Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism in Israel and Palestine
Friday, October 18, 2024
1:30 pm – 2:15 pm EDT/GMT-4 Olin Humanities, Room 202
Part of the 16th annual Hannah Arendt Center fall conference on Tribalism and Cosmopolitanism
Join us for a conversation between two academics and friends-one a committed Muslim and Palestinian activist and one an Orthodox Jew.
- Khaled Furani is a professor of anthropology at Tel-Aviv University on the lands of al-Sheikh Muwannis. He researches language and literature, theology, secularism, sovereignty, Palestine, and the history of anthropology. For several years, he taught a seminar on "Reading Hannah Arendt for Anthropology." He co-edited, with Yara Sa'di-Ibraheem, Inside the Leviathan: Palestinian Experiences at Israeli Universities (in Arabic, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, 2022).
- Shai Lavi is a Professor of Law and heads the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute. He is also the co-director of the Minerva Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of End of Life, and until 2017 was also the founding director of the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics – both at Tel Aviv University.
Learn more about the conference at hac.bard.edu/tribalism-2024.
For more information, call 845-758-6822