European Association of Israel Studies
European Association of Israel Studies
The European Association of Israel Studies (EAIS) was founded at a meeting in November 2009 at London University’s School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS). It is an independent, international, and scholarly association devoted to the academic study of Israel. We are a membership organization open to all individuals who are engaged in or share an interest in the scholarly study of Israeli society, politics, and culture, and the historical development of these aspects in historic Palestine and Israel.
We are committed to rigorous academic scholarship about Israel and high quality research and teaching in this area, as well as increasing the breadth of study of this important part of the Middle East. This commitment is reflected in our vision, mission, and values, and in the range of exciting Israel Studies events, resources, and opportunities we provide for our members:
Our vision is to become the leading non-partisan, academic, scholarly, and intellectual association for Israel Studies in Europe.
Our mission is to promote, encourage, and support the independent, academic study of Israel across Europe.
Our values are: Non-partisanship, Non-advocacy, Transparency, Openness to all, Academic excellence.
In ensuring these values, we embrace rigorous scholarship and informed debated.
As a member of the EAIS, you’ll benefit from our range of continuously expanding Israel Studies events, activities, and other exclusive opportunities.
Our annual conference is a fantastic opportunity either to share or exchange the ideas, research conclusions and scientific approaches. It gives us a chance to build an academic cooperation.
This is the most important thing: our association helps to build bridges between scholars from various countries and bring them together in research activities.
Today, world science is not efective without propoer promotion. Reaching out to public with our expertise is the key - make use of our knowledge.
Chairperson
Cultural anthropologist, lecturer, and researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Holocaust and Jewish Literature, Faculty of Arts, Charles University. In the field of Israel Studies, her research interests combine Mizrahi Studies, ethnicity, and gender. Recently, she has focused on Jewish-Muslim relations from a transurban comparative perspective.
marcela.zoufala@gmail.com
VICE-Chairperson
Sociocultural anthropologist and assistant professor at the Department of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University. Her research focuses on the intersections of gender, Jewish, and Israel studies.
timea.crofony@gmail.com
Vice-ChairPerson
Olaf Glöckner, PhD, is Research Associate at the Moses Mendelssohn Centre for European-Jewish Studies in Potsdam (MMZ). He is also Lecturer at the Historical Institute and at the Department of Jewish Studies at Potsdam University. His main foci of research are on Jewish Migration, European Jewry after 1989/90, German-Israeli relations and modern anti-Semitism.
gloeckne@uni-potsdam.de
TREASURER
PhD in social sciences, lecturer and researcher at Vistula University. Specialising in international relations in the Middle East, her particular focus is on Israeli internal and external policies as well as Middle East regionalisation processes. Author of „Israeli development aid to Sub-Saharan Africa. Soft power and foreign policy” (Routledge 2021) and academic articles.
Member
Professor of Israeli literature and culture in the Department of Literature, Language, and Arts at the Open University of Israel. Her research investigates the relationships between literature, ethics, politics, and culture through comparative approaches, focusing on multiculturalism and cultural diversity in Israel, representations of war and trauma, environmental and animal studies, and digital humanities projects mapping Israeli literature.
adiamen@openu.ac.il
HONORARY PRESIDENT AND FOUNDING
CHAIR
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
Mohammad Darawshe is a leading expert on Jewish–Arab relations. Since 2014, he has served as Director of Equality and Shared Society at the Givat Haviva Educational Center. He is a Fellow of the Robert Bosch Academy in Berlin, specializing in national minorities, and has been a faculty member at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem. Mohammad Darawshe has also served as a Visiting Lecturer at the University of Illinois at Urbana–Champaign and as a Visiting Scholar at Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität München.
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
Alain Dieckhoff is CNRS research professor at the Centre for International Studies, Sciences Po Paris. He holds degrees from the University of Paris 10-Nanterre and Sciences Po. He is co-founder of the Observatoire international du religieux and a member of the editorial boards of Politique et sociétés, Questions internationales and Journal of Modern Jewish Studies. He is an international fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences of the Royal Society of Canada.
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
ACADEMIC COUNCIL member
Prof. Sharon Pardo (Ph.D., Ghent University, Faculty of Political and Social Studies) is a Jean Monnet Chair ad personam in European Studies in the Department of Politics and Government at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). Pardo is the Chairperson of The Simone Veil Research Centre for Contemporary European Studies at BGU, and the President of the Israeli Association for International Studies.
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
Adjunct professor at the Department of Israel Studies, Jagiellonian University in Krakow (UJ), a political scientist specializing in the political system of Israel and international relations in the Middle East. Served as the Chair of the EAIS.
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
ACADEMIC COUNCIL member
ACADEMIC COUNCIL MEMBER
Students’ representative
PhD student of history at the University of National Education Commission in Krakow, focusing on the perception of Israel, Palestinians and Jewish national identity among members of the Polish Jewish community. Journalist and columnist regularly cooperating with Polish media.
jakub.katulski@gmail.com
Students’ representative
PhD candidate at the Faculty of Education, University of Warsaw specializing in intercultural competence, minority identities, and non-formal education. Her work focuses on Jewish communities in Europe, intercultural education, and dialogue, combining academic research with community-based educational practice.
k.schrager@uw.edu.pl
Chair
Holds a degree of doctor of Legal Sciences. His scientific interests include public international law, legal history of Mandatory Palestine and Israeli-Arab relations from the perspective of international law.
Member
Professor for Israel and Middle East Studies at the Heidelberg Center for Jewish Studies (Hochschule für Jüdische Studien Heidelberg) and a coopted member of the Philosophical Faculty of Heidelberg University. His research projects and publications focus on the comparative politics of Israel and the Middle East.
johannes.becke@hfjs.eu
Member
Senior lecturer of Israel Studies at the Department of History, Philosophy and Judaic Studies, the Open University of Israel. He is a historian, specializing in the Arab Israeli Conflict and the Palestinians in the 20th century, and is the author of three books in English and Hebrew and has published articles in peer-reviewed journals such as the Journal of Contemporary History, the Journal of Israeli History, Israel Studies, Middle Eastern Studies, and Iyunim, among others.
itamarr@openu.ac.il