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Taub Center Speakers Program 2004-2005

Fall 2004

October 4

The Birth of the Palestinian Refugee Problem Revisited
Benny Morris, Ben-Gurion University

November 4

Too Close for Comfort - Living with Death in Israeli Life, Art, and Media
Orly Castel-Bloom, Israeli Author

November 8

Scholarship and Politics: Rules of Engagement in Israel Studies
Ronald W. Zweig, Taub Professor of Israel Studies

The Inaugural Lecture of the Taub Center for Israel Studies

November 11

What I have learnt from Agnon
Haim Beer, Israeli Author

November 17

Art between Peace and War: In Memory of Israeli Author Shulamith Hareven:
Alicia Ostriker, Professor of English at Rutgers University

Is "The Miracle Hater" A Feminist Novella?
Stanley Nash, Professor of Hebrew Literature at HUC in New York

Passive, Resilient or Socially Active? Hareven’s Early Fiction
Yael S. Feldman, Abraham Katsh Professor of Hebrew Culture at NYU

Violence and Self Reckoning: A Jewish Perspective
Moderator: Avital Ronell, Chair of the Department of German, Professor of German, English, and Comparative Literature at NYU

Spring 2005

January 26

The Voice of Israel: the Israeli Government's Shaping of the State Narrative in the Early Years of the State
Dr. Shaul Shenhav, Fulbright scholar

February 1

The 1960s Revolution in Israeli Poetry
Israeli Poet Ori Bernstein talks in Prof. Yael Feldman’s graduate seminar: Varieties of Modernism in Hebrew Poetry. 

February 23

Learning from Success: the Israel-Egypt Peace Negotiations, 1977-1979
Dr. Kenneth Stein, Emory University.
A joint event of Taub Center and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

March 21

Israel-Palestinian Relations after the Palestinian Elections
Prof. Yaakov Bar Siman Tov, Head of the Jerusalem Institute and the Davis Institute at the Hebrew University.
A joint event of Taub Center and Hagop Kevorkian Center for Near Eastern Studies.

April 5

Strange Bedfellows: Israel and China, 1948-2004
Dr. Aron Shai, Tel Aviv University.