Lecture - Power relations and violence instances in Israeli feminism by Henriette Dahan Kalev

30 November 2022

  • Near East, Middle East and Maghreb

  • Foundation

The inaugural lecture of the "Sexual and Gender Violence in the World - War and Gender" series, supported by the Fondation Institut Alain de Rothschild, on the subject of "Power relations and violence instances in Israeli feminism" by Henriette Dahan Kalev (Professor at Ben Gurion University) will take place on December 12, 2022.
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Henriette Dahan Kalev

Henriette Dahan Kalev is Professor Emeritus at Ben Gurion University in the Negev, Israel. Her fields are political science and gender. Dahan Kalev is a researcher at the Truman Institute for Peace at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. In recent years, she has published two books entitled: Resistance at the Social Margins, Resling, Tel Aviv 2018 (Hebrew) and, An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance, Lexington Books, NY books 2019.

She is also an editor and author of numerous articles and books, most recently on gender and economics with Yael Hasson. She is the founder of the Gender Studies Program at Ben Gurion University.

Dahan Kalev has devoted time to research and teaching at leading universities such as Oxford (2003-2004), NYU (2011-2012) and UCLA (2015). She has always divided her time between academia and human rights activism.

The lecture

The lecture will be on the topic "Power relations and violence instances in Israeli feminism" and will be in English.

"When do women decide to rebel, to act out of resistance?" is a question that has constantly accompanied Professor Henriette Dahan Kalev's scholarly reflection and personal activism. From this perspective, she explores in depth the transition between the personal and the political in Israeli feminism, which she defines in her recent book An Anatomy of Feminist Resistance (2019) as the moment when "the person experiences a shift in consciousness". On this occasion, Professor Dahan Kalev will return to the multifaceted experience of Israeli feminism to discuss power relations and instances of violence. Using a socio-historical approach to contextualize the Israeli experience, she will problematize how power dynamics and the various forms of violence specific to them have been able to shape the path of the different voices of Israeli feminism.

The conference will be held on Monday, December 12, 2022 from 6:00 pm at Inalco in the auditorium at 65 rue des Grands Moulins (Paris, 75013) and will also be zoomed in.

Participation in this conference is by registration, subject to availability.
For more information on the cycle, click here.

Contact : Elisa CARANDINA - elisa.carandina@inalco.fr