Seminars 2024 – 2025
Due to the instability that characterizes our lives, we have not set the exact dates for the seminars. We will publish the dates closer to the beginning of the coming academic year.
First Semester:
Dr. Mania Kogan: The educational needs of children of refugees and asylum seekers.
Discussant: Prof. Halleli Pinson, Department of Education.
We will address the association between education, children's rights and immigration. We will ask how educational systems deal with immigrant children that have immigrated or became refugees and how do these children and their families adjust to the educational system in their host country. Based on a test case of elementary schools for refugee children in Uganda, we will discuss in global and local perspectives the educational rights of refugee children.
Prof. Ilana Rosen: Israeli documentary poetry by immigrants and children of immigrants on coming of age in the early statehood period (1 st semester)
The presentation will feature and discuss a selection of Hebrew poems by Israeli poets who have been immigrants or children of immigrants and who depict in their poems to their immigration experiences. We will focus on poems that describe the experiences such as wandering or residing in transition camps, encounters with other immigrants and with Israeli schools at that time. Among others, the following poets will be discussed: Hertzl Hakak, Lidia Bar-Av, Zvika Shternfeld, Yaara Bar-David, and others.
Dr. Lina Lifshitz-Rozin: The experiences of social workers in culturally matched therapeutic dyads.
Dr. Galia Plotkin Amrami, Discussant, Department of Education
The presentation will address the effects of cultural matching between therapists and patients and the specific case of therapists and patients who are both immigrants from the former Soviet Union in Israel. Presented will be therapists' reactions in this setting: their countertransference and the motion between closeness and distancing from their patients.
Second Semester
Gitit Broid: Parental experiences of Bukharian immigrants who immigrated to Israel during the nineties
The lecture will present a study of parental experiences of the one-and-a-half generation members of the Bukharan community, who immigrated to Israel in the 1990s from the former Soviet Union. This research focuses on their contemporary parenting experiences and examines how they integrate the modern parenting concepts they encounter in Israel with the traditional parenting model on which they were raised.
Prof. Ortal Slobodin: Stowaways? Mothering and professional identity of Israeli women in relocation.
The presentation will address the negotiations between the mothering and the professional identities of Israeli women who relocate to support the professional development of their spouses. The research is based on the is based on the theoretical perspective of “Matricentric feminism” and on the social mandates of contemporary motherhood.
Dr. Julia Lerner et al. A review of the centre’s publications.
To date, over 120 publications constitute the collective output of the center. A review of these publications will be presented, so that they are more accessible to researchers and students. Also discussed will be issues that arise from these publications, such as lacunes in research, the rarity of interdisciplinary approaches etc.
