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Taub Center Graduate Student Workshops

The Taub Center organizes monthly workshops for graduate students and faculty in the field of Israel Studies at NYU and other universities in the tri-state area. The regional workshops are an opportunity for students and faculty to present and discuss their respective areas of research.  The workshops also serve as an important forum for networking and strengthening the field of Israel Studies. In addition to NYU students, participants have included scholars and students from Columbia University, CUNY, Princeton, Rutgers, and SUNY, among others.  If you are a graduate student and wish to join our workshops, please e-mail:  fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu for registration information.

The following details our currently scheduled Graduate Workshops from September 2009 through May 2010.

Friday, October 30, 2009

10am-2pm

*Reserved for Graduate Students, Faculty and Visiting Scholars*

King Juan Carlos Center, 2^nd Floor Library

53 Washington Square South

 10am - Coffee and light refreshments

10:30am - Dr. Oz Almog

 “Visual Sociology of Israel: New Ideas for Research and Learning”

Oz Almog is Professor of Sociology and History at the University of Haifa (Land of Israel Studies) and currently, Visiting Professor at The Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies at NYU (Fall 2009). Oz is the co-founder and editor of People Israel  - an online, dynamic, multimedia guide of Israeli society. Professor Almog has played a key role in the implementation of innovative software used in the site. The general problems of Israeli Sociology, specifically, the under utilization of still photos and video data are key elements of Prof. Almog's current research. He is the author of several books, including Farewell to ‘Srulik’: Changing Values Among the Israeli Elite (2004) and The Sabra: The Creation of the New Jew (2000).

Noon - Lunch

12:30pm - Dr. Orit Rozin

 “Collectivism and Individualism in 1950s Israel”

Orit Rozin is an Israel Studies visiting scholar at the Center for Jewish Studies at York University, Toronto. Rozin was a Keshet post-doctoral fellow at the Jewish History department at Tel Aviv University for the past three years. Her first book, Duty and Love – Individualism and Collectivism in 1950 Israel, was published by Am Oved and Tel Aviv University in 2008. An English version is forthcoming. Dr. Rozin’s research interests and publications focus on the social, legal and cultural history of Israeli state and society in the 1950s and 1960s, combining studies of gender and comparative perspective with history from above and history from below. Her current research project focuses on the quest for civil rights in 1950s Israel and its impact on Israeli identity.

2pm - Conclusion of Workshop

*Reserved for Graduate Students, Faculty and Visiting Scholars*

To attend please RSVP to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or (212) 998-8981

 Friday, December 4, 2009
10am-2pm

*Reserved for Graduate Students, Faculty and Visiting Scholars*

King Juan Carlos Center, 2nd Floor Library
53 Washington Square South


10am – 10:30am: Coffee and light refreshments

10:30am:   Professor Tamar Hermann
"Public opinion and the making of peace and war: The bitter-sweet case of the Israeli peace movement"

Professor Tamar S. Hermann is a political scientist at the Open University of Israel and a Senior Fellow at the Israel Democracy Institute. Between 1994 and 2006 she was the Director of the Tami Steinmetz Center for Peace Research at Tel Aviv University and between 2006 and 2009, the Dean of Academic Studies of the Open University. Presently, she is a visiting professor at Princeton University. Her latest book The Israeli peace movement – A Shattered Dream was recently published by Cambridge University Press.

*Download the Introduction to Prof. Hermann's book HERE.

Noon – 12:30pm: Lunch
 
12:30am :  Doctor Moshe Cohen-Eliya
"The Controversy over the Core Curriculum in the Ultra Orthodox Schools in Israel"                                                                                                        

Moshe Cohen-Eliya is currently a Faculty Fellow at the Edmond J. Safra Foundation Center for Ethics at Harvard University. He is editor-in-chief of the Journal Law & Ethics of Human Rights  and a senior lecturer at the Academic Center for Law and Business, in Israel. Among his publications are "Formal and Substantive Meanings of Proportionality in the Supreme Court's Decision regarding the Security Fence," Israel Law Review and "Discrimination against Arabs in Israel in Public Accommodations," NYU Journal of International Law and Politics.

*A full paper by Prof. Cohen-Eliya on this topic in Hebrew (Journal of Law and Government) is available for download HERE.
*Some portions of the argument appear in English in "An Argument from Democracy against School Choice: A Critique of Zelman v. Harris 49" Loyola Law Review 859 (2003). The relevant portions of this article for the purpose of the presentation are pages 864-886 (part I) and pages 892-900 (Part II.b.). Download the entire article HERE.

*Reserved for Graduate Students, Faculty and Visiting Scholars*

To attend please RSVP to fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu or (212) 998-8981

Past Graduate Workshop Seminars

2008-2009

2007-2008

2006-2007

2005-2006