SETTLERS AND CITIZENS: A CRITICAL VIEW OF ISRAELI SOCIETY: SOAS Pal-Soc Conference: 17-18 October 2015

SETTLERS AND CITIZENS: A CRITICAL VIEW OF ISRAELI SOCIETY
 
10th Annual Conference
Brunei Lecture Theatre SOAS
17-18 October 2015
 
Organised by the SOAS Palestine Society
Hosted by the Centre of Palestine Studies, LMEI, SOAS
 
With the Support of Al-Araby Al-Jadeed
 
Book at: http://soasunion.org/ents/event/552/

 
 
The Settlers and Citizens conference aims to highlight the continuities in Israeli politics both between different segments of Israeli society as well as between different epochs of the state’s existence. By focusing on specific political behaviours and trends, we hope to uncover longer term, more fundamental logics, which are based on the settler colonial nature of the state. The conference will discuss Israel’s relationship with different actors – Palestinian citizens, religious groups, non-Ashkenazi Jews, and non-Jewish residents; academics and Journalists; the so-called Diaspora and Jewish organisations in the West – in order to understand Israeli politics as a totality rather than a collection of discreet actions and events.
 
 
DAY I - Saturday 17th October
 
Registration: 9:00-9:30
 
9:30 Welcome and opening remarks
Dr Adam Hanieh
 
9:35 KEYNOTE SPEAKER:
The Israeli Settler State: Zionism Between Triumph and Defeat
Prof. Nadim Rouhana


PANELS:


10:45-12:15 Panel one: Production of Knowledge
Chair: Sai Englert
 
Palestinian Education in the Israeli Settler State: Divide, Rule and Control
Prof Ismael Abu Saad
 
The Politics of Journalism in Contemporary Israel
Noam Sheizaf
 
Beyond Mere Veneer: Zionism and Neoliberalism in Israeli Academia
Dr Hilla Dayan  
 
Lunch: 12:15-13:15
 
13:15-15:15 Panel two: Law and Legal Realities
Chair: Dr Brenna Bhandar  
 
The Nature of  the Israeli Legal system
Dr Nimer Sultany


The Israeli Supreme Court
Jamil Dakwar
Customizing Extreme Violence: A Critical Assessment of Israel’s War Record in Gaza
Prof Lisa Hajjar
Myths and Misconceptions about the Israeli Legal System
Suhad Bishara
 


15:30-17:00 Panel three: Mapping the Israeli landscape
Chair: Dr Sharri Plonski
 
Land and Labor: Logics and Trajectories
Prof Zachary Lockman


The "Arab Village": Politics of Land, [Counter]Representation and Identity
Prof Haim Yacobi


Politics of Pleasure within the Politics of Violence: Affect and Agency of Zionist Settler Women
Akanksha Mehta
 
 
Day II - Sunday 18th October


10:00 – 11:30 Panel four: Material Realities on the Ground: part I
Chair: Dr Hagar Kotef


The Night Watchman Becomes a Mercenary
Dr Shir Hever
 
The Political Economy of Israeli Defense: Homeland Security and High-Tech Industry
Dr Mtanes Shehadeh
 
What is Left of the Israeli Left?
Prof Ilan Pappe
 
 
11:45-13:15 Panel five: Materialist Realities on the Ground: Part II
Chair: Dr Adam Hanieh


Race, Demography, and Settler Colonialism in Israel
Dr Mazen Masri


Enlightened Racism: How the Israeli Left's Gate Keepers Keep the Mizrahim Out
Orly Noy
 
Zionism’s Anti-African Front
David Sheen
 


13:30-14:30 LUNCH
 
14:45-16:00 Panel six: The Jewish State & its ‘Diaspora’ (A Dialogue)
Chair: Dr Ruba Salih


Audience, Partner, and Alibi: Israel and Western Jewish Organizations
Dan Freeman Maloy
 
The Israeli Emigration Anxiety: Israel’s Conflictual Relationship with the Israeli-Jewish Diaspora
Hila Amit




16:15-17:30 Roundtable and Closing remarks
 
For more detailed information about the conference please visit the SOAS student’s union website: http://soasunion.org/ents/event/552/