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SUMMARY:Israel Insights Webinar with Donna Divine & Asaf Romirowsky — Teac
 hing and Researching Israel in 2026
DESCRIPTION:What defines Israel Studies as an academic discipline today\, 
 and where might the field be heading in view of the profound changes shap
 ing Israel\, diaspora Jewry\, and Israel's international standing? How ha
 s the aftermath of October 7 impacted academic research and university te
 aching about modern Israel in American academia? Join Amichai Magen and O
 ri Rabinowitz in conversation with Professor Donna Robinson Divine\, form
 er President of the Association for Israel Studies (2017-2019)\, and Dr. 
 Asaf Romirowsky\, executive director of Scholars for Peace in the Middle 
 East.\n\nABOUT THE SPEAKERS\n\nDonna Robinson Divine is the Morningstar F
 amily Professor of Jewish Studies and Professor of Government\, Emerita a
 t Smith College\, where she taught a variety of courses on Middle East Po
 litics. Her writing includes Women Living Change: Cross-Cultural Perspect
 ives\; essays from the Smith College Research Project on Women and Social
  Change\; Politics and Society in Ottoman Palestine: The Arab Struggle fo
 r Survival and Power\; Postcolonial Theory and The Arab-Israeli Conflict\
 ; Exiled in the Homeland: Zionism and the Return to Mandate Palestine\; W
 ord Crimes: Reclaiming the Language of the Israel-Palestinian Conflict\; 
 and October 7: The Wars Over Words and Deeds. Named the Katharine Asher E
 ngel lecturer at Smith College for the 2012-2013 academic year in recogni
 tion of her scholarly achievements\, she was also designated as Smith's H
 onored Professor for the excellence of her teaching. She was president\n\
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URL:http://next-to-u.app/events/92d4091e-a959-4faf-97b4-343df6cf7ca0
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