Fighting for Civil Discourse and Academic Freedom

  The Frankel Center for Judaic Studies at the University of Michigan seeks a scholar of Sephardic Jewry (15th-19th centuries) with strong interdisciplinary commitments. Specialization is open: history, religious studies, literature, anthropology, material culture, music, or gender studies. This scholar will participate in a cluster hire devoted to the Mediterranean as a dynamic arena of…

  Call for Papers for two Conferences to be held in Shanghai, China June 2012 Conference I Israeli Studies in China Introducing One Ancient Civilization to Another   Thursday-Friday, 21-22 June 2012 ShanghaiInternational Studies University(SHISU)   Conference II Future History Civil Society vs. State from a Traditional and Modern Perspective   Sunday-Monday, 24-25 June 2012…

  Are there plans for Peaceful Israel/Palestine that Israelis and Palestinians really prefer over remaining in the current situation? The BEST PLANS project will present a wide uncensored variety of plans for progressing beyond the current situation to politically representative samples of Israelis and Palestinians (“customers” of the plans). Participants will carry out a deep…