26th Annual Association for Israel Studies Conference
University of Toronto
10 – 12 May 2010

Call for Papers

 “Israel in the World”
Since independence, Israel has lived with a paradox--needing and seeking legitimacy, understanding, and empathy from the world community while simultaneously also discounting the world, which David Ben Gurion articulated so succinctly with his “Um Shmum.” These tension-laden tendencies reflect not only strong cultural dispositions along with issues arising from Israel’s troubled birth, development, and existence, but also some of the deep ruptures in what it means to be Israeli in a globalizing world. We therefore aim to reflect upon Israel’s delicate balance between its desire to be different from a world that it simultaneously genuinely needs and that it also wants to be a legitimate member of.

Deadline for Submission of all Proposals (papers or panels):
30 November 2009

The Program Committee of the 26th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies invites scholars conducting research on any aspect of Israel Studies and in particular on the conference theme, “Israel in the World”. 

Paper and panel submissions are online at www.aisisraelstudies.org. You may want to first write the proposal in a word processor and then copy it to the online submission form.

Proposals should not exceed 250 words and are limited to two proposals (papers and panels) for each applicant.

All presenters will be required to register to the conference and be current AIS members.

PhD students who have completed their course work are encouraged to apply and should provide the email of their advisor for approval.

Students who wish to apply for travel grants should send a request along with a copy of their proposal and a letter from their advisor to Ilan Ben-Ami: Ilanbe@openu.ac.il

The deadline for travel grant applications is now over.  Recipients will be notified soon

The AIS board has decided to allocate a limited number of travel grants to junior faculty without institutional travel support. Junior faculty wishing to apply for travel grants should send their name, email address, title of proposed paper, institutional affiliation and department with a CV (all as word document attachment) to Ilan Ben-Ami: Ilanbe@openu.ac.il.

Late proposals won’t be accepted.

Program Committee
Emanuel Adler, Chair
Oded Haklai, Co-Chair

Conference Coordinator: Sylvia Adler - sadler@artsci.utoronto.ca

Want to submit a Paper or Roundtable / Panel proposal?

The deadline for submissions has now passed. Thank you to all those who submitted.

 

 

More Information

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