7th Annual Conference on Studies Israel’s Turning Points: Histories and Narratives, Ruptures and Continuities

2 - 4 September 2018 SOAS, University of London

The EAIS is grateful for the support of our sponsors and partners 7th Annual Conference on Israel Studies Prof. LiorLibman(BinghamtonUniversity, StateUniversityofNew York) Prof. ColinShindler(SOAS,UniversityofLondon) - Hon.President Chair oftheEuropean Association ofIsraelStudies Craig Dr Alan stimulating, productiveandenjoyablethreedays Studies Iwelcome you totheconferenceandwish you a Once again,onbehalfoftheEuropean Association forIsrael encouragement. and the Israel Institute for their generous continuing support and conference. As ever, specialthanksgotothePearsFoundation We aregratefultoSOASforonceagaingenerouslyhostingthe members andlookforwardtomanyinterestingconversations. of research.Iamverypleasedtowelcomefamiliarandnew sharing and views of exchange informed and interesting an for early career researchers and some research students to provide with figures leading mixes conference Our field. the in scholars of Israel Studies and deepens to include more of the eminent Each timethegatheringwidenstoaccommodatebreadth Every twoyearswereturntoSOASforourLondonconference. such alargegatheringofscholarsandeminentkeynotespeakers. Association for Israel Studies. I am delighted to again be greeting Welcome to the 7th Annual Conference of the European Welcome E: [email protected] T: +44 (0)2078984358 Twitter: @infoeais Dr. JoannaDyduch(UniversityofWroclaw) -Vice Chair Dr YonatanSagiv (SOAS,UniversityofLondon) Prof. MarcellaSimoni(Universita’ Ca’ Foscari) Dr YairWallach (SOAS,UniversityofLondon) Dr.Craig Alan EAIS Executive Committee Prof. Aide Esu (UniversityofCagliari) Prof. Aide - - Literature andCultureSectionDirector Literature andCultureSectionDirector Dr. JacobEriksson(York University) - Post GraduateMemberSecretary Mr. JonRawson (University ofLeeds)-Chair - Treasurer

(Brunei Suite,BruneiGallery) Drinks reception 19.00 -21.00 Prof. YoramPeri College Buildings) (Khalili LectureTheatre, Opening Keynote 17.30 -19.00 and Founder, EAIS) (Honorary President Welcome Prof.ColinShindler (Chair oftheEAIS) Welcome Dr Alan Craig College Buildings) (Khalili LectureTheatre, conference Official openingofthe 17.00 -17.30 College Buildings) (Khalili LectureTheatre, Registration opens 15.00 -17.00 (Millbank, LondonSW1P 4RG) Pre-Raphaelites atTate Britain Palestine: tourofthe English artandJewish 11.00 -13.00 Programme 2 September 2018 Sunday

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Dr. YonatanSagiv Chair: Prof.LiorLibmanand Mr.Ran Tal College Buildings) (Khalili LectureTheatre, followed byQ&A withdirector Screening of‘TheMuseum’, Keynote Address Closing 15.30 -17.00 (Brunei Suite,BruneiGallery) Afternoon Tea /Coffee 15.00 -15.30 Chair: Prof. Yoram Peri Smooha andUriRam Ruth Gavison,Sammy College Buildings) (Khalili LectureTheatre, Plenary Discussion 13.30 -15.00 (Brunei Suite,BruneiGallery) Buffet Lunch 12.30 -13.30 (Various rooms,BruneiGallery) Session 6 11.00 -12.30 (Brunei Suite,BruneiGallery) Morning Coffee/Tea 10.30 -11.00 (Various rooms,BruneiGallery) Session 5 09.00 -10.30 4 September 2018 (Detail pages14-15) (Detail pages12-13) Tuesday,

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Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 “What has changed in Israel relations with Europe Deliberative democracy: the case of Israel – between Reframing Israeli Art Jerusalem the port city on the shore of eter- Czechs and Israelis: turning points, shared over the last 70 years?” consolidation, coherence and state of crises nity : a place for divided and shared memories visions and common interests - what stands and identities behind the Israeli – Czech relationship?

Prof. Alfred Tovias The Role of Internal Third-Party The arts as a window to explore Memory Struggle in Jerusalem The 1948 Moment in Eastern The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Interveners: The Case of Israeli Jews Israel Prof. Menachem Klein Europe: Haganah Recruitment in who join Palestinian Civil Resistance Poland and Czechoslovakia How students learn about Israel Bar Ilan University Campaigns investigating big questions Dr Eva Stańczyk Dr Leonie Fleischmann introduced by art. University of Amsterdam

PAPER 1 PAPER City, University of London Dr Ofra Backenroth & Dr Nir Arielli The Jewish Theological Seminary University of Leeds

Dr hab. Joanna Dyduch In Us We Trust? J14 And The ‘Social Turn’ Jewish Pilgrimage to the Temple “Let Israel Live”: Israel as a In Israeli Art University of Wroclaw The Effect of Political Violence on Mount: Shaping Collective Symbol of the Free World during Social Cohesion in Israel, 2003-2015 Mor Cohen Memory Through Sacred the Prague Spring in 1968 Landscape Maya Hadar Manchester Metropolitan Dr Macela Zoufala, University Chloe Collier Universitat Leipzig Charles University

PAPER 2 PAPER Concordia University & Dr Melanie Garsen University College London

Prof. Guy Harpaz The Production of Israeli Palestine, Ottoman History, Israel, Israeli cultural diplomacy and local Jerusalem, Abu-Ghosh family, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem landscape-oriented art in the stakeholders: The case of the 1970s road that linked the port of Jaffa Czech Republic and Jerusalem, Palestine 19th Dr Mira Banay century, Ottoman rule, Kiryat al- Jitka Pánek Jurková The Open University of Israel ’Anab, nahiya of Bani Malik, Bab Charles University

PAPER 3 PAPER al-Wadi Prof. Mustafa Abbasi Tel Hai College

Dr Lior Herman Israeli Art of the 1980s: History, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Identity and the Struggle for the Canon Dr Dalia Manor The Negev Museum of Art PAPER 4 PAPER

Monday, 3 September Session 2 : 11.00 - 12.30 7

Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 The metamorphosis of the kibbutzim: Where to? Zionism, Post Zionism, Non-Zionists: critical New Israeli economy: new forms, objectives New Directions in Israeli TV and Film Israel’s Foreign Relations

Chair: Prof. Eliezer Ben Rafael reflection 70 years after Declaration of Independence and new advantages and disadvantages

Changing Conceptions of Justice in the Post-Zionism: First Generation Continuities and Changes in the Cannon Films Unbound: The Israeli – American Special Kibbutz Dr Roman Vater Political Economy of Israel: The Rebooting the Go-Go Boys in the Relationship – Beyond Political rise of the Israeli oligarchy 2000s and Diplomatic History Prof. Yechezkel Dar University of Cambridge Hebrew University of Jerusalem Dr Shelly Gottfried Dr Boaz Hagin Dr. David Tal Beit Berl Academic College; University University of Sussex

PAPER 1 PAPER CITYPERC, City, University of London

Is a Kibbutz Ideology still possible? Felix Warburg and American Non- The participation of the East The Retribution of Identity: The “Mistress Syndrome”: Israel’s Prof. Moshe Schwartz Zionists’ Early Involvement with the Jerusalem Middle Class in the Colonial Politics in Fauda[i] Secret relations in the Middle East Hebrew University Israeli Economy and Space Ben Gurion University Dr Omri Ben-Yehuda Prof. Elie Podeh Jeffrey Levin Dr Fahima Abbas Freie Universität Berlin The Hebrew University of American University The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

PAPER 2 PAPER Jerusalem

Fluid sectorialism and the present day Israel - The Road to a High-Tech Terror Films: The Socio-Cultural Israeli-Egyptian Relations in a kibbutz relations with the political arena based on Economy Reconstruction of Trauma in changing Middle East Dr Sigal Galanti Daniel Gheorghe Contemporary Israeli cinema Prof. Rami Ginat Beit Berl College National University of Political Dr Yael Ben-Moshe Bar-Ilan University Studies and Public Administration Haifa Center for German and

PAPER 3 PAPER European Studies PAPER 4 PAPER

Monday, 3 September Session 3 : 13.30 - 15.00 9

Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 Centralizing, De-centralizing: Complexity of Israeli narratives of immigration, Israel and / in the Arab World: geopolitics and Near and Far: Between Alliance and Violence in The question of Palestine partition: two state a new Israeli spatial order statehood and identity external security challenges Israeli and Palestinian Cultures solution from historical perspective

Chair: Dr Moriel Ram

Centralizing, De-centralizing: a new The Identity of Immigrants from Poland State failure in the Arab world Jewish Israeli & Palestinian Palestine in the Second World Israeli spacial order to Israel (1948-1968) from today’s and the challenge it poses to the rap: encounters and conflicts, War – Challenges and Turning Dr Tamar Berger perspective security of the State of Israel influences and cultural Points appropriations Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Dr Ewa Wegrzyn Prof. Yehudit Ronen Dr Daphna Sharfman Jagiellonian University Bar-Ilan University Dr Anna Zielinska Western Galilee College

PAPER 1 PAPER University of Lorraine

Planning orders and disorders: the Vav – a forgotten Aliyah? Forty years after the Camp Aspects of Gender and A turnaround in Arab-Jewish “Jaffa Project” Dominika Cholewinska-Vater David Accords: The unfulfilled Environment in Hebrew poetry relations in Jaffa and Tel Aviv Arch Shmuel Groag elimination of a geopolitical during the 1936–1939 Arab Revolt during WWII University of Manchester chokepoint in Palestine Bezalel Academy of Art and Design Dr Tamir Goren Zsolt Csepregi Dr Haggai Rogani Bar-Ilan University

PAPER 2 PAPER Antall József Knowledge Centre Oranim Academic College

The order of spatio-national Israel’s Narratives of 1967 and 2000: The end of Sykes – Picot and Between Positivity and Negativity: The impact of the early cold war oppression: Karmiel as a case study Zionist Israel between discourses of Israel. How does the end of the the Image of Egypt in Modern on the plan to partition Palestine Arch Ahmad Kharouf victory/liberation and “indispensable idea of the Westphalian national Hebrew Literature in 1947: economic union as case fight over homeland” state affects Israel in its 70th Dr Menna Abukhadra study Bezalel Academy of Art and Design year? Dr Tamar Amar-Dahl The University of Cambridge Dan Bitan Dr Melanie Carina Schmoll PAPER 3 PAPER Independent Scholar The Hebrew University of University of Hamburg Jerusalem

Holes of Planning Prof. Ayala Ronel Azriely school of architecture PAPER 4 PAPER

Monday, 3 September Session 4 : 15.30 - 17.00 11

Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 Reconciliation and rapprochement in Israel’s and Dilemmas of creation and understanding an Israeli The changing roles of religious symbols in The Return of the Outsider Jerusalem and its multidimensional recognition Palestinians or / and Israel’s – Palestine’s relations – collective identity Israeli political-ethnical discourse what has changed and what hasn’t?

What went wrong with the Peace Scientists from The Hebrew University Who is Carrying the Cross? The 1948 in Canaanite Fiction: The Israeli policy toward Jerusalem process: new documents from Yossi of Jerusalem study the Promised Land changing Roles of Christ Trauma of (not) Belonging and foreign consulates in the city Beilin’s archive Dr Nurit Kirsh in Israeli Art Dr Yael Dekel (1950- 1960) Dr Avi Shilon The Open University of Israel Dr Naomi Meiri-Dann Ben-Gurion University of the Dr Ofira Gruweis Kovalsky Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Bezalel Academy of Art and Negev Zefat Academic College and Herzl

PAPER 1 PAPER Design & Institute University of Haifa, Israel

Defying Gravity: Evaluating the vertical The creation and elimination of the The Color of Faith? The Role “On the Outside, Looking in”: Legal meaning and effect of limits of rising reconciliation intra-Jewish ethnic division from of Religion in Shaping Ethnic Shimon Adaf and the Israeli the President Trump’s decision Dr Melanie Garson inequality indicators by the Israeli Identities Politics and the Role of Detective Novel on recognition of Jerusalem as Central Bureau of Statistics Ethnicity in Shaping Secularization Rina J. Baroukh capital of Israel University College London Processes in Israel Sigal Nagar-Ron Ben-Gurion University of the Dr Rafał Soroczyński Sagy Maayan PAPER 2 PAPER Sapir Academic College Negev School of Education and Sapir College Administration, Poznań

The banality of colonization. Reflections Fighting for a civic nation: the “I am an Edwardian Interior in Israel: Work in progress. Multidirectional on the apartheid analogy applied at Israeli” organization as a post-Zionist/ Art and Artefacts at the Vera memory and the Israeli third post- Israeli-Palestinian relations post-“Canaanite” phenomenon and Chaim Weitzman House in Holocaust generation Dr Marco Allegra Dr Roman Vater Rehovot Jagoda Bodzik University of Lisbon University of Cambridge Dr Alec Mishory University of Wroclaw

PAPER 3 PAPER Independent Scholar

Jackal, Arabs, and the Balfour Declaration Prof. Gabriel Zoren University of Haifa PAPER 4 PAPER

Monday, 3 September Session 5 : 9.00 - 10.30 13

Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 The Politics of Motherhood in Israeli film and The dynamic of contemporary Israeli domestic Socio-Political trends in Israel Balfour Declaration: contexts, implications and The Evolving Emotional Culture of Israel Literature politics: reality and expectations interpretations in the 1950s and 1960s Chair: Dr Alan Craig Chair: Dr Yael Dekel Chair: Prof. Colin Shindler

Mothers under Attack: Representation The long time minimal representation Israeli Sociology Confronts Neo- The Balfour Declaration and Public emotions and security of Motherhood in New Israeli of women in the Israeli political system Colonialism Settler Colonialism policy: reprisal raids and the Documentary Cinema and the change which took place since Prof. Uri Ram Dr Yossef Rapoport question of revenge twenty years ago Adi Sheffi Ben-Gurion University of the Queen Mary University of London Orit Rozin The Hebrew University of Jerusalem Prof. Mordechai Schenhav Negev Tel Aviv University

PAPER 1 PAPER University of Strasbourg

The Mother as Victim and Victimizer in Israeli Cabinets: Wise Decisions, The Ethnic Base of the Political ‘London Is Not Jerusalem’: What should an Israeli child Two Novels by David Grossman Stupid Decisions Right in Israel The Zionist Press Reactions in feel? The dispute over the child’s Dr Rachel Zoren Prof. Dan Korn Prof. Sammy Smooha Palestine in the Aftermath of the emotions in Hebrew children’s Balfour Declaration literature, during the first decade University of Haifa IDC Hertzlyia, Israel; LMU, Munich, University of Haifa of Israeli statehood Germany Prof. Gideon Kouts Yael Darr PAPER 2 PAPER University of Paris Tel Aviv University

Not Such an Easy Death: Introspection The Recent Nation state Law as a ‘I do not think it easy to and Abjection in Daughters’ Narratives Questionable Government Decision exaggerate the international of the Dying Mother in Modern Israeli Related to both minorities and Women power of the Jews’ Literature Prof. Ruth Gavison Anti-Semitism and the Balfour Dr Tsila Ratner Declaration

PAPER 3 PAPER University College London Dr Peter Bergamin University of Oxford PAPER 4 PAPER

Tuesday, 4 September Session 6 : 11.00 - 12.30 15

Panel A Room B104 Panel B Room B111 Panel C Room B202 Panel D Room B204 Panel E Room B211 Israel’s Bedouin/Arabs Turning Points: Histories and New Directions in Israeli TV and Film Turning in Rotation: On the ‘Sevivon’ The relevance of national, ethnic, social, Understanding Israeli settlement policy: Narratives, Ruptures and Continuities [dreidel ] Dynamic of Zionist Temporality in cultural and political cleavages for the state its multidimensional nature and their Israeli Culture coherence, prosperity and development geographical, political, economic and social dynamics consequences

Between tribalism to religion: the Israeliness Revis[it]ed: As Seen on TV Blues La’hofesh Hagadol - On Psychotherapeutic encounters in What Kind of Leadership Did the turning point of the Negev Bedouin’s Dr Miri Talmon how the West Bank Outpost spaces saturated with identities Heads of MAPAI Want to Design customs and creeds Movement Reveals the Frozen – The case of a Public Mental in the Development Towns? Tel Aviv University Dr Emir Galilee Temporality of Zionism in which it Health Centre in Karmiel- Oren Kalman is Always Summer 1882 Nahariya, Western Galilee, Israel Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Ben-Gurion University of the Amir Reicher Dr Yuval Moshkovitz PAPER 1 PAPER Negev CUNY Graduate Center & Ms. Nataly Layous Israeli Ministry of Health

Religious ‘Choir’ in a Sacred Place A Gaze upon a Gaze: Sacred Zionism and the “Postnational The Druze Minority in Israel since “Mizrahim” and Development Popular Religion, Islamic Association, Landscape of Jerusalem in the Israeli Turn”: Between Immigration Denial the Annexation of Golan Heights Towns - Deliberate Exclusion or a and Salafi Theology in a Mosque in Film and the Repudiation of Exile.” Dr hab. Przemysław Turek Plan that Went Wrong Israel Prof. Anat Zanger Romm Lewkowicz Jagiellonian University Dr Avi Picard Dr Kobi Peled Tel Aviv University CUNY Graduate Center Bar Ilan University

PAPER 2 PAPER Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Turning Points in Negev Bedouin David Perlov’s In Jerusalem: Poetic Heaven is a Barren Mine Field: Yearning for a Home; Peter Israeli public diplomacy and the Settlements Gaze at the Divided City the Upper Custom House at the Bergson and Hannah Arendt on “new refugees” in the aftermath of Dr Havazelet Yahel Dr Shmulik Duvdevani Golan Heights, 1967/2018 the Palestinian Refugee the 1967 war Ben-Gurion University of the Negev Tel Aviv University Zohar Elmakias Ayala Paz Dr Giora Goodman CUNY Graduate Center Ben-Gurion University of the Kinneret College on the Sea of

PAPER 3 PAPER Negev Galilee PAPER 4 PAPER

Tuesday, 4 September צילום: יובל יאירי • 2010 • Death of Adonis עיצוב: להב הלוי • 2017

למה הפקות גאים להציג: המוזיאון במאי: רן טל מפיקים: איילת קייט, אמיר הראל, רן טל עריכה: נילי פלר צילום: דניאל קדם מקליט: תולי חן עיצוב פס קול: אביב אלדמע מוסיקה: אשר גולדשמידט עיצוב גרפי: להב הלוי אפקטים מיוחדים: טל קורז׳ק תחקיר ויעוץ: טלי שמיר וירצברגר צילום נוסף: איתי מרום, אוריאל סיני, צבי לנזמן, זיו ברקוביץ׳, גיורא ביח מקליט נוסף: עמוס ציפורי אונליין: יואב רז