Representations of and Narratives about Israel/Palestine

Program

 

09.30 Assoc. Prof. Jakob Egholm Feldt (Dept. of Culture & Identity, Roskilde University)

The Zionist Orient: A discussion of (social)constructivist discourse on Zionism and Israel

10.00. Assoc. Prof. Ingrid Hjelm (Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University)

Maximalist and/or Minimalist Approach in Recent Representations of Ancient Israelite and Judaean History

10.30 Coffee break

11.00  Ass. Prof. Avner Shamir (Saxo Institute, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University)

“Jews”, “Palestine” and “Israel” in early Modern European Discourse  

11.30 Postgraduate Student, Simon Bastrup Grud, ToRS, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University)

Forholdet mellem jødisk-israelsk historiografi og national identitet

11. 30-12.30 Discussion

12.30 Lunch break

Afternoon Session (Chair: Avner Shamir)

 13.30 PhD. Fellow, Leila Stockmarr (Roskilde University, Dept. of Society and Globalisation)

The political economy of Zionist security theology: Between a high-tech nation and strives for ethnic purification

14.00 Prof. Niels Peter Lemche (Dept. of Biblical Studies Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University)

Hvad gjorde Israel galt. Fra Vesterlandets darling til dets Prügelknabe

14.30-15.00 Coffee Break

15.00 Assoc. Prof. Joshua A. Sabih (Dept. of Cross Cultural and Regional Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Copenhagen University)

Israel and Zionism in Moroccan Marxist discourse: Abraham Serfati and Edmond Omran El-Maleh

15.30 Prof. Emeritus Thomas Thompson (Dept. of Biblical Studies, Faculty of Theology, Copenhagen University)

The Narratives of Israel are also a Palestinian Heritage

15.30 - 16.30   Discussion