Teaching About Israel in a Time of Conflict
Teaching About Israel in a Time of Conflict
Many professors have been grappling with the difficult task of teaching their classes about Israel following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Amid rising tensions on campuses across the nation, navigating complex historical, political, and cultural narratives has possibly been more challenging than ever before. This special webinar features lecturers from diverse disciplines who teach in the Washington DC area and aims to shed light on how they address these pressing issues in their classrooms.
Speakers
Prof. Arie Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Before he arrived at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. He was a G.L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a participant in the National History Center’s International Decolonization Seminar, and recipient of the Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a was Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Dr. Lauren B. Strauss is Senior Professorial Lecturer in Jewish History at the American University in Washington, D.C. She also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Jewish Studies Program, and is affiliated faculty with AU’s Center for Israel Studies. A scholar of American Jewish political and cultural history, her forthcoming book is: Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists, Yiddish Culture, and Radical Politics in Interwar New York. Her next book will explore political and social activism in the D.C. Jewish community. Her published articles focus on Jews and the arts, gender, and political activism – especially on the political Left.
Moderator
Dr. Ilai Saltzman is the Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarship and teaching focus on international security, Israeli foreign and security policy, US foreign policy, and political psychology.
Before he arrived in College Park, Dr. Saltzman was the Israel Institute’s Associate Director for Academic Program. In the past, he served as a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College where he taught classes in International Relations, Israeli foreign and security policy as well as US foreign policy. He had also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s International Relations Department and the Rothberg International School (RIS), and Tel-Aviv University’s Political Science Department.
This special webinar is co-sponsored by the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies at American University, and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at The George Washington University.
Many professors have been grappling with the difficult task of teaching their classes about Israel following Hamas’ October 7, 2023, attack and the subsequent Israeli military campaign in the Gaza Strip. Amid rising tensions on campuses across the nation, navigating complex historical, political, and cultural narratives has possibly been more challenging than ever before. This special webinar features lecturers from diverse disciplines who teach in the Washington DC area and aims to shed light on how they address these pressing issues in their classrooms.
Speakers
Prof. Arie Dubnov is the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies. Trained in Israel and the U.S., he is a historian of twentieth-century Jewish and Israeli history, with emphasis on the history of political thought, the study of nationalism, decolonization and partition politics, and with a subsidiary interest in the history of Israeli popular culture. Before he arrived at GW, Dubnov taught at Stanford University and the University of Haifa. He was a G.L. Mosse Fellow at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, a participant in the National History Center’s International Decolonization Seminar, and recipient of the Dorset Fellowship at the Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies and a was Visiting Scholar at Wolfson College, Oxford.
Dr. Lauren B. Strauss is Senior Professorial Lecturer in Jewish History at the American University in Washington, D.C. She also serves as Director of Undergraduate Studies for the Jewish Studies Program, and is affiliated faculty with AU’s Center for Israel Studies. A scholar of American Jewish political and cultural history, her forthcoming book is: Painting the Town Red: Jewish Visual Artists, Yiddish Culture, and Radical Politics in Interwar New York. Her next book will explore political and social activism in the D.C. Jewish community. Her published articles focus on Jews and the arts, gender, and political activism – especially on the political Left.
Moderator
Dr. Ilai Saltzman is the Director of the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies at the University of Maryland, College Park. His scholarship and teaching focus on international security, Israeli foreign and security policy, US foreign policy, and political psychology.
Before he arrived in College Park, Dr. Saltzman was the Israel Institute’s Associate Director for Academic Program. In the past, he served as a professor of government at Claremont McKenna College where he taught classes in International Relations, Israeli foreign and security policy as well as US foreign policy. He had also taught at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem’s International Relations Department and the Rothberg International School (RIS), and Tel-Aviv University’s Political Science Department.
This special webinar is co-sponsored by the Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, the Meltzer Schwartzberg Center for Israel Studies at American University, and the Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies at The George Washington University.