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Aug 2025 • Book Chapter • Nouvelles traductions et réceptions indirectes de la Grèce ancienne
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Jul 2025 • Book Chapter • Naturalisation of Power (1250-1600): Unravelling the Strategies of Legitimation
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13 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Visual Studies
Organic futurism: sedimented pasts, speculative futures in the shadow of catastrophe
AbstractThis essay begins by exploring the collaborative art installation, ‘Sediments,’ by a Palestinian citizen of Israel and two Jewish Israelis, Nawal Arafat, Maayan Tsadka and Leoni Schein, shown in Haifa between November 2022 and April 2023. The installation is then juxtaposed with the futuristic short movie In Vitro (2019) by diasporic Palestinian filmmaker Larissa Sansour
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10 Jun 2025 • Journal Article • Journal of Folklore Research
Traveling on a Dogsled to the Jordan Valley: Fieldwork in the Study of Folklore of Jews
AbstractThis article engages the transformation of fieldwork as an idea based on specific methodological practices, and the way different conceptions of fieldwork circulated and adapted to the study of the folklore of Jews. Doing fieldwork is not a theory, but as a concept and practice it travels between different disciplinary and ethnographic contexts. This article engages a
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19 May 2025 • Journal Article • The Senses and Society
Intersensory communication in a deaf-blind theater: ethnography of sensory diversity
AbstractThis essay examines “intersensory communication” in a deaf-blind theater, exploring both the potentials and limitations of negotiating sensory diversity to achieve socio-political change within Disability Culture. Based on an anthropological study of a multi-sensory cultural center in Jaffa, Israel – including a sign-language coffee shop, a pitch-dark restaurant, and
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1 May 2025 • Journal Article • Convergence
Phonographic theatricality: The performativity of human-machine vocality
AbstractIntermingling new and old media, this article introduces the concept of phonographic theatricality to explore the performativity of human-machine vocality. It jointly discusses the theatricality of historical and new sound media: media principles that characterized the phonograph in its emergence are still evident in the speech of contemporary AI-voice agents. Phonographic
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4 Mar 2025 • Book
Lingua Ex Machina: Media in the Revitalization of Modern Hebrew
AbstractAn investigation of the connections between the parallel rise of modern Hebrew and modern media After lying dormant for two millennia as a mainly written language, Hebrew awoke from its literary slumber to become a living modern vernacular. This revitalization is unique and unprecedented in world history, and its success has been studied in fields from linguistics to
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Nov 2024 • Journal Article • Etnofoor
Navigating Frictions: Crip Utopian Performatives in Integrated Dance
Abstract'We need to change our attitude about physically integrated dance and become more inclusive', Jacob, a twenty-five-year-old professional wheelchair-user dancer wrote in a letter to the director and administra-tors of the integrated dance company he was part of at the time.' 'Let go of the image of a wheelchair as a necessity', he offered, 'and focus on encompassing all
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Nov 2024 • Book Chapter • Lemaire de Belges: Une écriture sous le signe de la concorde (1473-1524)
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19 Oct 2024 • Journal Article • Material Religion
The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters
AbstractThis special issue, “The Materiality of Interreligious Encounters,” provides a diverse sample of scholarly attention to the role of the material in interreligious relations. It features articles by five anthropologists (Hanane Benadi, Yulia Egorova, Samuel Everett, Lindsay Simmonds, and Erica Weiss) whose research considers spaces of religious intersection, proximity
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