Taub Center Speaker Program 2010 - 11
September 16, 2010
India's Israel Policy: From Non-relations to Friendship
Dr. P.R. KumaraswamyChairperson, Centre for West Asian Studies, School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University
Director, Middle East Institute of New Dehli
Location
The Bronfman Center - 7 East 10th Street, 5th Floor Hall
New York, NY 10003
September 21, 2010
The Failure of the American Jewish Establishment
Peter Beinart
The Daily Beast / The New Republic
Location:
60 Washington Square South - Kimmel Center's Rosenthal Pavillion
New York, NY 10003
October 4, 2010
Democracies and National Security: The American and Israeli Experiences
A Symposium co-sponsored by The Israel Democracy Institute
Symposium Participants Include:
Gabriella Blum - Harvard Law School
George Fletcher - Columbia Law School
Amos Guiora - University of Utah / Former Chief of IDF Military Law School
Richard Pildes - New York University Law School
Roy Schondorf - Director, Department for Special International Affairs, Israeli Ministry of Justice
Yuval Shany - Israel Democracy Institute / Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Matthew Waxman - Columbia Law School
Location:
60 Washington Square South, Kimmel Hall Room 914
New York, NY 10003
October 19, 2010
"Hold On To The Sun:" A Lecture by Michal Govrin
Michal Govrin
Renowned Israeli poet, novelist, essayist, theater director, editor and publisher
Location:
The Bronfman Center
7 East 10th Street, 5th Floor Hall
New York, NY 10003
October 23 - 24, 2010
Schedule:
Two days of documentaries and films that explore queer culture in Israel from many different perspectives. There will be a mix of short- and feature-length documentaries, including Hazman Havarod (Gay Times), Yossi & Jagger, and Hamilchama Haachrona (The Last War). On October 24th there will be a panel featuring directors Tomer Heymann (Paper Dolls) and Tamar Glezermann (The Other War).
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
New York, NY 10003
February 7, 2011
Did the Oslo Accords Pave the Way to a (Israeli-Palestinian) Two-State Solution?
Prof. Yair Hirschfeld
Director General, Economic Cooperation Foundation (Tel-Aviv)
Brochstein Fellow, Baker Institute for Public Policy at Rice University
Lecturer, Department of Middle Eastern Studies, Haifa University
Location:
NYU Open House Gallery
528 LaGuardia Place
February 28, 2011
Evolving Nationalism: Homeland, Religion and Identity in Israel
Nadav Shelef
Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Location:
NYU Open House Gallery
528 LaGuardia Place
March 2, 2011
Kafka, Zionism and the Trial in Tel-Aviv
Mark H. Gelber
Professor, Comparative Literature, Ben-Gurion University
Location:
NYU Open House Gallery
528 LaGuardia Place
March 21, 2011
The Middle East in Transition - Repercussions for Israel
Itamar Rabinovich
Global Distinguished Visiting Professor, NYU
Former Israeli Ambassador to the U.S.
President Emeritus, Tel Aviv University
Location:
Kimmel Center, Room 914
60 Washington Square South
April 28, 2011
The Viability of Ethnic Democracy: What Can Be Learned From the Experience of Poland and Israel?
Yoav Peled
Professor of Political Science, Tel-Aviv University
Yoav Peled is this year's Hans Speier Professor at the New School for Social Research. He is professor of Political Science at Tel Aviv University. He received his PhD in political science from UCLA in 1982 and LLB (Bachelor of Laws) from Tel Aviv University in 2009. His work has dealt with citizenship and ethnic politics in Israel and with the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. He co-authored the book Being Israeli: the Dynamics of Multiple Citizenship, which won the Albert Hourani Prize of the Middle East Studies Association of North America for best book in Middle East studies in 2002. Peled has edited or co-edited five collections of essays; his latest collection is Democratic Citizenship and War. Peled’s articles have appeared in The American Political Science Review, American Journal of Sociology, Constellations, Ethnic and Racial Studies, Citizenship Studies, and other major journals. He is co-editor in chief of The Public Sphere: Tel Aviv Journal of Political Science (in Hebrew).
Please download a copy of Prof. Peled's paper here.
Presented in conjunction with the Skirball Department of Hebrew and Judaic Studies Lunchtime Colloquia Program.
Location:
Seminar Room 607
53 Washington Square South
April 28, 2011
The Eichmann Trial After Fifty Years
Panel One
Professor Lawrence Douglas, Amherst College
"The Eichmann Trial and the Situ of Justice"
Professor Idith Zertal, Universitat Basel
"The Question of Evil and the Banality of Misreading Eichmann in Jerusalem"
Panel Two
Professor Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University
"Anti-Semitism and Self-Defense in Argentina: The Effects of the Eichmann Affair on the Local Jewish Community"
Professor David Engel, New York University
"Eichmann, Arendt, and the Writing of Jewish History"
Location:
King Juan Carlos Center Screening Room