Dear Readers,
I am happy to share an upcoming event on digital religion that I am of its conveners and chairs to take place at the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA) which is to take place in Belfast, Ireland. The topic received much attention with many wonderful submissions. This has led us to extend the event to include two panels in the conference.
1st panel session and participants can be viewed here
2nd panel session and participants can be viewed here
I'm glad to share that I have a new publication. The study focuses on Rabbis who constitute the educational elite among the Zionist Religious community in Israel, and their approach towards new media.
This publication is very special to me, not only for its content, but as my co-author, Yaakov Don, was a student of mine that was tragically killed in a terrorist attack several years ago. Yaakov left a rich database which I used for this study and the paper is dedicated to his memory. He is survived by four wonderful kids, Aviad, Yedidya, Maor & Rachel and his inspiring widow, Sara Don. Sara has assisted in gathering supplemental information which supported the manuscript's publication in its review stages. I thank her, and my doctoral student, Akiva Berger, who knew Yaakov very well and supported this study from its start.
The full paper is available for free (open access) here
Dear Blog Readers,
For a while I have been engaged in organizing the Annual conference for Doctoral Students focusing on the Sociology and Anthropology of Education to take place on October 6, 2021. The conference is led by four primary universities in Israel: University of Haifa, Tel Aviv University, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Ben Gurion University of the Negev. It brings forth cutting edge studies of the young cadre of scholars in the field. This year the event is hosted by the Faculty of Education at the University of Haifa and the program for Education, Society and Culture which I chair.
The conference offers the following panels:
For more information on the program, presenter names/abstracts, enrollment and more, please visit the Conference Website.
Dear Readers,
I want to share with you a call for papers on a special edition that I am guest editing for Religions. Please feel free to share this with others that may be of interest
Dear Readers,
I wanted to share with you an upcoming event I am organizing and co-hosting with colleagues of the University of Haifa and the Technion. The project initiators are: Professor Ayelet Baram-Tsabari of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, and Professor Yariv Tsfati, of the Department of Communications and Journalism at the University of Haifa. In addition, leading participants and organizers include Dr. Lea Taragin-Zeller (Technion), Nakhi Mishol Shauli (University of Haifa) and Yael Rosenblum.
The event is based on our project on the ultra Orthodox Jewry and their modes of communicating science. We have invited international and local speakers, scholars and practitioners invested in mediating scientific concepts in everyday life. I am posting the flyer that we are distributing here and invite all interested parties to join in on the event.
To register, please click here
Dear Readers,
In a few weeks, I will be in conversation with Professor Ayala Fader of Fordham University on her new book "Hidden Heretics". Please browse through the enclosed invitation. If you are interested in attending, you are most welcome to join on January 13, 2021 at 4pm (Israel Time) and 9am EST at the following link:
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/84458529805
