Neve Gordon Curriculum Vitae

Dept. of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva 84105, Israel. Tel: 972-8-6477766 Mobile: 972-55-8879487 Fax: 972-8-6477242 E-mail: [email protected]

Education Ph.D. (1999) Political Science, University of Notre Dame M.A. (1997) Political Science, University of Notre Dame B.A. (1991) Philosophy, Hebrew University, magna cum laude

Positions Current 2015- Full Professor, Dept. of Politics and Government (BGU). 2009- Media Analyst, BBC Monitor (freelance). 2008- Chair Budget Committee, Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality. 2006- Board Member, Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality.

Previous 2011-13 Chair of Ph.D. Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BGU (21 Departments with 450 Ph.D. students). 2011-13 Chair of Budget Committee, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, BGU (21 Departments). 2010-15 Associate Professor, Dept. of Politics and Government (BGU). 2010-14 Regional Council Member, Interchurch Organization for Development and Cooperation (ICCO). 2008-10 Chairperson, Dept. of Politics and Government, (BGU). 2006-07 Chairperson, Hagar: Jewish-Arab Education for Equality. 2005-10 Senior Lecturer, Dept. of Politics and Government (BGU). 1999-05 Lecturer, Dept. of Politics and Government (BGU). 1992-94 Executive Director, Physicians for Human Rights, Israel.

Visiting Positions 2012-13 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. 2007-08 Visiting Scholar, Dept. of Political Science, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. 2005-05 Visiting Scholar, Watson Institute for International Relations, Brown University, (summer). 2004-05 Visiting Scholar, Human Rights Center and Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley.

PUBLICATIONS Books Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, The Human Right to Dominate, Oxford University Press. 2015 (equal contribution). Italian translation: Il diritto umano di dominare, Roma, Nottetempo, (forthcoming 2016). Arabic translation: Doha Institute, (forthcoming 2016). Reviewed in: American Ethnologist Vol. 43, n. 2 (2016); Law and Society Review Vol. 50, n. 1 (2016); Global Discourse (2016); Human Rights Law Review Vol. 16, n. 2 (2016)

Neve Gordon, Israel’s Occupation, University of California Press, 2008. Italian translation: Neve Gordon. Occupazione Israeliana, Italy: Diabasis. 2016.

Edited Books Neve Gordon. From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Lexington Books, 2004. Neve Gordon and Ruchama Marton. TORTURE: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, London: Zed Books, 1995.

Scientific Editor Neve Gordon. Hebrew translation of Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror, Resling Books, 2004.

Journal Articles Nitza Berkovitch and Neve Gordon, “Differentiated Decoupling and Human Rights,” forthcoming Social Problems. Neve Gordon and Moriel Ram, “Ethnic cleansing and the formation of colonial geographies," Political Geography, Vol. 53, 2016: 20-29. Neve Gordon and Nicola Perugini, “The Politics of Human Shielding: On the Resignification of Space and the Constitutions of Civilians as Shields in Liberal Wars.” Environment and Planning D, Society and Space, online first 2015 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, "Normative Power Europe Meets the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict," Asia- Europe Journal, 2015 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, “The European Union and Israel’s Occupation: Using Technical Customs Rules as Instruments of Foreign Policy,” The Middle East Journal, Vol. 69, Winter 2015: 74-90 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, “Normative Power Europe and the Power of the Local,” JCMS-Journal of Common Market Studies, Vol. 53. No. 2. 2015: 416–427 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon, “Human Rights as a Security Threat: Lawfare and the Campaign Against Rights NGOs,” Law and Society Review. Vol. 48:2, 2014: 311-344. Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, “What Can Pro-Democracy Activists in Arab Countries Expect from the European Union? Lessons from the Union's Relations with Israel,” Democracy and Security, Vol. 9:1-2, 2013: 100-119. Reprinted in: Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, 2014, 'What Can Pro-Democracy Activists in Arab Countries Expect from the European Union? Lessons from the Union’s Relations with Israel' in Patricia Bauer (ed.), Arab Spring Challenges for Democracy and Security in the Mediterranean (London and New York: Routledge), pp. 100-119 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon, “The Geography and Political Context of Human Rights Education: Israel as a Case Study,” Journal of Human Rights, Vol. 11:3 2012: 384-404. Neve Gordon and Yinon Cohen, “Western Interests, Israeli Unilateralism, and the Two-State Solution,” Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol. XLI, No. 3 Spring 2012: 1–13. Neve Gordon, “A Villa in the Jungle: The Arab Spring through the Lens of the Israeli Media,” Middle East Law and Governance, Vol. 3, 2011: 105–117. Neve Gordon, “Democracy and Colonialism,” Theory and Event, Vol. 13. No. 2, 2010. Nitza Berkovitch and Neve Gordon, “The Political Economy of Transnational Regimes: The Case of Human Rights,” International Studies Quarterly, Vol. 52, 2008: 881-904. Neve Gordon, “Human Rights, Social Space and Power: Why do some NGOs Exert More Influence than Others?” International Journal of Human Rights, 12(1) 2008: 23-39. Neve Gordon, “From Colonization to Separation: Exploring the Structure of Israel’s Occupation,” Third World Quarterly, 29(1) 2008: 25-44. A longer version appeared in Neve Gordon “From Colonization to Separation: Exploring the Structure of Israel’s Occupation,” in Adi Ophir, Sari Hanfi, and Michal Givoni, eds. The Power, New York: Zone Books, forthcoming 2009. Translated also in Arabic. Neve Gordon, “Of Dowries and Brides: A Structural Analysis of Israel’s Occupation,” New Political Science, 29(4) 2007: 453-478. A different version appeared in Hebrew in Neve Gordon, Al Nedunyot veKalot: Nituach Mivni shel haKibush haIsraeli,” Israeli Sociology, 9(2) 2008: 271-296.

Neve Gordon and Nitza Berkovitch, “Human Rights Discourse in Domestic Settings: How does it Emerge?” Political Studies, 55(1) 2007: 243-266. Neve Gordon, “Human Rights as a Contingent Foundation: The Case of Physicians for Human Rights,” Journal of Human Rights 5(2) 2006: 163-184. Neve Gordon and Dani Filc, “Hamas and the Destruction of Risk Society,” Constellations, 12(4) 2005: 542- 560. A shorter version reprinted in Spanish: Neve Gordon and Dani Filc, “Hamas, Israel y la destruction del futuro,” Papeles de Cuestiones Internacionales, 93 2006: 65-74. Neve Gordon, “Human Rights and Social Space: The Power of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel,” (Zchuiot Adam VeMerchav Chevrati: Kocha shel HaAguda LeZchuitot HaEzrach BeYisrael), Israeli Sociology, 7. (1) 2005 (in Hebrew). Neve Gordon, “Rationalizing Extra-Judicial Executions: The Israeli Press and the Legitimization of Abuse,” International Journal of Human Rights, 8(4) 2004: 305-324. Neve Gordon and Gabriel Motzkin, “Between Universalism and Particularism: The Origin of the Philosophy Department at Hebrew University and the Zionist Project,” Jewish Social Studies: History, Culture and Society, 9(2) 2003: 99-122. Reprinted in Hebrew: Neve Gordon and Gabriel Motzkin, “Philosophy and Nation-Building: Between Universalism and Particularism,” in The History of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Volume 2, ed. Hagit Lavsky, Jerusalem: Hebrew University Magnes Press, 2005 (in Hebrew). Neve Gordon, “The Israeli Peace Camp in Dark Times,” Peace Review, 15(1) 2003: 39-47. Reprinted in Spanish in: Neve Gordon, “Israel: el enemigo interior y los límites del movimiento por la paz,” in Tiempos difíciles. Guerra y poder en el escenario internacional, eds. Mariano Aguirre y Mabel González Bustelo, Spain: Centro de Investigacion para la Paz, 2003: 153-171. Neve Gordon, “Outsourcing Violations: The Israeli Case,” Journal of Human Rights 1(3) 2002: 321-337. Neve Gordon, “Zionism, Translation, and the Politics of Erasure,” Political Studies, 50(4) 2002: 809-826. Neve Gordon, “On Visibility and Power: An Arendtian Corrective of Foucault,” Human Studies, 25 (2) 2002: 125-145. Neve Gordon, “Multiple Significations: Territory, Property and Self-Determination,” Geopolitics, 6(2) 2001: 78-84. Neve Gordon, “Dahl’s Procedural Democracy: A Foucauldian Critique,” Democratization, 8(4) 2001: 23-40. Neve Gordon, “Arendt on Social Change in Democracies,” Critical Review of International Social and Political Philosophy, 4 (2) 2001: 85-111. Reed Brody, Neve Gordon, et al., “Human Rights and Global Capitalism: A Roundtable Discussion with Human Rights Watch,” Rethinking Marxism, 13(2) 2001: 52-71. Neve Gordon, Jacinda Swanson and Joseph Buttigieg, “Is the Struggle for Human Rights the Struggle for Emancipation?” Rethinking Marxism, 12(3) 2000: 1-22. A shorter version appeared in Turkish: Joseph Buttigieg, Neve Gordon, Jacinda Swanson, “Bir Özgürleşme Mücadelesi midir?” Gelenek Yayinevi, 59, 1999. Neve Gordon, “Foucault's Subject: An Ontological Reading," Polity, 31(3) 1999: 395-414. Neve Gordon, “Ethics as Reciprocity: An analysis of Levinas’s reading of Buber,” International Studies in Philosophy, 31(2) 1999: 75-93. A different version appeared in Hebrew in: Neve Gordon, “Makom Ha-Acher Ba-Etika: Nituch Ha-Bikoret Shel Levinas Et Torat Ha-Musar Shel Buber,” Daat: A Journal of Jewish Philosophy and Kabalah, 48, Winter 2001: 109-123. And as a book chapter in: Neve Gordon, “The Place of the Other: Levinas’s Critique of Buber’s Ethics,” in Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference, Duquesne University Press, 2004. And translated into Spanish in: Neve Gordon, “La ética y el lugar del otro,” in Levinas y Buber, diálogo y diferencias, eds. Peter Atterton et al. Argentina: Ediciones Lilmond, 2006. * Neve Gordon, "Scars of Repression," Peace Review, 9(2) 1997: 259-264. Neve Gordon, "Compensation Suits as an Instrument in the Rehabilitation of Tortured Persons," Torture- Quarterly Journal on Rehabilitation of Torture Victims and Prevention of Torture, 4(4) 1994. Appeared as a chapter in: Neve Gordon, "Compensation Suits as an Instrument in the Rehabilitation of Tortured Persons," in TORTURE: Human Rights, Medical Ethics and the Case of Israel, eds. Neve Gordon and Ruchama

Marton, London: Zed Books, 1995.

Chapters in Books Nicola Perugini and Neve Gordon, “Israel/Palestine, Human Rights and Domination,” in Anthony Tirado Chase, ed. Routledge Handbook on Human Rights in the Middle East and North Africa, London: Routledge, forthcoming 2016. (equal contribution). Neve Gordon and Sharon Pardo, 'Of Borders and Labels' in Raffaella A. Del Sarto (ed.), The European Union and Israel/Palestine: Borders and Borderlands, Houndmills: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2015 (equal contribution). Neve Gordon. and Sharon Pardo, “Explaining pacification: lessons from EU-Israeli relations,” in C. Lutmar and B. Miller (eds.), Explaining Regional Pacification: The Case of Europe and Lessons for the Middle East, London and New York: Routledge 2015. Neve Gordon, “Jonathan Pollak, An Anarchist ‘Traitor’ in his own Society,” in Gershon Shafir and Mark LeVine, Struggle and Survival in Israel and Palestine, University of California Press, 2012. Neve Gordon, “Israel’s Emergence as a Homeland Security Capital,” in Elia Zureik, Surveillance and Control in Israel/Palestine: Population, Territory and Power, Routledge, 2010. Neve Gordon and Dani Filc, “The Destruction of Risk Society and the Ascendancy of Hamas,” in Adi Ophir, Sari Hanfi, and Michal Givoni, eds. The Power, New York: Zone Books, 2009. Translated into Arabic. A different version appeared as Neve Gordon and Dani Filc, “Annihilating the Logic of Risk: Israel’s Military Occupation and the Ascendancy of Hamas,” in John C. Welchman, ed. The Aesthetics of Risk, Los Angles: JRP Ringier, 2009. Neve Gordon, “Strategic Violations: The Outsourcing of Human Rights Abuses” in Rhonda L. Callaway and Julie Harrelson-Stephens Exploring International Human Rights: Essential Readings, Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2007: 261-265. Neve Gordon, “De berreras, fronteras y Hamás” in Poder y democracia, Los retos del multilarealismo, eds.Manuela Mes y Mabel Gonzalez Bustelo, Madrid: CIP, 2006: 265-286. A shorter version appeared in English as, “The Barrier,” in Cheryl Rubenberg, Encyclopedia of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Lynne Reinner Publishers, 2009. Neve Gordon, “Letting Being Be: Cross Cultural Encounters in a University Setting,” in Letting Be: Fred Dallmayr's Cosmopolitical Vision, ed. Stephen Schneck, University of Notre Dame Press, 2006. Neve Gordon, “Human Rights,” in (In)Equality, eds., Uri Ram and Nitza Berkovitch, Ben-Gurion University Press, 2006 (In Hebrew). Neve Gordon, “Introduction: On Terror, Power, and Resistance,” in Susan Buck-Morss, Thinking Past Terror, Tel-Aviv: Resling Books, 2004 (In Hebrew). Neve Gordon, “Human Rights as Being-Marginal-in-the-World,” Neve Gordon, ed. From the Margins of Globalization: Critical Perspectives on Human Rights, Lanham MD.: Lexington Books, 2004. Neve Gordon and Ruchama Marton, “Health System in Need of Rehabilitation,” in Cooperate and Separate, Separate and Cooperate: The Disengagement of the Palestinian Health Care System from Israel and its Emergence as an Independent System, eds. Tamara Barnea and Rafiq Husseini, Greenwood Press, 2002. Reprinted in Hebrew in: Neve Gordon and Ruchama Marton, “Ma’arechet Briut Ha-Zkuka Le-Shikum,” in HaVirus Lo Over Bmachsom, eds. Tamara Barnea and Rafiq Husseini, Am-Oved Press, 2002. Neve Gordon and George Lopez, “Terrorism in the Arab-Israeli Conflict," in Ethics in International Affairs: Theories and Cases, ed. Andrew Valls, Rowman and Littlefield, 2000. Reprinted in The Joan B. Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, Occasional Paper Series, 18:OP:1, October, 1999: 1-24.

Selected Book Reviews A Theory of the Drone, Grégoire Chamayou, The New Press, 2015, Common Dreams, January 23, 2015. Reflexive Democracy: Political Equality and the Welfare State, MIT Press, 2006. In Notre Dame Philosophical Review, July 3, 2007. Academic Freedom After September11, ed. Beshara Doumani, Zone Books, 2006. In Boston Globe August 2, 2006. Wrestling with Zion, Progressive Jewish-American Responses to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, eds., Tony Kushner and Alisa Solomon, Grove Press, 2003 and Prophets Outcast: A Century of Dissident Jewish Writing About Zionism and Israel, ed. Adam Shatz, Nation Books, 2004. In Journal of Palestine Studies, Vol, 35 No. 4, 2005.

Beyond Chutzpah: On the Misuse of Anti-Semitism and the Abuse of History, Norman Finkelstein, University of California Press, 2003. In National Catholic Reporter, October, 13, 2005. Reprinted in Haaretz, April 26, 2006. Frontiers and Ghettos: State Violence in Serbia and Israel, James Ron, University of California Press, 2003. In National Catholic Reporter, May, 20, 2005. Courting Conflict: The Israeli Military Court System in the West Bank and Gaza, Lisa Hajjar. University of California Press, 2005. In The Nation, May 2, 2005. Reprinted in Ha’aretz May 25, 2005. War Talk, Arundhati Roy, Boston: South End Press, 2003. In The National Catholic Reporter, November 14, 2003. Reprinted in Ha’aretz January 14, 2004. Democracy, Third Edition, Anthony Arblaster, Bukingham England: Open University Press, 2002. In Democratization, Vol. 10, No. 2003. Barbed Wire, A Political History, Olivier Razac, translated Jonathan Kneight, New York: The New Press, 2002. In In These Times, December 6, 2002. Reprinted in Ha’aretz January 8, 2003. The Democratic Paradox, Chantal Mouffe, London: Verso Press, 2000. In Democratization, Vol. 9 (2) 2002: 175-178. The New Intifada: Resisting Israel’s Apartheid, ed. Roane Carey, London, Verso Press, 2001. In The Progressive, February 2002. Is there a Jewish Philosophy? Leon Roth, London: The Littman Library of Jewish Civilization, 1999. In Global Dialogue, Vol. 3 (4) Autumn 2001: 149-152. The Holocaust Industry: Reflections on the Exploitation of Jewish Suffering, Norman Finkelstein, London: Verso, 2000. In The Nation, November 13, 2000. Reprinted in part in Ha’aretz, February 23, 2001. Sex, Gender, Politics: Women In Israel, eds. Dafna N. Izraeli, Ariella Friedman, Henriette Dahan- Kalev, Sylvie Fogiel-Bijaoui, Hanna Herzog, Manar Hasan, and Hannah Naveh, Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing House, 1999. In Politika, The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations, Vol. 5, June 2000 (In Hebrew). Profit over People, Neoliberalism and Global Order, by Noam Chomsky, New York: Seven Stories Press, 1999. In The Nation, June 14, 1999. Reprinted in Contemporary Literary Criticism, Vol. 132, Gale Research, 2001. Earth for Sale: Reclaiming Ecology in the Age of Corporate Greenwash, by Brian Tokar, Boston: South End Press, 1997. In The National Catholic Reporter, March 26, 1999. Shielded From Justice: Police Brutality and Accountability in the United States, by Allyson Collins, New York: Human Rights Watch, 1998. In The National Catholic Reporter, November 6, 1998.

Selected Non Refereed Articles and Essays "Human Shields in Gaza," The Funambulist, May-June 2016 (with Nicola Perugini). “Is There A Human Right to Kill?” The Nation, 2 July, 2015. “The Day After,” London Review of Books, 4 May 2015. "Talking about Collaborators," Los Angeles Review of Books, February 25, 2014. “In the Negev,” London Review of Books, Vol. 34: 6 March 2012. “Even Picnics in Israel are Political,” The Guardian, May 25, 2010. “Teaching Tolerance in Conflict Zones,” Washington Post, October 13, 2009 (with Catherine Rottenberg). “Israel’s Struggle for Social Justice,” The Nation, May 26, 2008. “Shadowplays,” The Nation, March 12, 2008. “Academic Freedom and the Remaking of the University as a Corporation,” Anthropology News, Vol. 49 Issue 1, January 2008. “Uneasy Calm In Palestine” The Nation, March 12, 2007. “Theorizing Israel’s Occupation,” Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities, Vol. 6, No. 2, 2006: 115-129. “The Militarist and Messianic Ideologies,” MERIP, July 8, 2004. “Against the Academic Boycott,” Borderlands E-Journal, Vol. 3, No. 1, January 2004. “Strategic Violations: Outsourcing Human Rights Violations,” cover story The Humanist, September/October 2003. “Where are the Peaceniks,” The Nation, April 29, 2002. “Honor Killings,” Iris: A Journal about Women, No. 42. Spring, 2001. "Defining Terrorism,” Palestine-Israel Journal, Volume VI, (1) 1999: 96-104.

"Palestinian Health-Care: Neglect and Crisis," Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. IV, (2) 1997: 97-102. “A Few Miles and a World Apart,” Notre Dame Magazine, Winter 1997-98. “The White Coat Passes Like a Shadow in the Execution Chambers,” The Humanist, November/December 1995.

Selected Reports The Political Economy of Israel’s Homeland Security Industry, The Surveillance Project Queens University, April 2009: 67 accessible online. Intifada Related Head Injuries, Tel-Aviv: PHR, 1995: 42. The Transfer of Health Services to a Palestinian Authority, Tel-Aviv: PHR, 1994: 44. (with Jon Neufeld). The Occupied Health Care System, Tel-Aviv: PHR, 1993, 39. (with Rela Mazali and Nogah Ofer). Torture in Israel, Tel-Aviv: PHR, 1992, 24. (with Rela Mazali).

Editorial boards and referee service Editorial Boards 2014- Mafte'akh: Lexical Review of Political Thought 2006-09 Hagar: Studies in Culture, Polity and Identities 2001-05 Politika: The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations. Ad-hoc journal and grant reviewer for: American Political Science Review; Canadian Review of Sociology; Environment and Planning D, Society and Space; Geoforum; Geopolitics; Global Discourse; Hagar: International Social Science Review; Human Studies; International Journal of Middle East Studies; International Political Sociology; Journal of Common Market Studies; Journal of Modern Jewish Studies; Journal of Peace Research; Law and Social Inquiry; Law and Society Review; Political Geography; Politika: The Israeli Journal of Political Science and International Relations; Polity; Political and Legal Anthropology Review; Political Studies; Research in Social Movements, Conflicts and Change; Rethinking Marxism; Review of Politics; Theory and Criticism; Theory, Culture and Society; Urban Studies: An International Journal for Research in Urban and Regional Studies. Ad-hoc book reviewer for: California University Press; Cambridge University Press; Oxford University Press; Pluto Press; Routledge Press; Stanford University Press; Yale University Press. Ad-hoc grant reviewer: German Israel Science Foundation; Israel Science Foundation; Mardsen Fund, Royal Society of New Zealand. External Reviewer: Human Rights and Equity Studies Program, York University, Canada (2007).

Grants 2013-17 EU Grant. Teaching towards a shared society: An Arab-Jewish initiative to develop a new model of education in Israel (I wrote the grant with Hagit Damri, but the project is being carried out by Hagar School). $435,000. 2010-14 German Israeli Foundation (GIF). Human Rights, Spatial Negotiations and Power Relations in Israel and Turkey, (PI with Stephan Stetter and Haim Yacobi) €152,600. 2007-08 The Surveillance Project, Queens University, Ontario Canada.The Rise of Israel’s Surveillance Industrial Complex, $12,000. 2006-07 Minerva Center for Human Rights. Human Rights and Corporate Social Responsibility, $3,000. 2006-07 Academy-Community Partnership. Human Rights and Urban Planning, (PI with Haim Yacobi). $10,000. 2005-06 Minerva Center for Human Rights. The Political Economy of Human Rights, $3,000. 2004-05 Burda Center, Ben-Gurion University. The Emergence, Expansion and Impact of Human Rights Discourse in Israel” (PI with Nitza Berkovitch). $4,000. 2002-05 The Israel Science Foundation (ISF). The Emergence, Expansion and Impact of Human Rights Discourse in Israel, (PI with Nitza Berkovitch). $81,000. 2001-02 Minerva Center for Human Rights, The Emergence, Expansion and Impact of Human Rights Discourse in Israel” (PI with Nitza Berkovitch). $5,000. 2001-02 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty Grants. Emergence of Human Rights Discourse in Israel, $2,500. 2000-01 Ben-Gurion University, Faculty Grants. Human Rights and Ideology, $3,750. 2000-01 Minerva Center for Human Rights. Outsourcing Human Rights Violations, $4,000.

Awards 2016-17 Leverhulme Fellowship, SOAS, London 2016-17 American Council of Learned Society Fellowship 2012-13 Member, Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton 2008-09 Birx International Scholar, SUNY Geneseo, New York 1999 Lady Davis Post-Doctoral Fellowship, Hebrew University (Declined)

Presentations in Professional Meetings and Invited Talks (since 2013) "The Politics of Human Shielding," ECPR, Montreal, August 26-29, 2015. "Normative Power Europe and the Power of the Local," ECPR, Montreal, August 26-29, 2015. (with Sharon Pardo). "Human Shields and the Force of Discrimination," (In)Security and Conflict and the Everyday, Queens University, Belfast, May 27, 2015. "Human Shields," Spatialising Political Thought: A Critical Lexicon in the Making, Queens University, Belfast, May 25-26, 2015. "Human Shields, Framing and the Force of Discrimination," Harvard, Mahindra Humanities Center at Harvard University, March 27–28, 2015, (with Nicola Perugini.) "On Human Shielding in Gaza," UCLA, November 7, 2014. "The Human Right to Kill," American Studies Association, Los Angeles, November 6-9, 2014. “Differentiated Implementation Of Human Rights: A New Research Agenda” The XVIII ISA World Congress of Sociology, 13-19 July, 2014 Yokohama, Japan. (with Nitza Berkovitch). "The Human Right to Kill," Historical Materialism, London, November 7-12, 2013. “Human Rights as National Security Threat: Lawfare and the Assault on Rights NGOs,” University of Kentucky, March 4; Duke University, March 6; University of Virginia April 3; Duquesne University April 12; University of Pennsylvania April 19, Princeton University, May 7. 2013. “Education in Israel/Palestine: How Can We Embrace Our Common Humanity?” University of Kentucky, March 4; Duke University, March 6; University of Virginia April 3; Duquesne University April 12. 2013. “The Securitization of Human Rights in Israel,” International Studies Association, San Francisco, April 5-8., 2013.