Invited Keynotes, Public Lectures and Conference Presentations

Invited Keynotes and Public Lectures (partial list)

  • 7 March 2022, Presentation of the New Barometer of the European Forum on Israelis’ Perceptions of Europe and Germany and Germans’ Perceptions of Israel, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
  • 14 December 2021, "How will Israel fare with post-Merkel Germany", Haaretz Weekly Podcast.
  • 1 December 2021, "Herausforderugnen und Dilemata der deutschen Berichterstattung über Israel", Israel in den Medien -  Aktuelle Debatten in Israel und in Deutschland, Online Workshop, Bundeszentral für politische Bildung, Bonn.
  • 11 November 2021, "Die Israelis - zwischen Fragmentierung und Solidarität. Einblicke in das gesellschaftliche Koordinatensystem", Opening Lecture of the Lecture Series "Promised Land - Israel between Vision and Reality", AIANI (Austria-Israeli Network Innsbruck), University of Innsbruck.
  • 21 October 2021, "Multiple Belongings: News Consumtion and Identity Negotiation among Migrants in Israel", European Migration and Asylum Unit, University of Sydney.
  • 13 September 2021, “Understanding Germany’s Upcoming Elections”, The Konrad-Adenauer-Stiftung Israel Office and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, Discussants: Prof. Gisela Dachs (CGS Jerusalem), Dr. Oded Y, Steinberg (CGS Jerusalem), Mr. Michael Bewerunge, Head of Mideast Bureau, ZDF German Television.
  • 13 September 2021, "Which Way for Germany’s Foreign Policy after the 2021 Elections?",  with Prof. Richard Whitman, University of Kent, and Paul Maurice, French Institute of International Relations, HSS Podcast - Global Perspectives
  • 9 September 2021, "On the Upcoming Elections in Germany, Junges Forum der Israelisch-Deutschen Gesellschaft, Tel Aviv.
  • 13 July 2021, "Machtwechsel in Jerusalem und die politische Zukunft Israels", Lehrstuhl für jüdische Geschichte und Kultur, Ludwig Maximilians Universität München
  • 7 April 2021, Exibition Opening "Gurs 1940" at the French Embassy Berlin. "Antisemitismus und Shoah im Spiegel der deutsch-französischen Beziehungen nach 1945", discussion with Deborah Hartmann, Haus der Wannsee-Konferenz.
  • 23 March 2021, "Knesset-Wahl in Israel", Die Politikstunde, Bundeszentrale für politische Bildung, Donn.
  • 25 January 2021, "Israels Impfkampagne gegen Covid 19 - Big Data in Echtzeit", Webinar Seminar in the Framework of “HU Experts Show their Insights”.
  • 4 March 2020 „Quo Vadis Israel? Ein Land streitet um seine Identität“, vhs wissen live- Das digitale Wissenschaftsprogramm und Büro des Freistaats Bayern für Wirtschaft, Wissenschaft, Technologie, Bildung und Jugendaustausch in Israel, Bayrische Landesvertretung, Tel Aviv.
  • 20-28 January 2020 Serie of Guest Lectures on board of the Queen Mary about "Israel quo vadis? A Country Debates its Identity"; "Old and New Conflicts in the Middle East"; "Women in the Gulf Countries". 
  • 24 October 2019, “The Refugee Crisis in Germany“, Israel National Defense College, Herzliya.
  • 25 October 2018, “The Image of Israel in the German Media”, Jüdische Volkshochschule and Bnei Brith Loge, Berlin.
  • 9 October 2018, “Israel, Europe and the Middle East”, Matrix (Association of Women Leadership), Stuttgart.
  • 8 October 2018, “How Israeli Millennials are Getting Prepared for the Future”, Foundation Alte Synagoge Essen.
  • 31 July 2018, “Ungewöhnlich bis intensiv – Zur Geschichte der deutsch-israelischen Beziehungen“, International Summer University at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva.
  • 20 February 2018, “70 Years of Reporting about Israel – the Image of Israel in the German Media across the Time”, Mannheim University.
  • 1 February 2018, “Herausforderungen von Auslandskorrespondenz: Das Bild Israels in den deutschen Medien“, Institut für Publizistik und Kommunikationswissenschaft, FU Berlin.
  • 10 November 2017, “Israel, Regionalmächte im Nahen Osten – Wege zueiner dauerhaften Friedensordnung“, Bundesseminar für Sicherheitspolitik des deutschen Reservistenverbands, Darmstadt.
  • 18 June 2017, “How to Convey Israel to the German Public”, DAAD Center for German Studies, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, and KAS-Foundation Jerusalem.
  • 20 October 2016, Presentation of the Länderbericht Israel (ed. Gisela Dachs),International Book Fair Frankfurt.
  • 19 September 2016, „Projection-Space Israel: European Perception, Alienation and Rapprochement“, Schwäbische Gesellschaft, Stuttgart.
  • 15 March 2016, “Israel - Domestic and Foreign challenges”, City Council Wiesbaden.
  • 17 February 2016, “Current Affairs in Israel and the Middle East”, Federal Agency for Civic Education, Bonn.
  • 30 November 2014, “German-Israeli Relations”, DAAD Alumni Conference, Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University.
  • 13 November 2014,“Israel und der Nahe Osten“, Hochschule Pforzheim.
  • 16 April 2013, “Der israelische Film – eine ´späte` Erfolgsgeschichte“, Jüdische Kulturtage, München.
  • 11 March 2013, “Regional Competence Israel”, International DAAD Academy, Bonn.
  • 10 January 2012, “Cultural-political Relations between Israel and Germany“, International conference organized by the Society for German Language, Tel Aviv.

 

Recent Panel Chairs/Moderations and Presentations at Conferences (Partial list)

  • 1 March 2022, Webinar-discussion on German-Israeli relations, organized bz the American Jewish committee Berlin and the German-Israeli Future-Forum, with Ambassador Christoph Heusgen, Anne Sauerbrey.
  • 17 January 2022, "Natur - Erkundungen aus der Jüdischen Welt", Webinar Discussion with Neta Ahituv, Dr Jeremy Benstein and Arne Jungjohann about German, Jewish and Israeli Approaches to Ecology.
  • 5 October 2021, "Implications of the German Elections on the European Union", IASEI Annual Conference, Commentator on theKeynote Lecture of Prof. Dr. Daniela Schwarzer, Executive Director for Europe and Eurasia, Open Socierty Foundation.
  • 2 October 2021, "Berlin on Demand: Global New Audiences and Urban Myth, GSA Annual Conference, Indianapolis, Organisator and Moderator of the DAAD Roundtable.
  • 30 September 2021, "Perspectives from and for Israel", Digital Conference organized by the German Embassy in Tel Aviv. Participants: Ambassador Dr. Wasum-Reiner, Antonia Yamin (KAN). Tal Schneider, Prof. Eli Salzberger, Yorai Lahav; Moderator: Prof. Gisela Dachs (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem).
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  • 1 March 2021, "Testing the Strength of Eurosceptics after Covid-19 and Brexit", Bar-Ilan University, Friedrich Ebert Foundation, and IASEI
  • 17 December 2020, "Implications of an Unchanging EU Policy on Israel: 1980-2020", Israel Association for the Study of European Integration, online
  • 26 November 2020, "Because of the War: Verbindendes and Trennendes einer deutsch-israelischen Freundschaft", book presentation of Jüdischer Almanach, Evangelische Akademie zu Berlin and Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem, online. 
  • 4 October 2020, "´Salonfähig`? The Developments of Far-right Discourse in Today´s Germany", DAAD-Center round table discussion, GSA Conference, Washington and online.
  • 9 September 2020, "Deutsch - eine jüdische Sprache? Die deutsche Sprache in der jüdischen Kulturgeschichte und in Israel", moderation of round table discussion with the German Ambassador to Israel, Leo Baeck Institute, Israel.
  • 30 July 2020, “Desinformation und digitale Aufklärung in der Corona-Krise“, participation in the live streamed round table discussion with the German minister of digitalization, University Würzburg, Germany.
  • 4 October 2019 “Virtual belongings of German/Austrian Jews in Israel”, paper in the session “Transnational Heimat: No Place like Home”, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Portland, USA.
  • 4 October 2019, chair of the session “Contemporary German/American Politics”, Annual Conference of the German Studies Association, Portland, USA.
  • 27 May 2019, „Nach der Europa-Wahl - wie nun weiter?“, Roundtable Discussion CGS Jerusalem und University Bonn, with former German Foreign Minister Sigmar Gabriel, University Bonn.
  • 30 May 2019, discussant at the symposium “German-Israeli Relations: Quo Vadis?” KAS-Stiftung Israel and the Israel Council on Foreign Relations, Jerusalem.
  • 15 May 2019, “Fake News as a Threat to Democracies and Beyond” moderator of the concluding round table discussion at the conference “Fake news and Desinformation in/about Europe and the EU”, the European Forum at the Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 27 March 2019, “Logiken, Zwänge und Konformismus der deutschen Auslandsberichterstattung am Beispiel Israel/Nahost”, paper at the conference: “History, Staff, and Format: The Evolution of the Print Media in Germany during the Twentieth Century”, Trier University, Germany.
  • 8 December 2018, moderator of the closing debate “Sustainability, Work, Markets: Global Visions of the Future” at the DAAD Centers Conference “Envisioning the Future for Germany and Europe, Berlin.
  • 5 December 2018 “New consumption of immigrants and belonging”, paper at the joint workshop “Media, Migration, Identities: Chances and Risks in a Turbulent World. Researching and Teaching in Contemporary Germany in Jerusalem,” Hebrew University and Free University, Berlin.
  • 19 November 2018, participation in the roundtable discussion “Media Freedom and Democracy” at the conference “Media, Freedom of Speech and Democracy: Contemporary Conflicts and Tensions in the EU and Beyond”, Tel Aviv University.
  • 4 November 2018, moderator of the opening panel “Remembering Austria from Israel  -Presentations of Interviews from the Austrian Heritage Center”, at the conference "Nach dem  Anschluss – Remembering Austria's 1938", organized by the Leo Baeck Institute Jerusalem and the Center for Austrian Studies at the Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 23 October 2018, participation in the debate “Wem gehört Jersusalem? Sehnsuchtsort und Pulverfass: Wo liegt die Zukunft?”, Dialogreihe Bridging the Gap, Zeit-Foundation, Buceris Law School, Hamburg, Germany.
  • 17 July 2018, discussant in the panel “Struggling Against Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia”, at the conference “Developments in European Democracies and their Ripple Effects”, Netanya Academic College.
  • 19 June 2018, “Identity Negotiation through News Media by German ´Olim´ in Israel”, paper at the International Symposium “Media and Migration”, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 8 January, 2018, Moderator of the roundtable “From Merkelism to Macronism: Socio-political perspectives on both sides of the Rhine”, at the conference “the Future of Franco-German Relations”, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 2 November 2017, “Managing News and Conflicted Identities - The Case of Bicultural Immigrant Citizens in Israel”, paper at the conference on “media and migration” by the European Communication Research and Education Association (ecrea), Bilbao, Spain.
  • 28 September 2017, discussant at the panel “Elections in Germany and their implications for Europe and the relations with Israel”, INSS, Tel Aviv University.
  • 27 September 2017, discussant at the panel “German Elections and their implications for Israel”, MITVIM/FES, Herzliya.
  • 2 July 2017, “Nationalists of All Countries – Reunite”, paper at the conference “European Right-Wing Populists and their Views on Islam and Israel”, Tel Aviv University.
  • 31 March 2017, „Die israelische Gegenwart – ein Ausblick“, paper at the conference „Hundert Jahre Balfour Deklaration – Der Zionismus von der Idee zur national-staatlichen Idee“, Bildungsabteilung im Zentralrat der Juden in Deutschland, Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
  • 16 January 2017, moderator of the panel discussion “Memories from Entebbe and Mogadishu” at the conference “From Entebbe to Mogadishu: Terrorism in the 1970s and its History, Memory and Legacy”, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 16 January 2017, “Conversation with Dieter Fox (Germany), Special Mission Team Leader and Deputy Unit Leader of the German Counter-terrorist Unit GSG 9”, at the conference “From Entebbe to Mogadishu: Terrorism in the 1970s and its History, Memory and Legacy”, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 21 June, 2016, “News Management and Identity-Negotiation among Immigrants”, paper, Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, “A Western or Eastern Nation? The Case of Israel”, Jerusalem.
  • 4 June 2016, moderator of the panel discussion „Israel 2016: who are the new Israelis?“, Neunter Jüdischer Kulturkongress „Juden auf Wanderschaft: Migration in der jüdischen Geschichte und Gegenwart“, Tarbut-Tagung, Schloss Elmau, Germany.
  • 24 May, 2016, moderator of the discussion panel “Can the EU keep it together?” Israel Council on Foreign Relations, Tel Aviv.
  • 16 May 2016, moderator of the international round table “Germany and the refugee crisis”, DAAD Center for German Studies, Hebrew University, Jerusalem.
  • 16 January 2016, moderator of the international round table “Israel and Germany, The Helmut Schmidt years”, DAAD Center for German Studies, Hebrew University Jerusalem.
  • 4 December 2015, discussant at the conference marking fifty years of German Israeli diplomatic relations, by the Federal Agency for Civic Education, Berlin.
  • 16 October 2015, “Building for the Community - Bauhaus and Tel Aviv”, paper, symposium of the Bauhaus Foundation Dessau, Germany.
  • 5 June 2015, discussant at the panel “Verletzt, kompliziert, vielschichtig. 50 Jahre deutsch-israelische Beziehungen”, Evangelischer Kirchentag, Stuttgart.
  • 20 May 2015, “50 years German-Israeli relations – from Diplomacy to Personal relations”, paper, joint conference of the Institute for the History of the German Jews, Hamburg, the University of Wuppertal and the Fritz Thyssen Foundation, Cologne.
  • 13 May 2015, discussant at the panel “Israel and Germany -Five Decades of Diplomatic, Scientific and Cultural Relations” Symposium at the Wiener Library, Tel Aviv University.
  • 23 November 2014, discussant at the symposium “ International Media Coverage of Operation “Protective Edge”, Bar Ilan University.
  • 18 June 2014, “Boundaries : imaginary spaces ?” paper at the Conference “Boundaries and Nationhood: Discourses and practices”, Doctoral School Sciences Politiques, Paris.
  • 9 June 2014, moderator of the round table discussion “EU Parliament Elections: What happened to the European Idea?” Israel Council on Foreign Relations, in the framework of the EU Young Diplomats Forum Monthly Policy Talk.
  • 19 May 2014, “News, immigrants and belonging”, paper at the networking conference of the Migration and Demographic Community at the Sociological Association, Ruppin Academic Center, Israel.