• Type: Seminar Series
• Series organisers: Professor Yaacov Yadgar , Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)
• Timing: Tuesdays 2:15-4
• Organising department: Oxford School of Global and Area Studies

Tuesday 15 October 2024

• 14:15 - Buber and Gandhi on land and resistance: Reading the Buber-Gandhi correspondence after October 7
  Dr Yemima Hadad (University of Leipzig)

Tuesday 22 October 2024

• 14:15 - The Image of Herod in Modern Israel
  Professor Martin Goodman

Tuesday 29 October 2024

• 14:15 - 'You cannot really live (or die) here’: ongoing struggles over cemeteries and housing in Tel Aviv-Jaffa, 1957-2020
  Dr Michal Huss (University of Manchester)

Tuesday 5 November 2024

• 14:15 - New & Jew, Zionism and the Quest for National Culture
  Professor Yaron Peleg (University of Cambridge)

Tuesday 12 November 2024

• 14:15 - To Ensure the Jewish Character of the Town Through the Establishment of a Central Synagogue: Synagogues in Israeli Urban Internal Frontiers as Symbols of Sovereignty
  Dr Davidi Borabeck (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 19 November 2024

• 14:15 - Abraham and Moses as Entrepreneurs: Educating for the Future with Narratives of the Past
  Dr Sari Alfi-Nissan (University of Oxford)

Tuesday 26 November 2024

• 14:15 - Trade Networks Bridging Yemen, Israel, and Ethiopia: The Ḥibshūsh Family and Jewish-Muslim Commercial Relations in the 20th Century
  Dr Menashe Anzi (Ben Gurion University)

Tuesday 3 December 2024

• 14:15 - 'Last child of the Risorgimento'? Zionism and the legacies of 1848”
  Professor Abigail Green

Tuesday 21 October 2025

• 14:15 - Precarious Labour in Precarious Times: The Impact of the War in Israel/Palestine on Non-Citizen Workers
  Dr Maayan Nietza (University of Liverpool)

Tuesday 28 October 2025

• 14:15 - The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
  Dr Angy Cohen

Tuesday 4 November 2025

• 14:15 - From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
  Professor Haim Yacobi (Bartlett Development Planning Unit)

Tuesday 11 November 2025

• 14:15 - Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
  Dr Shlomo Fischer (Jewish People Policy Institute in Jerusalem)

Tuesday 18 November 2025

• 14:15 - Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
  Professor Sarab Abu Rabia-Queder (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)

Tuesday 25 November 2025

• 14:15 - Student volunteering in historical perspective: debates and tensions in Israeli higher education
  Dr Adi Sapir (University of Haifa)

Tuesday 2 December 2025

• 14:15 - The Ottoman Production of Ashkenazi Identity
  Dr Yair Wallach (SOAS Centre for Jewish Studies)