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| Justice Dalia Dorner: "The Supreme Court and Israeli Democracy" | |
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WEEK 1Michaelmas
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Thursday 16th October 2008 at 7:30pm |
| Gulbenkian Lecture theatre, Law Faculty | |
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| General Sir Rupert Smith: "The Israeli Army After 2006" | |
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WEEK 4Michaelmas
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Thursday 6th November 2008 at 8:00pm |
| St Anne’s College | |
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| Professor Anita Shapira: "The Holocaust as a pro-Zionist and anti- Zionist narrative" | |
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WEEK 0Hilary
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Thursday 15th January 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Lincoln College | |
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| Professor Colin Shindler: "Israel and the War in Gaza" | |
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WEEK 1Hilary
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Thursday 22nd January 2009 at 8pm |
| Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College | |
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| Professor Alon Harel: "Judicial Review of Human Rights in Israel" Chair: Prof Nicolas Bamforth | |
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WEEK 2Hilary
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Monday 26th January 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Lincoln College | |
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| Professor Chaim Gans: "Could Zionism be rejected just because of its defining principles?" Based on "A Just Zionism: On the Morality of the Jewish St | |
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WEEK 5Hilary
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Monday 16th February 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Oriel college, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
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| Mr. Zeidan Atashi, former Arab Druze Israeli Member of Parliament on 'Ethnic Minorities in Israel" | |
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WEEK 5Hilary
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Tuesday 17th February 2009 at 12:45 pm |
| Social Sciences Building | |
Lunch will be provided. For further information about the speaker: http://www.knesset.gov.il/mk/eng/mk_eng.asp?mk_individual_id_t=554 |
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| A.B. Yehoshua "From Mythology to History: The Novels of A. B. Yehoshua" | |
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WEEK 6Hilary
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Thursday 26th February 2009 at 5:30pm |
| Somerville, Margaret Thatcher Centre | |
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| Dr. Tom Segev: "Israeli society and the holocaust" | |
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WEEK 7Hilary
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Monday 2nd March 2009 at 8:00pm |
| Oriel college, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
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| Professor Shai Feldman: ""The New Israeli Government: Implications for Peace-building" | |
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WEEK 1Trinity
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Monday 27th April 2009 at 08:00pm |
| Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room | |
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| Lord Trimble: "The Israeli-Palestinian conflict considered in the light of Northern Ireland's experience" | |
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WEEK 1Trinity
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Thursday 30th April 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Lincoln, Oakeshott Room | |
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| Mr Shlomo Brom: "the Middle East peace process and the new security environment" | |
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WEEK 2Trinity
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Thursday 7th May 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel college, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
Brig Gen (ret) Shlomo Brom is a senior research associate at the Institute for National Security Studies. His most senior post in the IDF was director of the Strategic Planning Division in the Planning Branch of the General Staff. Brom participated in peace negotiations with the Palestinians, Jordan, and Syria, and in Middle Eastern regional security talks during the 1990s. In 2000 he was named deputy to the National Security Advisor. In 2005-2006 Brig. Gen. (ret.) Brom was a member of the Meridor committee established by the Minister of Defense to reexamine the security strategy and doctrine of the State of Israel. His primary areas of research are Israeli-Palestinian relations and national security doctrine. Brom authored Israel and South Lebanon: In the Absence of a Peace Treaty with Syria, and edited The Middle East Military Balance 1999-2000 and The Middle East Military Balance 2001-2002. He is co-editor of The Second Lebanon War: Strategic Dimensions. |
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| Professor Israel Finkelstein: 'Archaeology, Identity and Politics in Israel: Can the distant past determine the future?' | |
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WEEK 3Trinity
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Tuesday 12th May 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel college, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
Co-director, the Megiddo Excavations Recipient of the Dan David Prize in 2005. Co-author of 'The Bible Unearthed: Archaeology's New Vision of Ancient Israel and the Origin of Its Sacred Texts' See: http://www.tau.ac.il/humanities/archaeology/directory/dir_israel_finkelstein.html |
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| Mr Yossi Mekelberg: "Israel's Foreign Policy: Contemporary Challenges" | |
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WEEK 4Michaelmas
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Monday 2nd November 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
Chatham House |
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| Professor Aeyal Gross: "LGBT Rights in Israel: Legal and Political Realities" Co-hosted by LGBT Soc | |
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WEEK 7Michaelmas
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Monday 23rd November 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Harris Lecture Theatre, Oriel College | |
Professor at Tel Aviv University Faculty of Law |
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| Dr Ilan Troen: "Claiming Israel/Palestine: Contending Paradigms of Legitimacy" | |
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WEEK 7Michaelmas
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Thursday 26th November 2009 at 08:00 pm |
| Lower Lecture Room, Lincoln college | |
Dr Troen is the director of the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies at Brandeis University |
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| Professor Menachem (Menny) Mautner (Tel Aviv University): "Secular Jews, Religious Jews and Arabs: The Zero Sum Game of Israel's Multiculturalism" | |
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WEEK 3Hilary
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Monday 1st February 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
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| Professor Danny Statman (Haifa University): "Whose Land Is This Anyway? Reflections on ‘Our Right to Our Land’" | |
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WEEK 4Hilary
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Monday 8th February 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
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| Professor Shimon Shamir (Tel Aviv University): "Israel's relations with Egypt and Jordan: Cold Peace or Cooperation?" | |
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WEEK 6Hilary
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Monday 22nd February 2010 at 8:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
Former Ambassador of Israel to Jordan and Egypt |
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| Dr. Anthony Julius (Mishcon de Reya): "The Making of Modern English Antisemitism" | |
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WEEK 7Hilary
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Monday 1st March 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
The lecture is in view of the launch of Dr. Julius' new book on the topic. For more information about the speaker: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_Julius http://www.mishcon.com/people/anthony_julius/ |
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| Professor Eran Feitelson (Hebrew University): "Will Desalination Solve the Arab-Israeli Water Conflict? and if not, why?" | |
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WEEK 8Hilary
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Monday 8th March 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Oriel College, Harris Lecture Theatre | |
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| Professor Mordechai Kremnitzer (Hebrew University): "Balancing Freedom of Speech and Incitement to Hatred and Violence in Israeli Politics" | |
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WEEK 2Trinity
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Monday 3rd May 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room | |
Vice President for Research on Democracy, Israel Democracy Institute |
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| Aviv Wasserman & Ruth Lande (The Lod Foundation): "Jewish-Muslim-Christian Multicultural Partnership in the Making: The Lod Community Foundation" | |
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WEEK 2Trinity
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Thursday 6th May 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room | |
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| Ruth Lande (Oxford University): "The Egyptian-Israeli-Palestinian Relations Triangle: challenges and opportunities" | |
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WEEK 3Trinity
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Monday 10th May 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room | |
Former adviser to the Israeli President Shimon Peres |
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| Dr. Joseph David (Hebrew University): "Judeo-Arabic: Plausible Combination or Myth?" | |
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WEEK 4Trinity
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Monday 17th May 2010 at 08:00 pm |
| Lincoln College, Lower Lecture Room | |
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