Speaker: Dr Tilde Rosmer
Wednesday 1 June 2011
18:00 - 19:30
Thai Theatre, LG.03, New Academic Building, LSE
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Palestinian citizens of Israel constitute approximately 20 percent of the Israeli population. The majority of these citizens are Muslim and a minority are Christian and Druze. By comparison to other communities in Israeli politics and other interest groups in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict, Palestinians who live in Israel have received scant media coverage and attracted little attention from international researchers and politicians. This lecture examines the role of these Palestinians in Israeli politics and their place in a conflict in which they are often caught between the state of their citizenship and the nationality of their people. In addition to looking at tensions between these non-Jewish citizens and the Jewish state and Jewish Israelis, the lecture will examine tensions within this group of Palestinians.
Dr Tilde Rosmer is a Researcher at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages at the University of Oslo and a Visiting Fellow at LSE Global Governance. She is currently researching the Islamic Movement in Israel and her PhD dissertation, Mizrahiut and the Arab-Jewish Divide: Contemporary Challenges to Israel's Ethnic Boundaries, analyses social movements dominated by Jews of Middle Eastern and North African origin and Palestinian citizens of Israel. Rosmer has taught Judaism, Middle Eastern and North Africa Studies, and Fieldwork Methodology at the University of Oslo and Muslim-Jewish Relations and a course on Middle Eastern and North African Jews in Israel at the University of Cambridge. Her recent publications include 'The Islamic Movement in the Jewish State' in Political Islam, Context versus Ideology (ed. by Khaled Hroub, 2010) and 'Academic Activists and Conducting Fieldwork in a Conflict Zone' in Cultural Dynamics (2010). For more information about Dr Rosmer, go to http://www.hf.uio.no/ikos/english/people/aca/tilder/index.html|.
This lecture is open to all and registration is not required.
Admission is on a first come first served basis.