaudi, 2006, pp. 85-94
14. Nissim Calderon
*"Fluechtling und Entwurzelte: Israel als aesthetischer Ort", Anat Feinberg (ed.) Moderne
Hebraische Literature, Ein Handbuch, text+kritic, Munich, 2005, pp. 121-139
15. Nissim Calderon
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*"A Walk in Allenby Street: The Street in Tel-Aviv as Cultural-Social Model", Ruvik
Rosenthal (ed.), Shoresh Hadvarim, Keter, Jerusalem 2005, pp. 310-318
.
16. Nissim Calderon
*"Le Post-Sionism dans le Contexte Multiculturel Isralien", T. Friling(ed.) – Reponse a un Ami
Post-Sioniste, Impress Editions 2004, pp. 207-263
17. Nissim Calderon
"From Multiplicity to Solidarity, Ohad Nachtomi", Multiculturalism Tested in the Israeli
Context, Mosad Bialik 2003, pp.115-152
18. Nissim Calderon
"Two Silver Plates", Under Fire, E. Casey and P. Hilder (ed.), Free Association Press, London
2002, pp. 90-93
19. Nissim Calderon
"Y. Shabtai: Elie Barnavi and Saul Friedlander", Les Juifs et le XX Siecle,
Dictonnaire Critique, Calmann-Levy 2000 – pp. 695-706
20. Nissim Calderon
"Monday (On Dalia Hertz)",Nitza Ben Ari (ed.), To Izhar, Zmora-Bitan 1996.
pp 623-641
21. Nissim Calderon
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"Sommes-nous une famille?" Léa Hermann et Catherine David (ed.), Cinema d’Israel, Galerie
Nationale du Jeu de Paume 1992. pp. 22-30
22. Nissim Calderon
"Under Pressure", Jan Heijs, Petra Pijnapples (ed.), International Documentary Film Festival
Amsterdam, International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam 1991. pp. 87-88
23. Nissim Calderon
"From 'Moments' to 'The Seventh Column' – Alterman’s way to Political Writing"
Pinchas Genosar (ed.), Literature and the Labour Movement, Ben-Gurion University
Press 1989. pp. 277-289
(d) Refereed articles and refereed letters in scientific journals
*1. Nissim Calderon
2009- (in Poland) "Hezi Leskli- Taricec, Ktory Trawa Bez Tancerza", FRAZA no. 1-2 (63-64),
pp.12-21
2. Nissim Calderon
2001- "No history?" Israeli Sociology, vol. 3/2, pp. 421-432
3. Nissim Calderon
1995- "There Once Was a Truly Great Love (On David Avidan)", Modern Hebrew
Literature 16 - pp. 33-34
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4. Nissim Calderon
1995- "Nathan Zach in the Sixties", Modern Hebrew Literature 14 – pp. 22-25
(f) Unrefereed professional articles and publication
*1. Nissim Calderon
2008- Present- Book reviews and culumns published weekly in Y-net:
http:www.ynet.co.il
*2. Nissim Calderon
5/2/10- "Italy was Just an Allegory", Ha'aretz
*3. Nissim Calderon
10/4/09- "The Noisy Radio at the Tailor's House", Ha'aretz
*4. Nissim Calderon
22/10/08-"Lusts and Wounds", Ha'aretz
*5. Nissim Calderon
2008- "Natasha, a woman in the distance- about 'Ha'chaverim shel Natasha' and Micha Shitrit",
Alpayim no. 33, pp. 220-249
*6. Nissim Calderon
2008- "Far from the heart: why have we grown apart from Bialik", Eretz Acheret no. 47, pp.
21-23
*7. Nissim Calderon
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2008-"What have I learned from Czeslaw Milosz", Iton 77 no. 333-334, pp. 23
*8. Nissim Calderon
16/10/07- "How to Write Political Poetry Without the Righteousness of the desk?",
review of Stephen Spender's selected poems in Hebrew, Ha'aretz
http://www.haaretz.com/hasite/spages/913444.html
*9. Nissim Calderon
19/3/08- "Is There a Reason to Murder?" Ha'aretz
*10. Nissim Calderon
7/5/08- "The Feverish Hunger of the Hebrew Music", Ha'aretz
*11. Nissim Calderon
28/11/07- "The Poet that Entered Hebrew through the Back Door", Ha'aretz
*12. Nissim Calderon
25/7/07-"Testimony, Fiction, Criticism", Review of "A Tale of Love and Darkness" by
Amos Oz, Ha'aretz
*13. Nissim Calderon
25/7/07- "What Happened to Hebrew Poetry?", Ha'aretz
*14.Nissim Calderon
11/7/07- "The New Right Wing- a Brief Biography", Ha'aretz
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*15. Nissim Calderon
2007- "Where has the Music Gone After Yona Walach?" Iton 77 no. 325, pp. 29
*16. Nissim Calderon
2007- "Five First Reasons to Love Berry Sacharoff", Iton 77 no. 325, pp. 36
*17. Nissim Calderon
2007- "The Golden Ratio- On Eran Tzur as a Singer-Somgwriter", Ho!, Vol 5, pp. 196-210.
*18. Nissim Calderon
2006- (in China)"Poets and Nation", Dushu Vol. 12
*19. Nissim Calderon
2005- "Amos Oz and the Wane of Matter", Israel, Vol. 7, pp. 155-162
20. Nissim Calderon
2001- "The Pattern and the Landscape", Mikarov 5, pp. 103-157
21. Nissim Calderon
1999- "David Perlov – A Glance at the Present and a Glance at the Past", Cinemateque March-
April, pp. 21-23
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1994- "A Letter to Helit Yeshurun", Rehov 1, pp. 36-50
23. Nissim Calderon
1993- "Reflections on the Poetry of Ori Bernstein", Hadarim 10, pp. 10-15
Lectures and Presentations at Meetings and Invited Seminars not Followed by
Published Proceedings
Invited Plenary lectures at conference meetings
* 2012- Time and Place in Israeli Culture, A conference on Israel, Zagreb University.
*2011 – On Natan Zach, Social and Cultural History of the Jews in the Eastern
Adriatic Coast, Dubrovnik University
*2010 – On A.B. Yehoshua, Christians, Jews, and Muslims on the Ottoman Balkan,
Belgrade University
*2009- "Between the House and the Road in the Israeli Poetry",The Isreali
Home+Werehouse, TAU and Betsalel Academy
*2009- "'Yemey Tsiklag' by S.Yizhar as a Radical Criticism of Israel in the Fifties", An
individual voice in young Israel, in honor of Orit Rozin's book "Duty & Love: Individualism
and collectivism in 1950's Israel'", TAU
*2009- "About Amos Oz", a conference in honor of Amos oz 70th birthday, BGU
*2009- "About Ori Bernstein's Poatry", a conference in honor of Ori Bernstein, BGU
*2009- Two lectures about Israeli colture, Guests of the Israel Ministry of foreign Affairs
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*2009- "The un-professional intelectual", board of trusties of "Betsalel" academy, Betsalel
*2009-"Music- Media- Literature", Media and Culture, The Van Leer Jerusalem
Institute
*2009- "Nurith Gertz's contribution to the Israeli colture", in honor of Nurith Gertz,
The Open University
*2009- "A retrospective on 'Here and There in Israel' by Amos Oz", Mishcanot
Sheananim, Jerusalem
*2009- "The Hebrew writer as a leader", The Kibbutzim Collage
*2009- "Love of the literature", board of trustees convention, Betzalel academy
*2009- "Witches in Israeli poetry and rock", Women's literature and the establishment
of the nation, Naples
*2008- "Utopia and Anti-utopia in Ya'akov Shabtay's Work", The Open University
*2008- "Enlisted Hebrew Literature", The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute.
*2008- "About the book 'Do you know the land where the lomon blooms?'", in honor of
Yigal Schwartz's book, BGU
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*2008- Three lectures about Nathan Alterman's work, Knesset, The Israeli Parlament
*2008- "Avoda Ivrit, past and present in Israeli popular music", Who are you, Israeli
song 5, Bar Ilan University
*2008- "Avot Yeshurun: Which Change has the Askenazi Voice Bring to the Hebrew
Poetry of the 1970's?", The ashkenazis, TAU and Leyvik institute
*2008- "What Happened to the Hebrew Poetry's Music in the First Years?" in honor of
60 years of Hebrew literature, Haifa University
*2007- "The revolution that didn't surprise the Israeli colture", Changes in the political
colture in Israel, TAU
*2007- "Rock as an Act of Art", senior staff convention, Betzalel academy
*2007 – "Obout the Arabs as a Minority in Israel", The Or Committee, TAU
*2007 – "Shalom Hanoch as a Cultural Hero", Cultural Heroes, Haifa University
*2006- "What Enchanted us in alterman?", The Visionary Mind, Betzalel
*2006 – "About the National Poet in Modern Hebrew", Litrature and National Identity,
Beijing University, China
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*2006- "On The Mediterranean Idea", The Jews and the Sea, The University of
Dubrovnik, Croatia
*2006- "About the Hebrew language in Micha Shitrit's songs", To Write in Another's
Language, Beit Berl Institute
*2006- "The Two Big Immigration Waves", TAU
*2006 – "High and Low in Popular Music in Israel", Young Israeli Literature, Naples,
Italy
*2006 – "Utopia In Zichron Dvarim", 100 years to Betzalel, The Israel Museum,
Jerusalem
*2006- "About the ambivalence of Shalom Chanoch", In honor of Tlila Eliram's book
"Come Hebrew song", Bar Ilan University
*2005 - "About A. B. Yehoshua", Two Lectures at a Conference that I co-organized,
Venice, Italy
*2004 - “About Amos Oz and 'The Wane of Matter"”, Amos Oz conference, Philadelphia,
USA
2003 - “The relationship between Poetry and Rock in the Israeli culture”, NAPH
Conference, Florida, USA
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2003 - “The reading crisis in Israeli Poetry”, AIS conference, San Diego, USA
2002 -“The Ravings of Adiel Amze”, Gavriel Moked conference, BGU
2002 - “There is no Judaism, there are Jews”, Brenner, Bradichevski, Gordon, Sde- Boker
Collage
2002 -“The place of the story in Israeli culture", Anthropology Society, TAU
2002 -“Multiculturalism and poet authority”, BGU
2002 -“The changes in language of Hebrew poetry in the last twenty years”, NAPH
conference, BGU
2002 -“The Middle East after Sept. 11”, lecture, Institute of Humanities, New York
University
2002 -“About the speaker in Hebrew poetry in the last few years”, AIS conference,
Colorado, USA
2002 -“About reading and readers in Hebrew literature”, Society and Language, TAU
2001 - “Being Israeli – multiplicity versus dismantlement”, Shpinoza Institute, Jerusalem
2001 – “Identity and authority”, Jewish Identity, TAU
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2001 – “The concept of ‘The State of all Citizens’”, Arab Society in Israel, TAU
2001 – “Zach’s Idylls”, Conference on Nathan Zach, TAU
2001 – “Multiculturalism in Israel”, Stanford University and Davis University, USA
2000 – “Multiculturalism in Israel”, Stockholm University, Sweden
2000 – “New Postmodern Religiosity”, “Art Focus”, Israel Museum, Jerusalem
2000 – “The Experience of Aliya in Literature”, Conference for an Academic Israeli-
Palestinian Dialogue, Florence, Italy
2000 – Active Participation, Editing Literary Journals, Hanover, Germany
2000 – “On Yoram Hazony”, Returning to History, TAU
2000 – “Perlov’s Diary”, Conference on David Perlov, TAU
2000 – “Cultural Revisionism in Israel: Left and Right”, The Gilman Conference, NYU
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(a) Presentation of papers at conferences/meetings
2006- "Cultures meet", a conference "The Two Big Immigration Waves", A
Conference In Tel-Aviv University
(b) Presentations at informal international seminars and workshops
* 2008- "Art and politics", Kerem institute, Jerusalem
*2007- "Friendship and Literature", On Amos Oz, Mishkenot Shaananim, Jerusalem
*2006- "Ethics of Literary Criticism in the Press", The Center for ethics, Jerusalem
2004- "Documentation in Israeli film", The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2004- "Israeli Multiculturalism", Moscow University
2002- Department of communications, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2001- Department of Sociology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
2001- Department of Sociology and Anthropology, TAU
2001- Department of Social Work, BGU
2001- Department of Politics and Government, BGU
2001- Humphry Institution, BGU
2000- Herzog Institution, The Hebrew University
2000- Department of Communication, The Hebrew University
Research Grants
2006-2009-The Rothchild Foundation, 153,000 NIS, research grant for the book "The Second
Day, On Poetry and Rock in Israel after Yona Wallach", Dvir and Heksherim Institute, Beer
Sheva 2009
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Present academic activities
Research in progress:
Language and poetics in Meir Ariel's work, expected due date: 2015.
Additional Information:
Frequently interviewed in television, radio and press in relation to Israeli culture and Hebrew
Literature in the past ten years.
Academic Profile:
1970's:
Research of links between Hebrew Literature and the political tendencies in Israeli society. The
research was based on the despute with formalism which ruled the Israeli academy and would
not approve of the political aspect of literature, and was inspired by Hebrew researchers such
as Dan Meron and Dov Sadan. The research was published in 1980, in a book called "In a
Political Context: Four Essays on Writers".
1980's:
Research that later evolved and changed into a more social route. The main inspiration was
Walter Benjamin, and Nathan Zach's literary views. This research was published in two books,
" A Sense of Place: Six Essays" in 1988, and " The Previous Chapter: On Nathan Zach at the
Early 1960’s" in 1985.
1990's:
Inspection of multiculturalism in Isreali society and literature. The research was based on a
despute with post-modernism and the foloowers of Edward Said. The main theoritical
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inspirations were the scholers who criticised post-modernism such as Jurgen Habermas and
Michael Walzer. The research was published in the book "Multiculturalism versus Pluralism in
Israel" in 2000.
2000's:
The dramatic changes in Hebrew poetry and the link between poetry to rock'n'roll led to this
research, which was inspired by scholers such as Raymond Williams and Marshel Berman, and
Rock experts such as Elen Willis. This research was published in the book "The Second Day,
On Poetry and Rock in Israel after Yona Wallach" in 2009.
Nissim Calderon's work cited by other researchers
Zach Natan, From year to year it- Chapters of a literary biography, Hakibutz
Hameuchad, Tel Aviv. 2009. pp. 204-210
Shimoni Batya, On the Verge of Redemption- Story of the Ma'abara. First and Second
Generation. Dvir and Heksherim Institute, Beer Sheva 2008, pp. 319
Mautner Menachem, Law and Culture in Israel at the Threshold of the 21st Century,
Am Oved and the Tel Aviv University Press, Tel Aviv 2008, pp. 527
Adya Mendelson-Maoz (editor), Multi-culturalism in Israel- reader, Open University,
Ra'anana 2008. Part A, pp. 356-393
Shavit Uzi, Not All is Vanities and Vanity, Life on the edge of death according to
Alterman, Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2007, pp. 48
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Shwartz Yigal, Do You Know the Land Where the Lemon Blooms, Dvir, Tel Aviv
2007. pp. 78, 451
Soker-Shvager Channa, The Clan's sorcerer from Meonot Ovdim- Yaakov Shabtay in
the Israeli Culture, Hakibutz Hameuchad, Tel Aviv 2007. pp. 28-29, 54, 67-68, 91-92,
94-95, 102-105, 110-111, 115-117, 132, 144, 146, 149, 192, 200-201, 239-240, 266,
310-311, 317, 328-330, 333, 335, 339
Chamutal Tsamir, In the Name of Landscape: Nationalism, Gender and Subjectism in
Hebrew Poetry 1950-1960, Keter and Heksherim Institute, Beer Sheva 2006. pp. 26-
27, 29, 49, 53, 65, 83, 294-295
Tlila Eliram, Come, Hebrew Song- Songs of the Land of Israel, Sociological and
Musical Aspects, University of Haifa Press, Haifa 2006. pp. 196
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Summary of achievement
Books
Seven books
Articles
18 Articles in collective volumes and conference proceedings (16 published, two eccepted)
16 Articles in journals (all eccepted)
Total of 33 articles (in six languages: Hebrew, English, Italian, German, French, Chinese)
Editorship
Books:
Editor: Two books
Co-editor: Three books
Journals:
Co-editor: Five Journals
Lectures at Confrences
52 Lectures
Three international confrences
Lectures in Israel, USA, Italy, Sweden, Croetia, China
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Guest lecturer in 14 academic institutions in Israel, three academic insitutions abroad (one
series of lectures)
Total of 72 lectures
Awards
Bahat award for the book "Multiculturalism versus Pluralism in Israel", Haifa University
Grants
The Rothchild Foundation Grant for the research on "The Second Day- Rpck and Poetry in
Israel after Yona Walach".
Functions
2008- Head of jury, Isreal prize in Literature
2007- Present– Director, Rector's Ofek Program for Academic Activities in the Community,
BGU
2004- 2007 – Member, Committee, Programs in Hebrew Literature, Ministry of Education
1999 – Artistic Director, International Poetry Festival, Jerusalem
25 more functions as a literary consultant and chairperson in committees and boards of
assorted culture and literature insitutes
Functions in the Hebrew Literature Dept., BGU
Chairperson, Modern Hebrew Literature studies
Co-organizor of confrences
Functions in the Ben Gurion University
Head of Ofek Program- reaching communities in the south and specificly in Beer Sheva,
conducting and hosting 25 meetings with musicians.
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Conducting and hosting confrences about music and literature for students, staff and board of
trusties.
Member of rector's delegation to Spain in 2007 to engage cooporation with University of
Granada.
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