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SUMMARY:When Climate Takes Command: Jewish-Zionist Scientific Approaches t
 o Climate in Palestine - Neta Cohen (University of Oxford)
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DESCRIPTION:In my talk at the Israel Studies Seminar\, I will present my d
 octoral research which occupies the intersection between modern Jewish his
 tory\, climate and environmental history\, the history of knowledge\, and 
 colonial history. My dissertation focuses on the role of climate – both 
 as an abstract concept and a concrete condition – in shaping and reshapi
 ng Jewish national\, racial\, cultural\, and spatial identity both in Euro
 pe and in Palestine during the first half of the twentieth century. Jewish
  planning\, agriculture\, and health experts often examined the ramificati
 ons of climate on the potential success of the Zionist project in Palestin
 e. Thus\, trough the prism of climate\, also I explore the ways in which J
 ewish experts\, who usually came from a central European academic and cult
 ural background\, transported knowledge to a space where their expertise a
 llowed them to participate in a 'modernizing' development project which wa
 s also a cultural project of a settler nation-building.\n\nNetta Cohen is 
 a Dphil candidate at the Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine in the 
 University of Oxford. She is currently a doctoral fellow at the Center for
  Jewish History in New York City and a research affiliate at the Taub Cent
 er for Israel Studies in NYU. Between 2014 and 2015 she was a fellow at th
 e Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Centre in the Hebrew University of Jer
 usalem\, where she researched the private papers of Heinrich Mendelssohn\,
  a renowned Zoologist and pioneer of Environmental thought in Israel. A pe
 er-reviewed article by Cohen will be published in 2018. (“Memories of a 
 Zoologist: Reflections on the Role of the Archive in the Production of Kno
 wledge and Memory”\, Simon Dubnow Institute Yearbook\, 17\, 2018).\nSpea
 kers:\nNeta Cohen (University of Oxford)
LOCATION:St Antony's College (The Boardroom (Middle East Centre))\, 62 Woo
 dstock Road OX2 6JF
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URL:https://talks.ox.ac.uk/talks/id/fd8e8c86-7691-4ecd-adc2-d007dc85a354/
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