Taub Center Graduate Workshop Seminars 2005-2006Fall 2005
October 21
Avi Picard, Post-Doctoral Fulbright Fellow, NYU Birth of the Ethnic Problem: Yemenites and the Second Aliyah
Moshe Shokeid, Tel-Aviv University Max Gluckman and the Making of Israeli Anthropology
November 18
Yaron Tsur, Tel-Aviv University The beginnings of the Ethnic problem - The Yemenite encounter 1904-1918
Nadav Shelef, Post-Doctorate Fellow, NYU Fundamental Changes in Religious Fundamentalism: Changing conceptions of the state of Israel in Gush Emunim
December 2
Aviva Halamish, Open University, Israel Writing Israeli Political Biography
Ehud Sommer, Ph.D. Student, SUNY, Stony-Brook Landmark Decisions Strategy – Courts as Proactive Players, with the Israeli Supreme Court as a case study
Spring 2006
January 27
Nadav Davidovich, Ben-Gurion University Injurious Medicine, Injurious Remedy: Public Health, Law and Ringworm Mass Irradiation in Israel
Galeet Dardashi, Ph.D. Candidate, University of Texas The “Buena VistaBaghdad” Phenomenon: Discourses of Middle Eastern Music in Israel
April 27
Jonathan Mendilow, Rutgers University Analysis of Israel’s Elections, March 2006
Dov Waxman, Baruch College, NY Discussion of John Mearsheimer and Stephen Walt on the Israel Lobby
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