Faculty Cross-Talks
spring 2008
"Jerusalem Across the Disciplines"
Thursday, April 3, 2008
12-1:30 pm, Hatton Hall
featuring professors:
Madelaine Adelman
School of Justice and Social Inquiry
and
Miriam Elman
Department of Political Science
Jerusalem is one of the most contested cities in world. As such, scholars who study Jerusalem typically focus on the relationship between the city’s sacred sites and the larger Arab-Israeli and Israeli-Palestinian conflicts and their resolution, and how conflicts over Jerusalem are represented in both literature and the visual arts. However, rarely do scholars seek to assess, contrast or combine disciplinary perspectives. In this discussion we ask: What do we know about Jerusalem? How do we know what we know about Jerusalem? How might cross-disciplinary engagements create new knowledge about Jerusalem?
Attendance is limited to 25 participants, lunch will be provided.
For more information, please contact:
Marcela Castro, Ph. D.
e-mail: marcela.castro@asu.edu
Professor Madelaine Adelman
Madelaine Adelman is Associate Professor in the School of Justice & Social Inquiry, and Faculty Affiliate in Women and Gender Studies, Jewish Studies, and LGBT Studies at Arizona State University. Adelman received her Ph.D. in Cultural Anthropology and a Women’s Studies Graduate Certificate from Duke University in 1997. Her scholarship centers on global perspectives on gender violence, law, and culture, connecting local concerns about domestic violence and difference with questions about the gendered nature of family law and national identities. With Miriam Elman, she directs the Democracy in the Middle East Research Group, sponsored by the ASU Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. She recently began teaching a new cross-disciplinary course entitled “Justice Issues in Israel/Palestine.” She also conducts research on the “safe schools” and “save our schools” social movements in the U.S., with a focus on the struggle over gender and sexuality and the meaning of democracy in public schools, as a complement to her advocacy work at the local and national level with the Gay, Lesbian and Straight Education Network (GLSEN), a national education organization. Her research has been published in edited collections and in a variety of disciplinary and interdisciplinary journals such as Affilia: Journal of Women and Social Work; American Ethnologist; Human Organization; Journal of Poverty: Innovations on Social, Political & Economic Inequalities; Law, Culture and Humanities; Law & Society Review, Police & Society; Political and Legal Anthropology Review (PoLAR); and Violence Against Women: An Interdisciplinary and International Journal. She is currently writing a book on the politics of domestic violence in Israel.
Professor Miriam Elman
Miriam F. Elman is Associate Professor of Political Science and Faculty Affiliate of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University. She joined the ASU faculty in 1995 and received her PhD degree from Columbia University in 1996. Elman completed her B.A. in International Relations at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and served for two years in the IDF Air Force. Elman is the editor of Paths to Peace: Is Democracy the Answer? (MIT Press, 1997), and the co-editor of Bridges and Boundaries: Historians, Political Scientists, and the Study of International Relations (MIT Press, 2001) and Progress in International Relations Theory: Appraising the Field (MIT Press, 2003). She is currently co-Director of an interdisciplinary project on Democracy in the Middle East funded by ASU’s Center for the Study of Religion and Conflict. Elman’s research has also been supported by Harvard University’s Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs, where she was a Security Fellow from 1995-1996 and from 1998-2000. Her publications have appeared in the British Journal of Political Science, the American Political Science Review, International Security, International Studies Quarterly, Security Studies, the International History Review, and other journals. She currently serves on the Editorial Board of the journal International Security and is President of the American Political Science Association’s division of Foreign Policy.
Additional CrossTalks in the works! Watch for details!
