Mizrahi Studies at the Intersection: Rewriting Body, Language, and Cultural Memory
Schedule according to EST
Symposium Organizers, Co-Head Fellows
Ruth Tsoffar, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor
Ella Shohat, New York University
Frankel Institute Fellows
Merav Alush-Levron, Tel-Aviv University
Rafael Balulu, Israel Institute of Technology
Inbal Blau (Maimon), Ono Academic Colleg e
Yali Hashash, Or Yehuda College
Gal Levy, The Open University of Israel
Liron Mor, University of California, Irvine
Daniel Schroeter, University of Minnesota
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, The Open University of Israel
Ella Shohat, New York University
Ruth Tsoffar, University of Michigan
Erez Tzfadia, Sapir College
Guest Speakers
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, Suffolk University
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, Ben-Gurion University
Raz Yosef, Tel Aviv University
Symposium Schedule (EST)
9:30 a.m. – Coffee/ Breakfast
10:00 a.m. – Welcoming Words
Maya Barzilai, Director, Frankel Center
Ruth Tsoffar
Ella Shohat
10:30 a.m. -12:00 p.m.
Panel I: Reframing Space, Memory, and
Knowledge
Moderator: Gal Levy
Orit Ouaknine-Yekutieli, “Returning to Morocco: Intergenerational Practices of Heritage and Homeland”
Daniel Schroeter, “Remembering Morocco: The Global Moroccan Jewish Diaspora”
Erez Tzfadia, “Home and Citizenship: Mizrahiyut and Informality in Settler-Colonial Spatiality”
12:00 p.m. – Lunch
1:00 p.m. – 2:30 p.m.
Panel II: Discourses and Practices of
Belonging
Moderator: Rafael Balulu
Merav Alush-Levron, “Mizrahi Autoethnography and the Inter-Generational Art of Memory”
Naphtaly Shem-Tov, “‘Fricha is a Beautiful Name’: Performance as Theatrical Interr uption”
Yali Hashash, “The Lost Academic Work of Mizrahi Women”
2:30 p.m. – Coffee Break
3:00 p.m. – 4:30 p.m.
Panel III, Decolonizing the Mizrahi Body
Moderator: Liron Mor
Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber, “‘Maybe We Did Them a Favor:’ Reading the Kidnapped Babies Affair Through Intersectional Feminist Lens”
Inbal Blau (Maimon), “Healing the Wounds: Legal Perspective on Injustices against the Mizrahim”
Raz Yosef, “Ethnicity, Disidentification, and Queer Performativity: The Arisa Mizrahi Party Line Videos”
4:30 p.m. – Coffee Break
4:45 p.m. – 5:30 p.m.
Discussion: Mizrahi Studies at the Intersection
This is a hybrid event.
Rackham East and West Conference Rooms
Zoom Registration: https://myumi.ch/wMPxz
https://lsa.umich.edu/judaic/news-events/all-events.detail.html/97313-21794308.html