Taub Center Speakers Program
Each year, the Taub Center
organizes a series of public lectures by international scholars. The Speakers Program offers the academic community and the general
public a chance to participate in a dynamic dialogue about issues, events, and
scholarship related to Israel.
The following details our currently scheduled Speakers Program events for Spring 2012.
February 4, 2013
5:00pm –7:00pm
Bedouin Society in Israel: Continuity and Change
Alean Al-Krenawi
Location:
14A Washington Mews, First Floor Gallery
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
February 26, 2013
12:30pm - 2pm
Indigenous (In)Justice: Human Rights Law and Bedouin Arabs in the Naqab / Negev
Ahmad Amara
John Sheehan
Location:
14A Washington Mews, First Floor Gallery
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
April 14, 2013
5:00pm – 7:00pm
Obama, Netanyahu and the New Middle-East
Itamar Rabinovich
Former Ambassador to the U.S. from IsraelGlobal Distinguished Professor, NYU
Daniel C. Kurtzer
Former Ambassador to Israel from the U.S.
S. Daniel Abraham Professor of Middle Eastern Policy Studies, Princeton University
Itamar Rabinovich, who served as Israel’s ambassador to the United States (1993-1996) during the Rabin government, and Daniel C. Kurtzer, who served as America’s ambassador to to Egypt from 1997 to 2001 and to Israel from 2001 to 2005, during the Bush Administration, will engage in a public discussion, “Obama, Netanyahu and the New Middle East."
Currently a Global Distinguished Professor at NYU’s Taub Center for Israel Studies and President of the Israel Institute (Washington, DC), Itamar Rabinovich served as the president of Tel Aviv University from 1999 to 2007. He is the author of several books, including The View from Damascus: State, Political Community and Foreign Relations in Twentieth-Century Syria; Syria Under the Ba’ath; The War for Lebanon; The Road Not Taken: Early Arab-Israeli Negotiations; The Brink of Peace: Israel and Syria; and The Lingering Conflict: Israel, the Arabs and the Middle East, 1948-2011.
Daniel C. Kurtzer is the S. Daniel Abraham Professor in Middle Eastern policy studies at the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs. Throughout his 29-year career in the U.S. Foreign Service and State Department, Ambassador Kurtzer played a key role in shaping U.S. policy in the Middle East peace process, crafting the 1988 peace initiative of Secretary of State George P. Shultz, and in 1991 served as a member of the U.S. peace team that brought about the Madrid Peace Conference. He is the co-author of Negotiating Arab-Israeli Peace: American Leadership in the Middle East and The Peace Puzzle: America's Quest for Arab-Israeli Peace, 1989 - 2011 as well as editor of Pathways to Peace: America and the Arab-Israeli Conflict. He was a foreign policy advisor to President Obama’s campaign in 2008 and is a contributor to the Washington Post and other publications on developments in the Middle East.
Location:
NYU Languages and Literature Building
Lecture Hall 102
19 University Place (at 8th street)
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
May 2, 2013
12:15pm - 1:45pm
Nostalgic Zionist Soundscapes: The Future of the Israeli Nation's Sonic Pasts
Edwin Seroussi
Edwin Seroussi is the Emanuel Alexandre Professor of Musicology and Director of the Jewish Music Research Centre at Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In 2008 he was appointed as the first head of the new School of the Arts at Hebrew University. Born in Montevideo, Uruguay, he immigrated to Israel in 1971 where he took undergraduate and graduate degrees in Musicology at Hebrew University receiving his Ph.D. from UCLA in 1987. He taught at Bar Ilan and Tel Aviv Universities in Israel, and was visiting professor at SUNY Binghamton, UCLA, Universidad de Buenos Aires, Wesleyan University, Dartmouth College, Institut für Musikwissenschaft in Zurich, Moscow University, University of California Berkeley and Boston University. He is a Starr Fellow at Harvard University for spring 2013.
Seroussi has published extensively on North African and Eastern Mediterranean Jewish musical traditions, on Judeo-Islamic relations in music and on Israeli popular music. He founded Yuval Music Series and is editor of the acclaimed CD series Anthology of Music Traditions in Israel. Besides his academic endeavors he has produced many cultural programs (such as the Mediterranean Musical Dialogue) and concerts in Israel, Europe, Canada and the USA.
Location:
14A Washington Mews - First Floor Gallery
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
FALL 2012 >
October 4, 2012
6:00pm –8:00pm
Integrating the Ultra-Orthodox into Israeli Society
Education, Army and Workforce
Barriers
between the Ultra-Orthodox and the rest of Israeli society (and between
Arabs and Jew) are increasingly being challenged. This panel will
examine current trends and possible future directions in managing one of
the most debated problems facing Israel today.
A Panel Discussion
David Shimron
Dorit Morag
Kobi Tav
Moderated by:
Ronald Zweig
Director of the Taub Center for Israel Studies (NYU)
Location:
NYU Open House Gallery
528 LaGuardia Place
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
November 8, 2012
6:00 - 7:30pm
Integrating the Israeli Arab Community: Army and National Service
Former Chief Psychologist of the IDF
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
November 11, 2012
3:00pm
Other Israel Film Festival: Another Look
Join Other Israel and the Taub Center in a special presentation of two festival favorites:
3pm - Ameer Got His Gun, followed by a conversation with filmmaker Naomi Levari, media personality Lucy Aharish, and Reuven Gal.
5pm - Unidentified, followed by a conversation with protagonist Lucy Aharish
For more information on the Other Israel Film Festival, please visit OtherIsrael.org
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
Free and Open to the Public, no RSVP required.
November 27, 2012
6:00 - 7:30pm
Identity of the Victim: Trauma and Ethics in Current Israeli Cinema
Senior Lecturer of Cinema Studies,
Tel Aviv University
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
December 2, 2012
2pm - 7pm
100 Years of Hashomer Hatzair: Assessing the Significance of a Political Movement
2 - 3:30 Screening of Inventing Our Life, a documentary on kibbutz life by Toby Perl Freilich
3:30 - 4:00 Coffee Break
4:00 - 7:00pm Paper Presentations and Discussion (below)
The Program:
Welcome Remarks & Introductions
Dr. Ronald Zweig, Taub Center for Israel Studies (NYU)
Mr. Gal Peleg, Central Shaliach of Hashomer Hatzair USA
Against the Stream: Nine Decades of Hashomer Hatzair in North America
Dr. Arial Hurwitz
The Open University and Academic College Seminar Hakibbutzim - Emeritus
Like a Phoenix: The Revival of Hashomer Hatzair Youth Movement in the Aftermath of the Holocaust
Prof Eli Tzur
Givat Haviva / Academic College Seminar Hakibbutzim
The Impact of Experiential Education and Dialogue in Adolescence - Hashomer Hatzair as Youth Empowerment
Dr. Efrat Levy
Empire State College State University of New York
The Relevance of Hashomer Hatzair Ideology to Contemporary Israel
Dr. Anat Maor
The Open University / Taub Center for Israel Studies (NYU)
Q&A
7:00pm - Conclusion
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
December 4, 2012
5:30pm - 7:30pm
The Two State-Solution: The U.N. Partition of Mandatory Palestine - Analysis and Sources
A Book Event in honor of Prof. Ruth Gavison
Introduction
Director, Tikvah Center for Law and Jewish Civilization
Joseph Straus Professor of Law, New York University Law School
Discussion
Schusterman Postdoctoral Fellow, Taub Center for Israel Studies
Director, Taub Center for Israel Studies
Response
Haim H. Cohn Professor of Human Rights, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Emerita)
Founder / President of Metzilah Center for Zionist, Jewish, Liberal and Humanist Thought
Joint Straus / Tikvah Fellow 2011-12, New York University School of Law
A kosher reception will follow the program.
Location:
53 Washington Square South, Screening Room
RSVP by Tel. (212) 998-8981 / E-mail fas.taubcenter@nyu.edu / seating limited, registration required.
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