PROF. SMADAR LAVIE CV
Address: Tel Aviv 61144 ph. +972-52-221-1513 Israel/Palestine |
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EDUCATION
Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology,
M.A. Cultural Anthropology,
B.A. The
Major:
Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization,
Musicology
Specializations: Cultural Studies; Borders; Race and Minority
Discourse; Colonialism; Nationalism; Feminist Theory of Color; Literary Theory;
Symbolism, Ritual, Performance; History of British Anthropology; the Middle
East -- Egypt, Israel, Palestine.
Languages: Fluent English, Hebrew, and Arabic; semi-fluent
French.
ANTHROPOLOGICAL
FIELDWORK
* South Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, 1975-present
*
*
Palestine/Israel, 1988-present (with additional field research in
EMPLOYMENT
In 1999 I had to give up my
2001-
present Visiting Associate Professor,
the Social Science Division, Beit Berl Teacher’s College
1999/2000 Visiting Associate Professor,
1994-9 Associate
Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory,,
1990-4 Assistant Professor of
Anthropology and Critical Theory,
1985-9 Lecturer,
1984 Lecturer, Diablo
PUBLICATIONS
1990 The Poetics of Military
Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian
Rule.
Since its December
1990 publication, the book was reviewed in the Times Literary Supplement,
Washington Post, the Village Voice Literary Supplement, Choice,
the San Francisco Chronicle, Ha'aretz, and in over three dozen
scholarly periodicals. A paperback edition has been available since July 1991.
The book has become a required textbook in a variety of courses and disciplines
across the social sciences and humanities.
1993 Creativity/Anthropology. Co-edited
with Renato Rosaldo and
1996 Displacement, Diaspora, and
Geographies of Identity. Co-edited with Ted Swedenburg. Duke University
Press.
Since its
1996 publication, Displacement has become an oft-quoted
book and taught as a textbook throughout the Humanities and the Social
Sciences. Its introduction has become a formative text for study of diasporas,
borders, identity, racism, and other fields of Cultural Studies.
Articles
Article was translated to Arabic,
French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.
Hebrew version
e-published in Kedma: the Eastern Gate Haokets; Mahsom;
E-Mago, and the Hebrew site of the Coalition of Women for Peace
2006 “Transnational English
Tyranny “ Anthropology Newsletter. April Issue. P. 9-10. Article was
part of a yearlong comparative series, “Anthropology on a Global Scale.”
2006 “When the Noble Savage Invades the Home” Review essay
of the Hebrew translation of Works and Lives: The Anthropologist As Author by
Clifford Geertz. Resling,
2005 “Parenthood, the Feminization of
Poverty, and Joint Custody”Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal . 7
November. Article also e-published in E-Mago and Bananot [In Hebrew]
2005 “Rachel Gamliel of
the Ma`abari Family, My Granny.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. 19
2005 “A
Rainbow Kufiyya” In E. Shadmi and C. Frankfort-Nachmias, Eds., Sappho in
the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary
2005 “Israeli
Anthropology and American Anthropology” Anthropology Newsletter
The article was copied into many internet sites
that deal with academic freedom issues within the context of the
Israel/Palestine conflict.
An expanded Hebrew version, entitled “Ashkenazi
Anthropologists and the Mizrahi-Palestinian Gold-Mine” has been e-published
in Kedma: the Eastern Gate.
Updated version published in HaKeshet, The
Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Journal, no.2 (winter 2005) p. 13 [in Hebrew]
2004 “Vicki
Shiran and the ‘Ashkenazim, from the Bunker’” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal.
2004 “Women
and Children’s Rights in Family Courts” Co-Authored with
2004 “Vicky Shiran, A
Farewell Letter.” In Kedma: The Eastern Portal. Re-Issued in HaDerech and many other
feminist portals [in Hebrew]
2004 “Mizrahi
Politics, Intellectual Property, and Luba,” In Ha`Oketz [Sting,
Heb.] Portal, editec by Yossi Dahan and Itzik Saporta, 23 February [in Hebrew]
2004 “Jamaica Kincaid
@ Tel Aviv U.: ‘This place looks exactly like my synagogue.” 20
2003
“Lilly White Feminism
and Academic Apartheid in Israel.” Anthropology Newsletter, October
Issue, pp. 10-11.
This is a different version than the 2002
oft-quoted piece below, since it focuses on the history of academic apartheid
within Israeli anthropology, and supported by quantitative data charts.
2003 “Return for Your Taxes: Education, Equal
Opportunities, and MultiCulturalism.” In Women’s Parliament: A Political
Stage from Another Angle 2001-2 Proceedings,
2003 “Social
Engineering: Diary Fragments”, Summer 2003.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal.
15 September [in Hebrew].
2003 “Social Engineering.”
Maariv Daily Op-Ed page. Co-authored with Amir Fuchs 17 July [in
Hebrew].
Can be found on the
Maariv site:
2003 “But There Is Discrimination: The State
Penetrates the Single Family’s Bedroom.” Globes:
2003 “Ideology,
Welfare, and the Single-Headed Family” Co-Authored with Amir Fuchs. Kedma:
The Eastern Gate Portal. 15 July [in Hebrew]. Reissued in HaDerech feminist portal and many other Hebrew portals.
Reprinted in Ahoti-For Women in
2003 “Right, Left, and the Everyday Crimes of
State in
English original version was published in the
Alef e-list.
2003 “Sage
2002 “Abuse in the Name of the Law: The Legal
System Severely Punishes Women who Report their Husbands’ Violence.” Ha’aretz
Daily Op-Ed, 27 November. P. B2 [in Hebrew].
This is an abbreviated
version of the “Notes” piece below. See also here .
2002 “Notes
on Deleted Dreams, Families, and the Price Tag of Justice.” Kedma: The
Eastern Gate. 25 November [in Hebrew]. Re Issued in HaDerech and many
other Israeli portals.
2002 “A
Pedophile Father Preferable to Alienating Mother: Parental Alienation Syndrome
(PAS) and Israel’s Supreme Court.” Psak Din [Judgement, Heb.],
This article was used as an expert opinion in
the precedential Supreme Court Judgement 6041/02, and since its publication
assisted many mothers, children, and the attorneys who represent them in cases
of alleged PAS. Since its publication, each week about 2-3 mothers on the verge
of losing custody of their children in the PAS-afflicted Israeli courts and
their attorneys call and seek advice, which I happily volunteer.
The article was reissued in Haderech, Women
On Line (WOL) and Kedma,
It was then reissued in many other portals and after such a large scale
exposure, it generated several major research articles in
2002 “Then and
Now: Women of Color in the American Elite Academy.” Kedma: The Eastern
Gate Portal, edited by
2002
“Search the
Mizrahi Woman.” Tel Aviv Weekly Magazine. 18
REPRINTED IN 2002, Mizrahi Feminism. Vardit
Damari-Madar, ed., pp. 20-25.
Cyber-Reprints in Kedma:
The Eastern Gate and HaDerech feminist
portal.
The article was then lifted from Kedma
and copied into many Hebrew language forums at large-scale portals. These
cyber-copies generated hundreds of readers’ responses.
Its English translation, entitled “Academic Apartheid in
2001 “The
Racialized Dispossessed.” Review essay of Between Reggae and Rap: the
Integration Challenge of Ethiopian Youth in Israel by Malka Shabtai,
2001 “Rainbow Kufiyya.” In The Gift: An
Art Project. Mario Rizzi, Ed. The
Hebrew printed
translation IN 2001, annefranQ no. 3, August 2001, pp. 11-3; 2002, Mizrahi Feminism. Vardit
Damari-Madar, ed., pp. 70-74.
1996 "Introduction:
Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity." In "Displacement,
Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Co-Authored with Ted Swedenburg, pp.
1-25.
1996 Blowups in the Borderzones:
1996 "Between
and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Bridging Text and Lived Experience in the
Third Timespace." Cultural Studies 10(1):154-179.
1996 "Purim." Tehiyah Shelanu.
1(3):8-9.
1995 "Between
and Among the Boundaries of Culture." Theory and Criticism
7:76-88 (co-authored with Ted Swedenburg, in Hebrew).
1995 "Border Poets: Translating by
Dialogue." In Women Writing Culture. R. Behar and D. Gordon, eds.
pp. 412-427.
1995 "Reflections on the New
Racism." Ha`aretz Weekly Magazine, 21 July 1995, pp. 28-32, 86.
Part
1, Part
2, Part
3, Part
4, Part
5.
1995 "Locating a Home on the Border:
1994 "Naming:
The Epistemology of the Closet in Hebrew Popular Music." KLAF Hazak
(co-authored with Ya`el Ben-Zvi and Ya`el Ronen) 13:4-12 (in Hebrew).
1993 "Notes
on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American
Passport." American Ethnologist (co-authored with Hajj A. and
Forest Rouse) 20(2):363-384.
1993 "Introduction."
In Creativity/Anthropology pp. 1-8 (co-authored with Kirin Narayan and
Renato Rosaldo, see above).
1993 "The
One Who Writes Us: Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among
the Mzeina Bedouin." In Creativity/Anthropology pp. 153-183.
1992 "Blow-Ups
in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home." New
Formations 18:84-106.
1992 "Constructing and Representing
Peoplehood in the Nation-State:
1992 "Immigration to
1991 "The Bedouin, the Beatniks, and the
Redemptive Fool." Quarterly Review of Film and Video special issue,
"Discourse of the Other: Postcoloniality, Positionality, and
Subjectivity" edited by H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel -- 13(1-3):23-43. REPRINTED
IN 1993, Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and
the Imaged. H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel, eds.,
1991 "Arrival
of the New Cultured Tenants: Soviet Immigration to Israel and the Displacing of
the Sephardi Jews." The Times Literary Supplement 4602:11, 14
June.
1991 "Voices in the Desert." Review
essay of Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture,
Clinton Bailey, Oxford University Press, 1991. The Times Literary Supplement
4612:22, 23 August.
1989 "When Leadership Becomes Allegory:
Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation." Cultural Anthropology
4(2): 99-135.
1988 "Sinai
for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust." Review
essay of The Sinai Spirit, Dani Rabinowitz, Adam Publications,
1988 "The Sabra Yearning for the
Desert." `Iton 77 Literary Monthly (in Hebrew) 101: 24-26.
1986 "The Poetics of Politics: An
Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Political Anthropology special
issue, "The Frailty of Authority," edited by M. J. Aronoff vol.
5:131-46.
1984 "The Fool and The Hippies: Ritual/Play
and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai." In The
Masks of Play. B. Sutton-Smith and D. Kelly-Byrne, eds. Pp. 63-70.
1984 "Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and
Israeli Development Policies in the
1991 Israeli Cinema: East/West and the
Politics of Representation, Ella Shohat.
1994 "Coyotismo," Janice Gould. KLAF
Hazak 12:46 (in Hebrew).
1994 "The Education," Janice Gould.
KLAF Hazak 12:47 (in Hebrew).
1994 Untitled Poem from And A Moon Drips
Madness. Amira Hess (Tel Aviv, 1984). Left Curve 18:76.
1994 "I Love in White Ink." Siham
Daoud. Left Curve 18:75.
1993 "I Ain't the Right Kind of
Feminist." Cheryl L. West. Nogah: A Feminist Magazine 26:45 (in
Hebrew).
1993 "The Maid." Bracha Serri. In The
Eastern Aspect: Other News from
1991 "Back to the Village," Na`im
`Araidi. The Times Literary Supplement 4623:5.
1991
"Shopping on
1990 "`Abd al-Hadi Fights the Big
Superpower," Muhammad `Ali Taha. MERIP - Middle East Report 164/165
(vol. 20, no. 3/4):38, special issue, "Intifada -- Year Three."
2005 “Political Discourse.”
Translation of the Lees-Lavie-Lathrop letter exchange in Anthropology
Newsletter, May, pp. 3-4, in Kedma: the Eastern Gate
2004 “Letters on Racinated Peace: Judith Butler,
Lynne Segal, and Ahoti-For Women in Israel.” Translated between the
Hebrew and English and Edited by Smadar Lavie. Kedma: the Eastern Gate portal.
An abbreviated version published Ahoti [Sistah, Heb.] –
Newsletter 4, March 2004, p. 8.
2003 “The
Exclusion of Mizrahi and Palestinian Anthropologists from the Faculty Club.”
Translation of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Press Release written by Nurit
Hajjaj. 29 May.
2005 “Political Discourse.”
Reply to Susan H. Lees’s AN letter to the editor re. Lavie’s “Israeli Anthropology
and American Anthropology” 2005. Anthropology News, May issue.
2005 “The Pros
and Cons of Boycotts.” Reply to several articles discussing the British AUT
proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The Guardian, 21
April
2003 “Imprisoned.”
Reply to Billy Moscone-Lerman’s “Disconnected until Further Notice.” Maariv’s
Weekly Magazine, 10 December, p. 4.
2003 “Doesn’t
Stand the Entrance Requirements.” Reply to “Real Problem” – a collections of
letters to the editor supporting PAS, 22 August, which were written in response
to Traubmann’s article on PAS of 15 August. Haaretz 29 August, p. B12.
1999 “Twice Battered.”
Reply to an article on the arrival of PAS to the Israeli courts. Ma`ariv
Daily, 9 November
See
also “Mom Doesn’t Alienate.”
Reply to Yael Hen’s article on PAS. Ma`ariv’s Women’s Supplement, 16
November.
1991 "The Mzeini Dialect." Reply to
Pierre Cachia's review of The Poetics of Military Occupation (The Times
Literary Supplement 4612:23). The Times Literary Supplement 4618:19.
1990 Replay to Paul Dresch's review of The
Poetics of Military Occupation (The Middle East Journal
45[3]:525-526). The
Press Releases
2004 “Judith Butler and Lynne Segal in Ahoti’s
Latest Newsletter on Peace and Social Justice.” 3 May.
2004 “Dr. Vicki Shiran, Founder of Israel’s
Mizrahi Feminism-of-Color, is No Longer With Us.” 17 March.
WORK IN PROGRESS
Hebrew as Step-Mother
Tongue: How the Lives and Works of Arabic-Speaking Jewish and Palestinian
Authors Rupture
Genderwork and the
Racial Formation of Zionism
An edited volume of my
scholarly and media articles published since the Poetics book.
Ashkenazim
Proceedings of the June 2004
conference bearing the same title. A collection of articles co-edited with
“Feminist
Mediations of Home and Exile: Gendering the Race of Israel/Palestine during the
Al-Aqsa Intifada.” Review essay of the 2nd edition of Women
and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered
Narratives of Dislocation Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin
(eds.),.
“De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft,
Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” In Territorio, ed. Pier
Giorgio Solinas.
“Cultural Property Rights and the Racial
Construction of the Mizrahi as a Trade-Mark: Notes on the Revolving Door of Israel’s
Academe-Regime.” In A Rainbow of Opinions: The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow’s
First Decade. (Keshet Shel De`ot: `Asor LaKeshet HaDemokratit HaMizrahit,
Hebrew) November Press, Tel Aviv. To be
published in April 2007.
“A Case Study: On the
Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities
in
Anthropology
Newsletter.
UNIVERSITY
FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS
1995/6
1994/5
1994/5
1993/4
1993/4 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological
Research Grant
1993/4 Rice University Rockefeller Fellowship in
Cultural Studies (declined)
1993/4 Whitney Humanities Center at Yale
University Postdoctoral Fellowship (alternate)
1993/4
1993 The Rockefeller Foundation's Study and
1991/2 University of California Humanities
Research Institute at
1991/2
1991
1990/91
1989
1987/8
1983/4 Mabel McLeod Lewis Dissertation Award
1982/3
1981/82 Lowie
Foundation Grant
1980/1
Lowie Foundation Fieldwork Grant
1979/80 Lowie
Foundation Grant
1979 Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant
1978-9 National Sound Archive,
1976-9 The Ford
Foundation Fieldwork Grant [via the Desert Research Institute,
1976-9 Helena Rubinstein Foundation Tuition grants
COURSES TAUGHT
Anthropology of
Religion; Borders and Diasporas; Equal Opportunities in Education; Ethnographic
Writing; Ethnographies of Palestine and Israel; Feminist Discourses of Rights;
Introduction to Cross-Cultural Gender Studies; Introduction to Feminist
Theories of Color; Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology; Minorities in
Culture and Literature; Multiculturalism in Decolonization; Peoples and
Cultures of the Middle East; Post/Modernity,
Culture, and Religion; Postmodernism(s) and Culture; “Post"/NeoColonialism and
Identity Politics; Research Methods for Anthropologists; Survey of
Ethnographies across the World; Women and Leadership.
Graduate
Abastado, Rinat.
`Alon, Ktzi`a.
Chaudhry, Lubna.
Cohen, Ilise. San
Francisco Institute of Integral Studies. “Mizrahim and the Nakba.” 2005-6.
Daloumi, Irit.
Ducker, Claire.
Dukes, Tamara.
England, Sara.
Freeling Sharon. Bar
Ilan U.Parental Alienation Syndrome: Comparative Analysis of Family Courts.
2003.
Ghanem, Hunaida.
Hamilton, Karine.
Curtain U of
Homa, David.
Kravitz-Ober, Holly.
LaBergere, Ileana.
Madmoni, Shoshana.
Mahmood,
Makhoul, Sanaa. SJ
State. Palestinian Women Artists. 1997.
Masri, Ghada.
Meishar, Naama.
Moore, Donald B.
Davis.Critical Race Theory and Mixed-Race People. 1994-1996.
Naber, Nadine.
Razieli, Sandra.
Stanford. The Mizrahi Struggle and the Racial Formations of
Sa`ada-Ophir, Galit.
Saunders, Mimi.
Stein, Rebecca.
Stanford. Post/Neocolonialism and Identity. 1993-1994.
Stephens, Gregory.
Torstrick,
Yosef, Raz. Tel Aviv U. Mizrahi Masculinities in Israeli Cinema. 1998
Zeid, Shoshi.
Independent Scholar, IL. The Kidnapped Yemeni Babies Affair. [rejected for PhD
studies by
Undergraduate
Agrama, Hussein.
Ben-Zvi, Yael. Tel
Aviv U. Israeli Lesbians and Ashkenazi Racinations of Sex and Gender. 1993-1997.
Chianese, Venessa.
Dietz, Lora.
Jamal, Manal.
Kurzman, Steve.
Mitchell, Cheryl.
Neis, Pini.
Pandya, Sameer.
Williams, Monique.
Zarini, Iris.
2006 “Sexual
Politics of the Mizrahi Struggle: Preliminary Thoughts.” Presented at “Out
of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality.”
2005 “US-European
Peregrinations:
2005 “Emerson’s Philosophy and
Witchcraft Theories: Israeli Gender Studies.” Conference in Memory of Vicki
Shiran, “State-Racism-Women.”
2005 “De/Racinated
Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the
Ashkenazi-Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” The 2nd Christina
Conference on Women’s Studies, “Gender, Religion and Theory in Dialogue.” March
3-5 [paper was read in my absence]
.
2004 “Mizrahim
as Commodity/Signs, Mizrahim as Authors: Cultural Property Rights and the
Racial Formations of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” Presented in a conference,
‘The New IP Order,” in a 4-participant panel on “Culture and Copyright.”
2004 “The
Ashkenazim.” A whole day 18-paper conference in Memory of Vicki Shiran,
co-organized with Rafi Shubeli and Yoaz Eliad. This was the first ever academic
conference to discuss Ashkenazi Jews in the context of whiteness. Panels were
on Identity, Governmentality, Culture and Politics. At its peak the, conference
attracted 450 audience. Conference was held in
In
the Politics panel of this conference, I delivered a paper, “Transcendental
Conversions of Racism: The Witchcraft of Israel’s so-called Left.”
2004 “Vicki Shiran and ‘The Ashkenazim, from
the Bunker’.” A panel dedicated to the memory of the founder of
2004 “The Evolution of Joint Custody in
2004 “Edward Said: Mirrors of the West’s
Face.” Part of a 3-paper Panel dedicated to the memory of Edward Said. Other
speakers were Ilan Pappe,
2003 “The Amicus Curie Brief: Feminist
Scholarship in Action.” Conference on “The Unbearable Lightness of Child
Removals.”
2003 “Social Engineering: Diary Fragments,
Summer 2003.” Conference of scholars, activists and KMs on “The Right for
Social Defense: Single Mothers and Other Women.” Bar
2003 “Our Story and Others: Between and Among
the Boundaries of Culture.” A Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow conference, “Mizrahi
Literature: Our Story.” Conference co-organized by Lavie with Zmira Ron and
Shula Keshet. The
2003 “Mizrahi Feminism, the
Question of Palestine, and the Racial Formations of the Israeli Left”
A 4-paper panel on racism in the Mediterrenean in Womanoeuvres, an
international women’s peace conference of the CFD: The NGO for Women’s
Empowerment.
2003 “The Best Interest of the Child: The
Crisis of Legitimacy in
2003 “Reflections on the White Mythologies of
Israel’s Educational System.” Presented at a 4-paper conference on Mizrahim and
Education, co-organized by the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and
2002 “Presence and Representation of Mizrahi
and Palestinian Women.” A 4-paper Conference, “Mizrahi Read: Feminism and the
Arts,” organized by Ktzi`a `Alon for Ahoti. Tel Aviv Main Public Library, Beit
Ariela. 19 June.
2001 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for
Highschool Students: Biography and Society.” Social Studies Teachers’ Workshop.
Beit Berl 13 December.
1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork for
Highschool Students: Writing the Culture of Events.”
1996 "How Do I 'Finish the Month' with
the Peace Economy? Slum Housemaids, Filipinas, and the Society Ladies of North
Tel Aviv." First Israeli Mizrahi Conference, "We Are Here and This Is
Ours."
1995 "Global/Local Relations: Notes on
the Art of Staying Put." Theory Culture and Society Meeting.
1995 "Gendering
the
1994 "Building Bridges: Ethnography,
Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Workshop on methodologies for
teaching Minority Discourse and cross-cultural Ethnic Studies. Humanities
Research Institute,
1994 "Between and Among the Boundaries
of Culture: Geographies of Identity in the Third Timespace." Conference on
"Political Geographies of Race." Center for the Critical Analysis of
Contemporary Culture.
1994 "Conflicts in Israeli
Feminism(s)."
1993 Decennial Conference of the Association
of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the British Commonwealth,
1993 "Colonial/Racial Formations of
Zionism: A Gendered Analysis." Center for Asian Studies,
1993 "Silenced from All Directions:
1993 "Notes on the Fantastic Journey of
the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport." Center for
International and Comparative Studies at the
1993 "Silenced from All Directions:
1992 "The Culture of Ruins."
Conference Discussant. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of
Anthropology,
1991 "
1991 "'Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue':
How the Lives and Works of Arabic-Speaking Jewish and Palestinian Authors
Rupture
1991 "Authorship, Repression, and
Revolution." Discussant for a 4 paper panel of a conference sponsored by
the Society for Critical Exchange on the topic, "Intellectual Property and
the Construction of Authorship."
1991 "Misguided Euphoria: Soviet
Immigration to
1989 "Old Age, Gender Relations, and
Military Occupation." Conference on Gender and Colonialism. Group for the
Critical Study of Colonialism and the Beatrice M. Bain Foundation for Study of
Gender.
1989 "'Cliffs will Bugle, Sun Will Burn,
To Us All Radiance Return': Desert Poetics and State Politics in
1986 "Allegories of Leadership and the
Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Group for the Critical
Study of Colonial Discourse Conference.
PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS
2002 “Let
the Subaltern Speak! Gendering the Race(ism) of the Category ‘Woman’ in
Israel/Palestine.” A 7-paper, 2-Discussant double session organized for the
annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Ma`ale HaHamisha,
29-30 May.
1993 "Building Bridges: Ethnography,
Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Invited session [co-organized with
Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the American Ethnological Society and the Society
for Humanistic Anthropology. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological
Association,
1991 "Displacement, Diaspora, and
Geographies of Identity." Invited session [co-organized with Kirin
Narayan, Renato Rosaldo, and Ted Swedenburg] sponsored by the Society for
Humanistic Anthropology and the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Annual
Meeting of the American Anthropological Association,
1991 "Eurocentrism and the Tropics of
Middle Eastern Identity" [co-organized with Ted Swedenburg]. Annual
Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America,
1988 "Unveiling Agendas: Person and
Power in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge." Invited session
[co-organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the General
Anthropology Division, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Society for
Cultural Anthropology, and American Ethnological Society. Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association,
1988 "Arab Others, Arab Selves and
Ourselves: The Experience of Power and the Politics of Representation"
[co-organized with Joel Beinin]. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies
Association of North America,
1986 "'Othering': Representations and
Realities." Session sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology
[co-organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo]. Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association,
1984 "Persuasions and Performances: The Poetics of Self and Society."
Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association [co- organized with
Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo and dedicated to the memory of the late Victor
Turner].
2006 “Transnational English Tyranny: The
Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Bi-annual meetings
of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), in the session “World
Anthropologies Network: Transforming the Terms of the Conversation” organized
by Aleksandar Boskovic and Juan Ricardo Aparicio.,
2006 “Mizrahi
Feminism, the Struggle for
2006 “Transnational English Tyranny: The
Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the
Society for Cultural Anthropology, themed “Translations of Value,” in the
panel, “Critique of Anthropology” (delivered via CD-Rom due to scheduling
conflict with
2004 “Israeli
Anthropology and Apartheid: Intellectual Property, Mizrahi Politics, and the
Right of Return.” Bi-Annual Meetings of EASA, in the session “Minority Rights,
Culture, and Anthropology” (organized by Reeta Toivanen and Levent Soysal).
2003 “De/Racinated
Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli
Peace Camp.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in
the invited plenary, “The Violence of Representation and Its Discontents:
Creating Publics, Borders and Bridges.” (Organized by Charles Briggs).
2003 “The PostModern Turn of the Best Interest
of the Child.” Annual Meetings of Israel’s Educational Psychologists’
Association.
1994 "Area Studies, Transnationalism,
and the Art of Staying Put." Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, in the invited Panel, "Intersections:
Minority Discourse/Area Studies/Cultural Studies" (organized by Lisa
Yoneyama).
1993 "Beyond the Boundary of
'Culture.'" Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association,
in the invited Panel, "Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse,
Cultural Studies" (see above).
1992 "The Gendered Border: Writings and
Silences of Dark Israeli Women." Annual Meetings of the American
Anthropological Association, in the invited panel, "Cultural
Borders/Border Crossing" (organized by Lisa Rofel).
1992 "
1992 "Race/Gender and the Writings of
1992 "Silent Intersections: Subjectivities
of Race and Gender in the Lives and Words of
1992 "Blow Ups in the Borderzones:
1991 "'Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue' and
the Rupture of
1991 "'Birds Between Continents': The
Lives and Works of
1990 "Ethnographic Creativity and the
Discourse of Subalternity." Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological
Association in the invited panel, "Scientific and
1989 "The Old Woman (`Ajuz):
Allegories of Gender Relations and the Poetics of Military Occupation."
Rethinking Marxism Conference, in the panel "Israel/Palestine,"
organized by Barbara Harlow and Karen Pfeifer.
1988 "Notes on the Fantastic Journey of
the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport" [co-authored with
Forest Rouse]. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in
the panel "Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of
Anthropological Knowledge" (see above).
1988 "Yearning for the Pastoral:
1988 "Mzeina Patrilineal Segmentarity --
A Docu-Drama." Annual Meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society.
1986 "Silence, or 'Why Won't You Write
My Genealogy?': Inscriptions of Tribal Identity." Annual Meeting of the
American Anthropological Association, in the panel "'Othering':
Representations and Realities." (see above).
1985 "The Sheikh: Experience and
Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Annual Meeting of the American
Anthropological Association, in the panel "Self, Text, and Social
Meaning,"
1985 "Allegories of Leadership and the
Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual Meeting of the
Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Tribal Law
and Identity," New Orleans, LA, 24 November.
1984 "The One Who Writes Us: Allegory of
Experience and Paradoxes of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin of the
1984 "Allegory of Fieldwork: The Poetics
of Self and Occupation of Society among the Mzeina of the Sinai." Annual
Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association of the
1983 "Spontaneous Theater and Social
Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai." Annual Meeting of
the American Ethnological Society, in the panel "The Last Word on Play
Research," [chaired by author],
1982 "The Madwoman: Ritual/Play and
Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual Meeting of the
Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel "Aesthetics
and Folk Art in the Middle East," Philadelphia, PA, 3-6 November.
1982 "The Fool and the Hippies:
Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies among the Mzeina Bedouin." Annual
Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play,
2003 “On the Silenced Creations of Subaltern Women.” A 4-paper
panel organized by Na`ama Meishar for the Israeli Anthropological Association
annual meetings. Neve Ilan, 29 May.
2003 ”Between and Among the Boundaries of
Culture: A Decade to the Lavie-Swedenburg Article.” A 3-paper panel chaired by
Don Handelman for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological
Association. Neve Ilan, 29 May.
2002 “Let the Subaltern Women Speak: Gendering the Race(ism) of
the Category ‘Woman’ in Israel/Palestine.” Co-discussant for a 7-paper double
session organized for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological
Association. Ma`ale HaHamisha, 29-30 May.
2001 “Multicultural Education.” A 4-paper
panel organized by Esther Herzog for the Social Studies Highschool Teachers’
Workshop. Beit Berl, 13 December.
1996 "Arab-American Feminism." A
4-paper panel organized by
1995 "Gendering Violence: Transcending
Public/Private Categories through Institutional Space." A 9-paper panel
organized by Rebecca Torstrick, and Jennifer G. Curtis for the annual meetings
of the American Anthropological Association.
1992 "Breaking Boundaries: New Voices on
Israel/Palestine." An 8 paper panel organized by Becky Torstrick, Davida
Woods, and Virginia Dominguez for the annual meetings of the American
Anthropological Association.
1991 "War, Violence, and the Politics of
Memory: Narrative, Power, and Representation." A 6 paper panel organized
by Lisa Yoneyama and Hugh Gusterson for the annual meetings of the American
Anthropological Association.
SELECTED INVITED TALKS
2006 “Geographies of Identity: Origins,
Belongings, and the Journey Beyond Conventional Utopias for Israelo-Palestinian
Coexistence.” Part
of an annual lecture series on Postcoloniality. Basso Foundations for the
Humanities,
2006 “Arab Jewish Utopias and Ashkenazi
Supremacy in
2006 “Israeli Discrimination(s).”
2006 “De/Racinated Borderzones: E. E. Evans
Pritchard and the Magical Oratory of Israel’s Peace Camp.”
2006 “Feminism, Ethnicity, and the
2006 “Translation, NGO Activism and
Anthropology: The Transnational English Tyranny.” Sociology-Anthropology
Departmental Seminar,
2006 “Mizrahi Feminism at the Crossroad.”
Olive Tree Educational Trust Program.
2005 “The Social Struggle: From Margins to
Center.” ISEF (International Sephardi Educational Fund.). Forum for ISEF
graduate students from all Israeli Universities. Beer
2004 “Globalization and the Feminization of
Poverty.”
2004 “Transnationalism and Feminism of
Color.”
2003 “Journey from the
2003 “Borderwork: How to Form Successful
Mizrahi-Palestinian Feminist Coalitions that Work.” The
2003 “Civil Rights and Women’s Rights: A
Critical Race Theory Analysis.” Mandel Institute Postgraduate Leadership
Program,
2002 “Oppression and Resistance.” ISEF
(International Sephardi Educational Fund),
2002 “Fatma, The Mizrahi Question, and
Globalization.” Eastern Sun (Mizrah Shemesh) Postgraduate Seminar.
2002 “Theory and Practice of Mizrahi Identity.” Students for
Social Justice of the
2002 “Academic Nomadism, Transnationality,
and the Art of Staying Put.” Institute for the History and Philosophy of
Sciences and Ideas,
2002 “Israeli
Womanhood.” Beit Berl Program for Kindergarten Teachers. 28
April.
2002 “Mizrahi
Feminism in
2002 “The MultiCultural Curriculum.” Beit Berl
Multicultural Faculty Team. 23 January.
2002 “Feminism/PostColonialism/Queer Theory.”
2001 Displacement, Diaspora, and
Geographies of Identity and The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Author meets Critics. Tmol Shilshom Bookstore.
2001 “Between and Among
the Boundaries of Culture.” Author meets Critics. Beit Berl’s School for the
Arts. 18 April.
1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for
Highschool Students: Documenting the Performance of the Everyday.” Social
Studies Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl. 2 April.
1996 "Transnationalism, Position, and
Representation." Department of Women's Studies.
1995 "Between and Among the Boundaries
of Culture." Department of Sociology/Anthropology,
1995 "The Art of Staying Put."
Lecture series on Reformulating Area Studies, Department of Communications,
1995 "Ethnography/Minority
Discourse/Cultural Studies." Department of Anthropology Weekly Seminar,
1995 "The Middle East Peace Process:
Voices from the Other
1995 "Zionist Conceptions of Palestinian
and Mizrahi Gender(s) in
1994 "Building Bridges: Ethnography,
Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies." Faculty Seminar,
1994 "The Middle East Peace Process:
Voices from the Other
1994 The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Author Meets Critics.
1994 "Geographies of Identity."
Sociology Colloquium, the
1994 "After Postmodernism: Cultural
Studies and the Constructions of Race and Gender." Cinema Studies
Colloquium,
1993 "Dark Women Writing Culture: Third
World Feminism in
1993 "Displacement, Diaspora, and the
Boundaries of Culture." Center for Critical and Cultural Theory Seminar.
University of
1993 "Between and Among the Boundaries
of Culture: Experience and Text in the third timespace." Department of
Anthropology and Sociology Seminar,
1993 "Silenced from All Directions:
1993 "Changing Alliances in the Middle
East: The Cultural
1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Author meets Critics. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of
Anthropology. U.C.
1993 "Third World Israelis, National
Literature, and the Racial Formations of
1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Author meets Critics. Department of Anthropology,
1993 "Silence and Violence in the
Borderzone:
1993 "Identity -- Essence or
Construction?" Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory,
1992 "Blow-Ups in the Borderzones:
1992 "Border Crossings: National
Literature and
1992 "Zionism and Womanhood in
1992 "Locating a Home on the Border:
1990 "When Identity Becomes Allegory:
The Poetic Reconstruction of Military Occupation." Department of
Anthropology,
1990 "The Poetics of Tribal Identity and
the Politics of Allegory among the Mzeina Bedouin." Department of
Anthropology,
1990 "The Bedouin, the Nudists, and the
Redemptive Fool: The Poetics of Military Occupation." Department of
Anthropology,
1989 "East/West and the Construction of
Gender Identity in
1988 "Sheikhs and Governors: Political
Allegory of Bedouin Identity." Center for Middle East Studies,
1987 "Silence - Colonialism -
Inscriptions of Bedouin Identity." The
1987 "Israeli Social Anthropology and
its Bedouin Critique." Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
The
1986 "The Palestinian Other in Israeli
Cinema." The
1986 "People and Places: Pictorial
Representations of
1986 "Allegories of Fieldwork and the
Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin." Department of
Sociology and Social Anthropology, The
1986 "Bedouin Tradition and The Poetics
of Military Occupation." Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology,
1984 "Women and Madness in the
1983 "Israeli Humor." Advanced
Hebrew Seminar, Near Eastern Department, U. C. Berkeley. 6 October.
PROFESSIONAL
SERVICE
2004-present Reviewer of several manuscripts for the
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute
2002 Consulting for CFD: The NGO for Women’s Empowerment,
1994 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Competition
Judge for the Middle East Studies Association of
1993 Co-signatory to the Bellagio Declaration
on Cultural and Intellectual Property in the PostColonial Era
1993 Reviewer for a
1993 Reviewer of a manuscript for International
Journal of Middle Eastern Studies.
1993 Reviewer of a manuscript for Cultural
Anthropology.
1992-3 Reviewer of several manuscripts for American
Anthropologist
1992 Reviewer of a film proposal, "
1992-5 Reviewer for proposals submitted to the
Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation.
1991-5 Reviewer
of Middle East related book manuscripts for the
1990-
present Reviewer of numerous
manuscripts for American Ethnologist.
PUBLIC SERVICE
Political, Feminist, Anti-Racist
Activism
2003-Present
Founding Member - The Coalition to
Empower Children, Women and Families Facing the Courts, Welfare Services, and
the Psychological-Psychiatric Establishment (This is a coalition of several
NGOs.
From July 2005 on the
coalition’s name changed to The Coalition of women for Mothers and Children
July
2005-Febraury 2006 – co-director of the coalition.
2002-Present
Israel’s
Women’s Parliament, Advisory Board Member.
2002-Present Mizrahi
Democratic Rainbow, member.
2002-2004
Culture Committee
2002-2003
Committee on Education and the Core Curriculum
2005- Rainbow representative in the Coalition of
NGOs Against Racism
2001-present
Ahoti
(Sistah, Heb)-For Women in
Jan
2003-Jan 2005 Board of Directors
English PR,
establishing contact with supporters outside
Generating and
sustaining activism related to understanding and exposing the power of the
Ashkenazi academic and judicial elites;
Mizrahi
women’s art and literature;
Liaison to
the New
Member of the
editorial collective of the newsletter (2002-2003);
Liaison to
FFIPP (2003-2004);
Co-coordinator (until
September 2004) of the Coalition to End Apartheid in
Feb-March 2003 –
Worked with Rachel Amram on Ahoti’s major grant proposal from the New Israel
Fund. The text serves as the basis for all of Ahoti’s grant applications
2002-2004 Black Lundary [Kvisah Sh’hora, Heb] – A
LesBiGayTrans direct action group to resist
1979-1998 SF Bay Area
1991 Co-organizer of the SF
Bay Area mass demonstrations against the Gulf War
1982-1989 Co-Founder and member of CAFIOT
(the Berkeley Committee for Academic Freedom in the
Public and university
teach in-s; student demonstrations; public lectures; canvassing; research and
writing; Measure E 1982 city of Berkeley campaign of divesment from Israel
(co-organized with Avi Chomsky, Jim Schamus, Mary Layoun, Osama Doumani, Jock
Taft, and Raif Hijab); exposure of and media and public campaigns against the
Jewish Anti Defamation League black lists of pro-Palestinian academics.
1982-3 Co-organized
with Raif Hijab the first UCB student-initiated course on Modern Palestine;
Fund solicitation from the UCB student union and the AAUJ to bring guest
speakers such as Edward Said, Ibrahim Abu-Lughod, Hisham Sharabi and Israel
Shahak. The course was one of the first academic-activist venues to discuss
1982 "History of the Palestine/Israel
Conflict." A summer-session student-initiated course team-taught with Raif
Hijab, UCB graduate students and
2005 Amir Peretz for Chairman of the Labor
Party Campaign; on the difference between ethnic- and class-oriented
approaches.
2005
2003 “Single
Mothers and the State Budget.” Knesset Committee on the Status of Women,
session convened by KM Gila Gamliel. 7 July.
2003 “How
Does Feminism of Color Relate to
2002 Consulting
for attorney Tamir Kokh, and writing an expert opinion on Parental Alienation
Syndrome for
1994 Consulting for the Canadian Immigration
and Refugee Board regarding the status of non-Jewish Russian immigrants to
Media
2006 “Mizrahi
Professors? A Denied Problem.”
2006 “Another Way to Fight the Academic
Boycott? Israeli Studies Abroad: The faculty, Israeli, the Donors, Jewish.”
2006 “PAS, the Welfare Ministry, and Forced
Removal of Minors from Protective Mother’s Custody.” Emanuel Rosen’s prime time
TV show, Ze HaZman (It’s Timely, Heb.). Providing scholarly information
and appearing on the show. TV Channel 10. 23
2005 “A Yemenite in Tel Aviv.” IN Kaleidoskop:
2005 “Mom Have Always Told Me: Why Aren’t You Like
Everybody Else?” Orit Reuveni. End-of-Year Profile Article about Lavie’s
biography, history of scholarship and activism. La’Isha (For Women,
Heb.) no. 3063, pp. 28-41. 26 December.
2005 “The
Crisis of Israeli Universities.” Panel Discussion participant for
2005 “Toni
Morrison.” Conversation on her body of novels and their historical-cultural
context Multi-Interview (with 3 other literary critics) led by Ya`el Zadok of
2004 “Disconnected Until Further Notice.”
Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Child
Support Payments in Ma`ariv’s Weekly Magazine, 3 December, pp. 39-44.
2004 “Nepotism
and
2004 Consulting for Arthur Neslen (
2004 “Testimony
from the Field.” Interview with Lily `Aboudi on Ethnic Theater. Cities Weekly,
27 May, pp. 42-45.
2004 “Edward
Said.” Interview with Ilana Norman. `Akhbar Ha`Ir Tel Aviv. 2 January.
2003 “Trash
Science in the Service of Courts.” Interview with
2003 “A Professor for Survival.” Interview
with Moshe Ronen on Lavie’s participation in one of the American
Anthropological Association presidential panels. Yedi`ot Aharonot, 2
June, P. B5.
2003 Advising to offer-writers to establish
The Jewish Religion and Israeli Traditions Radio Station in central
2003 “Father or Mother.” Interview with
Ayelet Kedem on Family Courts and Mysogeny. Makor Rishon Weekly. 14
March.
2003 “
2003 “Bedouin Gehtto.” Interview with Swiss
DEV.TV on
2002 “Search the Woman/Search the Mizrahi in
Academe.” A 3-article segment of Israel’s Association for Feminist and Gender
Studies Bulletin resulting from Lavie’s article about Academic Apartheid in
Israel (see under Publications) and Moscone-Lerman’s Ma`ariv’s article (see
below in this section). Heker Migdar BaAretz Nov-Dec, pp. 10-13.
2002 “The System’s Violence is Worse than the
Battering Man.” Interview with Smadar Shiloni of Y-Net.
2002 “Gender, Ethnicity and Poverty.”
Interview for the Cannel 1 Morning News. 5 November.
2002 “Racism in
2002 “Parental Alienation Syndrome and
2002 “Maskit, the Next
Generation.” Interview with Mor Gordon to Haaretz Daily on Ethiopean women
artisans and cultural and intellectual property rights. 22 August.
2002 “Haim
Hefer and the Mizrahim.” Panel discussion at
2002 “Alternatives
Are to be Found Here.” Op-Ed on solutions to the Intifada by Dana Peleg. Aat
Women’s Monthly, June issue.
2002 “Ain’t It Important from What Ethnic
Group you Are?” Interview with Karni `Am-`Ad about whether there ought to be a
Mizrahi or Ashkenazi curator for the art exhibit Mothertongue. Hakibbutz, 30
May, p. 7.
2002 “Mizrahi Women Intellectuals.” Half-Hour
interview with Sha’ul Bibi for Breeza Channel (filmed on 22 April, don’t
remember the exact broadcast date).
2002 Consulting for the Breeza Mizrahi TV
Channel on Mizrahi Women’s Profiles Show (re poet Amira Hess and community
activist Mali Cohen). April.
2002 “Inaccurate Science.” Op-Ed by Dan Even
on the Academic Boycott of
2002 “The Judeo-Arabic Poetry of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi.”
Interview with Michal Zu-Aretz for the Taverna, Israeli TV channel 1. 15 March.
2002 Billy Moscone-Lerman’s Women’s View (Mabat
Nashi) TV show, Channel 2,
2002 Radio of the South (Radio Darom) –
Interview with Adi Nagar and Inbal Petel. Beer
2002 “For You, A Mizrahi
Woman’s Just a Maid.” Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman, Ma`ariv
Weekly Magazine, 1 February, pp. 56-62.
2002 “How a Wheel Turns Around: The Story of
Smadar Lavie.” Interview with Sigal Levy, I-Women, 31 January.
2002 “Here’s a
Professor Wrapped in a Newspaper.” Interview with Dekel Shahrour, Y-Net,
27
2002 Yaron London’s Morning Show. Israeli TV,
Channel 2. Interview on the total absence of Mizrahi women professors from
Israeli academe. 22
2002 “Is There, or
Isn’t There Discrimination? Income Gaps Between Women, Arabs, and Mizrahim.”
Interview with Gideon Eshet, Cheif Editor of Yedi`ot Aharonot’s Economics
Section, 15
2001 “The Industry of
Parasites.” Research for
2001 Consultant for artist Mario Rizzi on
“The Gift,” an exchange of presents between randomly picked Palestinians and
Israelis (December 2000-February 2001).
1996 "The New Racism: News from
1996 "Affirmative Action, Family Law,
and the
1995 "Black and Beautiful."
Interview with Shosh Madmoni on Political Correctness and the Absence of
Mizrahi Women Intellectuals from Israeli Academia. Yedi`ot Aharonot (
1994 "Sell-Out Mizrahi and Highbrow
Ashkenazi." Interview with Yizhar Hess for Shishi -- Musaf 7:13-15,
21
1993-4 Consultant for playwright Alan Havis for a
play, "A Vow of Silence."
1993 "Dialoguing the Zone In-Between
Darkness and Whiteness." Interview with Ya`el Ben-Zvi for KLAF Hazak
9:30-40 (in Hebrew).
1992 Copy editor for the English newsletter
of Women's Organization for Political Prisoners, Tel Aviv (July - September).
1992 Consulting for Andrea Simon and David
Olendorf of the New York Jewish Museum for a film on Sephardi intellectuals.
1992 "Stories Make the World."
Participating in and consulting for A Traveling Jewish Theater audio program
aired nationally on various stations of National Public Radio around Passover.
It was broadcasted again around Passover, 1993.
1991 The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Interview at the Sandra Gare Program, WBEZ Radio (local NPR station),
Chicago.12 March.
1990 The Poetics of Military Occupation.
Interview with Sedge Thompson on West Coast Weekend. KQED Radio (local NPR
station) and the Life on the Water theater,
1983-8 The
1983 "Israeli Women." KPFA Radio,
1982 "The 'Peace Now' Movement and the
Israeli Invasion to
1982 "The Israeli Right and the Invasion
of
1981 "Feminism and Womanhood in
Contemporary Music."
1979 "Noble Nomads: The Mzeina of the
2006 “The
Forgotten Histories of Mizrahi Women in the Yishuv Era.” Mitzpe Ramon Women’s
Committee. 1 August.
2006 “Islamist
Feminism and Mizrahi Women’s Agency.” WIZO course for community women leaders.
27 June.
2006 “Ethnicity and Gender in
Israel/Palestine: Transforming Discrimination into Peace Discourse.”
Discussant, Sami Hallac,
2006 “Interweaving
Gender and Ethnic Identities into the Peace Future of the
2006 “Mizrahi
Feminism, the Ashkenazi Left, and the Question of
médiathčque alternative. Marseille,
20
2006 “PostColonial Africanism(s) and Mizrahi
Identity.” Inaugural Evening for Eastbound (HaKivun Mizrah,
Heb.) Literary Periodical. `Inbal Theater, Tel Aviv.
2005 “Parenthood, the
Feminization of Poverty, and Joint Custody.” Women’s Parliament session on
the Tender Years Doctrine. Tel Aviv. 7 November.
2005 “Palestinian
and Mizrahi Feminism.” WIZO Women Leadership Group.
2005 “Black
Feminism: 1960-1980.” Mazal Salon, Tel Aviv, 12 January.
2004 “On
Cultural Identity as Property.” Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Forum, Tel Aviv, 20
July
2003 “Racism
and Multicultural Feminism in
2003 “Mizrahi
and Palestinian Feminism.” NAAMAT, Rishon LeZion. 16 March.
2003 “Feminism,
Mizrahi Feminism, and Me.”
2003 “Women and Leadership.” Inaugurating
lecture for the city of
2002 “In Return For Our Taxes: Education, Equal Opportunities, and
Multi Culturalism.” Women’s Parliament on Education and Social Change from a
Feminist Perspective. Hertzeliyya. 4 July.
2002 “Mizrahi
Feminism as Multiculturalizing Israel.” Shinui Weekend’s Retreat (2 March). REPEATED
FOR Kol HaIsha,
2001 “Dilemmas
in Israeli Womanhood.” Giv`at Brenner Regional Highschool, 12th
Grade seminar, “Israeli Society: Processes of Fragmentation and
Crystallization.” 3 December.
1996 "The History of
1995 "What can we learn from the Quran
about Arab Culture."
1995 "Ramadan and the History of
Islam." El Cerrito Tehiyah Dayschool kindergarten class. 1 March.
1993 "The Relevance of
1992 "The Role of the Bedouin in
1988 "Of Dresses, Hebrew, Arabic, and
Death: Israeli Women, 1988." World Affairs Council of
1988 "Judaism, Zionism, and the
1987 "Roadblocks to Communication:
Cultural Critique of the Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue." Mubarak Awad's
1987 "Critique of Arab-Jewish and
Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue." Breaking the Silence '87: A Conference
on
1984 "The Politics of Sabbath in
1984 "Ethnic
Realities in
1983 "
2006 “Cultural Rights and
Israeli Anthropology.” This was a lecture given in a 3-speakers Midrash
Keshet (a bi-weekly Midrash gathering at the offices of the Mizrahi Democratic
Rainbow) co-organized with
2005 “The Race Factor in the Palestinian and
Mizrahi Feminist Struggles.” Coalition of NGOs Against Racism workshop. Neve
Shalom-Wahat as-Salam. 3 August.
2005 “Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Masks.” Co-presenter at an
evening inaugurating the book’s Hebrew translation. Salon Mazal, Tel Aviv, 26
2004 “Women and Children’s Rights in Family Court.” Co-organized
with Smadar Ben Natan for the Women Statues Legislative Committee.
2003 “The Feminization of Poverty.” A workshop as part of an Ahoti
Council Meeting, Women, Work, and Education.” Tel Aviv. 19 June.
2003 “Gender, Racism and Unemployment.” A lecture in panel on the
globalization of
2003 “Revising
Youth Law – Treatment and Protection.”
2002 “The
Color and Race of Money/Power.” Ahoti Council Meeting. Tel Aviv. 10 December.
2002 “Frantz Fanon: Between the Black Skin
and the White Mask.” Part of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow literary evening on
Fanon organized by Yardena Alon at Mazal Salon. 31 October.
2002 “Mizrahi
Resistance and the Feminist of Color Plight.” Panel as part of a Mizrahi
Democratic Rainbow Weekend Conference on the Future of Mizrahi Struggle in
2001 “Lesbian Literature in Hebrew and
Hebrew-Translation.” Reading workshop co-organized with Erella Shadmi. KLAF
House Tel Aviv, and Kol HaIsha,
1991 "The
1986 "Israeli Perspectives." World
Affairs Council of Northern California and the
1985 "Teaching the
1985 "Middle East Cultures, Religions
and Languages." Unified School District,
1980 "Demystifying the
Other
2003 Nomination Committee for the Unknown Peace Worker Re Erella
Shadmi. Die
2003 Families of Infants in Captivity Marching on
2002 Co-Organized with Shlomit Bitan (CNP) a support process group
for divorcing mothers to help deal with family court PAS afflictions. The group
has developed into a country-wide network of women helping other women to try
fend off the PAS atrocities of family courts, custody evaluators, LSWs,
therapists etc.
2002 Co-Organized with Lizzy Eliazarov of the Sderot branch of
Yedid NGO a Catering Co-Op for Central Asian Women. Inaugurated on 23 February.
2002 Co-authored with Gali Gold of the Jerusalem Cinemateque a
proposal and program for a Queer of Color Film Festival (May-June). Proposal
was not funded.
HONORS
1990 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award
for Ethnographic Writing.
1989 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in
Humanities, the Middle East Studies Association of
1988 Second Prize, Paper Competition,
1979 Yitzhaki Netzer Prize for Excellence in
Bedouin Studies, The Ben-Gurion Desert Research Institute, Sde-Bokker, Israel.
1979 Second Best Documentary Radio Program of
the Year, "Noble Nomads: The Mzeina of
UNIVERSITY AND
DEPARTMENT SERVICE
2002 Consulted
for proposal writing for the Beit Berl Multicultural Faculty Team for seed
money in order to revise the college’s curriculum so that it reflects the
ethnic and religious shifts in the students’ body (January).
1999-2000 (1) Wrote a 200 pp. proposal
(including syllabi editing) to design and build a Department of Cultural
Studies at
1996-7 Application Review of U.C. Davis Education
Abroad Program, interview of three candidates, write up of evaluations.
1995 Organized a lecture tour of Bay Area
Universities for Nira Yuval-Davis, to give talks on Gender, Citizenship, and
Trans-Racial Coalitions in early 1995.
1995 Wrote a proposal for the UCD
Anthropology Department in order to purchase the film "Joanna D'Arc of
1994 Organized and hosted a talk and poetry reading,
"The Poetics of Peace," by Na`im `Araidi and Mira Meir for the UCD
Critical Theory Program (4 Oct.)
1993 Wrote a proposal for the UCD Critical
Theory Annual 1994 conference, "Language, Race, Nation." Proposal was
approved and will be fully funded.
1993 Co-organizer, UCD Critical Theory Annual
Conference on Education and the Nation-State (participants include Concia
Delgado, Shlomo Swirski, Salim Tamari, Hayden White, and others). 26-27
February.
1993 Put together a UCD proposal to appoint
Paul Gilroy and Vron Ware as the Spring 1994 Regents Professors. The proposal
included letters by members of the following departments: Anthropology,
History, African-American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Philosophy, Critical
Theory, and Women Studies. The proposal was approved on April.
1993-8 Member, UCD Education Abroad Program
Committee, Academic Senate
1991-2 Co-organizer, Nationalism
Reading/Discussion Group, Center for Comparative Research in History, Culture,
and Society, UCD (with Dan Brower of the History Department). Among the guests
hosted were Paul Gilroy, Dorinne Kondo, and Brakette Williams.
1991-9 Member, Program Committee for Critical
Theory, UCDs.
1990-3 Library Representative, Department of
Anthropology, UC D.
U. C.
1993 "Silenced from All Directions:
1993 "Beyond the Boundary of
Culture." Department of Anthropology Colloquium, U.C. Davis (8 February).
1992 "The Poetics of Military
Occupation." Guest Lecture in Kathy Kudlic Class, Department of History
(30 November).
1992 "Encountering Space: Identity and
Place in the Human Sciences." Symposium Discussant. Annual Critical Theory
Conference. 24-25 April.
1992 "
1991 Participant in a panel organized by
1991 "Ethnographic Creativity and the
Discourse of Subalternity." Center for Comparative Research in History,
Culture, and Society (13 March).
1990 "The Crisis of Ethnographic
Representation." Guest Lecture in David Boyd Class (20 November).
1989 "Development as Allegory: Israeli
and Egyptian Policies for the South Sinai Bedouin." Department of
Anthropology (5 December).
1985 "Deconstruction/Reconstruction
Processes of Jewish Ethnicity In
PROFESSIONAL SOCIETIES
I’ve been member in
these societies since the mid 1980s until my arrival to
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American Anthropological Association
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American Ethnological Society
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Association for
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Middle East Studies Association of the
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Modern Language Association of
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Society for Critical Exchange
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Society for Cultural Anthropology
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Society for Feminist Anthropology
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Society for Humanistic Anthropology
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Society for the Study of Narrative Literature
8 August 2006