Selected recent Conference Papers
July 2007 – Art in Exile: On acquisition and presentation of foreign artefacts in UK museums, at the Cultural Studies Now conference, University of East London, UK
April 2007 – Art in Exile: On acquisition and presentation of foreign artefacts in UK museums, at the British Sociological Association Annual Conference, University of East London, UK
July 2006 – The Palestinian Naqbah on film: Memory of Catastrophe and Trauma, at the Uses and Abuses of History conference, East Anglia University, Norwich, UK
September 2006 – The Palestinian Naqbah on film: Memory of Catastrophe and Trauma, at the Internationalising Media Studies conference, University of Westminster, London, UK
April 2005 – Marking the Social other by Blood: The Vampire Genre, Fortress Europe Conference, Senate House, University of London
April 2005 – Marking the Social other by Blood: The Vampire Genre, Fortress Europe Conference, Senate House, University of London
April 2005 – History, Memory, Myth: Location in Pasolini’s Work, Society of Cinema and Media Studies, Institute of Education, University of London
May 2004 – History, Memory, Myth: Locations in Pasolini’s Work on Edipo Re and Il Vangello Secondo Matteo, Association of Mediterranean Studies, Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona
November 2003 – Plenary Panel Speaker: Whatever happened to the End of History? Conference on “Smart Bombs, Dumb Wars,” Institute of Education, London,UK.
October 2003 – The Palestinian Naqbah on film: Recent Palestinian Cinema: Memory of Catastrophe and Trauma, at the conference In the Shadow of 9/11: Islam and Political Dissent in the Middle East, at the Department of Politics and International Relations, University of Wales, Swansea.
July 2003 – History, Memory, Myth: Locations in Pasolini’s Work on Edipo Re and Il Vangello Secondo Matteo, Culture and the Unconscious conference, SOAS, London
June 2003 – The Cyborg Body: From Golem to Replicant, at the 6th Annual Conference of English and Literary Studies, Inscriptions in the Sand, East Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus
November 2002 – The Market Share Wars between the EU and the USA, AMPE annual conference, University of East London
July 2002 – The Market Share Wars between the EU and the USA, Trading Cultures conference, Sheffield.
July 2001 – The Media War – US Vs EU, at the Global Image Conference, British Film Institute at the Institute of Eduaction, London.
June 2001 – The Media War – US Vs EU, at the Consoling Passions UK Conference, University of Bristol, Bristol.
May 2001 -The Manufactured Present and the Myth as Truth: History, Myth and Locus in Some Films by Pasolini, at the Society for Cinema Studies, Washington, USA.
Jan 2001 -The Other and Stranger in Recent European Cinema, at the European Cinema Research Forum Conference, University of Wales, Bangor, UK
November 2000 -The Camera Never Lies? – the Israeli Media Coverage of the 2nd Intifada, at the Media in Crisis Symposium, Sapir College, Israel
March 2000 -Home and Exile in Palestinian Cinema, at the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, Chicago, USA.
December 1999 -Reflective Dualities in the Cinema: Eisenstein Revived With Some Assistance From Lacan, The International Psychoanalytic Association, “Freud at the Threshold of the 21st Century, Jerusalem, Israel.
May 1999 – Memory and Commemoration in the Internet Age, for theHaifaUniversity conference on History and Memory of the Holocaust.
April 1999 – Liminality in Recent Palestinian and Israeli Cinema, at the Society of Cinema Studies annual conference, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
December 1998 – USAvs EU – The Market Share Media Wars at the Department of Communication Studies, TelAvivUniversity
July 1998 – The Absent Other: Borders and liminality in Chronicle of a Disappearance, at the ICA (International Communications Association) 48th annual conference, Jerusalem.
May 1998 – Chronicle of a Disappearance – The Disappearing Palestinian in EliaSuleiman’s film, at the Tel Aviv University La Long Duree Conference, 2nd Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies, June 8-11, 1998, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel.
April 1998 – The Media Wars at the Society of Cinema Studies annual conference, San Diego, USA
July 1997 – USA Vs EU – The Market Share Media Wars, at the International Institute of Sociology, conference at Cologne, Germany
March 1997 – Commemoration in the High-Tech Age, at the Bezalel Art Academy, Jerusalem.
March 1997 – A series of lectures on Science Fiction film and its scientific background; theScienceMuseum, Jerusalem.
February 1997 – Israeli Media Privatisation: a view from London, at the Israeli Sociological Association conference, Tel Aviv.
February 1997 – Collaborative Art Practices in 1970’s London, at the Day Symposium on Art Education, Beit Berl Art College, Zofit
January 1997 – Commemoration in the High-Tech Age, at the conference on Alternative Burial and Commemoration, Menucha Nechona, Ramat Gan.
Aug 1995 – ‘Narrating the Other: Palestine and Israel in Recent Israeli Literature’ – paper delivered at the Berlin Theory, Culture and Society 2nd international conference.
February 1995 – ‘Representing the Holocaust’ Public Lecture at the International Year of the Book, Swansea.
July 1993 – ‘The Media Wars – US Vs Europe’ at the CSE conference, 1993 London.