Curriculum Vitae
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CURRICULUM VITAE
Yosefa Loshitzky
Education:
Ph.D. Indiana University: Major: Comparative Literature
Minors: Film Studies, Communications
Completion: Spring 1987
M.A. Indiana University: Major: Comparative Literature
Minors: Film Studies
Completion: Spring 1983
M.A. The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Major: Communications (cum laude)
Completion: June 1980
B.A. Tel-Aviv University, Israel
Majors: Film and Television, Philosophy
Completion: June 1977
Present appointment:
Leverhulme Emeritus Fellow (September 2014-September 2016); Professorial Research Associate, the Centre for Media Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
Previous academic posts:
April 2005-July 2012: Professor of Film Studies, University of East London (UEL)
January 2004-March 2005: Leverhulme Trust Visiting Professor, Programme of Master in Film Studies, University College London (UCL)
February 2003-April 2005: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London
September 2003-January 2004: Visiting Professor, Department of Film Studies, King’s College, University of London.
1987-2002: Lecturer, Senior Lecturer, Professor, Department of Communications, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel. Chair of the committee for the development of the MA Programme in Film Studies at the Hebrew University. Founding Member of the committees for the development of the MA Programme in Cultural Studies and BA and MA Programmes in Gender Studies at the Hebrew University.
1995-1996 (while on Sabbatical from Hebrew University): Visiting Professor, Department of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, University College London (teaching a postgraduate course on the representation of the Holocaust in film); Visiting Fellow, Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London
1985 to 1986 (while completing my PhD at Indiana University): Visiting Professor, Department of Radio-Television-Film, Bowling Green State University, Ohio, USA.
Spring 1982 to Spring 1985: Associate Instructor, Department of Comparative Literature, Indiana University, Bloomington Indiana, USA
January 1981 to June 1981: (while completing my MA at the Hebrew University): Research Assistant, Department of Communication, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Developed and applied criteria to analyze one-channel television systems in developing countries
November 1979 to May 1980: Research Assistant, Departments of Communication and Political Science, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. Subject: Impartiality and objectivity in Israel's television news
Research and study fellowships:
October 2010- : Professorial Research Associate, the Centre for Media Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London
September 2014 to September 2016: Leverhulme Trust Emeritus Fellow conducting a research on “Just Jews and Muslims: Conversions, Conflations and Conflicts.”
September 2013-August 2014: Visiting Research Fellow, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London
January to April 2014: Visiting Researcher, The United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-CGM), Barcelona, Spain.
March-June 2001: Research Fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies within the framework of the project "Immigration, Identity and Political Community."
1996-1997: Self and Other: Cultural Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion. A research group within the framework of the Project “Europe in the Middle East: Political Key Concepts in the Dialogue of Culture,” Sponsored by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the European Community.
1993-1994 (while on Sabbatical from Hebrew University): Annenberg Scholar, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, within the framework of the Annenberg Scholars 1993-94 theme of "Public Space."
Summer 1990: Recipient of a research grant from the French CNRS. Recipient of a research grant from the Italian CNR. A Visiting Scholar in the Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, The Division of Art, Music and Show at Bologna University, Italy.
Fall 1989: Visiting Scholar, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA.
August 1989: The Directors Guild of America Educators Workshop, Hollywood, California, USA
Spring 1987: Recipient of an Overseas Exchange Fellowship from Indiana University, USA
Summer 1984: Recipient of an Overseas Exchange Fellowship from Indiana University, USA
Fall 1983: Recipient of Israel's "National Council of culture and Art" Fellowship
June-August 1980: Recipient of the United States Fulbright Summer School Scholarship to study in St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA
External Professional Service:
Editorial work:
Member on the international advisory board of Camera Obscura: Feminism, Culture and Media Studies.
2010 to the present: Member on the international advisory board of The Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication and Journalism and Mass Communication
1995-2004: Member on the editorial board of Cinema Journal (the official organ of the SCMS, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the largest Cinema Studies Association in the world).
1997-2000: Member on the editorial board of Kolnoa: Studies in Cinema and Television, published by Tel Aviv University, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Department of Film and Television.
Professional experience:
January 1999: Jury member, The Israel Prize in Film
July 1998: Jury Member, Jerusalem International Film Festival
April, November 1990: Participant and consultant for radio and television programmes for the Open University in Israel on the representation of women in Israeli film and literature
1987 – 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001: Lecturer at the Jerusalem Cinematheque.
Summer 1984: Special reporter of the Israeli newspaper H'adashot to the 1984 Venice Film Festival
1975-1981: Various free-lance work in the field of television and film, including the writing of critical film reviews for the Israeli Film Institute; writing and researching of documentary scripts for Israel television; writing on theatre, television, and film for the Jerusalem weekend edition of Ha'aretz; organizing weekly events at the Tzavta Cultural Center in Jerusalem; teaching filmmaking in various Jerusalem community centers; reporter for Israeli radio (a programme on life in Jerusalem, written and broadcast by David Grossman)
1977-78: Production Assistant for Israel Television
1976-1977: Documenting and archiving with Nathan Axelrod (the first filmmaker in Palestine before the establishment of the state of Israel) the Carmel Newsreels. This work was the basis for two volumes of The Nathan Axelrod Collection, edited by Amy Kronish and Scott Mittelman and published by the Israel Film Archive/Center for Preservation of Israeli and Jewish Film in 1996 and for archival and documentation work done by The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
Conference Organisation:
Member of the Organising Committee of the International Conference London: City of Paradox, University of East London (UEL), London, April 3-5, 2012.
Member on the International Advisory Board of “Beyond Camps and Forced Labour: Current International Research on Survivors of Nazi Persecution,” Third international multidisciplinary conference, Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
Initiator and organiser of a conference on “Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts,” 4-6 April 2005, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Sponsored by: The British Academy; Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; School of Social Sciences, Media and Cultural Studies, University of East London; Third Text and The Italian Institute in London.
For reports on the conference see:
Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol. 14, No. 1 (April 2006), pp. 107-109.
Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”, Un primo report sulla conferenza, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milano: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp. 39-44.
Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”: A Preliminary Report on the Conference, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milan: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp. 47-52.
Organizer and Chair of a special session on “Border Identities (Mis)communicating the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict;” Respondent to the session “Revisiting Spielberg’s Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler’s List - Five Years Later” (a session organized around my book); Local coordinator of the Visual Communication Interest Group, The 48th Annual Conference of the ICA (International Communication Association), July 20-24 1998, Jerusalem, Israel.
Coordinator and chair of a symposium on "Male Identity: Militarism and Gender in Israeli Cinema," July 12, 1995, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Jerusalem Cinematheque, Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
Initiator, organizer and coordinator of a Symposium on "Spielberg's Schindler's List," March 24, 1994, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Coordinator and organizer of a National Symposium on "Film/Politics/Ideology," April 8, 1992, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
Keynote Addresses:
“Gaza or al-Andalous? Just Jews and Muslims and the Question of Palestine,” pleanary speaker for the conference “Anti-Jewish and Anti-Muslim Racisms and the Question of Palestine/Israel,” February 9, 2015, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, UK.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” keynote speaker for the international conference “Crossroads: Europe, Migration, and Culture,” October 24-25, 2013, University of Copenhagen, Dennemark.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” keynote speaker for the international conference “Crossings: The Nexus of Migration and Culture,” July 1-2, 2010, Centre for the Study of Migration, Queen Mary, University of London, UK.
“Cities of Hope: The Cityscapes of Fortress Europe and Beyond,” keynote speaker for the Media Art Department’s Postgraduate Research Studies Conference, June 7, 2010, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey, UK.
“Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators,” keynote speaker for the international conference “Auschwitz Prima e oltre” (Before and Beyond Auschwitz), January 27-29, 2010, Universita di Macerata, Macerata, Italy.
“Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators,” keynote speaker for the Symposium “Violent Contradictions and Feminist Responses to the War on Gaza,” April 2-3, 2009, Institute of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Canada.
“Veiling and Unveiling the Mediterranean: Palestine/Israel between East and West,” the keynote speaker for the International Symposium on “Visions of Struggle: Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean,” November 2-3, 2007, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” part of a plenary panel, “Disunited Nations: Cinema beyond the Nation-State,” April 27-28, 2007, University of Birmingham, UK.
"Forbidden Laughter? The Ethics and Politics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," the keynote speaker for the International Conference on Film Comedy and the Holocaust organised by The Goethe University and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, 25-29 April 2001, the Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain, nearby Frankfurt, Germany.
Invited lectures:
“Gaza as a Metaphor and the Right to be Human,” April 17-19, 2015, International Law and the State of Israel: Legitimacy, Responsibility and Exceptionalism, University of Southampton, UK.
“Screening the Strangeness of Jews and Muslims,” April 2, 2015, Multi-disciplinary Workshop on Bordering Strangeness, Security and Sustainability Research Group at Royal Holloway, University of London, Somerset House, London, UK.
“A Bridge Over Troubled Water? Loving Jews and Muslims in Two Recent Postcolonial Mediterranean Films,” March 18-20, 2015, Workshop on Postcolonial Cinema in Europe: Migration, Identity and Spatiality in Film Genres, NIAS (Netherlands Institute for Advanced Studies), Wassernaar, Netherlands.
“Just Jews and Muslims: Reflections on Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Culture and Beyond,” July 2, 2014, Director’s Seminars, Institute of Modern Languages Research, School of Advanced Study, University of London, UK.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” Migration, Media and Intercultural Dialogue, November 25-27, 2013, United Nations University Institute on Globalization, Culture and Mobility (UNU-GCM), Barcelona, Spain.
“Popular Cinema as Popular Resistance: Avatar in the Palestinian Imagi(nation),” European Writers Council Forum Mare Nostrum VII 2013, April 11, 2013, Grand Hotel Excelsior, Floriana, Malta.
Chair, “Lessons from the Past,” Documentary Now, June 20-21, 2012, UCL, London, UK.
“The Cityscapes of Fortress Europe,” Docucity Film Festival, May 2-5, 2012, Milan, Italy
“Invisible London: Stephen Frears’ Dirty Pretty Things,” “London: City of Paradox,” April 3-5, 2012, University of East London, London, UK.
“Popular Cinema as Popular Resistance: Avatar in the Palestinian Imagi(nation),” March 28, 2012, Centre for Research in Film and Audiovisual Cultures (CRFAC), Roehampton University, UK.
“Popular Cinema as Popular Resistance: Avatar in the Palestinian Imagi(nation),” March 14, 2012, Research Seminar, Department of Film Studies, King’s College, London, UK.
“Forbidden Love in the Holy Land: Daniel Wachsman’s Hamsin,” March 1, 2012, lecture series FilmTalk, The Leo Baeck Institute London and the Wiener Library, London, UK.
“The White Continent is Dark: Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged,” “A New Italian Political Cinema?” AHRC-funded research project, January 27-28, 2012, Manchester, UK.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” November 16, 2011, Graduate School of Human and Environmental Studies, University of Kyoto, Japan.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” “Diaspora, ‘Race’ and Culture of Mobilities,” Universite Paul-Valéry, Montpellier III, June 20-23, 2011, Montpellier, France.
Chair, The Diasporic Family in Cinema, May 21, 2011, SOAS, University of
London, UK.
Discussant (with Luisa Passerini and Wendy Everett) in a special panel on “Migration, European Identity, and the Construction of Otherness,” in the London edition of the TransEuropa festival of culture and debate, 13 May 2011, London, UK.
“Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema,” February 9, 2011, Seminar, Centre for Media and Film Studies, SOAS, University of
London, UK.
“Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema,” February 2, 2011, Seminar, Italian Department, UCL, London, UK.
“Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema,” November 12, 2010, “Critical Spatial Practices Research Seminar,” Centre for Spatial Intervention, University for the Creative Arts, RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects), London, UK.
“Just Jews? Holocaust, Antisemitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Cinema and Beyond,” Concluding lecture for the international summer lecture series on “Holocaust, Genocide and Memory: Comparative and Interdisciplinary Perspectives,” July 13, 2010, Institut fur Kulturwissenschaft (Institute of Cultural Theory and History) and the Kollegium Judische Studien, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany.
“Cosmopolitanism, Media and Identity in the Cinemascapes of Fortress Europe and Beyond,” A Two-Day Conference on “The Idea of Cosmopolitanism: Interdisciplinary Dialogues,” Sponsored by the Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, and the Department of Media and Communication, London School of Economics (LSE), 3-5 December 2009, Centre for the Humanities, Utrecht University, the Netherlands.
“Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators,” SOAS Palestine Society, January 12, 2009, SOAS, London, UK.
“Veiling and Unveiling Palestine/Israel: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Land Zion,” “Culture, Politics and Performativity: Cinemas of the Middle East and South Asia,” a Two-Day Conference with invited world leading experts on Middle Eastern and South Asian cinemas: Hamid Naficy, Viola Shafik, Ranjana Khanna, Corey Creekmur, Yosefa Loshitzky and Azade Seyhan, 15-16 May 2009, University of California, Davis, USA.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” 28 April 2009, Centre for Narrative Studies, University of East London, UK.
“Contempt or Discontent? Contemporary Reflections on Godard’s New Wave Women”: “The French New Wave-50 Years On,” 13-14 March 2009, Cine-Lumiere Cinema, The French Institute, London, UK.
“Just Jews? Representation/Misrepresentation of Jews and Romanies (Gypsies) in the Holocaust Film,” “The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation,” 26-28 June 2008, Hamburg University, Germany.
“The White Continent is Dark: Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged,” “Not of this Place: Migration and Its Memory,” A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Seminar with Rosi Braidotti, 8-9 November 2007, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL, UK.
“Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe: Migratory Travels in Contemporary European Cinema,” AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, three- year project “Tradition and the Modern,” and the State University of Rio de Janiero in Brazil, Conference/Workshop “Migratory Modernisms,” 28-30 June 2004, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
“Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy,” Workshop on “Holocaust Film: Recent Work,” The Research Centre for The Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History, Department of German, Royal Holloway, University of London and The Wiener Library, 21 May 2004, The Wiener Library, London, UK.
“The Representation of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict in Israeli Cinema,” Graduate Seminar, Centre for Israeli Studies, UCL, 24 March 2004, London, UK.
“Ethno-diasporas and European Cinema,” a series of three lectures, Film Programme, UCL, 2, 9, 16 March 2004, London, UK.
“Representing Immigrants and Ethnics in European Cinema,” Work in Progress Seminar, Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 15 January 2004, Senate House, London, UK.
“Identity and ‘Non Identity’ in Contemporary European Cinema,” Identities and Culture in Europe: A Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, UCL Mellon Programme, 3 December 2003, UCL, London, UK.
Convener of a Workshop on "War Media/Media Wars 1: Dis/Regarding the Pain of Others." A Conference on "Smart Bombs, Dumb Wars,” 8 November 2003, Institute of Education, London, UK.
“A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Urban Trilogy,” AHRB Centre For Asian and African Literatures (SOAS/UCL), The City and Literature, Workshop Two, Cities Across Time, 5-7 November 2003, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK.
“Working on Film and Using Film Archives,” Research Training Programme 2003-04, Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 25 October 2003, Senate House, London, UK.
Introduction and Q&A for James’ Journey to Jerusalem, London Film Festival, 23 October 2003, London, UK.
"Cinema and Migration," a Conference on "Mobilizing the Mediterranean: Migration, Alterity, Identity," Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 4-5 July 2003, London, UK.
"Place, Identity and Memory Politics," 20 June 2003. Colloquium on Memory and Raphael Samuel History Centre Annual Lecture, London, UK.
Training and research seminars on using film in teaching history and the Holocaust, 24-27 April 2003, Centre for Multiethnic Research, The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
"The Ethics and Politics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," A Conference on Humour as Self-Definiton, 27-29 March 2003, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
"Screening Strangers in Post-Holocaust European Cinema,” Seminar Programme, 11 February 2003, School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London, London, UK.
“Identity and Memory Politics in Israeli Cinema,” Seminar on “Media Memory/Political Memory,” 1 February 2003, University of London, London, UK.
"Identity Politics in Israeli Cinema," The Hebrew Centre’s David Patterson Seminar Series, 23 October 2002, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yaranton Manor, University of Oxford, UK.
"Screening Strangers in Post-Holocaust European Cinema,” The Media Research Seminar Series and the Media and Diaspora Series, 17 October 2002, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
"Identity Politics in Israeli Cinema," Research Seminar, 9 May 2002, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, UK.
"The Representation of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict in Israeli Cinema," 1 May 2002, Research Seminar, Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, UK
Respondent to David Cesarani and a panelist in "After Eichmann: Collective Identity and the Holocaust Since 1961," 8-10 April 2002, University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum, London, UK.
"The Politics and Ethics of the Representation of the Holocaust on Film," 16 November 2000, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
"The Films of Amos Gitai," a guest speaker in a tribute to Amos Gitai at the 11th Ljubljana International Film Festival, 9-22 November 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenjja.
"Bertolucci as an Historian," in "A Bridge over the Mediterranean: History and Cinema around the Mediterranean," an international seminar, 20-21 September 2000, Mishkenot Sha'anaim, Jerusalem, Israel.
"Visual Zionism: Israeli Cinema," a conference on "The Zionist Century: A Continuing Debate," 19-21 June 2000, Ben-Gurion University and Sde Boker Research Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
"Amos Gutman's Bar 51," a paper delivered for a series of lectures and screenings entitled "Reflections: Israeli Society on Film," organized by the Institute for Social Research, 21 May 2000, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
“A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Trilogy,” March 31-April 2 2000, an international seminar on “Film and Media in the Middle East,” organized by the Cultural Disorder Project of the Department of Media Studies at Bergen University in cooperation with the journal Framework, the Bergen Cinematheque and Bergen European City of Culture 2000, Bergen, Norway,
A participant in the workshop on “Art and Other Media in Holocaust Education and Remembrance” in The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust hosted by the Swedish Government for political leaders and officials from 70 countries. A panelist in a seminar on “Art and the Construction of Memory,” 25-30 January 2000, a joint initiative by the Swedish Government and the Programme for Research about the Holocaust and Genocide at Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden.
Commentator on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” an international seminar on “Canonic Texts in Media Research,” The Smart Communication Institute, 9-10 June 1999, Jerusalem, Israel.
"Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust," Memory and the Holocaust Conference, The Lohamei Hagetaoat Holocaust Museum and Haifa University, 18-19 May 1999, Haifa, Israel.
"The Nation-Diaspora Duality in the Age of Globalization," Time and Value Conference, 10-13 April 1997, Centre for the Study of Cultural Values, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
"Survivors of the Holocaust: A Discussion of The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation," guest panelist, 19 June 1996, London Jewish Film Festival, London, UK.
"Schindler's List and The Cinematic Representation of the Holocaust," 19 June 1996, guest panelist, London Jewish Film Festival, London, UK.
"Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," 25 May 1996, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
"Sexual Politics in Godard's Cinema," 25 April 1996, Division of Film and Video, School of Media, The London Institute, London, UK.
"Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," 12 March 1996, Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK.
"Libertinism, Pornography and Heresy: The Representation of Women in Godard's Cinema," 6 March 1996, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
"Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," Conference: Film and the Holocaust, 19 December 1995, The Department of English Literature, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
"The Representation of the Holocaust in Film and Popular Culture," 21 November 1995, Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
"Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in Some Postcolonial Films and Literature," 13 November 1995, Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
Panel Discussant (with Lena Jayyusi), "Diasporas and Nations," Annenberg Public Space Conference, 1-4 March 1995, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
Chair, "Reality and Image: The Army in the Public View," The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations Conference on "The Army at a Crossroads: The Israel Defence Forces and Israeli Society," 12 June 1995, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
"From Novel to Film: Bertolucci and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky," The American Psychoanalytic Association, Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 1993, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA.
