MAIN THEME AND CONFERENCE TOPICS

There is no theme this year for the conference; also, there are no specific themes, topic, time periods, methods, study disciplines, geographical areas, buzzwords, but the focus of proposals and papers must be oriented to address the conference's field (Israel or Jewish studies). All postgraduate and postdoctoral research with an Israel or Jewish studies background is very welcome.

The conference scope includes all subareas of Israel and Judaism Studies. These include (but are not only limited to) only the traditional areas in Judaic Studies but also various disciplines like current political issues, international relations, history, and sociology in Israel Studies.

As there is a limited amount of time allotted to research presentations, priority will be given to those outlining the original research findings accompanied by a full paper and/or research paper submission if many abstracts are received.

The conference has no main theme, it includes, but is not limited to, the following topics:

• 7 October Hamas Attack and Israel-Gaza War

• Middle East policies of the USA and EU

• Six-Day War, 1967

• Archaeology, historiography and the visualization of the past

• The Politics of Archives

• Start-up technology and military industry

• Boycott and the Politics of Solidarity

• The present and future of innovation and entrepreneurship in the region

• Economic policy of the region

• The future of the Iranian, Turkish, and Israeli Economies from the perspective of regional power

• The effect of political dynamics on regional development

• Growth analysis

• Israeli economy

• Ignorance is Bliss vs Knowledge is Power: Muslim knowledge of Israel and Judaism

• The image of Arab/Islam in contemporary Hebrew writings

• Contemporary Jewry

• Effects of the Chinese economy in the Middle East

• Religious nationalism and conflict over the Holy Place

• Middle East policies regarding the balance of economic power and regional conflicts

• Energy politics

• Pre-State Jewish community in Palestine

• Future simulations

• Migration, settlement and diaspora

• Halacha and Sharia

• Halachic state vs Jewish state vs Democratic state

• Hamas and Turkey

• The Turk in the Hebrew literature

• Two-State Solution vs One-State Solution?

• Politics of Human Shielding

• Islamic-Jewish relations

• Turkish TV Series and Actors in Israel

• Israel’s economy

• Israel’s defense Industry

• Israeli universities and colleges

• Studies in the archaeology of Israel and neighboring lands

• Israel and its Neighbors

• New Directions in Israeli and Jewish Studies

• Turks, Seljuqs, Ottomans and republican Turkey in the Israeli academia

• Israel’s Arab minority: past, present, future

• Israel’s political left

• Israel’s political and legislative shift rightwards over the last decade

• Rule of law in Israel and states of emergency in the occupied territory

• Human rights in Israel

• Identity in Israel

• Israel- diaspora relations

• Conflict management in the Israeli- Palestinian conflict

• Israel's R&D dynamics

• Israel–Russia relations

• Israel- Turkey relations

• Israeli settlements in the occupied territories

• Religion in public sphere: changes and expansion along the years

• Karaite (Hazar) Studies

• Comparative Semitics and Ural-Altaic Languages

• Religious sites in Jerusalem and holy places tour, religious tourism

• Loss of the Holy Land and Jerusalem

• Changing Regional Effects of the Global Economy

• Egyptology and Judaism in Egypt

 • The economy of the Middle East

• The future of Middle Eastern energy reserves

• Balance of economic power and sectoral growth in the Middle East

• Ottoman Jerusalem

• Reform Judaism

• Middle East policies in Russian politics

• Russian-Speaking Jewish Diaspora

• Sabbatai Zevi and the Sabbatean Movement

• War and Religion

• Zionist Congresses

• Theology and Jewish thought

• The Turkish Left and Arab- Israeli conflict

• Judaism or Israel focused or related courses in Turkish universities

• Turkish Jews relation with American Jews vs European Jews, their religious identities.

• Eastern Languages and Literatures Department in Turkey and Hebrew Language and Literature Program

• Turkish- Israeli Political Economy

• Hebrew education in Turkey

• NGOs related with Jerusalem in Turkey

• Turkish- Jewish encounters over 500 Years

• Nation building and state education

• National languages: from old sacred tongue/colloquial to modern high language

• Effects of international economic developments on the Middle East

• Jewish manuscript sources: Bible and Talmud, and Rabbinic literature

• Jewish law and Jewish thought

• Study of Jewish names

• Jewish mysticism

• Jewish history and culture

• Judeo-Islamic studies

• Displacement and the Refugees

• Deal of the Century