SELI Goes South
The Fourth National Conference
for the Study of English Literatures in Israel
February 3, 2020
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Keyword Seminars
This year's SELI conference will once again use the “keywords” format, with six mini-seminars designed to generate discussion among all participants. At our request, six colleagues from different universities have each chosen a keyword and will be chairing the one-hour seminars.
To get the conversation going, each convener has asked several colleagues to offer a short opening comment on the keyword: a brief argument, a personal observation, a literary passage, or whatever else strikes their fancy. The success of the seminars, however, depends on the active participation of the audience. We invite you to continue what the presenters have started by adding your own viewpoint: how does the keyword in question manifest itself in your research or teaching, your intellectual pursuits or your creative life?
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See the list of keywords in the conference program below. Please let us know which conversations you plan to join by filling out our short registration form.
Conference Program
Sara Tadmor Auditorium (Building 18)
9:30 Gathering and coffee
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10:00 Greetings
Amit Schejter, Dean, Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences (BGU)
Eitan Bar-Yosef, Department of Foreign Literatures and Linguistics (BGU)
Mandel Institute for Social Leadership (Building 14)
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10:30 - 11:30 Keyword seminars, session I
South (Mandel 003)
Yael Segalovitz (BGU, chair)
Taylor Johnston (TAU)
Neta Kleine (BGU)
Aharon Landau (BGU)
Migration (Mandel 004)
Ruthie Wenske-Stern (HUJI, chair)
Karin Berkman (BIU/HUJI)
Maurice Ebileeni (Haifa)
Abraham Rubin (HUJI)
11:30 - 12:00 Coffee
12:00 - 13:00 Keyword seminars, session II
Dialogue (Mandel 003)
Ayelet Langer (Haifa, chair)
Alex Feldman (Haifa)
Chanita Goodblatt (BGU)
Irena Rudiakov (Haifa)
Listening (Mandel 004)
Esther Schupak (BIU, chair)
Amy Garnai (Kibbutzim)
Stephanie Ginensky (Talpiot/Kibbutzim)
Michael Kramer (BIU)
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13:00 - 14:30 Lunch (on your own)
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14:30 - 15:30 Keyword seminars, session III
Failure; or When Things Go Wrong (Mandel 003)
Nir Evron (TAU)
Tali Banin (HUJI)
Spencer Morrison (TAU)
Roi Tartakovsky (TAU)
Trans (Mandel 004)
Etti Gordon Ginzburg (Oranim, chair)
Reut Barzilai (Haifa)
Emil Halloun (BIU/Oranim)
David Stromberg (HUJI/Shalem)
W.A. Minkoff Senate Hall (Building 71)
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​16:00 - 17:00 Keynote lecture
Chair: Milette Shamir (TAU)
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Barbara Hochman (BGU), The End(s) of Literature: Traveling with the Profession
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17:00 - 17:15 Coffee
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17:15 - 19:00 Afternoon Workshop: The Writing Life
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Chair: Galia Benziman (HUJI)
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Shuli Barzilai (HUJI), Why Do We Write?
Yael Levin (HUJI), Writer's Block and Other Monsters
David Hadar (Beit Berl), Writing as Labor
Ron Ben-Tovim (BGU), Writing In and Out of Academia
Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa), Demystifying Writing
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19:00 Dinner (Senate court)
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For a PDF poster/program see here.
Register for the Keywords Seminars
Contact
Organizing Committee:
Eitan Bar-Yosef (BGU), Ayelet Ben-Yishai (Haifa), Galia Benziman (HUJI), Milette Shamir (TAU), Yael Shapira (BIU)
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Contact us with any questions at seliconference@gmail.com
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For car permits please contact Merav Saroosi-Peretz, 08-6461128 | meravsp@bgu.ac.il
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