CURRICULUM VITAE OF PROFESSOR SMADAR LAVIE -- April 2024

CURRICULUM VITAE OF SMADAR LAVIE PROFESSOR EMERITA OF ANTHROPOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA AT DAVIS ADDRESS Department of Anthropology 328 Young Hall One Shields Ave, University of California, Davis Davis, CA 95616 USA [email protected] [email protected] +1-651-343-3621 EDUCATION Ph.D. M.A. B.A. Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1989 Cultural Anthropology, University of California, Berkeley, 1981 The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 1980 Major: Sociology and Social Anthropology; Minors: Medieval Islamic Civilization, Musicology Specializations: (1) The interplay between neo-liberal state bureaucracies, citizenship, religion, and the race- or gender-based differential access to justice (legal, social, economic, political or cultural). (2) Comparative study of borderlands and diasporas (the Arab-Israeli, US-Mexican borders and the contemporary Muslim migration to Western Europe) through the optics of NGOs, social movements, as these relate to the emergence of Right Wing feminism(s). (3) World Anthropologies; qualitative research methodologies and the employment of the ethnographic method of research and writing in public policy. (4) Critical race theory, intersectionality, as these relate to the study of ritual, religion, performance, and of cultural rights in the context of conflict/post-conflict transitional justice. (5) The study of the Middle East – with emphasis on Egypt, Israel and Palestine, from a global comparative perspective. (6) Community building of non-profit transnational social movements and NGOs focusing on revising state bureaucratic ideologies and practices which are based on racial and gendered classification as a key to resolve ethno-nationalist conflicts Languages: Fluent English, Hebrew, and Arabic; semi-fluent French. ANTHROPOLOGICAL FIELDWORK • • • • South Sinai Peninsula, Egypt, 1975-present Palestine-Israel, 1988-present (with additional field research in Ann Arbor, MI (Apr 1991), Paris, France (Oct 1993), and Yemen (Aug 1996) Aqaba, Jordan (South Sinai Bedouin) 1993-95, 2006-present Lithuania-Belarus Border + online interviews, Winter 2022-present Smadar Lavie 1 EMPLOYMENT 2022 Fulbright Senior Scholar, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University (Jan-Jun) 2020- Professor Emerita, University of California, Davis. 2016-20 Visiting Scholar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2018/19 The Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 2010-17 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21), University College Cork, Ireland. 2014-16 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2013/14 Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2012/13 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2011 Fellow, Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland, Mar-Aug. 2010-12 Visiting Scholar, Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. 2010/11 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. 2009/10 Associate Professor, Studies in Women and Gender, University of Virginia at Charlottesville (nine-month visitorship). 2007-09 The Hubert H. Humphrey Distinguished Visiting Professor of International Studies for The Muslim World and the Middle East. Macalester College. 2001-07 Visiting Associate Professor, the Social Science Division, Beit Berl Teacher’s College. 1999/2000 Visiting Associate Professor, School of Media Studies, Sapir College of the Negev. Fall and Spring Semesters. 1994-99 Associate Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory, with tenure, University of California at Davis. 1992-94 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and Critical Theory, University of California at Davis. 1990-92 Assistant Professor of Anthropology and of Comparative Studies in History, Culture and Society, University of California at Davis. 1985-89 Lecturer, University of California at Berkeley, Fall Freshmen Program. 1984 Lecturer, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA. HONORS 2022 Fulbright US Scholar Fellowship (Jan-Jun, deferred from 2021 due to the pandemic). Vilnius University. 2020 Top 2018/19 Downloaded Paper Certificate for “Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism” by Wiley Publishers. 2018/19 The Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 2018 Distinguished Guest Professorship, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. Apr. 2017 Distinguished Professorial Lectureship, Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. 1-7 Apr. Smadar Lavie 2 2017 Distinguished Visiting Erasmus Professorship, Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology. Mar. 2015 Society for the Anthropology of Religion Clifford Geertz Prize finalist for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 Association of Middle East Women’s Studies (AMEWS) Book Award competition Honorable Mention for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 New York Book Festival Honorable Mention in the “Non-Fiction” category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 USA Best Book Awards finalist in the “Social Change” category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2015 San Francisco Book Festival Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography Category for Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. 2013 “Heart at East” Honor Plaque for committed excellence and lifetime service to the Mizrahi communities of Israel, given by a coalition of twenty NGOs working for equal distribution of cultural funds in Israel. 21 May. 2009 Gloria Anzaldúa Award Winner, the Women’s Committee of the American Studies Association, for the essay “Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” 2008 Distinguished Visiting Scholar, Suffolk University. 13-17 Oct. 1990 Honorable Mention, Victor Turner Award for Ethnographic Writing for The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity under Egyptian and Israeli Rule. 1989 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Award in Humanities, the Middle East Studies Association of North America. 1988 Second Prize, Paper Competition, U.S. Western Social Science Association: “When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation.” 1979 Yitzhaki Netzer Prize for Excellence in Bedouin Studies, The Ben-Gurion Desert Research Institute, Sde-Bokker, Israel. PUBLICATIONS Books Authored 2018 Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press. In the series Expanding Frontiers: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Studies of Women, Gender and Sexuality. Updated and revised paperback edition of Wrapped in the Flag of Israel 2014, including an extensive afterword about the War on Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism. Book was published in Jul ‘18. First print sold out early Dec ’18. 2014 Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and Bureaucratic Torture. New York: Berghahn Book. 15 Apr 2014; third print sold out 31 Aug 2015. Since its April 2014 publication, the book has been reviewed in: Oct ’20 Jan ’20 Jan ’19 Apr ’18 Smadar Lavie Medium. Ayelet Shahar. Jadaliyya “New Text Out Now.” Tikkun Magazine 34(1): 127-130. Keith Feldman. E3W (Ethnic and Third World Literatures) 18: 8-9. Michael Reyes. 3 Oct ’17 Sep ‘17 Jan ’17 Jan ’17 Dec ’16 Dec ’16 Nov ’16 Nov ’16 Aug ’16 Jul ’16 Jul ’16 Jul ’16 Jul ’16 Jun ’16 Apr ’16 Mar ’16 Jan ’16 Nov ’15 Spring ’15 Feb ’15 Dec ’14 1990 Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 17(1): 135-136. Yaacov Yadgar. Kultura i Społeczeństwo, no. 61(3):256-257. Iza Desperak [Polish.]. Asian Anthropology 16(1): 73-75. Sealing Cheng. Peace and Change 42(1): 162-164. Leonie Fleischmann. Arab Studies Quarterly 38(4): 716-723. Meir Amor. Feminist Formations 28(3): 259-262. Brooke Lober. Social Anthropology 24(4): 535-537. Johan Wollin. Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (N.S.) 22(4): 1012-1013. Tobias Kelly. American Ethnologist 43(3): 580-581. Yulia Egorova. Anthropological Quarterly 89(2): 603-606. William Beeman. Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 31(3): 392-393. Barbara Levy Simon. Journal of Middle East Women’s Studies 12(2): 264-266. Adi Kuntsman. Hypercultura E-Journal 6(15). “Bureaucracy, Thy Name is Israel.” Sorina Georgescu. American Anthropologist 188(2): 436-437. Anne de Jong. Cultural Studies 31(4): 602-609. “Bureaucratic Torture, Israeli Nationalism, and the Question of Palestine.” Shoshana Madmoni-Gerber. Social Security: Journal of Welfare and Social Security Studies (Bitahon Sotziali, Hebrew) 99: 156-159. Chen Misgav [Heb.]. Allegra Lab Online Book Reviews. Anja Ryding. Feminist Review 111: e12-e15. Frances S. Hasso. Journal of Palestine Studies 44(3): 67-68. Simona Sharoni. Jadaliyya “New Text Out Now.” BRICUP (British Committee for the Universities of Palestine) Newsletter 82: 12-13, Malcolm Levitt. The Poetics of Military Occupation: Mzeina Allegories of Bedouin Identity Under Israeli and Egyptian Rule. Los Angeles: University of California Press. Since its December 1990 publication, the book has been reviewed in: • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • • American Ethnologist American Anthropologist Times Literary Supplement Washington Post The Village Voice Literary Supplement Journal of Palestine Studies Quarterly Journal of Speech MERIP (Middle East Research and Information Project) Review Journal of Islamic Studies MESA (Middle East Studies Association) Bulletin Choice The San Francisco Chronicle Haaretz Publisher’s Weekly Middle East Journal SOAS (School of Oriental and African Studies) Bulletin, A paperback edition has been available since July 1991 and is still in print and in demand. The book has become a required textbook in a variety of courses and disciplines across the social sciences and humanities. WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL Invited Academic Talks 2022 25 Nov 15 Nov Copenhagen University, Department of Anthropology Copenhagen University, Department of Cross-Cultural and Regional Studies, Gender and Sexualities in the Middle East Seminar Smadar Lavie 4 2019 5 Dec 4 Dec University of Notre Dame, Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies University of Notre Dame, Keough School of Global Affairs 2018 30 Oct 26 Feb Dalhousie University, The Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies Public Lecture. San Francisco City College, Critical Middle East South Asia Studies Program. 2017 23 May 4 Apr 1 Feb University of Malaga, Faculty of Philosophy and Letters. Vilnius University, Center for Oriental Studies. San Francisco City College, Women and Gender in the Middle East Speaker Series. 2016 9 Nov 7 Nov 24 Mar 18 Mar 17 Mar 15 Mar 10 Mar 8 Mar 3 Mar 2 Mar 25 Feb 23 Feb 23 Feb 18 Feb University of Montreal, Department of Anthropology. Concordia University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Montreal. University of West the England, Gender Studies Research Group, Bristol. Warsaw University, Department of Hebrew and Israeli Studies. Mizrahi Feminism. Warsaw University, Department of Hebrew and Israeli Studies. Bureaucracy and Single Motherhood. Jagiellonian University, Institute of Sociology. University of Bialystok, Department of English and American Studies. University of Social Sciences and Humanities (SWPS), Warsaw. Department of English and American Studies. University of Lodz, joint seminar, International Relations and Middle East- North Africa Studies. University of Lodz, joint seminar, American Studies and Sociology. Utrecht University, Department of Anthropology, Public Lecture Series. University of Groningen, Center for Middle Eastern Studies. University of Groningen, Center for Religion, Conflict and the Public Domain. Amsterdam Research Center for Gender and Sexuality, the Netherlands. 2015 29 Oct 26 Oct Swarthmore College, Peace and Conflict Studies. Temple University, Beyond the Page Lecture Series, The Paley Library in collaboration with the departments of History, Religion, Anthropology and Middle Eastern Studies. 22 Oct Five College Middle Eastern Studies Workshop, Amherst, MA. 20 Oct Brown University, Watson Institute for International and Public Affairs and the Center for Middle Eastern Studies. 30 May University of Texas Austin, Center for Mexican-American Studies, Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua Plenary Session. 13 May Santa Clara College, Department of Anthropology Weekly Seminar. 1-15 Mar National University of Singapore, Visitorship at the Middle East Institute. 27 Feb University of California at Los Angeles, Women’s Studies Weekly Colloquium. 2014 20 Nov 19 Nov 18 Nov 17 Nov 12 Nov 7 Nov 7 Nov 30 Oct 29 Oct 28 Oct Clark University, Sociology-Anthropology department Prof. Parminder Bachu weekly seminar. Boston University, Department of Anthropology and Center for Jewish Studies weekly seminar. Suffolk University, Joint Seminar with the Department of Communication and Journalism and the Program in Women and Gender Studies. Wesleyan University Department of Anthropology, Middletown, CT. University of California at Santa Barbara, Department of Sociology Weekly Seminar. Featured book, American Studies Association Celebrated Authors book display, Los Angeles. American Studies Association Roundtable (ASA) on radical political insurgency in Palestine-Israel and Radical Black Insurgency in the U.S. Ethnographic Writing Workshop, University of Warwick, Center for the Study of Women and Gender. University of Warwick, Center for the Study of Women and Gender. University of Southampton Program in Law and Philosophy. Smadar Lavie 5 27 Oct 24 Oct 23 Oct 22 Oct 17 Oct 16 Oct 14 Oct 10 Oct 9 Oct 11 Sep 28 Apr 23 Apr 17 Apr 12 Apr LSE (London School of Economics and Political Science) Middle East Center public reading. LSE, Anthropology department weekly seminar. SOAS Center for Gender Studies Weekly Seminar, London. Cardiff University, Center for Critical and Cultural Theory weekly seminar. University of Oxford, The Middle East Center, St. Anthony’s College weekly seminar. University of Cambridge, Center for Islamic Studies weekly seminar. University of Kent, School of Anthropology and Conservation weekly seminar. Queen University of Belfast, School of History and Anthropology weekly seminar. National University of Ireland, Maynooth, Anthropology weekly seminar. Lecture and book launch party, University College Cork, Women’s Studies and ISS21 Joint Seminar. University of California, Davis, Anthropology weekly seminar. University of Minnesota, Twin Cities, Department of Anthropology. University of Chicago, Center for Jewish Studies. Governors University, the annual Chicago Gender Matters Conference featured book. Conference theme: Embodying Praxis, Engaging Solutions. 10 Apr University of California, Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies weekly seminar. 3 Apr Yale University, Journal of Middle Eastern Women’s Studies research workshop. 2 Apr Yale University, Council on Middle East Studies weekly seminar. 10 Mar University of California, Santa Cruz, Anthropology weekly seminar. LAVIE - Books Co-Edited 1996 Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity. Co-edited with Ted Swedenburg. Duke University Press. Since its 1996 publication, Displacement has been quoted hundreds of times and taught as a textbook throughout the Humanities and the Social Sciences because it was the first book to transnationalize Cultural Studies. Its introduction has become a formative text for the study of diasporas, borders, identity, racism, and other fields of Cultural Studies. It is still in print and in demand. 1993 Creativity/Anthropology. Co-edited with Renato Rosaldo and Kirin Narayan. Cornell University Press. Articles and Book Chapters in Peer-reviewed Journals and Edited Collections 2022 “Who Can Publish Autohistoria-Teoria with the Anger It Deserves?: Unclassified Lloronas and the Academic Text.” In El Mundo Zurdo 8: Selected Works from the 2019 Meeting of the Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua. Adrianna M. Santos, Rita E Urquijo-Ruiz and Norma E Cantu, eds., 151-168. San Francisco: Aunt Lute Books 2021 “Confession and Mirage: Professor Mas'uda and the Ashkenazim-for-Palestine in Israel's Academe.” Journal of Academic Freedom Vol. 12 2020 “Professor Mas`uda and the ‘Salt of the Earth’ in Academe: Confession. HaKivun Mizrah (Eastward, Hebrew) 38:111-126. 2020 “Who Can Publish Autohistoria-Teoria with the Anger it Deserves? Unclassified Lloronas and the Academic Text.” The Israeli Association for Feminist and Gender Studies Newsletter, trans. D. G. Peleg [into Hebrew], Jan. 2019 “Protester, tillhörighet och byråkratisk smärta” [“Protest, belonging and bureaucratic pain”, Swedish]. In Vänstern och byråkratin [The Left and the Bureaucracy] 62-63(1): 75-93. Malmö: Tidskriften Fronesis. 2019 “Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism.” PoLAR, Political and Legal Anthropology Review 42(3): 85-109. Article has been awarded with a certificate for top downloaded paper for 2019-20 by Wiley Publishing. During the first three weeks of the Gaza 2023-4 war it received 46,815 views on my academia dot edu homepage. 2015 “Israeli Feminism and the Question of Palestine.” In MEI Perspectives 3, Middle East Institute, National University of Singapore. Smadar Lavie 6 2013 “Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine: Two States or One?” In The Failure of the Two-State Solution, ed. by Hani A. Faris, 207-230. London, U.K.: I.B. Tauris & Co., Ltd. 2013 “Staying Put: Crossing the Israel-Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” Left Curve 37: 32-45 (Reprint of 2011 Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly.) 2012 “Staying Put: Crossing the Israel-Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” In Pretending Democracy: Israel, an Ethnocratic State, ed. by Na`eem Jeenah, 167-198. Johannesburg, South Africa: The Afro-Middle East Centre (Reprint of 2011 Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly.) 2012 “Writing Against Identity Politics: An Essay on Gender, Race, and Bureaucratic Pain,” American Ethnologist, 39(4): 780-804. As of Jul 2017, this article has been viewed or downloaded from 10,000 unique I.P. addresses. 2012 “Il Femminismo Mizrachi e la Questiona della Palestina” [Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine]. In Ebrei Arabi: Terzo Incomodo, ed. by S. Sinigaglia, trans S. Sinigaglia [into Italian], 71-110. Frankfurt, Germany: Zambon Verlag Publishing. 2012 “Un Anno Dopo la Seconda Guerra del Libano: Come ‘Onghizzare’ I Paradossi Arabo-Mizrahi e la Visione di Uno Stato Unico per la Palestina/Israele” [A Year into Lebanon 2 War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel]. In Ebrei Arabi: Terzo Incomodo, ed. by S. Sinigaglia, trans. S. Sinigaglia [into Italian], 280-302. Frankfurt, Germany: Zambon Verlag Publishing. 2012 “The Knafo Chronicles: Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Silent Majority.” Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work 27(3): 300-315. 2012 “Al-Haraka Al-Nisa’iya Al-Mizrahiya Fi Israel wa Qadiyat Filsteen” [The Mizrahi Feminist Movement in Israel and the Question of Palestine]. In Hal Al-Dawla Al-Wahida lil-Sira’ Al-‘Arabi-Al-Israeli: Balad Wahid Likul Muwatineeh [The One State Solution to the Arab-Israeli Conflict: A Country for all its Citizens], ed. by Hani Faris, 283-310. Beirut: Centre for Arab Unity Studies. 2011 “Staying Put: Crossing the Israel–Palestine Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” Anthropology and Humanism Quarterly 36(1): 101-121. 2011 “Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Border Zone? Interrogating Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived.” Social Semiotics 21(1): 67-83. 2011 “Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine.” Journal of Middle East Women Studies 7(2): 56-88. 2010 “Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa: Sovereignty, Transnationalism, and the Art of Staying Put.” In El Mundo Zurdo, ed. by Norma Alarcon and Rita Urquijo-Ruiz, 239-255. San Francisco: Aunt Lute. 2010 “Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine.” Sedek (Crack, Heb.): A Hebrew Nakba Periodical [translated from English] 5:119-134. E-edition in HaOketz [Heb.] in two installments on 18 and 20 Apr, 2011. 2010 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic among the Israeli Feminist Left Peace Camp.” Journal of Holy Land Studies 9(1): 71-80. 2009 “A Year into Lebanon 2 War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel.” Left Curve 33: 29-35. 2008 “A Year into the Lebanon-Gaza War: A Mizrahi Guide to the Perplexed, and the One State Vision.” [Co-authored with Reuven Abarjel]. Sedek (Crack, Heb.): A Hebrew Nakba Periodical (2): 71-79 [Heb.]. Smadar Lavie 7 2007 “Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Construction of the Mizrahi as a Trade-Mark: Notes on the Revolving Door of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” Mahbarot Kolno‘a Darom (“South Cinema Notebooks”, Heb. – a Humanities periodical) 2: 161-166 [Heb.]. 2007 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” In Campo, Spazio, Territorio. Approcci antropologici, ed. by Pier Giorgio Solinas, trans. Umberto Pellechia and Giancarlo Pichillo [from English], 163-175. Catania, Italy: Ed-It Press. 2007 “Imperialism and Colonialism: Zionism.” Encyclopedia of Women in Islamic Cultures Vol. 6: 9-15. Leiden: Brill. 2007 “Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Construction of the Mizrahi as a Trade-Mark: Notes on the Revolving Door of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” In A Rainbow of Opinions: The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow’s First Decade. (Keshet Shel De‘ot: ‘Asor LaKeshet HaDemokratit HaMizrahit, Heb.),198-204. Tel Aviv: November Press. 2005 “The Fool.” In Internationalizing Cultural Studies: An Anthology, ed. by Ackbar Abbas and John N. Erni, 106115. Blackwells (an abbreviated version of 1991 QRFV). 2005 “A Rainbow Kufiyya.” In Sappho in the Holy Land: Lesbian Existence and Dilemmas in Contemporary Israel, ed. by E. Shadmi and C. Frankfort-Nachmias, 211-222. Albany, NY: SUNY Press [credited under my internet pseudonym of Mickey M.]. 1996 “Introduction: Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.” [Co-authored with Ted Swedenburg]. In “Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity, 1-25. Durham, NC: Duke University Press. 1996 “Blowups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors' Gropings for Home.” [Revised and expanded version of 1992 above.] In Displacement, Diaspora and Geographies of Identity, 55-96. 1996 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Bridging Text and Lived Experience in the Third Timespace.” Cultural Studies 10(1): 154-179. 1995 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” [Co-authored with Ted Swedenburg, trans. to Hebrew by H. Tzamir]. Teoria veBikoret [Theory and Criticism, Heb.] 7: 76-88. 1995 “Border Poets: Translating by Dialogue.” In Women Writing Culture, ed. by R. Behar and D. Gordon, 412-427. Berkeley: University of California Press. 1995 “Locating a Home on the Border: Third World Israelis, Minor Literature, and the Racial Formations of Zionism.” Left Curve 19: 10-30. 1993 “The Bedouin, the Beatniks, and the Redemptive Fool.” In Otherness and the Media: The Ethnography of the Imagined and the Imaged, ed. by H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel, 23-44. Chur, Switzerland: Harwood Academic Publishers (reprint of 1991). 1993 “Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport.” [Co-authored with Hajj A. and Forest Rouse]. American Ethnologist 20(2): 363-384. 1993 “Introduction.” [Co-authored with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo, above]. In Creativity/Anthropology,1-8. 1993 “The One Who Writes Us: Political Allegory and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin.” In Creativity/Anthropology, 153-183. 1992 “Blow-Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors’ Gropings for Home.” New Formations 18: 84-106. 1991 “The Bedouin, the Beatniks, and the Redemptive Fool.” Quarterly Review of Film and Video special issue, “Discourse of the Other: Postcoloniality, Positionality, and Subjectivity” ed. by H. Naficy and T. H. Gabriel, Smadar Lavie 8 13(1-3): 23-43. 1989 “When Leadership Becomes Allegory: Mzeina Sheikhs and the Experience of Occupation.” Cultural Anthropology 4(2): 99-135. 1986 “The Poetics of Politics: An Allegory of Bedouin Identity.” Political Anthropology special issue, “The Frailty of Authority,” ed. by M. J. Aronof, 5:131-46. 1984 “The Fool and The Hippies: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai.” In The Masks of Play, ed. by B. Sutton-Smith and D. Kelly-Byrne, 63-70. New York: Leisure Press. 1984 “Bedouin in Limbo: Egyptian and Israeli Development Policies in the Southern Sinai.” [Co-authored with William C. Young]. Antipode 16(2): 33-44. Review Essays (wider in scope than regular book reviews) 2022 “Presence and Absence in Enemies: A Love Story : An Essay on Familism, Traditionalism and Ultranationalism” Self-published in academia.edu (1,173 views) [Hebrew]. 2016 “Palestine to Ferguson, Historicized: Decolonizing US-Israeli Settler Dynamics.” Review of A Shadow over Palestine; The Imperial Life of Race in America, Keith Feldman. Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press. Cultural Studies 31(1): 314. 2006 “Feminist Mediations of Home and Exile: Gendering the Race of Israel/Palestine during the Al-Aqsa Intifada.” Review essay of Women and the Politics of Military Confrontation: Palestinian and Israeli Gendered Narratives of Dislocation ed. by Nahla Abdo and Ronit Lentin. New York and Oxford: Berghahn Books. Journal of Holy Land Studies 5(2): 217-226. 2006 “When the Noble Savage Invades the Home.” Review essay of the Hebrew translation of Works and Lives: The Anthropologist as Author, by Clifford Geertz (Resling, Israel, 2005). Haaretz Literary Supplement 681:14. 14 Mar [Heb.]. 2001 “The Racialized Dispossessed.” Review essay of Between Reggae and Rap: The Integration Challenge of Ethiopian Youth in Israel by Malka Shabtai (Cherikover, Israel, 2001). Haaretz Literary Supplement 451:1-18. 17 Oct [Heb.]. 1992 “Constructing and Representing Peoplehood in the Nation-State: Israel as Case Study.” Review Essay of People as Subject, People as Object: Selfhood and Peoplehood in Contemporary Israel by Virginia R. Dominguez. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 1989. The Middle East Journal 46(4): 683-685. 1991 “Voices in the Desert.” Review essay of Bedouin Poetry from Sinai and the Negev: Mirror of a Culture, Clinton Bailey, Oxford University Press, 1991. The Times Literary Supplement 4612: 22. 23 Aug. 1988 “Sinai for the Coffee Table: Birds, Bedouins and Desert Wanderlust.” Review essay of The Sinai Spirit, Dani Rabinowitz, Adam Publications, Israel, 1987. MERIP - Middle East Report 150: 40-44, special issue, “Human Rights and the Palestine Conflict.” 1988 “The Sabra Yearning for the Desert.” ‘Iton 77 Literary Monthly [Heb.] 101: 24-26. Book Review 1991 Israeli Cinema: East/West and the Politics of Representation, Ella Shohat. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1989. The Middle East Journal 45(4): 696-698. Catalogue 2023 Baltic Spotlight on the South: Queers of Color Coming to Power through Image. Curated by Robert Heyer-Gray and Smadar Lavie 9 Smadar Lavie. Edited by Beatrice Alder. University of California, Davis: E-Scholarship. Poetry Translations 2001 “I love in White Ink,” Siham Da’oud.. The Poetry of Arab Women: A Contemporary Anthology, ed. by Nathalie Handel, 91-92. New York: Interlink Books. 1994 “Coyotismo,” Janice Gould. KLAF Hazak 12:46 [Heb.]. 1994 “The Education,” Janice Gould. KLAF Hazak 12:47 [Heb.]. 1994 Untitled Poem from and A Moon Drips Madness. Amira Hess (Tel Aviv, 1984). [Co-translated with Helene Knox]. Left Curve 18: 76. 1994 “I Love in White Ink.” Siham Daoud. Left Curve 18: 75. 1993 “I Ain’t the Right Kind of Feminist.” Cheryl L. West. Nogah: A Feminist Magazine 26: 45 [Heb.]. 1993 “The Maid.” Bracha Serri. Co-translated with Helene Knox. In The Eastern Aspect: Other News from Israel, ed. by D. Hurwitz, A. Brauner, and J. Boyarin, 6. Santa Cruz: Resource Center for Nonviolence. REPRINTED IN Left Curve 18:76. 1991 “Back to the Village,” Na‘im ‘Araidi. The Times Literary Supplement 4623: 5. 1991 “Shopping on Dizengov Street,” Erez Biton. [Co-translated with Helene Knox]. The Times Literary Supplement 4623: 5. 1990 “‘Abd al-Hadi Fights the Big Superpower,” Muhammad ‘Ali Taha. MERIP - Middle East Report 164/165 (vol. 20, no. 3/4):38, special issue, “Intifada -- Year Three.” Other Translations 2005 “Political Discourse.” Translation of the Lees-Lavie-Lathrop letter exchange in Anthropology Newsletter: 3-4, in Kedma: The Eastern Gate. May. 2004 “Letters on Racinated Peace: Judith Butler, Lynne Segal, and Ahoti-For Women in Israel.” Translated between the Hebrew and English and edited by Smadar Lavie. Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal, ed. by Sami Shalom Chetrit. [Heb.]. An abbreviated version published Ahoti [“Sistah,” Heb.] – Newsletter 4: 8. Mar 2004. 2003 “The Exclusion of Mizrahi and Palestinian Anthropologists from the Faculty Club.” Translation of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Press Release written by Nurit Hajjaj. 29 May. Replies 2005 “Political Discourse.” Reply to Susan H. Lees’s AN letter to the editor re. Lavie’s “Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology” 2005. Anthropology News, May issue. 2005 “The Pros and Cons of Boycotts.” Reply to several articles discussing the British AUT proposal to boycott Israeli academic institutions. The Guardian. 21 Apr. 2003 “Imprisoned.” Reply to Billy Moscone-Lerman’s “Disconnected until Further Notice.” Ma‘ariv’s Weekly Magazine, 4. 10 Dec. Smadar Lavie 10 2003 “Doesn’t Stand the Entrance Requirements.” Reply to “Real Problem” – a collection of letters to the editor supporting PAS, 22 Aug, which were written in response to Traubmann’s article on PAS of 15 Aug. Haaretz, B12. 29 Aug. 1999 “Twice Battered.” Reply to an article on the arrival of PAS to the Israeli courts. Ma‘ariv Daily. 9 Nov. 1999 “Mom Doesn’t Alienate.” Reply to Yael Hen’s article on PAS. Ma‘ariv’s Women’s Supplement. 16 Nov. 1991 “The Mzeini Dialect.” Reply to Pierre Cachia’s review of The Poetics of Military Occupation (The Times Literary Supplement 4612: 23). The Times Literary Supplement 4618:19. 1990 Reply to Paul Dresch’s review of The Poetics of Military Occupation (The Middle East Journal 45[3]: 525-526). The Middle East Journal 46(1): 155-157. Press Releases 2004 “Judith Butler and Lynne Segal in Ahoti’s Latest Newsletter on Peace and Social Justice.” 3 May. 2004 “Dr. Vicki Shiran, Founder of Israel’s Mizrahi Feminism-of-Color, is No Longer with Us.” 17 Mar. UNIVERSITY FELLOWSHIPS AND GRANTS 2022 Fulbright US Scholar Program Fellowship. Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies. Vilnius University. 2018/19 Endowed Simon and Riva Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Canada. 2018 Endowed Visiting Professor, Center for Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. Apr. 2017 Endowed Visiting Professor, Center for Oriental Studies, Vilnius University, Lithuania. 1-7 Apr. 2017 Distinguished Visiting Professor, Institute of Sociology, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland. Mar. 2016-18 Visiting Scholar, Department of Ethnic Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2014-16 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2010-16 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21). University College Cork, Ireland. 2013/14 Visiting Fellow, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California, Berkeley. 2012/13 Scholar in Residence, Beatrice Bain Research Group, University of California, Berkeley. 2011 Residency in Centro Incontri Umani, Ascona, Switzerland. Mar-Aug. 2010/11 Visiting Scholar, Institute for Advanced Study and Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. Jul’10Mar’11. 2009-13 Cultural and Religious Diversity in Southern Europe Research Group, Center for Social Studies, Coimbra University, Portugal (declined). 2009-10 Five College Women’s Studies Research Center, Research Associateship (declined). 2007-09 Macalester College Hubert Humphrey Research and Travel Funds. 2007/08 Marie Curie three-month Research Cluster Fellowship at the Equity Studies Center, School of Social Justice, University College Dublin, Ireland (declined). Smadar Lavie 11 2005-07 Scholar at Rescue Grant to cover full time secretary-RA, research, travel, and office at home costs. 1995/96 University of California at Davis, Faculty Research Grant. 1994/95 University of California at Davis, Faculty Research Grant. 1994/95 University of California at Davis, Multicultural Teaching Grant. 1993/94 Stanford Humanities Center Junior Fellowship. 1993/94 Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research Grant. 1993/94 Rice University Rockefeller Fellowship in Cultural Studies (declined). 1993/94 Whitney Humanities Center at Yale University Postdoctoral Fellowship (alternate). 1993/94 University of California at Davis, Junior Faculty Research Grant. 1993 The Rockefeller Foundation’s Study and Conference Center in Bellagio. Collaborative Research Group, “Cultural Agency/Cultural Authority: Politics and Poetics of Intellectual Property in the Postcolonial Era.” (8-13 Mar). 1991/92 University of California Humanities Research Institute at Irvine, Residential Group Fellowship for “Dependency and Autonomy: The Relation of Minority Discourse to Dominant Culture” (fall and spring). 1991/92 1991 University of California at Davis Junior Faculty Research Grant. University of California at Davis Summer Junior Faculty Research Grant. 1990/91 University of California at Davis New Junior Faculty Research Grant. 1989 University of California at Berkeley, Center for Middle Eastern Studies: Postdoctoral Fellowship. 1987/88 University of California at Berkeley Humanities Research Grant. 1983/84 Mabel McLeod Lewis Dissertation Award. 1982/83 University of California Regents’ Fellowship. 1981/82 Lowie Foundation Grant. 1980/81 1979/80 University of California Regents’ Fellowship. Lowie Foundation Grant. 1979 Fulbright-Hays Travel Grant. 1978/79 National Sound Archive, Jerusalem: Grant to establish Bedouin repository. 1976-79 The Ford Foundation Fieldwork Grant [via the Desert Research Institute, Israel]. 1976-79 Helena Rubinstein Foundation Tuition grants. COURSES TAUGHT Anthropology of the Middle East Anthropology of Religion Borders and Diasporas: The Middle East, “New” Europe, and the Maquiladoras Smadar Lavie 12 Comparative Borders and Diasporas – US/Mexico, Israel/Palestine Comparative Muslim Cultures Decolonizing Gender: Transnational Feminisms in the Global South Equal Opportunities in Education Ethnographic Writing Ethnographies of Palestine and Israel Feminist Discourses on Rights Gender in Muslim Lives (with a section on Jewish women in the Muslim world and Israel) Gendering Partitions: Palestine/Israel, Ireland/North Ireland, India/Pakistan Intersectionality and Jewish Feminism(s) in Israel Introduction to Cross-Cultural Gender Studies Introduction to Feminist Theories of Color Introduction to Social-Cultural Anthropology Israeli and Palestinian Feminisms Minorities in Culture and Literature Multiculturalism in Decolonization Peoples and Cultures of the Middle East Post/Modernity, Culture, and Religion Postmodernism(s) and Culture (with emphasis on the Global South) “Post”/Neocolonialism and Identity Politics (with emphasis on the Global South) Research Methods for Anthropologists Survey of Ethnographies across the World Transnational Feminisms Transnationalism, Citizenship and Family Dynamics in the Middle East Women and Leadership STUDENT ADVISING Graduate Abastado, Rinat. San Francisco State University. Feminist Theories on Race and Mizrahi Women’s History. 1996-1997. ‘Alon, Ktzi‘a. Hebrew U. Feminist Theory of Color. 2003. Chaudhry, Lubna. Davis. “Hybridization of Identities: A Critical Feminist Ethnography of the Education of Pakistani Muslim Immigrant Women in the U.S.” 1991-1994. Cohen, Ilise. San Francisco Institute of Integral Studies. “Mizrahim and the Nakba.” 2005-2010. Daloumi, Irit. Lesley College, IL. Mizrahi Women Artists’ Journals. 2003. Ducker, Claire. Institute of Social Studies, the Netherlands. “Jews, Arabs and Arab Jews: The Politics of Identity and Reproduction in Israel.” 2005-6. Dukes, Tamara. Davis. Cuban Immigrants in Miami and Los Angeles; AIDS Advocacy. 1995-1998. England, Sara. Davis. “The Political Economy of Culture: Ethnicity and the Political Ideology of a Garifuna Grassroots Movement.” 1994-1996. Feldman, Rachel. Davis. “Women of the Third Jewish Temple Movement.” 2015-2018. Freeling Sharon. Bar Ilan U. Parental Alienation Syndrome: Comparative Analysis of Family Courts. 2003. Furberg-Moe (Thorleifsson), Catharine M. London School of Economics. “Peripheral Nationhood: Being Israeli in Kiryat Shmona.” 2012. Ghanem, Hunaida. Hebrew U. Palestinian Intellectuals and the Nakba. 2002-2004. Gilbert, Hillary. Universityof Manchester. Everything has its price: Conservation, development and Bedu in St. Katherine Protectorate, South Sinai. 2010. Hamilton, Karine. Curtain U of Technology, Australia. “The Politics of Silence: Israelis and Representations of the Sabra and Shatila Massacre.” 2004. Homa, David. Nebraska U., Lincoln. “Interaction Between Travelers to Dahab, Egypt, and Bedouin Youth.” 1997. Kravitz-Ober, Holly. Davis. Whiteness and Political Identity among U.S. Gun Nuts. 1995-1997. LaBergere, Ileana. Davis. Postcolonialism and Chicana Feminism. 1994-1996. Madmoni, Shoshana. Hebrew U. The Yemeni Children Affair. 1994-1995. Mahmood, Sabah. Stanford. Agency, Islam, and Postcolonial Gender Theory. 1993-1994. Makhoul, Sanaa. SJ State. Palestinian Women Artists. 1997. Masri, Ghada. Davis. “Voices from CyberLebanon: Women’s Voices and National Identity.” 1995-1996. Smadar Lavie 13 Meishar, Naama. Hebrew U. “Writing in White Ink: Gardening Practices of Mizrahi Women in South Tel Aviv.” 2002-2004. Moore, Donald B. Davis. Critical Race Theory and Mixed-Race People. 1994-1996. Naber, Nadine. Davis. Race and Postcolonialism in the Context of Arab Americans, 1994-1998. Razieli, Sandra. Stanford. The Mizrahi Struggle and the Racial Formations of Israel. 1994-1995. Sa‘ada-Ophir, Galit. Hebrew U. Mizrahi Music and the Arab-Jewish Borderland. 2002-2003. Saunders, Mimi. Davis. Cultural Citizenship and Bilingual Schooling in California; Feminist Theory of Color. 1994-1998. Stein, Rebecca. Stanford. Post/Neocolonialism and Identity. 1993-1994. Stephens, Gregory. Davis. Interracial Communities. 1991-1993. Torstrick, Rebecca, Washington U. “Raising and Rupturing Boundaries: The Politics of Identity in Acre.” 1988-1989. Yosef, Raz. Tel Aviv U. Mizrahi Masculinities in Israeli Cinema. 1998. Zarum, Nirit. Tel Aviv U. Masculinities of Subaltern Mizrahi Authors. 2006-7. Zarini, Iris. Ben-Gurion University. IL. “Mizrahi Women Professors in Israeli Universities.” 2007-. Zeid, Shoshi. Independent Scholar, IL. The Kidnapped Yemeni Babies Affair. [rejected for PhD studies by Hebrew University as a non-topic], 2004. Undergraduate Agrama, Hussein. Davis. Egyptian Masculinities. 1992-1994. Ben-Zvi, Yael. Tel Aviv U. Israeli Lesbians and Ashkenazi Racinations of Sex and Gender. 1993-1997. Chianese, Venessa. Davis. Palestine and Cultural Theory. 1991-1992. Dietz, Lora. Davis. European Identities. 1991-1992. Hazineh, Alia. Dalhousie. Borderzone Embodiment: Women Crossing into Canada. 2018/9 Jamal, Manal. Davis. Gender and Development in Palestine. 1992-1995. Jbeili, Theresa. Dalhousie. Borderzone Embodiment: Women Crossing into Canada. 2018/9 Kurzman, Steve. Davis. Tattooing and the New Tribalism. 1991-1993. Mitchell, Cheryl. Davis. “Fetishization of Southeast Asian Cultures Through Ethnic Goods.” 1997 Neis, Pini. U. of London. Fieldwork in Jerusalem. Spring-Summer 2004. Pandya, Sameer. Davis. Disjunctures, Borders and the Postcolonial Subject. 1992-1993. Thomas-Mcneil, Kathleen, Dalhousie. Borderzone Embodiment: Women Crossing into Canada. 2018/9 Williams, Monique. Davis. Culture and Public Health Administration. 1997. Zarini, Iris. Open U. IL. “Capital and Networking: Socialization Processes of Mizrahi Professors in Israel’s Academe.” 2004. INVITED CONFERENCES AND WORKSHOPS 2022 “Who Can Publish Decolonized Ethnography and Cultural Theory with the Anger it Deserves?” Plenary presentation in “Old Discipline, New Trajectories: Theories, Methods and Practices in Anthropology.” Institute for Asian and Transcultural Studies. Vilnius University, 16-18 June. 2021 “Israel’s Turn to the alt-Right: Gender, Race and Religious Perspectives.” Presented at the conference on Citizenship, Sectarianism and Belonging organized by the Sectarianism, Proxies and De-Sectarianisation group of the Richardson Institute. Lancaster University. Online. 16-17 Dec. 2021 “Single Motherhood and State Bureaucracy in Israel.” Plenary talk at Motherhood: The Unfinished Business of Feminism? LOVA International Winter School. Amsterdam. Online. 9-12 Dec. 2021 “Cultural Identities in a Global World: Reframing Cultural Hybridity.” Conference Discussant. International Graduate Center for the Study of Culture, Justus-Liebig-University Giessen, Germany Online. 24-25 June. 2021 “International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies. ” Opening Plenary. Faculty of Arts and Sciences, Doğuş University. Online. 11-12 May. 2019 “The Hebrew-to-English Translation Block: Grassroots Mizrahi Scholarship and the Question of Palestine” in “Writing, Translating and Staging the History of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.” University of Paris. 26-27 Sep. 2019 “The Anzalduan Method of Autohistoria-Teoria: Notes on La Llorona’s Permission to Narrate the Academic Text” in “Gloria Anzaldúa: Translating B/borders.” University of Paris. 16-17 May [paper was accepted; unable to attend due to scheduling conflict]. Smadar Lavie 14 2019 "The Zionist Movement and Mizrahi Women: Right Wing Feminism-of-Color in the State of Israel," in “Inaugural Conference on Right-Wing Studies.” U.C. Berkeley. 25-27 Apr. 2019 “Confronting NGO Bureaucracies: International Development and Sexual Harassment of Workers and Clients in the Global South” in “The Gendered Realities of Working in Development” workshop. Dalhousie University. 6 Feb. 2018 “Single Mothers of Color and Bureaucratic Torture.” Keynote lecture at the 7th International Conference on Language, Literature and Culture, “Mapping Cultural Identities: Translation and Intersections.” Bucharest, Romania. 26 May. 2018 “Right Wing Feminism and Intra-Jewish Racism.” In “Beyond Planetary Apartheid” opening plenary, Institute of International Studies, University of Lisbon. 9 May. 2017 “Treasure Island: Ecological Infrastructural and Racial Justice.” UCSC Science and Justice Program. 29 Nov. 2016 “Racial Formation in Israel: Gender, Diaspora, and Occupation.” Thursday Forum Series. Center for Race and Gender. University of California, Berkeley. 29 Sep. 2016 “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers, Israel’s Ultra-Nationalism and Bureaucratic Torture.” Keynote Speaker at “Gender, Power and Politics” Conference, University of West England, Bristol. 24 Mar. 2015 “Crossing the Palestine-Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldua.” Al Mundo Zurdo, Closing Plenary Roundtable. Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua. University of Texas, Austin. 27-30 May. 2013 “Writing Against Identity Politics.” Conference, “Identity and Conflict in Cultural and Geo-Political Context.” Hyperion University of Bucharest, Romania. 13-14 Jun [paper was read in my absence]. 2013 “When Agency Becomes Impossible: The Gender and Race of Bureaucratic Pain.” Conference, “Gender Matters: Continuities and Instabilities.” Chicago, IL. 12-13 Apr. 2013 “The Gender and Race of Bureaucratic Torture: Notes on the Agency of Citizenship in an Ethnoreligious State.” Conference, “The Meaning of Citizenship” by the Center for the Study of Citizenship, Wayne State University, Detroit. 21-23 Mar. 2012 “Unspeakable Memories and the Denial of Agency: The Intergenerational Transmission of Bureaucratic Pain.” Conference, “Local Memory, Global Ethics, Justice: The Politics of Historical Dialogue in Contemporary Society,” by the Alliance for Historical Dialogue and Accountability (AHDA) at Columbia University’s Institute for the Study of Human Rights. 11-14 Dec. 2012 “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Mizrahi Single Mothers and the GendeRace of Bureaucratic Torture.” Conference on Intersectionality and the Spaces of Belonging. Belonging and Ethnicity Research Group (BERG). Bangor University, UK. 28 Jun. 2012 “The GendeRace of Bureaucratic Torture: Writing Against Identity Politics.” Workshop on Ethnographic Approaches to Transitional Scenarios: Perspectives from the Global South. Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin Institute for Advanced Study, Legal Cultures Program. 15-17 May. 2011 “The Gender and Race of Bureaucratic Pain: Writing Against Identity Politics.” Workshop on Karama (Dignity) and Tradition in the Middle East and North Africa: Negotiating Subjectivity and Civic Virtue through Social Revolts. University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki. 9 Dec. 2011 “Marching on Jerusalem with Israel’s Silent Majority.” Conference on Life Writing and Human Rights: Genres of Testimony. Centre for Life Narratives, Kingston University [UK]. 11-13 Jul. Smadar Lavie 15 2010 “The Mizrahi-Palestinian Borderzone.” Conference on What Postcolonial Theory Does Not Say. York University [UK]. 4 Jul. 2010 “Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Borderzone? Interrogating Arab Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived.” Plenary Speaker. Gender and Difference Conference, Cardiff University. 21 May. 2010 “Mizrahi Family Dynamics: Living Through the Israel/Palestine Conflict.” 11th Annual White Privilege Conference. University of Wisconsin, LaCrosse. 9 Apr. 2009 “Gender and Majoritarian Politics: Mizrahi Feminist Models of Statehood for Palestine/Israel.” Presented at “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.” York University, Canada. 23-25 Jun. 2009 “Israeli Feminism and One State for Palestine/Israel.” Presented at “One State Palestine/Israel.” University of Massachusetts at Boston. 28-29 Mar. 2009 “South-South Feminist Coalitions: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” Presented at “Interdisciplinarity in Feminist State Theory.” University of Toronto. 6-7 Mar. 2008 “South/South Feminist Coalitions and The Art of Staying Put: Crossing the Palestine/Israel Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” Presented at “Counterpoints: The Legacy of Edward Said.” University of Ottawa. 1-2 Nov. 2008 “Mizrahi Women and the Palestine-Israel Peace Process.” European Science Foundation Workshop on “Imaging War: Intergenerational Perspectives.” Vadstena, Sweden. 2-7 Sep. 2008 “Mizrahim and the One State for Israel/Palestine.” Workshop on “One State Solution for Israel/Palestine.” Southampton University. 9 Jun. 2008 “Mizrahi Feminist NGOs and the Question of Palestine.” Conference on “Global Gender and Justice Symposium.” George Mason University. 17 Apr. 2006 “Sexual Politics of the Mizrahi Struggle: Preliminary Thoughts.” Presented at “Out of Place: Interrogating Silences in Queerness/Raciality.” Lancaster University. 24-25 Mar. 2005 “US-European Peregrinations: Israel’s Peace Camp.” Ege University 10th International Cultural Studies Symposium, “When ‘Away’ Becomes ‘Home’: Cultural Consequences of Migration.” Izmir. 4-6 May [delivered via DVD recording due to inability to travel out of Israel]. 2005 “Emerson’s Philosophy and Witchcraft Theories: Israeli Gender Studies.” Conference in Memory of Vicki Shiran, “State-Racism-Women.” Beit Berl College. 16 Mar. 2005 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Ashkenazi-Israeli Feminist Peace Camp.” The 2nd Christina Conference on Women’s Studies, “Gender, Religion and Theory in Dialogue.” 3-5 Mar [paper was read in my absence due to inability to travel out of Israel]. 2004 “Mizrahim as Commodity/Signs, Mizrahim as Authors: Cultural Property Rights and the Racial Formations of Israel’s Academe-Regime.” Presented in a conference, ‘The New IP Order,” in a 4-participant panel on “Culture and Copyright.” Haifa University. 14 Jun. 2004 “The Ashkenazim.” A whole day 18-paper conference in Memory of Vicki Shiran, co-organized with Rafi Shubeli and Yoaz Eliad. This was the first ever academic conference to discuss Ashkenazi Jews in the context of whiteness. Panels were on Identity, Governmentality, Culture and Politics. At its peak, the conference attracted an audience of 450. Conference was held at Beit Berl Teachers’ College. In the Politics panel of this conference, I delivered a paper, “Transcendental Conversions of Racism: The Witchcraft of Israel’s so-called Left.” Smadar Lavie 16 2004 “Vicki Shiran and ‘The Ashkenazim, from the Bunker’.” A panel dedicated to the memory of the founder of Israel’s feminism of color, “Vicki Shiran: The Never Ending Revolution.” Organized by Erella Shadmi for the Virginia L. Snitow Public Lecture Series. Tel Aviv University. 30 Apr. 2004 “The Evolution of Joint Custody in California.” Israeli BAR Association Legislation Committee on Women’s Rights workshop on the Tender Years Doctrine. 12 Jan. 2004 “Edward Said: Mirrors of the West’s Face.” Part of a 3-paper Panel dedicated to the memory of Edward Said. Other speakers were Ilan Pappe, Haifa U., and Jamal Zahalkah, KM. Tel Aviv’s Cinematheque. 4 Jan. 2003 “The Amicus Curie Brief: Feminist Scholarship in Action.” Conference on “The Unbearable Lightness of Child Removals.” Beit Berl College. 31 Oct. 2003 “Social Engineering: Diary Fragments, Summer 2003.” Conference of scholars, activists and KMs on “The Right for Social Defense: Single Mothers and Other Women.” Bar Ilan University and the Israeli Association for Feminist Studies. 12 Sep. 2003 “Our Story and Others: Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” A Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow conference, “Mizrahi Literature: Our Story.” Conference co-organized by Lavie with Zmira Ron and Shula Keshet. The Left Bank, Tel Aviv. 12 Jun. 2003 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Question of Palestine, and the Racial Formations of the Israeli Left” A 4-paper panel on racism in the Mediterranean in “Womanoeuvres, an International Women’s Peace Conference of the CFD: The NGO for Women’s Empowerment.” Zurich, 22-24 May [delivered via DVD recording due to inability to travel out of Israel]. 2003 “The Best Interest of the Child: The Crisis of Legitimacy in Israel’s Family Courts.” Beit Berl, SHIN (Equality in Women’s Representation) and New Manhood Joint Conference, “Child Custody: From Struggle to Dialogue.” 21 Mar. 2003 “Reflections on the White Mythologies of Israel’s Educational System.” Presented at a 4-paper conference on Mizrahim and Education, co-organized by the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow and Tel Aviv University. 3 Mar. 2002 “Presence and Representation of Mizrahi and Palestinian Women.” A 4-paper Conference, “Mizrahi Read: Feminism and the Arts,” organized by Ktzi‘a ‘Alon for Ahoti. Tel Aviv Main Public Library, Beit Ariela. 19 Jun. 2001 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for High School Students: Biography and Society.” Social Studies Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl. 13 Dec. 1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork for High School Students: Writing the Culture of Events.” Beit Berl Teachers’ College program for High School Social Studies Teachers. 2 Apr. 1996 “How Do I ‘Finish the Month’ with the Peace Economy? Slum Housemaids, Filipinas, and the Society Ladies of North Tel Aviv.” First Israeli Mizrahi Conference, “We Are Here and This Is Ours.” Natanya, Israel. 17-18 May. 1995 “Global/Local Relations: Notes on the Art of Staying Put.” Theory Culture and Society Meeting. Berlin. 10-13 Aug. 1995 “Gendering the Oslo ‘Peace’ Agreement.” Israeli Feminist Association Meetings. Ramat Ef‘al. 9-10 Jun. 1994 “Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies.” Workshop on methodologies for teaching Minority Discourse and cross-cultural Ethnic Studies. Humanities Research Institute, University of California at Irvine. 15-16 Apr. 1994 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Geographies of Identity in the Third Timespace.” Conference on “Political Geographies of Race. Center for the Critical Analysis of Contemporary Culture. Rutgers University. 17-18 Feb. Smadar Lavie 17 1994 “Conflicts in Israeli Feminism(s).” Ben Gurion University, Beer Sheba, Israel. Conference on “Israel in the Nineties.” 9-10 Jan. 1993 Decennial Conference of the Association of Social Anthropologists (ASA) of the British Commonwealth, Oxford University, England. Plenary session, “Counterwork: Managing Diverse Knowledges,” organized by Richard Fardon of the London School of Economics. 26-30 Jul (declined due to the relative absence of Minority and Third World women participants). 1993 “Colonial/Racial Formations of Zionism: A Gendered Analysis.” Center for Asian Studies, Amsterdam School for Social Research, the Netherlands. Conference on “Colonial Ethnographies.” 14-16 Jun. 1993 “Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israeli Women Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzones of the Nation.” The Beatrice M. Bain Research Group, U. C. Berkeley. “Between Women and Nation: Feminism and Global Issues” Conference. 22-23 Apr. 1993 “Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport.” Center for International and Comparative Studies at the University of Iowa. Panel on “The Performing Arts: Nomadic Oral and Literary Traditions,” in the conference “Representing Nomadic Cultures.” 1-4 Apr. 1993 “Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israeli Women Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzone of the Nation.” The Rockefeller Center, Bellagio, Italy. Conference on “Cultural Agency/Cultural Authority: Politics and Poetics of Intellectual Property in the Postcolonial Era.” 8-12 Mar. 1992 “The Culture of Ruins.” Conference Discussant. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology, University of California at Santa Cruz. 24-26 Jan. 1991 “Arab Deserts, American Dollars, and Jewish Diasporas: Notes on the Bedouin as Israeli Colonialist Allegory.” Conference on “Narrative Focalization.” Nice, France. 12-14 Jun. 1991 “’Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue’: How the Lives and Works of Arabic-Speaking Jewish and Palestinian Authors Rupture Israel’s Eurocentrism.” Conference on “The Canon and Marginality.” State University of New York at Binghamton. 2-5 May. 1991 “Authorship, Repression, and Revolution.” Discussant for a 4 paper panel of a conference sponsored by the Society for Critical Exchange on the topic, “Intellectual Property and the Construction of Authorship.” Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, Ohio. 18-21 Apr. 1991 “Misguided Euphoria: Soviet Immigration to Israel.” University of California’s Institute of Global Conflict and Cooperation and U.C. Berkeley’s Institute of International Studies. Conference on “Confrontation in the Gulf.” 12 Apr. 1989 “Old Age, Gender Relations, and Military Occupation.” Conference on Gender and Colonialism. Group for the Critical Study of Colonialism and the Beatrice M. Bain Foundation for Study of Gender. University of California at Berkeley. 6 Oct. 1989 “’Cliffs will Bugle, Sun Will Burn, To Us All Radiance Return’: Desert Poetics and State Politics in Israel and Egypt.” Anthropology of Landscape Conference. London School of Economics. 23 Jun. 1986 “Allegories of Leadership and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse Conference. University of California at Santa Cruz. 26 Apr PROFESSIONAL MEETINGS Symposia Organized Smadar Lavie 18 2009 “Equal Opportunities, Cultural Rights, and Ethics of Fieldwork and Publication: NGOs, Communities at Home and Abroad, and the World of Academic Authorship.” Invited double session [co-organized with Rafi Shubeli] sponsored by the Middle East Section and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 1-6 Dec. 2008 “Equal Opportunities, Cultural Rights, and Ethics of Fieldwork and Publication: NGOs, Communities at Home and Abroad, and the World of Academic Authorship.” A 15-paper triple invited session co-organized with Rafi Shubeli for the 16th Congress of the International Union of Anthropological and Ethnological Sciences, Kunming, China. 1523 Jul [the Chinese government cancelled the congress]. 2002 “Let the Subaltern Speak! Gendering the Race(ism) of the Category ‘Woman’ in Israel/Palestine.” A 7-paper, 2Discussant double session organized for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Ma‘ale HaHamisha. 29-30 May. 1993 “Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies.” Invited session [co-organized with Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the American Ethnological Society and the Society for Humanistic Anthropology. Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, Washington DC. 17-21 Nov. 1991 “Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity.” Invited session [co-organized with Ted Swedenburg] sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology and the Society for Cultural Anthropology. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Chicago, IL. 20-24 Nov. 1991 “Eurocentrism and the Tropics of Middle Eastern Identity” [co-organized with Ted Swedenburg]. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Washington DC. 23-26 Nov. 1988 “Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge.” Invited session [coorganized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo] sponsored by the General Anthropology Division, Society for Humanistic Anthropology, Society for Cultural Anthropology, and American Ethnological Society. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Phoenix, AZ. 18 Nov. 1988 “Arab Others, Arab Selves and Ourselves: The Experience of Power and the Politics of Representation” [coorganized with Joel Beinin]. Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, Los Angeles, CA. 4 Nov. 1986 “‘Othering’: Representations and Realities.” Session sponsored by the Society for Humanistic Anthropology [coorganized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo]. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, Philadelphia, PA. 4 Dec. 1984 “Persuasions and Performances: The Poetics of Self and Society.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association [co- organized with Kirin Narayan and Renato Rosaldo and dedicated to the memory of the late Victor Turner]. Denver, CO. 15 Nov. Papers Presented 2019 “Who Can Publish Autohistoria-Teoria with the Anger it Deserves?” Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldua, “Planetary Citizenship: Anzaldúan Thought across Communities, Histories, and Cultures.” Trinity University. San Antonio. 31 Oct-2 Nov. 2018 “Whither the Anthropology of the Middle East? Resistance, Resilience, and Adaptation in a New Era of Instability.” Roundtable organized by Kim Shively and Hikmet Kocamaner for the Middle East Section, American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. San Jose, CA. 17 Nov. 2018 “World Anthropologies and the Politics of Translation.” In a working group, “Unsettling International Relations: Knowing and Unknowing the Settler Colonial Present,” organized by Sharri Plonski and Magid Shihade. International Studies Association. San Francisco. 3 Apr. Smadar Lavie 19 2017 “The US-UK Model of Writing Culture, World Anthropologies, and the Question of Palestine.” Roundtable, “Diversity Against Divisiveness: Anthropology's Fight for Global Humanism, ” organized by Heather E. O’Leary and Hsain Ilahiane. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. Washington DC. 29 Nov- 3 Dec. 2014 American Studies Association Roundtable (ASA) on radical political insurgency in Palestine-Israel and Radical Black Insurgency in the U.S. Los Angeles. 7 Nov. 2012 “Neo-Con Bureaucracy as Torture: Single Mothers of Color, Underemployment, and the Collapse of the Globalized Welfare State.” Paper presented for panel, “Anthropologies of Unemployment: Disciplinary Borders and Crossings in the Study of Unemployment,” organized by Jong Bum Kwon and Carrie M. Lane. American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting. 14-18 Nov. 2011 “The GendeRace of Bureaucratic Pain: Writing Against Identity Politics.” Conference on Ethnographies of Gender and Conflict. LOVA: Netherlands Association for Gender Studies and Feminist Anthropology. 6-8 Jul. 2009 “Gloria Anzaldúa’s Middle East.” The Society for the Study of Gloria Anzaldúa. The University of Texas at San Antonio. 15-16 May. 2009 “Mizrahi Feminism and the Question of Palestine.” 2nd European Conference on Politics and Gender. European Consortium for Political Research. Belfast. 23 Jan. 2006 “Tania Forte’s ‘After the Field: Thoughts on Identities’: Reflections on the Dangerously Inadequate Logic of Categories.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the session, “Consumption, Media, and History: Engaging the Ideas of Tania Forte.” Organized by Rebecca Torstrick. San Jose, CA. 15 Nov. 2007 “Transnational English Tyranny: The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Bi-annual meetings of the European Association of Social Anthropologists (EASA), in the session “World Anthropologies Network: Transforming the Terms of the Conversation” organized by Aleksandar Boskovic and Juan Ricardo Aparicio. Bristol. 18-21 Sep. 2006 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Struggle for Palestine, and the Racial Formations of the Israeli Left.” Second World Congress for Middle Eastern Studies (WOCMES-2), in a 3-session panel, “Gender Relations in (Post)-Conflict” organized by Martina Kamp Susanne Dahlgren. Amman. 15-16 Jun. 2006 “Transnational English Tyranny: The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Annual Meeting of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, themed “Translations of Value,” in the panel, “Critique of Anthropology” 6 May [delivered via DVD recording due to scheduling conflict with Italy lecture tour]. 2004 “Israeli Anthropology and Apartheid: Intellectual Property, Mizrahi Politics, and the Right of Return.” Bi-Annual Meetings of EASA, in the session “Minority Rights, Culture, and Anthropology” (organized by Reeta Toivanen and Levent Soysal). Vienna. 10 Sep [delivered via DVD recording due to inability to travel out of Israel]. 2003 “De/Racinated Transcendental Conversions: Witchcraft, Oracle and Magic Among the Israeli Peace Camp.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited plenary, “The Violence of Representation and Its Discontents: Creating Publics, Borders and Bridges.” (Organized by Charles Briggs). Chicago, IL. 22 Nov [delivered via DVD recording due to inability to travel out of Israel]. 2003 “The PostModern Turn of the Best Interest of the Child.” Annual Meetings of Israel’s Educational Psychologists’ Association. Shfayim Conference Center. 3 Jun. 1994 “Area Studies, Transnationalism, and the Art of Staying Put.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited Panel, “Intersections: Minority Discourse/Area Studies/Cultural Studies” (organized by Lisa Yoneyama). Atlanta, GA. 3 Dec. 1993 “Beyond the Boundary of ‘Culture’.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited Smadar Lavie 20 Panel, “Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies” (see above). Washington DC. 18 Nov. 1992 “The Gendered Border: Writings and Silences of Dark Israeli Women.” Annual Meetings of the American Anthropological Association, in the invited panel, “Cultural Borders/Border Crossing” (organized by Lisa Rofel). San Francisco. 2 Dec. 1992 “Palestine and the Racial Formations of Zionism.” [Co-authored with Ted Swedenburg]. Annual Meeting of the Modern Language Association (MLA), in the invited panel, “Jews and Colonial Discourse” (organized by Daniel Boyarin). New York. 28 Dec. 1992 “Race/Gender and the Writings of Third World Israeli Women.” Annual Meeting of the M/MLA Association, in the invited panel. “Colonialism, Nationalism, and the Gendered Subject” (co-organized by Mary Layoun and Anuradha Dingwaney Needham for the Society for Critical Exchange). St. Louis, MO. 6 Nov. 1992 “Silent Intersections: Subjectivities of Race and Gender in the Lives and Words of Third World Israeli Women Writers.” Annual Meeting of the Association for Israeli Studies. Milwaukee, WI. 24-25 May. 1992 “Blow Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors’ Groupings for Home.” Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, in the panel, “Culture, Politics, and the Imaging of Contested Terrains in Literature.” Memphis, TN. 25-29 Mar. 1991 “Hebrew as Step-Mother Tongue’ and the Rupture of Israel’s Eurocentrism.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel, “Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity” (see above). 1991 “‘Birds Between Continents’: The Lives and Works of Third World Israeli Authors.” Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel “Eurocentrism and the Tropics of Middle Eastern Identity” (see above). 1990 “Ethnographic Creativity and the Discourse of Subalternity.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association in the invited panel, “Scientific and Humanistic Ways of Understanding in Anthropology.” New Orleans, LA. 28 Nov-2 Dec. 1989 “The Old Woman (‘Ajuz): Allegories of Gender Relations and the Poetics of Military Occupation.” Rethinking Marxism Conference, in the panel “Israel/Palestine,” organized by Barbara Harlow and Karen Pfeifer. University of Massachusetts at Amherst. 29 Nov-2 Dec. 1988 “Notes on the Fantastic Journey of the Hajj, His Anthropologist, and Her American Passport.” [Co-authored with Forest Rouse]. Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel “Unveiling Agendas: Person and Power in the Creation of Anthropological Knowledge” (see above). 1988 “Yearning for the Pastoral: Israeli Desert Wanderlust and its Bedouin Critique.” Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel “Arab Others, Arab Selves and Ourselves” (see above). 1988 “Mzeina Patrilineal Segmentarity -- A Docu-Drama.” Annual Meeting of the Kroeber Anthropological Society. Berkeley, CA. 16 Apr. 1986 “Silence, or ‘Why Won’t You Write My Genealogy?’: Inscriptions of Tribal Identity.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel “‘Othering’: Representations and Realities.” (see above). 1985 “The Sheikh: Experience and Allegory of Bedouin Identity.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel “Self, Text, and Social Meaning,” Washington, DC. 5 Dec. 1985 “Allegories of Leadership and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel “Tribal Law and Identity,” New Orleans, LA. 24 Nov. Smadar Lavie 21 1984 “The One Who Writes Us: Allegory of Experience and Paradoxes of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Southern Sinai.” Annual Meeting of the American Anthropological Association, in the panel “Persuasions and Performances: The Poetics of Self and Society” (see above). 1984 “Allegory of Fieldwork: The Poetics of Self and Occupation of Society among the Mzeina of the Sinai.” Annual Meeting of the Middle Eastern Studies Association of the United States, in the panel “Tribe and State: Nomadic Identity and Political History in Discord,” San Francisco, CA. 30 Nov. 1983 “Spontaneous Theater and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin of the Sinai.” Annual Meeting of the American Ethnological Society, in the panel “The Last Word on Play Research,” [chaired by author], Baton Rouge, LA. 10-14 Feb. 1982 “The Madwoman: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies Among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Annual Meeting of the Middle East Studies Association of North America, in the panel “Aesthetics and Folk Art in the Middle East,” Philadelphia, PA. 3-6 Nov. 1982 “The Fool and the Hippies: Ritual/Play and Social Inconsistencies among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Annual Meeting of the Association for the Anthropological Study of Play, London, Ontario (Canada). 2 Apr. Symposia Discussant 2016 “El Mundo Zurdo: Nepantla – Theories and Practices Conference 2016.” A panel chair/discussant for the Society for the Study of Gloria E. Anzaldua at the Women’s Studies Institute, University of Texas, San Antonio. 3-5 Nov. 2014 “Poetic Imagination about Nation and Region in the Postcolony.” A panel chair/discussant in a 4- paper panel presented at the annual American Anthropological Association meeting, Washington DC. 5 Dec. 2014 “Crisis, Mobility, and New Forms of Migration.” A conference discussant at University College Cork. 2-4 Sep. 2012 “Spanning the Decades: Doing and Describing Long-Term Fieldwork.” A panel discussant for an invited session of the American Anthropological Association Annual Meeting in San Francisco, CA, organized by Thomas Rosin. 1418 Nov. 2011 “National Approaches.” A panel chair/discussant in “Equality and Justice: LGBT Rights in the XXI Century.” Istituto degli Innocenti, Florence [Italy]. 12-13 May. 2011 “Allegory Now: Politics and Propaganda.” A panel chair/discussant in “Why Allegory Now?” University of Manchester. 1 Apr. 2009 “Critical Analysis of the Peace Process and the Challenges to Peace.” A panel chair/discussant in “Israel/Palestine: Mapping Models of Statehood and Paths to Peace.” York University, Canada. 23-25 Jun. 2008 “Race: Transnational Perspectives.” A panel chair/discussant in “Race: Future of an Illusion, Future of the Past.” Monmouth University. 13-15 Nov. 2003 “On the Silenced Creations of Subaltern Women.” A 4-paper panel organized by Na‘ama Meishar for the Israeli Anthropological Association annual meetings. Neve Ilan. 29 May. 2003 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: A Decade to the Lavie-Swedenburg Article.” A 3-paper panel chaired by Don Handelman for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Neve Ilan. 29 May. 2002 “Let the Subaltern Women Speak: Gendering the Race(ism) of the Category ‘Woman’ in Israel/Palestine.” Codiscussant for a 7-paper double session organized for the annual meetings of the Israeli Anthropological Association. Ma‘ale HaHamisha. 29-30 May. 2001 “Multicultural Education.” A 4-paper panel organized by Esther Herzog for the Social Studies High School Smadar Lavie 22 Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl. 13 Dec. 1996 “Arab-American Feminism.” A 4-paper panel organized by Nadine Naber for the annual meeting of the Arab American University Graduate Association. Anaheim, CA. 19 Oct. 1995 “Gendering Violence: Transcending Public/Private Categories through Institutional Space.” A 9-paper panel organized by Rebecca Torstrick, and Jennifer G. Curtis for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Washington DC. 15-18 Nov. 1992 “Breaking Boundaries: New Voices on Israel/Palestine.” An 8 paper panel organized by Becky Torstrick, Davida Woods, and Virginia Dominguez for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. San Francisco, CA. 2-6 Dec. 1991 “War, Violence, and the Politics of Memory: Narrative, Power, and Representation.” A 6 paper panel organized by Lisa Yoneyama and Hugh Gusterson for the annual meetings of the American Anthropological Association. Chicago, IL. 21 Nov. SELECTED INVITED TALKS (For Invited Academic Talks related to Wrapped in the Flag of Israel, see PUBLICATIONS section above) 2022 “The Classification of Anger in Women-of-Color Ethnographies: Lloronas, Lamentations, and the (De)Colonial Logic of Racialization,” for the Creative Ethnographies Seminar. Department of Anthropology, Copenhagen University. 18 Nov. 2022 “Mizrahi Feminism.” Center for Gender, Power and Diversity, Roskilde University. Nov 10 2022 “Mizrahi Feminists of Color and Israel’s Wars on Gaza.” Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies. Vilnius University. 25 May 2022 “Feminism of Color and Transnational Feminism: Histories, Trajectories and Debates.” Institute of International Relations, Feminist Policy and Critical Theory Research Group graduate seminar. Vilnius University, 11 May. 2022 “Unclassified Feminist Lloronas: Noes on the Hierarchies of Anger and Dispassion in the Decolonized Academic Text.” Department of Anthropology Colloquium Tampere University, Finland. Online. 28 April 2022 “Research and Writing Dilemmas in the Anthropology of the Palestine/Israel.” Joint meeting of the Middle East Studies Group and Anthropology section, Institute of Asian and Transcultural Studies, Vilnius University. 5 April 2021 (De)facing Patriarchies in the Mediterranean Context: the Decolonial at stake for Mizrahi Feminism. CultureBorders-Gender/LAB and Decolonize Hellas Seminar. University of Macedonia, Greece. Online. 13 Dec. 2019 “Israel’s Wars on Gaza and Mizrahi Feminism of Color” Kroc Institute for International Peace Studies, University of Notre Dame. 6 Dec. 2019 “The Gaza Wars and Mizrahi Feminism.” Spatz Chair public lecture, Dalhousie University. 6 Mar. 2018 Commencement Speech, posthumous graduation ceremony awarding academic degrees to students expelled from Vilnius University during the holocaust in honor of my father’s BA in Economics bestowed 77 years after the graduation date. Vilnius University. 13 Apr. 2017 Three lectures: (1) “Mizrahi Mothers, Wrapped in the Flag: Ultra Nationalism and the Divinity of Bureaucracy in Israel;” (2) “Israeli Feminism and the Question of Palestine;” (2) “World Anthropology, Feminist of Color AutoEthnography: Decolonizing the US-UK Journal Formula.” Center of Oriental Studies, Vilnius University. 1-7 Apr. 2017 “Gender Inequalities – Global Perspectives.” Macro-Sociology and Social Stratification Weekly Seminar. Jagiellonian University. 28 Mar. Smadar Lavie 23 2016 “The War on Gaza 2014 and Mizrahi Feminism.” The Anzaldua Speaker Series in Philosophy, University of Texas, Rio Grande Valley. 1 Nov. 2013 “Women, War, and Social Protest in Israel.” “Faces of War” Series. St. Mary’s College, Moraga. 19 Feb. 2012 “The GendeRace of Bureaucratic Torture: Writing Against Identity Politics,” Weekly Seminar for University of California, Berkeley, Center for Race & Gender. 4 Apr. 2011 “The GendeRace of Bureaucratic Pain: Writing Against Identity Politics.” University of Manchester, School of Social Anthropology Weekly Seminar. 4 Apr. 2011 “Where is the Mizrahi-Palestinian Borderzone? Interrogating Feminist Transnationalism Through the Bounds of the Lived.” Institute for Advanced Study, University of Minnesota. 27 Jan. 2010 Three lectures: (1) “Israeli Feminism,” (2) “Teaching Borders, Diasporas, and Transnational Feminism” and (3) “BABAH or ‘With the Blessings of the Comrades’: Translating the Somatic Impact of Documents from Hebrew to English.” Institute for Social Sciences in the 21st Century (ISS21), University College Cork, Ireland. 15-23 Nov. 2010 “Translating Hebrew Cultural Theory.” Centro de Estudos Sociais, Universidade de Coimbra, Portugal. 10 Mar. 2010 “Conflicts in Israeli Feminism and the Question of Palestine.” The Elliott School of International Affairs and the Department of Anthropology. George Washington University. 24 Feb. 2009 “Israel, Palestine, and Rachel Corrie.” Oregon State University at Corvallis. 23 Oct. 2009 “Fluxes of Theory and Data in Translation: The Hebrew Gatekeepers of Culture.” Colloquium of the Arab Diasporas Project at the School of Ethnic Studies, San Francisco State University. 13 Apr. 2009 Mizrahi-Palestinian (Im)Possibilities After Gaza. Colloquium of Middle East Graduate Students, Geography Department, University of Minnesota. 20 Feb. 2009 “Crossing Borders, Staying Put.” Brown Bag Colloquium. Department of Anthropology, University of Minnesota. 11 Feb. 2009 “Area Studies, Transnationalism, and the Art of Staying Put.” Colloquium of the Department of Sociology, Cork University College, Ireland. 15 Jan. 2008 “Translation and the Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” Colloquium of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Carleton University, Canada. 31 Oct. 2008 “Transnational English Tyranny and Questions of Hegemony over Anthropological Theory.” The Friday Seminar, Department of Anthropology, London School of Economics. 30 May. 2008 “A Bi-National State or Two States for Palestine/Israel.” University of East Anglia and “Stop the War Coalition,” Norwich. 28 May. 2008 “Arab and Israeli Feminist NGOs Two Years into Lebanon2.” Center for the Advanced Study of the Arab World, University of Edinburgh. 22 May. 2008 “Crossing the Arab-Israeli Border with Gloria Anzaldúa.” Seminar in Gender-PostColonialism-Anthropology, San Francisco Institute of Integral Studies. 14 Apr. 2008 “Two Years to Lebanon2.” University of Minnesota: Geographies or Race Colloquium. 6 Mar. 2008 “The Predicament of Transversal Anthropology.” University of Minnesota: Anthropology Colloquium. 3 Mar. Smadar Lavie 24 2007 “A Year into the Lebanon War: NGO-ing Mizrahi-Arab Paradoxes, and a One State Vision for Palestine/Israel.” Harvard University: Center for Middle Eastern Studies. 29 Oct. 2006 “The Recent War on Lebanon and Palestine and the Israeli Home Front: Ashkenazi Feminist Anti-War Performances and the Mizrahi-Palestinian Rift.” Social Science Seminar. London School of Economics. 28 Sep. 2007 “Mizrahim and the Prospects for Middle East Peace.” School of Political, Social and International Relations. University of East Anglia, Norwich. 27 Sep. 2006 “Mizrahi Feminism, Palestinian-Ashkenazi Dialogues, and the Peace Predicament.” School of Media, Culture and Cinema. University of East London. 26 Sep. 2006 “Geographies of Identity: Origins, Belongings, and the Journey Beyond Conventional Utopias for Israeli-Palestinian Coexistence.” Part of an annual lecture series on Postcoloniality. Basso Foundations for the Humanities, Rome. 10 May. 2006 “Arab Jewish Utopias and Ashkenazi Supremacy in Israel: The Race-Religion-Class-Gender Conundrum.” Faculty of Letters and Philosophy, University of Rome. 9 May. 2006 “Israeli Discrimination(s).” University of Milan and Hawiyya-Palestine Solidarity Committee Lecture series on Borders/Frontiers [other speakers were Mahmoud Darwish, Eyal Sivan and Michel Khleifi, and Tanya Reinhart]. La Casermetta, Siena. 6 May. 2006 “De/Racinated Borderzones: E. E. Evans Pritchard and the Magical Oratory of Israel’s Peace Camp.” University of Siena, Anthropology Department’s Annual Seminar, “Field, Space and Territory.” 5 May. 2006 “Feminism, Ethnicity, and the Middle East Peace Process.” Milan’s Women’s University [together with Marcella Simoni, University of Venice]. Milan. 3 May. 2006 “Translation, NGO Activism and Anthropology: The Transnational English Tyranny.” Sociology-Anthropology Departmental Seminar, Bicocca University, Milan. 3 May. 2006 “Mizrahi Feminism at the Crossroad.” Olive Tree Educational Trust Program. City University, London. 22 Mar. 2005 “The Social Struggle: From Margins to Center.” ISEF (International Sephardi Educational Fund.). Forum for ISEF graduate students from all Israeli Universities. Beer Sheba. 27 May. 2004 “Globalization and the Feminization of Poverty.” Alma College, Tel Aviv. 21 Jan. 2004 “Transnationalism and Feminism of Color.” Alma College, Tel Aviv. 7 Jan. 2003 “Journey from the Combahee River Collective to Ahoti.” Higher Education Council’s Workshop on Gender for High School Teachers. Kfar HaMakabiyya Conference Center. 13 Oct. 2003 “Borderwork: How to Form Successful Mizrahi-Palestinian Feminist Coalitions that Work.” The Hertzeliyya ArabJewish Center for Economic Development MBA program. Haifa. 5 Sep. 2003 “Civil Rights and Women’s Rights: A Critical Race Theory Analysis.” Mandel Institute Postgraduate Leadership Program, Jerusalem. 2 Jul. “Oppression and Resistance.” ISEF (International Sephardi Educational Fund), Bar Ilan University. 6 Dec. 2002 2002 “Fatma, The Mizrahi Question, and Globalization.” Eastern Sun (Me-Mizrah Shemesh) Postgraduate Seminar. Jerusalem. 26 Jun. 2002 “Theory and Practice of Mizrahi Identity.” Students for Social Justice of the Hebrew University. Jerusalem. 11 May. Smadar Lavie 25 2002 “Academic Nomadism, Transnationality, and the Art of Staying Put.” Institute for the History and Philosophy of Sciences and Ideas, Tel Aviv University. 22 Apr. Same lecture was given at the Humphry Institute of Ben Gurion Univ. of Beer Sheba on 8 May. 2002 “Israeli Womanhood.” Beit Berl Program for Kindergarten Teachers. 28 Apr. 2002 “Mizrahi Feminism in Israel.” Lesley College, Nataniya, 13 Mar. 2002 “The MultiCultural Curriculum.” Beit Berl Multicultural Faculty Team. 23 Jan. 2002 “Feminism/PostColonialism/Queer Theory.” Alma College, Tel Aviv. 1 Jan. 2001 Displacement, Diaspora, and Geographies of Identity and The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Tmol Shilshom Bookstore. Jerusalem. 5 Aug. 2001 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” Author meets Critics. Beit Berl’s School for the Arts. 18 Apr. 1999 “Anthropological Fieldwork Projects for High School Students: Documenting the Performance of the Everyday.” Social Studies Teachers’ Workshop. Beit Berl. 2 Apr. 1996 “Transnationalism, Position, and Representation.” Department of Women’s Studies. Mills College. 22 Apr. 1995 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture.” Department of Sociology/Anthropology, Haifa University. 13 Jun. 1995 “The Art of Staying Put.” Lecture series on Reformulating Area Studies, Department of Communications, University of California at San Diego. 18 May. 1995 “Ethnography/Minority Discourse/Cultural Studies.” Department of Anthropology Weekly Seminar, University of California at Santa Barbara. 5 May. 1995 “The Middle East Peace Process: Voices from the Other Israel.” Middle East Institute, Columbia University. 5 Apr. 1995 “Zionist Conceptions of Palestinian and Mizrahi Gender(s) in Israel.” Lecture Series on Gender and Power in the Middle East. Smith College. 3 Apr. 1994 “Building Bridges: Ethnography, Minority Discourse, Cultural Studies.” Faculty Seminar, Mills College. 27 Apr. 1994 “The Middle East Peace Process: Voices from the Other Israel.” Stanford Middle East Focus. 1 Mar. 1994 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author Meets Critics. University of California at Santa Cruz. 22 Feb. 1994 “Geographies of Identity.” Sociology Colloquium, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 10 Jan. 1994 “After Postmodernism: Cultural Studies and the Constructions of Race and Gender.” Cinema Studies Colloquium, Tel Aviv University. 13 Jan. 1993 “Dark Women Writing Culture: Third World Feminism in Israel.” Adva Center for Equality and the Tel Aviv Cinematheque. 22 Dec. 1993 “Displacement, Diaspora, and the Boundaries of Culture.” Center for Critical and Cultural Theory Seminar. University of Wales College of Cardiff. 8 Dec. 1993 “Between and Among the Boundaries of Culture: Experience and Text in the third timespace.” Department of Anthropology and Sociology Seminar, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. 7 Dec. Smadar Lavie 26 1993 “Silenced from All Directions: Third World Israelis Writing in the Race/Gender Borderzone of the Nation.” Anthropology Colloquium, Stanford University. 18 Oct. 1993 “Changing Alliances in the Middle East: The Cultural Readings.” The Ethics of Development in a Global Environment Weekly Seminar. Stanford University. 13 Oct. 1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Center for Cultural Studies and Department of Anthropology. U.C. Santa Cruz. 17 May. 1993 “Third World Israelis, National Literature, and the Racial Formations of Israel.” School of American Research at Santa Fe weekly colloquium. 14 Apr. 1993 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Author meets Critics. Department of Anthropology, San Francisco State University. 22 Mar. 1993 “Silence and Violence in the Borderzone: Third World Israeli Women Writing the Gender/Race ConterFormations of Zionism.” Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 1 Feb. 1993 “Identity -- Essence or Construction?” Unit for Criticism and Interpretive Theory, University of Illinois at Champaign-Urbana. 2 Feb. 1992 “Blow-Ups in the Borderzones: Third World Israeli Authors’ Groupings for Home.” The Monday Seminar, Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago. 9 Nov. 1992 “Border Crossings: National Literature and Third World Israelis.” Department of Anthropology Colloquium, University of California at Irvine. 14 May. 1992 “Zionism and Womanhood in Israel.” Feminist Studies FRA and Women’s Studies, University of California at Santa Cruz. 29 Apr. 1992 “Locating a Home on the Border: Third World Israelis, Minor Literature, and the Racial Formations of Zionism.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. 22 Apr. 1990 “When Identity Becomes Allegory: The Poetic Reconstruction of Military Occupation.” Department of Anthropology, University of Arizona, Tucson. 15 Feb. 1990 “The Poetics of Tribal Identity and the Politics of Allegory among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Department of Anthropology, University of Southern California. 7 Feb. 1990 “The Bedouin, the Nudists, and the Redemptive Fool: The Poetics of Military Occupation.” Department of Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle. 29 Jan. 1989 “East/West and the Construction of Gender Identity in Israel.” A guest lecture at a U.C. Berkeley seminar on Southeast Asian Women. 7 Mar. 1988 “Sheikhs and Governors: Political Allegory of Bedouin Identity.” Center for Middle East Studies, University of California at Los Angeles. 11 May. 1987 “Silence - Colonialism - Inscriptions of Bedouin Identity.” The Arab-Jewish Research Center, Haifa University, Israel. 7 Apr. “Israeli Social Anthropology and its Bedouin Critique.” Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 31 Mar. 1987 1986 “The Palestinian Other in Israeli Cinema.” The Santa Cruz Center for Nonviolence and the U. C. Santa Cruz Group for the Critical Study of Colonial Discourse. 20 Oct. Smadar Lavie 27 1986 “People and Places: Pictorial Representations of Israel and the Occupied Territories.” The Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Washington, Seattle. 27 Sep. 1986 “Allegories of Fieldwork and the Experience of Occupation among the Mzeina Bedouin.” Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. 16 Jan. 1986 “Bedouin Tradition and The Poetics of Military Occupation.” Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, Tel Aviv University, Israel. 21 Jan. 1984 “Women and Madness in the Sinai Desert.” Women’s Center, Diablo Valley College, Pleasant Hill, CA. 14 Dec. 1983 “Israeli Humor.” Advanced Hebrew Seminar, Near Eastern Department, U. C. Berkeley. 6 Oct. PROFESSIONAL SERVICE 2022 “How to get published in American 1st tier Journals and University Presses in the Humanities and Non-Applied Social Sciences.” Workshop for Early Career Scholars. Vilnius University. March 28-29. 2021-Present Advisory Board, Decolonial Practices and Feminist Methodologies in the Balkan and the Mediterranean World Initiative. University of Macedonia. 2007-Present Editorial Board Member, Collaborative Anthropologies. 2021-2023 Advisory Board, International and Interdisciplinary Conference on Cultural and Critical Studies, Turkey 2021-2023 Advisory Board, Global Centre for Risk and Innovation, Knowledge Mobilization Committee, Toronto 2017-2023 Advisory Board, Palgrave Studies in Mediating Kinship, Representation, and Difference. 2017-2023 Member, Community Advisory Committee for the critical Middle East-South Asia Studies Certificate program, City College of San Francisco. 1990- Reviewing manuscripts for the following journals: • American Anthropologist • American Ethnologist • Anthropological Quarterly • Anthropology and Humanism • Collaborative Anthropologies • Critique of Anthropology • Cultural Anthropology • Current Anthropology • International Journal of Middle Eastern Studies • Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute • Settler Colonial Studies • Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale • Subjectivity 2009 Candidate for AAA 2009 elections – Middle East Anthropology Section. 2004-08 The Mizrahi-Palestinian Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology (CAAIA). Founding member. Coresearcher and co-author of the coalition’s letter to Israel’s state comptroller; co-author of news updates; project’s liaison to foreign volunteers. 2003 Motion protesting the persecution of Arab scholars and pro-Arab US scholars in U.S. universities, [co-authored with Lara Deeb and Jessica Winegar] for the American Anthropological Association annual ballot. Smadar Lavie 28 2002 Consulting for CFD: The NGO for Women’s Empowerment, Zurich for their Early Childhood Project of the Negev Educational Association. Jun-Sep. 1994 Malcolm H. Kerr Dissertation Competition Judge for the Middle East Studies Association of America. 1993 Co-signatory to the Bellagio Declaration on Cultural and Intellectual Property in the Post-Colonial Era. 1993 Reviewer for a Middle East ethnographic book proposal submitted to Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 1992 Reviewer of a film proposal, “Islands in the Sand,” for NEH. 1992-95 Reviewer for proposals submitted to the Wenner-Gren Anthropological Foundation. 1991-95 Reviewer of Middle East related book manuscripts for the University of Chicago and the University of Minnesota Presses. UNIVERSITY AND DEPARTMENT SERVICE 2009 “South/South Feminist Coalitions.” Macalester’s American Studies & Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies Seminar. 7 Apr. 2009 Macalester Muslim Students’ Association, Teach-In on Israel’s Operation in Gaza (Dec 08-Jan 09) and the Israeli Elections. 25 Feb. 2002 Consulted for proposal writing for the Beit Berl Multicultural Faculty Team for seed money in order to revise the college’s curriculum so that it reflects the ethnic and religious shifts in the student body. Jan. 1999-2000 (1) Wrote a 200 page proposal (including syllabi editing) to design and build a Department of Cultural Studies at Sapir College of the Negev. Proposal was submitted in Mar. 2000 to Israel’s Council for Higher Education. (2) Organized Media School Weekly Colloquium for job talks of possible FTE candidates for the Cultural Studies Department in Spring 2000. 1996-97 Application Review of U.C. Davis Education Abroad Program, interview of three candidates, write up of evaluations. 1995 Organized a lecture tour of Bay Area Universities for Nira Yuval-Davis to give talks on Gender, Citizenship, and Trans-Racial Coalitions in early 1995. 1995 Wrote a proposal for the UCD Anthropology Department in order to purchase the film “Joanna D’Arc of Mongolia.” 1994 Organized and hosted a talk and poetry reading, “The Poetics of Peace,” by Na‘im ‘Araidi and Mira Meir for the UCD Critical Theory Program. 4 Oct. 1993 Wrote a proposal for the UCD Critical Theory Annual 1994 conference, “Language, Race, Nation.” Proposal was approved and was fully funded. 1993 Co-organizer, UCD Critical Theory Annual Conference on Education and the Nation-State (participants include Concia Delgado, Shlomo Swirski, Salim Tamari, Hayden White, and others). 26-27 Feb. 1993 Put together a UCD proposal to appoint Paul Gilroy and Vron Ware as the Spring 1994 Regents Professors. The proposal included letters by members of the following departments: Anthropology, History, African-American Studies, Chicano/a Studies, Philosophy, Critical Theory, and Women Studies. The proposal was approved in Apr. Smadar Lavie 29 1993-98 Member, UCD Education Abroad Program Committee, Academic Senate. 1991-92 Co-organizer, Nationalism Reading/Discussion Group, Center for Comparative Research in History, Culture, and Society, UCD (with Dan Brower of the History Department). Among the guests hosted were Paul Gilroy, Dorinne Kondo, and Brakette Williams. 1991-99 Member, Program Committee for Critical Theory, UCD. 1990-93 Library Representative, Department of Anthropology, UCD. PUBLIC SERVICE Public Readings and Discussions of WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL: MIZRAHI SINGLE MOTHERS AND BUREAUCRATIC TORTURE 2019 8 Dec Jewish Voice for Peace, Indianapolis, IN 19 May Arab American Anti-Discrimination Committee and Jewish Voice for Peace, San Diego, CA 2018 27 Dec 23 Dec 17 Dec 6 Aug Woman to Woman, Haifa Ahoti for Women in Israel, Tel Aviv The Educational Bookshop, East Jerusalem University Press Books, Berkeley, CA 2017 1 Mar Massolit Bookstore, Krakow, Poland 2016 1 Nov 26 Oct 24 Mar 21 Feb 11 Feb Yerberia Cultura, McAllen, Texas Jewish Community High School of the Bay Area Social Science in the City Speaker Series, University of the West of England, Bristol Mizrahi Night at the Mezrab, Gate48: Platform for Critical Israelis in the Netherlands, Amsterdam Boneshaker Books and Jewish Voice for Peace, Minneapolis 2015 27 Oct 25 Oct 24 May 23 May Big Blue Marble Bookstore and Tikkun Olam Chavura, Philadelphia. Jewish Voice for Peace and The Wooden Shoe Book Store, Philadelphia. Resistencia Bookstore and Jewish Voice for Peace, Austin, TX Congregation Agudas Achim, Austin, TX, Tikkun Leil Shavu’ot 2014 08 Dec 23 Nov 16 Nov 06 Nov 22 Sep Jewish Voice for Peace, Boston Busboys and Poets Bookstore and Jewish Voice for Peace, Washington, DC Workmen’s Circle, Boston Levantine Cultural Center, Los Angeles Tel Aviv, Book launch and testimonials by victims of bureaucratic torture, Ahoti for Women in Israel 30 Aug – 11 Oct Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign (IPSC) Book Tour 11 Oct IPSC, Belfast 17 Sep IPSC, Dublin 15 Sep Derry Anti War Coalition 13 Sep IPSC, Lurgan 9 Sep IPSC, Ennis 8 Sep IPSC, Limerick 30 Aug IPSC, Cork Smadar Lavie 30 20 Jun 18 Jun 08 Jun 29 May 29 Apr 23 Apr 19 Apr 17 Apr 02 Apr Sacramento Jewish Voice for Peace Berkeley University Press Bookstore San Francisco Bay Area Jewish Voice for Peace Modern Times Bookstore Collective, San Francisco Reading, Avid Reader Bookstore, Davis, CA May Day Bookstore Collective, Minneapolis Chicago Area Jewish Voice for Peace Powell’s Bookstore, Chicago Yale University, Students for Justice in Palestine Public Media Interviews, Reviews and Discussions of WRAPPED IN THE FLAG OF ISRAEL 2018 24 Oct 2016 4 May 3 May 2015 12 Nov 14 Oct 22 May 6 Apr 24 Feb 23 Feb 2014 24 Nov 19 Nov 17 Nov 26 Sep 9 Sep 5 Sep 7 Jul Jul 9 Apr Oxford Israel Studies Seminar Podcast Series. Interview with Yaacov Yadgar. HaOktes, “The Mizrahi Struggle – The Bureaucratic Torture of Mizrahi Single Mothers in Israel.” Chen Misgav. (in Arabic). HaOktes, “The Mizrahi Struggle – The Bureaucratic Torture of Mizrahi Single Mothers in Israel.” Chen Misgav. (in Hebrew). Daily Gazette, Swarthmore College, “Wrapped in the Flag of Israel: Life of a Mizrahi Single Mother in Israel.” Laura Phelps. Radio interview with Students for Justice in Palestine at Amherst College, University of Massachusets. KOOP Radio, “People United: The Show in Solidarity with the People of the World.” Allan Campbell. KPFA Women’s Magazine, “Understanding the Role of Race, Class, and Gender in Israeli Jewish Society.” Kate Raphael. Bloomberg Businessweek “The Thwarted Desire to Belong” syndication of the Jordan Times review. Jordan Times, “The Thwarted Desire to Belong.” Sally Bland. Tasnim News Agency (Farsi), Interview with Reza Saidi. The Struggle:Media for Justice, Justice for the People, Stanley Heller, “The Surprising Apartheid Against Mizrahi Jews in Israel." Wesleyan Feminist Power Hour Radio, interview with Tess Altman. TLV1 Radio, Gilad Halpern, “Tortured by the State: Race and gender in contemporary Israel.” The Loop Show. Michael O’Connell. Raidio Corca Baiscinn. “Irish Palestinian Links.” The Clare Champion print and electronic editions, “Clare IPSC to Host Arab-Jewish Author.” Mondoweiss, Sylvia Schwarz, “How long can Israel depend on Mizrahi docile loyalty?” Jewish Gaily Forward, Jul-Aug. issue, 5, by Elliot Vogel. American Jewish World print and electronic editions, Mordechai Spector, “Israel’s Single Mothers from the East.” Public Anthropology Articles 2020 “(Un)Thanksgiving, Land Day, and ‘Al HaEsh.” E-published in Times of Israel. 11 Dec [Heb.] 2020 “(Un)Thanksgiving, Land Day, and ‘Al HaEsh.” E-published in Tikkun. 2 Dec. 2020 “Shabbat with the Militias.” E-published in Times of Israel. 20 Nov [Heb.]. 2020 “Shabbat with the Militias.” E-published in Times of Israel. 17 Nov. 2020 “Professor Mas`uda and the Salt of the Earth in Academe.” E-published in Times of Israel. 18 Jun [Heb.]. Smadar Lavie 31 2019 “The Treasure Island Race Chronicles- The Targeting of Smadar Lavie and Tenants of Color.” Anti-Eviction Mapping Project blog. 2016 “The Mizrahi Cultural Renaissance and the Welfare Lines.” HaOkets. 6 Jul [Heb.]. 2015 2013 “Revisiting Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology: Our ‘Special Relations’” Allegra Lab. 27 Oct. “The Legend of Mixed Marriages: On the Erotic Economy of the Mizrahi Struggle.” E-published in HaOketz. 15 Aug [Heb.]. 2009 “The Academic Comeback of the One State Vision, Israel/Palestine.” E-published in Kedma: The Eastern Gate; E-Mago; HaOketz. 28 Jun [Heb.]. 2009 “Sacrificing Gaza to Revive Israel’s Labor Party.” The Electronic Intifada. 19 Jan. Reprinted electronically in USA Today, Counter Currents, and over twenty internet news portals; translated into Italian and published online in Il Dialogo, 23 Jan; translated and published in Arabic in Al Akhbar Daily, Lebanon, 18 Feb. 2007 “Dry Twigs.” The Electronic Intifada. 3 Aug. Reprinted electronically in AbuDis.net; kibbush.co.il; New Profile; ZioPedia; MyantiWar.org; and many other internet sites and blogs. 2007 “A History of Dispossession.” Ma‘ariv Daily Op-Ed page. 12 Jul. E-published in Kedma:The Eastern Gate; EMago; Mahsom; NosachTeiman; Teimani-Original [Heb.]. 2006 “On the Progress of Affirmative Action and Cultural Rights for Marginalized Communities in Israel.” Coauthored with Rafi Shubeli. Anthropology Newsletter, 6-7. Nov. 2006 “Operations ‘Summer Rains’ and ‘Adequate Pay’ — Yet Other Acts in the Mizrahi-Palestinian Tragedy.” Coauthored with Reuven Abarjel, co-founder of Israel’s Black Panthers. The Jordan Times. 29 Jul. Article was published on a full double page in the Opinion section. This article has also been e-published in The Electronic Intifada; from there, it traveled to Crosscurrents; Dissident Veterans for Peace; Occupation Magazine; Ziopedia; E-Mago (English edition); Coalition of Women for Peace; NewsZoom; Independent Media Center’s main site; Independent Media Center, Beirut; Tasbir; Iranian.com; Peninsula Peace and Justice Center; ICA News CoOp; the Baghdad-Rafah-Beirut site; Dissident Veteran for Peace; and copied into many Blogs from the Electronic Intifada site. Article was translated to Arabic, French, Italian, Russian and Spanish.Hebrew version e-published in Kedma: The Eastern Gate; Haokets; Mahsom; E-Mago, and the Hebrew site of the Coalition of Women for Peace. 2006 “Transnational English Tyranny.” Anthropology Newsletter. Apr Issue, 9-10. Article was part of a yearlong comparative series, “Anthropology on a Global Scale.” 2005 “Parenthood, the Feminization of Poverty, and Joint Custody.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal. 7 Nov. Article also e-published in E-Mago, and Bananot [Heb.]. 2005 “Rachel Gamliel of the Ma‘abari Family, My Granny.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. 19 Jan [Heb.]. English translation published in Beirut Independent Media Center. 2005 “Israeli Anthropology and American Anthropology.” Anthropology Newsletter, 8. Jan. issue. The article was copied into many internet sites that deal with academic freedom issues within the context of the Israel/Palestine conflict. An expanded Hebrew version, entitled “Ashkenazi Anthropologists and the MizrahiPalestinian Gold-Mine” has been e-published in Kedma: The Eastern Gate. Updated version published in HaKeshet, The Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Journal, no.2 (winter 2005), 13 [Heb.] 2004 “Vicki Shiran and the ‘Ashkenazim, from the Bunker’.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. Sami Shalom Chetrit, Ed. 30 May [Heb.]. Smadar Lavie 32 2004 “Women and Children’s Rights in Family Courts.” [Co-Authored with Esther Hertzog and Rivka Nardi]. In Ha‘Oketz [“Sting”, Heb.] Portal, ed. by Yossi Dahan and Itzik Saporta, 15 Mar [Heb.]. 2004 “Vicky Shiran, A Farewell Letter.” In Kedma: The Eastern Portal. Re-Issued in HaDerech and many other feminist portals [Heb.]. 2004 “Mizrahi Politics, Intellectual Property, and Luba,” In Ha‘Oketz [“Sting”, Heb.] Portal, ed. by Yossi Dahan and Itzik Saporta, 23 Feb [Heb.]. 2004 “Jamaica Kincaid @ Tel Aviv U.: ‘This place looks exactly like my synagogue.” 20 Jan. In Palestine Independent Media Center and in The Alternative Information Center. 2003 “Lilly White Feminism and Academic Apartheid in Israel.” Anthropology Newsletter, Oct. Issue, 10-11. This is a different version than the 2002 oft-quoted piece below, since it focuses on the history of academic apartheid within Israeli anthropology, and supported by quantitative data charts. 2003 “Return for Your Taxes: Education, Equal Opportunities, and Multi-Culturalism.” In Women’s Parliament: A Political Stage from Another Angle 2001-2 Proceedings, ed. by Esther Hertzog, 57-58 [Heb.]. 2003 “Social Engineering: Diary Fragments, Summer 2003.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate portal. 15 Sep [Heb.]. 2003 “Social Engineering.” [Co-authored with Amir Fuchs]. Ma‘ariv Daily Op-Ed page. 17 Jul [Heb.]. 2003 “But There Is Discrimination: The State Penetrates the Single Family’s Bedroom.” [Co-authored with Amir Fuchs]. Globes: Israel’s Business Arena, Editorial Page, 3. 16-17 Jul [Heb.]. A different version of Ma‘ariv’s “Social Engineering” above. 2003 “Ideology, Welfare, and the Single-Headed Family.” [Co-authored with Amir Fuchs]. Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal. 15 Jul [Heb.]. Reissued in HaDerech feminist portal and many other Hebrew portals. Reprinted in AhotiFor Women in Israel Newsletter, No. 2, 5. Oct. 2003. 2003 “Right, Left, and the Everyday Crimes of State in Israel.” Published as part of “Suffering, Oppression, and Solidarity in the Feminist Movement. “Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal, ed. by Sami Shalom Chetrit. 4 May [Heb.]. 2003 “Sage Gardner Is No Longer Relevant.” Makor Rishon Weekly, Op-Ed Section, 16. 28 Mar. 2002 “Abuse in the Name of the Law: The Legal System Severely Punishes Women Who Report their Husbands’ Violence.” Haaretz Daily Op-Ed, B2. 27 Nov [Heb.]. This is an abbreviated version of the “Notes” piece (2002, see below). 2002 “Notes on Deleted Dreams, Families, and the Price Tag of Justice.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate. 25 Nov [Heb.]. Re Issued in HaDerech and many other Israeli portals. 2002 “A Pedophile Father Preferable to Alienating Mother: Parental Alienation Syndrome (PAS) and Israel’s Supreme Court.” Psak Din [“Judgment”, Heb.], Israel’s most influential legal portal and judgment repository. Oct. issue. This article was used as an expert opinion in the precedential Supreme Court Judgment 6041/02, and from its publication to this date it continues to assist mothers, children, and the attorneys who represent them in cases of alleged PAS. From its publication until 2020 each week about 2-3 mothers on the verge of losing custody of their children in the PAS-afflicted Israeli courts and their attorneys called and sought advice, which I happily volunteered until my heart could no longer bear the suffering of these mothers and children. The article was reissued in Haderech, Women On Line (WOL) and Kedma, It was then reissued in many other portals and after such a large scale exposure, it generated several major research articles in Israel’s print media and scholarly texts. Smadar Lavie 33 2002 “Then and Now: Women of Color in the American Elite Academy.” Kedma: The Eastern Gate Portal, ed. by Sami Shalom Chetrit. 20 Feb [Heb.]. Re-issued in HaDerech. 2002 “Search the Mizrahi Woman.” Tel Aviv Weekly Magazine, 26-27. 18 Jan 2002 [Heb.]. REPRINTED IN 2002, Mizrahi Feminism, ed. by Vardit Damari-Madar. 20-25. Jerusalem: Students for Social Justice (TZAH). Cyber-Reprints in Kedma: The Eastern Gate and HaDerech feminist portal. The article was then lifted from Kedma and copied into many Hebrew language forums at large-scale portals. These cyber-copies generated hundreds of readers’ responses. Its English translation, entitled “Academic Apartheid in Israel and the LillyWhite Feminism of the Upper Middle Class,” was e-published first in the English edition of HaDerech. It has since been copied into numerous Israeli and Arab feminist and academicians’ internet forums. The English translation has also been e-published in Women in Judaism: A Multidisciplinary Journal, Sprint 2002 issue, the H-Net Middle East gender list, in the Women Against Occupation portal, and for several years was sold by Amazon.com. The article was translated into Italian. 2001 “Rainbow Kufiyya.” In The Gift: An Art Project, ed. by Mario Rizzi. The Jerusalem Center for the Visual Arts, 46-48. Hebrew printed translation IN 2001, annefranQ 3: 11-3. Aug 2001; 2002, Mizrahi Feminism, ed. by Vardit Damari-Madar, 70-74. Jerusalem: Students for Social Justice (TZAH). Re-issued in cyberspace in the Kedma and Pridezine portals [Heb.]. 1996 “Purim.” Tehiyah Shelanu. 1(3): 8-9. 1995 “Reflections on the New Racism.” Ha‘aretz Weekly Magazine, 28-32, 86. 21 Jul. 1994 “Naming: The Epistemology of the Closet in Hebrew. Popular Music.” [Co-authored with Ya‘el Ben-Zvi and Ya‘el Ronen]. KLAF Hazak 13: 4-12 [Heb.]. 1992 “Immigration to Israel: A Misguided Policy.” USA Today Magazine 121(566): 32-34. 1991 “Arrival of the New Cultured Tenants: Soviet Immigration to Israel and the Displacing of the Sephardi Jews.” The Times Literary Supplement 4602: 11. 14 Jun. Political, Feminist, Anti-Racist Activism 2002-Present Israel’s Women’s Parliament, Advisory Board Member. 2002-Present Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow, member. 2002-2004 Culture Committee. 2002-2003 Committee on Education and the Core Curriculum. 2005-2007 Rainbow representative in the Coalition of NGOs Against Racism. 2001-Present Ahoti (“Sistah,” Heb.)-For Women in Israel, Member. Ahoti is Israel’s feminist of color movement. Jan 2003-Jan 2005 Board of Directors: English PR, establishing contact with supporters outside Israel; Generating and sustaining activism related to understanding and exposing the power of the Ashkenazi academic and judicial elites; Mizrahi women’s art and literature. 2002-2003 Liaison to the New Israel Fund. 2002-2003 Member of the Ahoti newsletter’s editorial collective. 2003-2004 Liaison to FFIPP. 2002-2004 Co-coordinator of the Coalition to End Apartheid in Israel’s Anthropology, initiated by Ahoti. 2003 Worked with Rachel Amram on Ahoti’s major grant proposal from the New Israel Fund. The text serves as the basis for all of Ahoti’s grant applications (Feb-Mar). Smadar Lavie 34 2019 Post performance testimonial and discussion, The San Francisco Mime Troupe, Treasure Island. 11 Aug. 2013 Middle East Dialogue and Programming Committee, Congregation Sha’ar Zahav, San Francisco. 2007-2010 International NGO Coalition to Save Kfar Shalem (Salameh) residents from Expulsion-Demolition 2006-2010 International Jewish Solidarity Network (in summer 2008, name changed to IJAN). 2003-2007 Founding Member - The Coalition to Empower Children, Women and Families Facing the Courts, Welfare Services, and the Psychological-Psychiatric Establishment (This is a coalition of several NGOs). From Jul 2005 on the coalition’s name changed to The Coalition of Women for Mothers and Children 2005-2006 – co-director of the coalition (Jul-Feb). 2002-2004 Black Lundary [Kvisah Sh’hora, Heb] – A LesBiGayTrans direct action group to resist Israel’s occupation of Palestine and Israel’s racism against minorities. Member. 1979-1998 SF Bay Area Palestine Human Rights Campaign. 1991 Co-organizer of the SF Bay Area mass demonstrations against the Gulf War. 1982-89 Co-Founder and member of CAFIOT (the Berkeley Committee for Academic Freedom in the Israeli Occupied Territories). Public and university teach in-s; student demonstrations; public lectures; canvassing; research and writing; Measure E 1982 city of Berkeley campaign of divestment from Israel (co-organized with Avi Chomsky, Jim Schamus, Mary Layoun, Osama Doumani, Jock Taft, and Raif Hijab); exposure of and media and public campaigns against the Jewish Anti-Defamation League black lists of pro-Palestinian academics. 1982-83 Co-organized with Raif Hijab the first UCB student-initiated course on Modern Palestine; Fund solicitation from the UCB student union and the AAUJ to bring guest speakers such as Edward Said, Ibrahim AbuLughod, Hisham Sharabi and Israel Shahak. The course was one of the first academic-activist venues to discuss Israel’s anti-Mizrahi racism in the context of the Question of Palestine. 1982 “History of the Palestine/Israel Conflict.” A summer-session student-initiated course team-taught with Raif Hijab, UCB graduate students and Berkeley community activists. Government and Court 2020 “Antisemitism and Middle Eastern American Jews.” Expert opinions submitted to the Advisory Committee for the Ethnic Studies Model Curriculum (ESMC) K-12 Education of the California Department of Education. 12 Nov. 2005 Amir Peretz for Chairman of the Labor Party Campaign; on the difference between ethnic- and class-oriented analyses. Ramat Gan. 10 Jun. 2005 Israel’s Knesset’s International Women’s Day exhibit, “Women Return to the Front Stage,” consulting for ‘Amit Tzoref on deceased Palestinian and Mizrahi community activists to be included in the exhibit. Feb. Exhibit was on 8 Mar. 2003 “Single Mothers and the State Budget.” Knesset Committee on the Status of Women, session convened by KM Gila Gamliel. 7 Jul. 2003 “How Does Feminism of Color Relate to Israel?” 3 Lectures and discussion sessions with Israel’s government agencies’ future advisors on women’s status. 3 Apr, 10 Jul. Smadar Lavie 35 2002 Consulting for attorney Tamir Kokh, and writing an expert opinion on Parental Alienation Syndrome for Israel’s Supreme Court file 6041/02. Kokh won his case and set a precedent. 1994 Consulting for the Canadian Immigration and Refugee Board regarding the status of non-Jewish Russian immigrants to Israel. Media 2024 Interview in Ben Lorber and Shane Burley for Safety Through Solidarity: A Radical Guide to Fighting Antisemitism. New York: Melville House. 2023 Aljazeera-Arabic consult and interview for an hour-long documentary by the Gamal Almoliky team on the Yemenite Children Affair. 19 Apr until the 6 Oct broadcast. The film generated over one million views. 2023 “The Dilemmas of the Mizrahi Left in the Israeli Protest Movement.” Interview by Shane Burley and Ben Lorber. +972 Magazine: Independent Journalism from Israel-Palestine. 28 Mar. 2022 Profile interview, “The Consequences of the Ukrainian War for the Middle East and the Impending [Muslim] Refugee Wave Arriving in Europe” with columnist Liepa Žeromskaitė. IQ Magazine, June, pp. 28-31 (in Lithuanian). 2022 Interview on the Impact of the Russia-Ukraine War on Middle Eastern Political, Nutritional and Familial Stabilities with columnist Liepa Zeromskaite. IQ Magazine May pp. 30-31 (in Lithuanian). 2021 Interview with Gabi Kirk, “Authors of California Ethnic Studies Curriculum Decry Cuts to Arab Studies.” Jewish Currents, 3 Feb. 2019 “Beyond Identity Politics: Lackluster Solidarity in the Mizrahi Struggle.” Sara Solomon Youtube, Tel Aviv, 55 minutes. [in Heb.] 4 Oct. 2018 “Ahoti (=Sistah): Portraits of Mizrahi Feminists.” Noemie Hakim Serfaty short video, San Francisco. 17 Dec 2019 “Berkeley hosts conference on the past and future of the right wing.” J. Hickey, Berkeley News. 26 Apr. 2019 “San Francisco irradiates the poor on Treasure Island.” S. Auden, San Francisco Bay View. 8 Jan. 2017-19 Consulting and interviewed for Aljazeera-English, Reuters, San Francisco Chronicle, San Francisco Bay view, and the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project. 2018 Participant in the Eviction Exhibition at the National Building Museum, Washington DC, on the relationship between race, gender, poverty, infrastructure and military cleanup on Treasure Island. 2018 “Introducing the 2018-19 Spatz Visiting Chair in Jewish Studies.” Genevieve MacIntyre, Dal News. 29 Oct. 2018 “Interview with Mizrachi Feminist and Litvak Dr. Smadar Lavie.” Ilona Rūkienė. Lithuanian Jewish Community Monthly. 4 Jun. 2018 Interview for IQ Magazine, Lithuanian’s partner of the Economist. Kotryna Tamkutė. Jun. 2018 “Como é que um pequeno país rodeado de inimigos consegue resistir?” [How can a small country surrounded by enemies resist? Portuguese]. Helder Gomes. Expresso Lisbon. 14 May. 2017 “The Eviction of Smadar Lavie from Treasure Island.” Noemie Hakim Serfaty short video, winner of the Roxie Mixtape #4, San Francisco. 4 Dec. Smadar Lavie 36 2017 “Repercussions Still Being Felt at UC Berkeley Over ‘Free Speech Week’.” Caron Creighton, Berkeleyside. 6 Oct. 2017. “American Anthropologist Searches for her Roots in Lithuania.” Good Morning Lithuania LRT-TV. 6 Jun. 2016. “The Mizrahi-Palestinian Intersectionality Nobody’s Talking About.” Sigal Samuel. The Forward. 3 Mar. 2015 “Arabic tops Israeli charts as Yemeni sisters take Tel Aviv by storm.” Alex Shams. Middle East Eye. 21 Sep. 2012 “In the Name of Security: This is How One Hurts the Weak and Women and Gains Their Support.” Tsafi Sa`ar, women and gender equity correspondent for Haaretz. 30 Oct. 2011 “A Meeting Between Three Feminists: Ashkenazi, Mizrahi, and Palestinian.” Tsafi Sa`ar, women and gender equity correspondent for Haaretz. 3 May. 2009 “One State for Israel/Palestine.” Al-Jazeera News. Apr. 2008 “Israel from the Inside – a Zionist State and the Crisis of its Eastern Self.” Al-Jazeera Documentary. 30 Dec. 2008 Advising Yotam Feldman, Haaretz, for a series of articles on faculty-students’ sexual relations. Jun. 2006 Advising Rachel Levy, Dutch journalist, for a book on Israeli family courts. Oct-Nov. 2006 Advising Christian Sabatier, independent French film maker, for a documentary on the ruptured dialogue between Mizrahi and Palestinian human rights activists. Oct. 2006 “The State Budget’s Wars and Social Justice.” Panel discussion participant in Israel’s prime time Channel 1 TV show, Politika. 12 Sep. 2006 “Mizrahi Professors? A Denied Problem.” Tamara Traubmann, Academic correspondent for Haaretz. 8 Jun. 2006 “Another Way to Fight the Academic Boycott? Israeli Studies Abroad: The faculty, Israeli, the Donors, Jewish.” Tamara Traubmann, Academic correspondent for Haaretz. Page A15. 24 May. 2006 “PAS, the Welfare Ministry, and Forced Removal of Minors from Protective Mother’s Custody.” Emanuel Rosen’s prime time TV show, Ze HaZman (It’s Timely, Heb.). Providing scholarly information and appearing on the show. TV Channel 10. 23 Jan. 2005 “A Yemenite in Tel Aviv.” IN Kaleidoskop: Israel and Palestine from the Inside, ed. by Sandra Petersen and Tonje Merete Viken, 237-246. Oslo: Humanist Forlag. [in Norwegian]. 2005 “Mom Has Always Told Me: Why Aren’t You Like Everybody Else?” Orit Reuveni. End-of-Year Profile Article about Lavie’s biography, history of scholarship and activism. La’Isha (For Women, Heb.) no. 3063: 28-41. 26 Dec. 2005 “The Crisis of Israeli Universities.” Panel Discussion participant for Israel’s prime-time Channel 1 TV show, Politika. 22 Mar. 2005 “Toni Morrison.” Conversation on her body of novels and their historical-cultural context Multi-Interview (with 3 other literary critics) led by Ya‘el Zadok of Israel’s Broadcast Authority for her book review program, “Words that Try to Touch.” 18 Mar (repeated on 22 Mar). 2004 “Disconnected Until Further Notice.” Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman on Parental Alienation Syndrome and Child Support Payments in Ma‘ariv’s Weekly Magazine, 39-44. 3 Dec. 2004 “Nepotism and Israel’s Political Culture.” Panel discussion participant for Israel’s prime-time Channel 1 TV show Smadar Lavie 37 Politika. 7 Sep. 2004 Consulting for Arthur Neslen (UK) for Occupied Minds (Polity Press, 2006). Jul. 2004 “Testimony from the Field.” Interview with Lily ‘Aboudi on Ethnic Theater. Cities Weekly, 42-45. 27 May. 2004 “Edward Said.” Interview with Ilana Norman. ‘Akhbar Ha‘Ir Tel Aviv. 2 Jan. 2003 “Trash Science in the Service of Courts.” Interview with Tamara Traubmann on Family Courts and their Social Welfare Service Units. Haaretz, B6. 15 Aug. 2003 “A Professor for Survival.” Interview with Moshe Ronen on Lavie’s participation in one of the American Anthropological Association presidential panels. Yedi‘ot Aharonot, B5. 2 Jun. 2003 Advising to proposal-writers to establish The Jewish Religion and Israeli Traditions Radio Station in central Israel. Mar. 2003 “Father or Mother.” Interview with Ayelet Kedem on Family Courts and Mysogeny. Makor Rishon Weekly. 14 Mar. 2003 “Israel’s Feminism of Color.” Interview with Prof. Kum-Kum Bhavnani (UCSB) for a film trailer at Jerusalem’s YMCA. 9 Feb. 2003 “Bedouin Ghetto.” Interview with Swiss DEV.TV on Israel’s colonialist nostalgia and the Negev and Sinai Bedouin. 10 Jan. 2002 “Search the Woman/Search the Mizrahi in Academe.” A 3-article segment of Israel’s Association for Feminist and Gender Studies Bulletin resulting from Lavie’s article about Academic Apartheid in Israel (see under Publications) and Moscone-Lerman’s Ma‘ariv’s article (see below in this section). Heker Migdar BaAretz, 1013. Nov- Dec. 2002 “The System’s Violence is Worse than the Battering Man.” Interview with Smadar Shiloni of Y-Net. Went on the net on 25 Nov around 22:30 and removed around 23:00 due to censorship -- it criticized Israeli court ideologies. 2002 “Gender, Ethnicity and Poverty.” Interview for the Channel 1 Morning News. 5 Nov. 2002 “Maskit, the Next Generation.” Interview with Mor Gordon to Haaretz Daily on Ethiopian women artisans and cultural and intellectual property rights. 22 Aug. 2002 “Racism in Israel’s Labor Market.” Participation in the Mizrahi TV channel Breeza’s People’s Parliament show. 23 Jul. 2002 “Parental Alienation Syndrome and Israel’s Family Courts.” Interview with Rivka Mikhaeli for her prime-time morning show. 18 Jul. 2002 “Haim Hefer and the Mizrahim.” Panel discussion at Israel’s prime time TV show Politika emceed by Dan Margalit. 11 Jun. 2002 “Alternatives to be Found Here.” Op-Ed on solutions to the Intifada by Dana Peleg. Aat Women’s Monthly. Jun. 2002 “Ain’t It Important from What Ethnic Group you Are?” Interview with Karni ‘Am-‘Ad about whether there ought to be a Mizrahi or Ashkenazi curator for the art exhibit Mothertongue. Hakibbutz, 7. 30 May. 2002 “Mizrahi Women Intellectuals.” Half-Hour interview with Sha’ul Bibi for Breeza Channel (filmed on 22 Apr, don’t remember the exact broadcast date). 2002 Consulting for the Breeza Mizrahi TV Channel on Mizrahi Women’s Profiles Show (re poet Amira Hess and Smadar Lavie 38 community activist Mali Cohen). Apr. 2002 “Inaccurate Science.” Op-Ed by Dan Even on the Academic Boycott of Israel. Ma‘ariv. 18 Apr. 2002 “The Judeo-Arabic Poetry of Rabbi Shalom Shabazi.” Interview with Michal Zu-Aretz for the Taverna, Israeli TV channel 1. 15 Mar. 2002 Billy Moscone-Lerman’s Women’s View (Mabat Nashi) TV show, Channel 2, Israel. A panel discussion with Dr. Vicki Shiran and Prof. Daphna Izraeli about the complete absence of Mizrahi women professors from the Israeli academic scene. 9 Feb. 2002 Radio of the South (Radio Darom) – Interview with ‘Adi Nagar and Inbal Petel. Beer Sheba. Feb. 2002 “For You, A Mizrahi Woman’s Just a Maid.” Interview with Billy Moscone-Lerman, Ma‘ariv Weekly Magazine, 56-62. 1 Feb. 2002 “How a Wheel Turns Around: The Story of Smadar Lavie.” Interview with Sigal Levy, I-Women. 31 Jan. 2002 “Here’s a Professor Wrapped in a Newspaper.” Interview with Dekel Shahrour, Y-Net. 27 Jan. 2002 Yaron London’s Morning Show. Israeli TV, Channel 2. Interview on the total absence of Mizrahi women professors from Israeli academe. 22 Jan. 2002 “Is There, or Isn’t There Discrimination? Income Gaps between Women, Arabs, and Mizrahim.” Interview with Gideon ‘Eshet, Cheif Editor of Yedi‘ot Aharonot’s Economics Section, Money Section (Mamon), 6-7. 15 Jan. 2001 “The Industry of Parasites.” Research for Esther Hertzog’s op-ed on single mothers and the welfare authorities. Ma‘ariv daily. 11 Sep. 2001 Consultant for artist Mario Rizzi on “The Gift,” an exchange of presents between randomly picked Palestinians and Israelis (Dec 2000-Feb 2001). 1996 “The New Racism: News from America.” Interview with Anat Meidan, Yedi‘ot Aharonot (Israel’s daily newspaper with highest circulation), 16-17. 15 May. 1996 “Affirmative Action, Family Law, and the California Divorce Process.” Interviews with Yossi Sayyas of Israel’s Public Broadcasting Service, 2nd Channel, 8. 29 Jan. 1995 “Black and Beautiful.” Interview with Shosh Madmoni on Political Correctness and the Absence of Mizrahi Women Intellectuals from Israeli Academia. Yedi‘ot Aharonot (Israel’s daily newspaper with highest circulation), 20-22. 10 May. 1994 “Sell-Out Mizrahi and Highbrow Ashkenazi.” Interview with Yizhar Hess for Shishi -- Musaf 7:13-15. 21 Jan [Heb.]. The interview generated another article on racism against Arab-Jews in Israeli academia (Shishi 8:16) and several letters to the editor. 1993-94 Consultant for playwright Alan Havis for a play, “A Vow of Silence.” 1993 “Dialoguing the Zone In-Between Darkness and Whiteness.” Interview, Ya‘el Ben-Zvi, KLAF Hazak 9:30-40 [Heb.]. 1992 Copy editor for the English newsletter of Women’s Organization for Political Prisoners, Tel Aviv (Jul-Sep). 1992 Consulting for Andrea Simon and David Olendorf of the New York Jewish Museum for a film on Sephardi intellectuals. 1992 “Stories Make the World.” Participating in and consulting for A Traveling Jewish Theater audio program aired Smadar Lavie 39 nationally on various stations of National Public Radio around Passover. It was broadcasted again around Passover, 1993. 1991 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Interview at the Sandra Gare Program, WBEZ Radio (local NPR station), Chicago.12 Mar. 1990 The Poetics of Military Occupation. Interview with Sedge Thompson on West Coast Weekend. KQED Radio (local NPR station) and the Life on the Water theater, San Francisco (9 Feb). The program was broadcasted nationally several times. 1983-88 The San Francisco Jewish Film Festival. Program Advisor. 1983 “Israeli Women.” KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA [produced by Rayna Cowan for International Women’s Day]. 1982 “The ‘Peace Now’ Movement and the Israeli Invasion to Lebanon.” Chris Welsh Morning News, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA. 25 Aug. 1982 “The Israeli Right and the Invasion of Lebanon.” Chris Welsh Morning News, KPFA Radio, Berkeley, CA. 9 Jun. 1981 “Feminism and Womanhood in Contemporary Music.” Galei-Tzahal, Israel [co-produced with Ariel Cohen for Tziporei Laila]. Sep. 1979 “Noble Nomads: The Mzeina of the South Sinai.” Galei-Tzahal, Israel [co-produced with Ariel Cohen]. Aug. Lectures 2022 Introduction to San Francisco, the city and the myth. Sholom Aleikem ORT highschool (Fulbright community outreach). Vilnius. 30 May. 2020 “The Zionist Movement and Mizrahi Women: Right Wing Feminism of Color in the State of Israel.” Jewish Voice for Peace Webinar. 26 July 2018 Gett Film screening and discussion of Israeli Family Law. Jewish Community Center. Siauliai, Lithuania. 1 May. 2018 Gett Film screening and discussion of Israeli Family Law. Jewish Public Library, Vilnius, Lithuania. 26 Apr 2013 “Gloria Anzaldúa and Mizrahi Feminism” Launching Left Curve 37. City Lights Books, San Francisco. 28 Apr. 2013 “Women, War, and Social Protest in Israel.” Congretation Sh’ar Zahav, San Francisco. 27 Jan. 2012 “Mizrahi Single Mothers and the GendeRace of Bureaucratic Torture,” Students for Justice in Palestine, Tufts University. 23 Apr. 2010 “Muslim-Jewish Dialogue during Ramadan” Islamic Center of Blaine, MN. 19 Aug. 2010 “Zionism and Gloria Anzaldúa’s Ghost.” Launching Left Curve 34. City Lights Books, San Francisco. 29 Apr. 2009 “An Evening with Smadar Lavie.” The International Jewish Anti-Zionist Network, Twin Cities. Bedlam Theater, Minneapolis. 15 Jul. 2009 “Collective Rights of Mizrahi (Eastern) Jews in Israel.” Duluth American Indian Commission, Peace Church, Duluth MN. 9 Jul. 2009 “Israel – Democracy for Whom?” Northland Anti-War Coalition, Friends’ Meeting House, Duluth, MN. 13 Jun. Smadar Lavie 40 2009 “Israeli Feminism and the Middle East Peace Process.” Minnesota Peace Now, Lutheran Church of Christ the Redeemer. 14 Feb. 2009 “Gaza and the Mizrahi Predicament.” Cork chapter of the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign. 15, 17 Jan. 2008 “Mizrahi Jews and the Palestine/Israel Logjam.” Lecture tour and meetings with academic scholars and community activists in Ireland and North Ireland hosted by the Ireland-Palestine Solidarity Campaign and the Derry Playhouse of North Ireland. Jun. 2008 “Mizrahi Feminism and the Middle East Peace Process.” American Association of University Women, Minneapolis chapter. 3 Mar. 2006 “The Forgotten Histories of Mizrahi Women in the Yishuv Era.” Mitzpe Ramon Women’s Committee. 1 Aug. 2006 “Islamist Feminism and Mizrahi Women’s Agency.” WIZO course for community women leaders. 27 Jun. 2006 “Ethnicity and Gender in Israel/Palestine: Transforming Discrimination into Peace Discourse.” Discussant, Sami Hallac, Torino’s Committee for Solidarity with the People of Palestine. Center for the Study of Peace, Turin. 4 May. 2006 “Interweaving Gender and Ethnic Identities into the Peace Future of the Middle East.” The Women’s Library. Milan. 2 May. 2006 “Mizrahi Feminism, the Ashkenazi Left, and the Question of Palestine.” Mille Babords médiathèque alternative. Marseille. 20 Jan. 2006 “Post-Colonial Africanism(s) and Mizrahi Identity.” Inaugural Evening for Eastbound (HaKivun Mizrah, Heb.) Literary Periodical. ‘Inbal Theater, Tel Aviv. 1 Jan. 2005 “Parenthood, the Feminization of Poverty, and Joint Custody.” Women’s Parliament session on the Tender Years Doctrine. Tel Aviv. 7 Nov. 2005 “Palestinian and Mizrahi Feminism.” WIZO Women Leadership Group. Jerusalem. 28 Jun. 2005 “Black Feminism: 1960-1980.” Mazal Salon, Tel Aviv. 12 Jan. 2004 “On Cultural Identity as Property.” Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Midrash, Tel Aviv. 20 Jul. 2003 “Racism and Multicultural Feminism in Israel.” WIZO course on Women’s Leadership, Jerusalem. 29 Jul. 2003 “Mizrahi and Palestinian Feminism.” NA‘AMAT, Rishon LeZion. 16 Mar. 2003 “Feminism, Mizrahi Feminism, and Me.” Beit Pinhas Yemeni Community Center, Sha‘arayim, Rehovot. 1 Feb. 2003 “Women and Leadership.” Inaugurating lecture for the city of Nataniya Women and Leadership Forum. 6 Jan. 2002 “In Return for Our Taxes: Education, Equal Opportunities, and Multi-Culturalism.” Women’s Parliament on Education and Social Change from a Feminist Perspective. Hertzeliyya. 4 Jul. 2002 “Mizrahi Feminism as Multiculturalizing Israel.” Shinui Weekend’s Retreat. 2 Mar. REPEATED FOR Kol HaIsha, Jerusalem (7 Mar) and Isha LeIsha, Haifa (9 Mar) for International Women’s Day. 2001 “Dilemmas in Israeli Womanhood.” Giv‘at Brenner Regional High School, 12th Grade seminar, “Israeli Society: Processes of Fragmentation and Crystallization.” 3 Dec. 1996 “The History of Haifa.” El Cerrito Tehiyah Dayschool 6th Grade. 6 Feb. Smadar Lavie 41 1995 “What can we learn from the Quran about Arab Culture.” El Cerrito Tehiyah Day School 1st Grade. 17 Nov, 1 Dec. 1995 “Ramadan and the History of Islam.” El Cerrito Tehiyah Day School kindergarten class. 1 Mar. 1993 “The Relevance of U.S. Feminist Theory of Color to Third World Israeli Feminist Mobilization.” A Joint Meeting of the Tel Aviv Mizrahi Feminist Forum, Lesbian-Feminist Forum, and Women for Political Prisoners. 11 Jul. 1992 “The Role of the Bedouin in Israel’s Colonialist Imagery.” Morning Forum of Palo Alto. 21 Jan. 1988 “Of Dresses, Hebrew, Arabic, and Death: Israeli Women, 1988.” World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco. 24 Aug. 1988 “Judaism, Zionism, and the Land of Israel: A different Voice.” Presbyterian Church of Pleasenton-Livermore, CA. 14 Feb. 1987 “Roadblocks to Communication: Cultural Critique of the Palestinian-Israeli Dialogue.” Mubarak Awad’s Palestinian Center for the Study of Nonviolence, Jerusalem. 6 Apr. 1987 “Critique of Arab-Jewish and Jewish-Christian-Muslim Dialogue.” Breaking the Silence ‘87: A Conference on Middle East Peace; Berkeley, CA. 24 Jan. 1984 “The Politics of Sabbath in Israel.” San Francisco Jewish Community Center. 7 Dec. 1984 “Ethnic Realities in Israel.” Berkeley/Richmond Jewish Community Center, CA. 25 Nov. 1982 “Camp David and Subsequent Events -- An Anthropological Perspective.” El Cerrito High School, CA. 21 Mar. Workshops and Conferences 2020 “Domestic Violence, PTSD and the Alienated Court System: US-Israel Comparative Perspectives,” Concluding plenary session, 16 Dec. 2020 in conference “Shall we believe you? Who is alienating Whom: The Crisis in Children’s Rights in Family Courts.” Tel Aviv and Online. 14-16 Dec. 2020 “The Patriarchal Bargain, Masculinist Restoration, and the Economic Violence of Family Courts against Protective Mothers,” Panel. 15 Dec. 2020 in conference “Shall we believe you? Who is alienating Whom: The Crisis in Children’s Rights in Family Courts.” Tel Aviv and Online. 14-16 Dec. 2008 International Jewish Solidarity Network (IJSN) workshop on Mizrahi-Palestinian relations. Berkeley. Jul 30-Aug 3. 2006 “Cultural Rights and Israeli Anthropology.” This was a lecture given in a 3-speakers Midrash Keshet (a bi-weekly Midrash gathering at the offices of the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow) co-organized with Rafi Shubeli on the campaign of the Coalition Against Apartheid in Israeli Anthropology. Other speakers included Shubeli and Toine Van Teefelen from the Institute for Arab Education of Bethlehem. 27 Apr. 2005 “The Race Factor in the Palestinian and Mizrahi Feminist Struggles.” Coalition of NGOs Against Racism workshop. Neve Shalom-Wahat as-Salam. 3 Aug. 2005 “Franz Fanon: Black Skin White Masks.” Co-presenter at an evening inaugurating the book’s Hebrew translation. Salon Mazal, Tel Aviv. 26 Jan. 2004 “Women and Children’s Rights in Family Court.” Co-organized with Smadar Ben Natan for the Women Statues Legislative Committee. Israel’s BAR association. 17 Mar. 2003 “The Feminization of Poverty.” A workshop as part of an Ahoti Council Meeting, Women, Work, and Education.” Tel Aviv. 19 Jun. Smadar Lavie 42 2003 “Gender, Racism and Unemployment.” A lecture in panel on the globalization of Israel’s economy at the Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow council meeting. 14 Feb. 2003 “Revising Youth Law – Treatment and Protection.” Musrara Community Center, Jerusalem. Organized by LSW Shim‘on Tajouri. 25 Mar. 2002 “The Color and Race of Money/Power.” Ahoti Council Meeting. Tel Aviv. 10 Dec. 2002 “Frantz Fanon: Between the Black Skin and the White Mask.” Part of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow literary evening on Fanon organized by Yardena Alon at Salon Mazal. 31 Oct. 2002 “Mizrahi Resistance and the Feminist of Color Plea.” Panel as part of a Mizrahi Democratic Rainbow Weekend Conference on the Future of Mizrahi Struggle in Israel. Beit Berl Levinson Center. 14-15 Jun. 2001 “Lesbian Literature in Hebrew and Hebrew-Translation.” Reading workshop co-organized with Erella Shadmi. KLAF House Tel Aviv, and Kol HaIsha, Jerusalem. Spring Semester. 1991 “The Middle East after the Gulf War.” Instructors’ Enrichment Day, Santa Rosa Community College. 17 Apr. 1986 “Israeli Perspectives.” World Affairs Council of Northern California and the University of California at Berkeley. 19 Apr. 1985 “Teaching the Middle East.” Berryessa United School District, San Jose, CA. 16 Mar. 1985 “Middle East Cultures, Religions and Languages.” Unified School District, San Mateo, CA. 29 Feb. 1980 “Demystifying the Middle East.” World Affairs Council of Northern California, San Francisco. 17 May. Other 2022 Arabic-English translator for asylum seekers in Rukla and Madininkai refugee camps on the Lithuanian-Belarus border. Intermittent Saturday visits with the volunteer nuns of Vilnius’s Catholic Church of the Discovery of the Holy Cross. Feb-Jun. 2019 Consult with Hamid Reza, producer of Inside Israel Program, Press TV, Iran. Nov-Dec 2011 Consult with Susanna Sinigaglia, editor of Ebrei Arabi: Terzo Incomodo (2012, published by Zambon Verlag Publishing), an Italian translation of English-language essays on Mizrahim. Mar-Jun. 2011 Consult with Marco Tognola, Chair of Palestine Solidarity Campaign of Ticino, Switzerland. Apr 21. 2009 Minnesota Peace Project Consult. 3 Apr. 2004 Nomination Committee for the Unknown Peace Worker Re Erella Shadmi. Die Schwelle, Germany. 2005 Families of Infants in Captivity Marching on Jerusalem – co-organized an 11 family march to protest the Welfare Ministry policies of removal of children from Mizrahi and Russian immigrant families to forced boarding. 20-22 Jul. 2002 Co-Organized with Shlomit Bitan (CNP) a support process group for divorcing mothers to help deal with family court PAS afflictions. The group has developed into a country-wide network of women helping other women to try fend off the PAS atrocities of family courts, custody evaluators, LSWs, therapists etc. 2002 Co-Organized with Lizzy Eliazarov of the Sderot branch of Yedid NGO a Catering Co-Op for Central Asian Women. Inaugurated on 23 Feb. Smadar Lavie 43 2002 Co-authored with Gali Gold of the Jerusalem Cinematheque a proposal and program for a Queer of Color Film Festival (May-Jun). Proposal was not funded. PUBLIC SERVICE Classical Music 2019-2023 Out to the Symphony: Bay Area Lesbian Classical Music Lovers Meetup Group. Duties include researching, planning and hosting bi-monthly events. Due to the pandemic the Meetup has moved to Zoom and has become globalized. 2001 The Israeli Cello Society: Master Class and Social Gathering with Maestro Steven Isserlis at the Tel Aviv Conservatory of Music (29 Jun). Duties included artist solicitation, event organization, and public outreach. 2000-01 Israel’s Women Composers’ Forum (IWCF). Organizational and conceptual consultant; Producing the IWCF International Women’s Day Concert at the Lewinsky Teachers’ College (4 Mar 2001) and consulting for their International Women’s Day Concert at the Jaffa Music Center (9 Mar 2002); Media and public outreach; Concerts’ sponsorships and advising on grant and donation solicitations; Lobbying among feminist Knesset members; Letters to Israel’s Broadcast Authority’s Board of Directors and the Classical Music station heads for broadcasting works by women composers; Networking with Israeli feminist organizations. 1991-2001 The Israeli Cello Society: Consulting the founding board on public outreach. 1996-1998 The San Francisco Conservatory of Music: Member of the Parent-Teacher Organization (PTO). Duties included family outreach and organizing the annual SFCM Family Day Open House. 1996 “Music in the Woods—How a Cello is Being Made.” El Cerrito Tehiyah Day School, 1st Grade. 24 Jan. 2 April 2024 Smadar Lavie 44