Israel Studies Seminar Podcast
1) Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
This study explores the mechanisms underlying the paradox of marginality experienced by middle-class Palestinian professional women in the Israeli labour market through an intersectional analysis of t...Show More
Intersecting Penalties: Reproducing Inequality Among Palestinian Middle-Class Women
45:00 | Nov 25th, 2025
2) Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
In this lecture I present Religious Zionism, the right-wing religious nationalist movement, which despite representing 12-16% of Israel’s population, has a prominent and influential place in the curre...Show More
3) Is the Gaza War the End or the Beginning of Romantic Religious Zionism?
In this lecture I present Religious Zionism, the right-wing religious nationalist movement, which despite representing 12-16% of Israel’s population, has a prominent and influential place in the curre...Show More
4) From Separation to a Shared Homeland: Notes on Settler-Colonial Urbanism in Israel/Palestine
In this presentation, Professor Yacobi aims to discuss settler colonial urbanism(s) in Palestine/Israel, while exploring the different spatial and political typologies developed during the last few de...Show More
5) The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
This talk explores the notion of obligation towards others at the intersection of Jewish feminist thought and the lived religious practices of Sephardi women in Israel. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwo...Show More
The Ethics of the Mothers: Field notes on Mizrahi women's religion of care
45:58 | Nov 10th, 2025
6) "A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
By situating Hebrew textbooks for adults within their historical and social contexts, this lecture sheds light on the intricate relationship between pedagogy, national identity, and the challenges fac...Show More
"A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined
48:48 | May 29th, 2025
7) "A Man Learns Only from What His Heart Desires": Hebrew Textbooks Reimagined (Transcript)
By situating Hebrew textbooks for adults within their historical and social contexts, this lecture sheds light on the intricate relationship between pedagogy, national identity, and the challenges fac...Show More
8) Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
What emotional traits are essential for building a nation? More broadly, are there such things as ‘national emotions,’ and if so, what are they? In this lecture, I will explore these questions by anal...Show More
Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions'
49:12 | May 15th, 2025
9) Love, Pride, Fear, and Happiness: Zionism as a Case Study for 'National Emotions' (Transcript)
What emotional traits are essential for building a nation? More broadly, are there such things as ‘national emotions,’ and if so, what are they? In this lecture, I will explore these questions by anal...Show More
10) Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
The seminar explores the discursive mapping of far-right constituents within the most right-wing coalition in Israel’s history, formed under Benjamin Netanyahu’s premiership after the five elections h...Show More
Israeli Far-Right amid the Erosion of the 'Legitimate Circle of Politics'
42:22 | May 12th, 2025