"Micro-entrepreneurship as a strategy for getting out of poverty"
ISA Annual Meeting
Haifa
February 2007
"Masculinity in crisis: The case of Israeli-Palestinians" (with T. Yahia-Younis)
Seventh Med. Social and Political Research Meeting
Florence, European University Institute
March 2006
"Post-colonial feminism,the politics of identification and the liberal bargain"
Crossroads: Debating Women's Rights, Racism, and Religion
Oslo
May 2005
"Maneuvering between state, nation, and tradition; an Israeli-Palestinian woman decides to becomea second wife"
IAA Annual Meetings
Israel, Sapir College
May 2005
"The liberal bargain or what makes the residents of peripheral towns in southern Israel black?"
IAA Annual Meetings
Israel, Sapir College
May 2005
"The symbolic self-exclusion of women from public space through language use"
Gender in the Mediterranean
Nicosia, Intercollege
March 2004
"An evaluation research on women's micro-enterprises in Israel"
Time for Micro-Businesses
Haifa, EEW
November 2003
"Virginal articulations of modernity the case of unmarried Israeli-Palestinian women"
Sexuality after Foucault
U of Manchester
November 2003
"The symbolic self-exclusion of women from public space
through language use"
Gendered Space in Middle Eastern Societies and Cultures
Jerusalem, Truman Institute
June 2003
"The relevance of U.N. SCR 1325 to the Israeli- Palestinian case, an Israeli perspective"
Where are all the women? SCR 1325 Gender Perspectives of the
Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
Ramat-Gan Academic Campus
April 2003
"From politics of identity to politics of identification"
Israeli Society of Gender Studies Annual Meetings
Haifa. U of Haifa
March 2001
"On the role of gender in the production of ethnic Identity"
ISA Annual Meeting
Jerusalem
February 2001
"Ethnicized civil society: grassroots Jewish and Palestinian activism in Jaffa"
Ass. Israel Studies Annual Meeting
Tel Aviv University
June 2000
"Strong but not powerful: gender and power in Israeli-Palestinian culture"
IAA Annual Meeting
Jerusalem
May 2000
"The politics of suffering: the intersection of class, gender and nation in Jaffa
IAA Annual Meeting
Nazareth
March 1999
"Is femininity conditioned upon marriage? On single Palestinian women in Jaffa"
Women's Studies Forum Annual Conference
Tel Aviv University
April 1998
Colloquium Talks and other Invited Addresses
Invited Talks
Dept. of Sociology and Anthropology, Hebrew U
"Feminist empowerment in a neo-liberal age: unexpected consequences in the field of community economic development"
June 2009
Dept. of Nursing, University of Haifa
"Low-income single moms in Israel"
February 2008
Humphrey Forum, Ben-Gurion University
"Doing feminist action research from within the academy – contradictory implications of empowerment and disempowerment"
November 2006
Dept. of Middle East History, U of Haifa
"Praxis, meaning, power: Political anthropology and the Middle East"
December 2005
Mada al-Carmel, Arab Center for Applied Social Research (Haifa)
"Contradictory location: Assessing the position of Palestinian women citizens of Israel"
October 2005
University of Rochester, Jewish Faculty Forum
"Reflections on gender relations in Israeli society"
October 1999
U of Rochester, Dept. of Anthropology
"Neither girl nor women: femininity and social adulthood among unmarried Israeli Palestinian women"
October 1999
Invited Commentator
Panel title: "Bargaining with Patriarchy"
Conference title Palestinian Women in Israel
Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem
November 2006
Talk Title: "Bedouin women in higher education"
(Lecturer, Sarab Abu-Rabia-Queder)
Humphrey Forum, Ben-Gurion University
Spring 2006
