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Taub Center Graduate Workshop Seminars 2005-2006

Fall 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