European Association of Israel Studies

Our History

Here you will find information about the history of EAIS!

  • 2009 – establishing EAIS at SOAS, University of London (UK)
  • 2009-2013 – EAIS Executive under chairmanship of Colin Shindler (Amnon Aran, Raffaella Del Sarto, Alain Dieckhoff, Clive Jones, Rory Miller)
  • 2012 – annual conference held at Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (Germany)
  • 2013 – annual conference held at SOAS, University of London (UK)
  • 2013-2016 – EAIS Executive under chairmanship of Clive Jones (Amnon Aran, Alan Craig, Raffaella Del Sarto, Alain Dieckhoff, Rory Miller, Colin Shindler)
  • 2014  annual conference held at SOAS, University of London (UK)
  • 2015 – annual conference held at University of Cagliari (Italy)
  • 2016-2018 – EAIS Executive under chairmanship of Alan Craig (Joanna Dyduch, Aide Esu, Jacob Eriksson, Anna Godfrey, Colin Shindler, Yonatan Sagiv, Marcella Simoni, Yair Wallach)
  • 2016 – annual conference held at SOAS, University of London (UK)
  • 2017 – annual conference held at University of Wrocław (Poland)
  • 2018-2020 –  EAIS Executive under chairmanship of Joanna Dyduch (Alan Craig, Aide Esu, Jacob Eriksson, Anna Godfrey, Colin Shindler, Yonatan Sagiv, Marcella Simoni, Yair Wallach)
  • 2018 – annual conference held at SOAS, University of London (UK)
  • 2019 – annual conference held at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic)
  • 2020-2022 – EAIS Board under chairmanship of Joanna Dyduch (Artur Skorek, Joanna Guzik)
  • 2020 – EAIS registered as an independent NGO
  • 2020 – annual conference canceled due to pandemic
  • 2021 – annual conference held at National School of Political Science and Public Administration in Bucharest (Romania)
  • 2022 – annual conference held at University of Oxford (UK)
  • 2023-2025 – EAIS Board under chairmanship of Artur Skorek (Marcela Menachem Zoufalá, Karolina Zielińska, Joanna Dyduch, Johannes Becke)
  • 2023 – canceled annual conference at Ben Gurion University of the Negev (Israel)
  • 2024 – establishing EAIS Academic Award
  • 2024 – annual conference held at Charles University in Prague (Czech Republic) together with the Association for Israel
  • 2025 – annual conference held at Moses Mendelssohn Center / University of Potsdam (Germany)
  • 2026-2028 – EAIS Board under chairmanship of Marcela Menachem Zoufalá (Olaf Gloeckner, Timea Crofony, Karolina Zielińska, Adia Mendelson-Maoz)