Selected talks

Talks & lectures

• Invited lecture Department of Politics and Government, Ben-Gurion University · January · 2025
• Invited lecture Robinson Institute, Hebrew University of Jerusalem · December · 2024
• Philosopher Kings of Judea: The Invention of the Intellectual Elite Class in the Jewish National Imagination 40th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, Prague · Conference presentation · 2024
• From King to Peasant: Class Imagination in the Formative Years of Jewish Nationalism Center for Jewish Studies & Center for European Studies, Harvard University · Invited public talk · February · 2024
• The 'Princely Peasant' and the Agrarian Myth: The Controversy over the Ideal Palestinian Jewish Peasant as National Symbol Starr Seminar, Harvard University · January · 2024
• National Imagination as Class Imagination in Early Jewish Nationalism (and Beyond) Israel/Palestine History Research Group, Center for Jewish Studies, Harvard University · December · 2023
• Nation as Class? Reconsidering Ideas of Class and Status in Early Jewish National Thought (1880–1904) 18th World Congress of Jewish Studies, Hebrew University of Jerusalem · In Hebrew · 2022
• Theodor Herzl's Ideal Political Leader Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Invited speaker, seminar marking 120 years since the first publication of Herzl's Altneuland · 2022
• From Doge to President: A Re-examination of Theodor Herzl's Colliding Utopias Monarchy and Modernity Conference, University of Cambridge · 2019
• Jews Do Not Ride Horses! On the Method of Symbols in Susati by Mendele Mocher Sforim European Association for Jewish Studies, Sorbonne University · 2014
• Separation and the Woman in David Vogel's Facing the Sea Hebrew University of Jerusalem · Conference presentation · 2012