Activity reports

Activity reports

 

MESC Significant achievements 2020-2021

Appointments

Jaspal, Rusi appointed as Pro Vice-Chancellor for Research and Knowledge Exchange and a Professor of Psychology at the University of Brighton.

 

Visiting Professorships

The Swedish Research Council has decided that Raphael Cohen-Almagor at the University of Hull will be the 2023 holder of Olof Palme guest professorship.

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert. January 2020 to Present: Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Technology, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.

 

Fellowships and Grants

Chakma, Bhumitra, Research collaborator of a project – ‘Population Settlement in Disputed Territories’; with Professor Odded Haklai (York University, Canada); a grant of CAD 158,000 has been awarded by Canadian Humanities and Social Science Research Council for the research project.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, granted Public Policy Fellowship, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Washington DC (June – August 2022) ($30,000).

 

Friedlander, Saul, received The Balzan Prize for scholarly and scientific achievements. The prize of 750,000 Swiss francs was granted for his work broadening the perspective on the history of the Holocaust.

 

Goldstone, Jack received The Andrew Carnegie Foundation Fellowship, for 2020-2022, $200,000.

 

Goldstone, Jack also received: Charles Koch Foundation.  $1,183,000. Grant to the Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy for research and GRA support.  Grant awarded March 2019.  Ongoing, completion 2024;

 

  • NATO workshop grant (with visiting Fellow Suleyman Ozeren) $50,094. Grant Awarded January 2019.  Completed July 2020.

 

  • com (with Assoc. Prof. Justin Gest). $50,000. Grant to the Center for the Study of Social Change, Institutions and Policy for research on U.S. immigration. Grant Awarded January 2020. Completed, March 2021.

 

Tal, David – 2021-2022- The Jacob Rader Marcus Center of the American Jewish Archives (AJA)’s American Council for Judaism Fellowship- $2500.

 

Professional Appointments and Elected Positions

Carby-Hall, Jo is setting up the Centre for Maritime Law in Egypt 2021-2022.

 

Carby-Hall, Jo is an active member of the University of Hull Vice-Chancellor’s Circle (V-CC).

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • Affiliated Researcher, Management School, Queen’s University, Belfast (2021 -).
  • Member, Scientific Advisory Board of the Centre for Advanced Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University (2021 – ).
  • Vice President of The Association for Israel Studies (AIS) (2021 – ).
  • Affiliated Researcher, Swedish Institute of International Affairs, Stockholm (2021 – ).
  • Member, Hedley Bull Book Prize jury (2021 – ).

 

Drewry David, Vice-Chair and Non-executive Director of the UK National Commission for UNESCO (UKNC).

 

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert:

International Level

 

  • Academician, International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) (July 2019 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the Sustainability Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (February 2019 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the Transformational Evaluation for Transformational Development (TE-TD) Working Groupof the SDG Transformations Forum (May 2018 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the College of Assessors of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand (February 2018 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the Complex Systems Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the Philosophy Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to present).

 

  • Vice-President of the International Society for the Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2014 – Present).

 

  • Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (August 2014 – Present).

 

  • Member of the Editorial Board of the College Publications Systems Series (August 2013 – Present).

 

  • Member of the Scientific Council of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (Vienna, Austria) (January 2012 – Present).

 

  • Nominated to the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Disaster Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (May 2013 – Present).

 

  • Nominated to the Executive Council of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2003 – Present).

 

  • Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (September 2002 – Present).

 

 

National Level

 

  • Contributing advice on systemic leadership to the Strategic Framework and Open Innovation Teams in the Cabinet Office (February 2020 to present).

 

  • Appointed to the Review Board of the British Council Newton Fund (June 2018 to present).

 

  • Member of the Providers’ Committee of the Systems Thinking Apprenticeship Trailblazer Group (March 2017 to January 2020).

 

  • Appointed to the Expert Advisory Board for a research project on the resilience of fruit and vegetable supplies in the UK as part of the Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’, with support from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC and the Scottish Government (March 2017 to March 2020).

 

  • Appointed as a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute (June 2015 to present).

 

  • Elected to the Management Committee of the Community Operational Research Network (April 1993 – Present).

 

 

Smith, Simon:

  • External examiner, London School of Economics, Department of International History undergraduate programmes (2017- 2020)
  • Member of the Friends of the National Archives (2020-)
  • Member of the British-Yemeni Society (2020-)
  • Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2000-)
  • Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2007-)
  • Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (2005-)
  • Peer reviewing: Middle Eastern Studies, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Contemporary British History, Diplomacy and Statecraft, International Journal of Maritime History, International Security, Journal of Arabian Studies, The International History Review

 

 

Tal, David – 2019-2020- Research Fellow, S. Daniel Abraham Center for International and Regional Studies, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.

 

 

Zaky, Ahmed

  • Appointed as a language editor in The Academic Journal of Contemporary Commercial Research.
  • Peer reviewing for the Current Issues of Tourism.

 

 

Conference Organisation

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael. Co-Organizer Section on Human Rights and Justice in Exceptional Times, at the European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR), 30 August – 3 September 2021 (Online conference)

 

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert:

  • Member of the Scientific Committee of the 11th European Union of Systemics (EUS) and 17th National and International Helenic Society of the Systems Sciences (HSSS) Annual Congress, Athens, Greece, October 2021.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the Annual Conference of the National Research School on Management and IT, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2021.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of the 7th Research and Practice Conference on System Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, December 2020.

 

  • Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Computational Vision and Robotics (ICCVR-2020), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2020.

 

  • Member of the Program Committee of Systemic Economics, Socio-Economic Cybernetics and Soft Measurements in the Economy, Moscow, Russia, May 2020.

 

 

Tal, David – Co-organizer of Citizen as Diplomats Workshop (with Prof. Raanan Rein, Tel Aviv University) – financed by the British Council – 12/2021.

  • 2021-2022- Member of the 38th annual meeting of the Association of Israel Studies program committee in the area of History of the State of Israel

 

 

Publications

 

Books

 

Brener, Alan H., Housing and Financial Stability: Mortgage Lending and Macroprudential Policy in the UK and US (London: Routledge 2020).

 

Brener, Alan H., Strategies for Compliance: Tools, Techniques and Challenges in Financial Services (London: Routledge, 2021).

 

Cabrera D, Cabrera L and Midgley G (eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking (London: Routledge, 2021).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo.  (Co-editor) Rozne Oblicza Dyskryminacji W, Zatrudnieniu (Wolters Kluwer Polska, 2021).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo.  (Co-editor) Facets of Discrimination in Employment. International Legal Perspectives (Wolters Kluwer Law International, 2022).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo.  (Co-editor) Discrimination in Employment Law. Experiences from Selected Countries (London: Routledge, 2023).

 

Chakma, Bhumitra, South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020).

 

Chakma, Bhumitra, and Xiudian Dai, eds., The BRI and the Politics of Connectivity: Sino-Indian Rivalry in the 21st Century (London: Palgrave Macmillan, forthcoming).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: Liberalism, Culture and Coercion (New York and Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2021).

 

 

Dowty, Alan, Israel (Cambridge: Polity, 2021).

 

 

Drewry, David, The Land Beneath the Ice (Princeton, NJ.: Princeton University Press, 2022).

 

 

Goldstone, Jack, From Territorial Defeat to Global ISIS:  Lessons Learned

(co-edited with Eitan, Alimi, Suleyman Ozeren and Suat Cubukcu).  Amsterdam: IOS Press, for the NATO Science for Peace and Security Series, 2021.

 

Goldstone, Jack, New Waves of Revolutions in the 21st Century (co-edited with Leonid Grinin and Andrey Korotayev) (New York: Springer, 2021).

 

Goldstone, Jack, Handbook of Population Policies, (co-edited with John May).  (New York: Springer, 2022).

 

Goldstone, Jack, Revolution and Rebellion in the Early Modern World, Chinese Translation by Yanjie Zhang with new foreword (Shanghai: Shanghai Publishing House, 2021).

 

Goldstone, Jack, 15 Billion – The Challenges of Global Population Change for Democracy, Security and Prosperity, under contract with Oxford University Press, forthcoming in 2022.

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 3: The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175-4 BCE) (Library of Second Temple Studies 95; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2020), pp. xxv + 609.  ISBN 978-0-567-69294-8.

 

Grabbe, Lester L. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 4: The Jews under the Roman Shadow (4 BCE–150 CE) (Library of Second Temple Studies 99; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2021), pp. xxiii + 638.  ISBN 978-0-567-70070-4.

 

Grabbe, Lester L. The Dawn of Israel: A History of Canaan in the Second Millennium BCE (London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

 

Hazan, Reuven Y., Alan Dowty, Menachem Hofnung, and Gideon Rahat (eds.), The Oxford Handbook of Israeli Politics and Society (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2021).

 

 

Smith, Simon, Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire, 1971-1981: Kuwait Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (London: Routledge, 2020; paperback edition).

 

 

Tal, David The Making of an Alliance: The Origins and Development of the US-Israel Relationship, Cambridge University Press (due November 2021).

 

 

Articles

 

Bammer G, O’Rourke MO, O’Connell DO, Neuhauser L, Midgley G, Klein JT, Grigg NJ, Gadlin H, Elsum IR, Bursztyn M, Fulton EA, Pohl C, Smithson M, Vilsmaier U, Bergmann M, Jaeger J, Merkx F, Vienni Baptista B, Burgman MA, Walker DH, Young J, Bradbury H, Crawford L, Haryanto B, Pachanee C, Polk M and Richardson GP (2020). Expertise in Research Integration and Implementation for Tackling Complex Problems: When is it Needed, Where can it be Found and How can it be Strengthened? Palgrave Communications, 6, 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0380-0

 

 

Bielby, P. (2021). ‘Beyond Surviving to Thriving: The Case for a ‘Compassion towards Thriving’ Approach in Public Mental Health Ethics’. Public Health Ethics, 1-19. Advance online publication, 19 August 2021. DOI: 10.1093/phe/phab023.

 

Brener, Alan H., “EU Payment Services Regulation and international developments”, in Gundula Deipenbrock and Iris Chiu (eds.), Handbook of financial technology and law (London: Routledge, 2021).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo

  • “The Gig Economy. Quid Juris?”  in Annals of Administrative Law (Humanitas, 2022).
  • “L’Affaire Uber. Une Analyse”, Revue du Droit Compare du Travail et de La Securite Sociale (November 2021) (in French).
  • “The Uber Case. An Analysis”, Revue du Droit Compare du Travail et de La Securite Sociale (December 2021).
  • “The Evolutionary Tract of Philosophical Beliefs Constituting Protected Characteristics in British Discrimination Law” in the English Edition of the “Revue du Droit Compare du Travail et de la Securite Sociale” 2021 Volume 4 (To be published in December 2021).

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

·         «Indivisibilité, Sécurité, Laïcité: The French ban on the burqa and the niqab”, French Politics (19 October 2021). https://doi.org/10.1057/s41253-021-00164-8

  • “Lessons from Peace Negotiations: Interview with Ehud Olmert”, Israel Affairs (published online 1 November 2021). https://doi.org/10.1080/13537121.2021.1993000
  • “Google and Corporate Social Responsibility: YouTube in the Service of Terrorism”, Terrorism & Political Violence (2021).
  • “Why Separate State and Religion?”, Israel Studies, Vol. 27(2) (2022).
  • “Why Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism?”, Special Symposium on Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: Liberalism, Culture and Coercion, Philosophia (2022).
  • “Reply to Commentaries on Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: Liberalism, Culture and Coercion”, Philosophia (2022).

 

 

Connelly, James M., “Moral action, collective action, and responsibility for climate change”, Marmara Journal of European Studies, 28(2), 203-19, 2020.

 

 

Drewry, David, has written short articles on global climate change highlighting impacts in several regions including the Middle East and North Africa (eg. “Climate Culture Catastrophe” (https://unesco.org.uk/climate-culture-catastrophe/).

 

 

Foote J, Midgley G, Ahuriri-Driscoll A, Hepi M and Earl-Goulet J (2021). Systemic Evaluation of Community Environmental Management Programmes. European Journal of Operational Research, 288, 207-224.

 

 

Goldstone, Jack, “Demography and Democracy” (with Larry Diamond). Perspectives on Politics (Q1), Volume 18, Issue 3, September 2020, pp. 867-880.

 

Goldstone, Jack, “Dating the Great Divergence,” lead essay with comments by Stephen Broadberry, Paolo Malanima, and Jan Luiten van Zanden & Jutta Bolt, and my reply “Why Understanding the Timing of Divergence Matters.” Forthcoming in Journal of Global History (Q1), Volume 16, Issue 3, 2021, pp. 266-285 and 309-314.

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L.

  • “History of Religion”, in Samuel E. Balentine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2020).
  • “The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History?” in Sylvie Honigman, Christophe Nihan and Oded Lipschits (eds), Times of Transition: Judea in the Early Hellenistic Period (Mosaics: Studies on Ancient Israel 1; Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2021), 19-29.
  • “Daniel and Daniel apocalyptica”, in Hilary Marlow, Karla Pollmann, and Helen Van Noorden (eds), Eschatology in Antiquity: Forms and Functions (Rewriting Antiquity; London and New York: Routledge, 2021), 90-102.
  • “Israel under Persia and Greece”, in Katharine J. Dell (ed.), The Biblical World (2nd edn; The Routledge Worlds; London and New York: Routledge, 2021), 538-53.

 

 

Gregory A, Atkins J, Midgley G and Hodgson A (2020). Stakeholder Identification and Engagement in Problem Structuring Interventions. European Journal of Operational Research, 283, 321-340.

 

Hansen AR, Ingram JSI and Midgley G (2020). Negotiating Food Systems Resilience. Nature Food, 1, 519.

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, wrote forewords to two collections published by an American and an Indian university.

 

 

Sydelko P, Midgley G and Espinosa A (2021). Designing Interagency Responses to Wicked Problems: Creating a Common, Cross-Agency Understanding. European Journal of Operational Research, 294, 250-263.

 

 

Tal, David – 2021 – “United States – Israel Relations (1953-1957) Revisited,” Israel Studies, Vol. 26, No 1 (Spring), 24-46.

 

 

Zaky, A., Saxena, G., & Jayawardhena, C., (2021). Conceptualising the role of marketing strategies of tourism providers in inducing risk‐taking behaviour. International Journal of Tourism Research.

 

 

Book Chapters

 

Burgess, Glenn (2021). Thomas Hobbes, Sovereign Representation, and the English Revolution.  In, Reading Texts on Sovereignty. Achilleos, Stella & Ballasopoulos, Antonis (eds). Bloomsbury, London.

 

 

Cabrera D, Cabrera L and Midgley G (2021). The Four Waves of Systems Thinking. In, Handbook of Systems Thinking. Cabrera, D., Cabrera, L. and Midgley, G. (eds.). Routledge, London.

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, “The Gig Economy. Quid Juris” in “Annals of Administration and Law” Humanitas University Press Professor G. Borski (Editor)

Carby-Hall, Jo, “Ethical Veganism as a Philosophical Belief is a Protected Characteristic under British Discrimination Laws in a Evolving Society” in “Facets of Discrimination in Employment. International Perspectives”, in Jo Carby-Hall, Zbigniew Goral, Aneta Tyc (Co-editors) 2022.

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • “The End of self-Regulation: On the Role of Internet intermediaries in Countering Terror”, in Jack Goldstone et al (eds.), The Post ISIS-era: Regional and Global Implications (The Netherlands: IOS Press, 2021): 215-238.
  • “Coercion by the Orthodox Minority in Israel”, in Francois Boucher and Jean-François Caron (eds.), 25thanniversary of Will Kymlicka’s Multicultural Citizenship (London: Palgrave, 2022).
  • “Freedom of Expression v Social Responsibility: The Charlie Hebdo Affair”, in Richard Keeble (ed.), It’s the Media, Stupid: Essays in Honour of Brian Winston Festschrift (Abramis, of Bury St Edmunds, 2022).
  • “Holocaust Denial and the Abuse of Education”, in Joanna Długosz-Jóźwiak et al (eds.), Festschrift Joerden (Europa-Universität Viadrina Frankfurt Oder, 2022).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, and Uki Maroshek-Klarman, “Gender Discrimination in Israel”, Aneta Tyc, Zbigniew Góral, and Jo Carby-Hall (eds.), Discrimination (Dordrecht: Wolters-Kluwer, 2022).

 

 

Connelly, James M., “The Possibility of Progress: Civilisation and History in the Philosophy of R.G. Collingwood”, in Etica, Politica, Soria Universale, ed. G. Rinaldi and G. Cerretani, Aracne, 2020, pp.283-304.

 

 

Dowty, Alan, “How It Began: Origins of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.”  In Asaf Siniver, ed., Routledge Companion on the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict.  Second edition.  (Abington, UK: Routledge, forthcoming).

 

 

Goldstone, Jack

  • “Foreword,” in Age of Rogues: Rebels, Revolutionaries and Racketeers at the Frontiers of Empires, eds. Ramazan Hakki Öztan and Alp Yenen. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2021, pp. xviii-xxiii.
  • “Population, Rebellion and Revolution,” in Elgar Research Agendas: Political Demography, edited by Jennifer Sciubba.  London: Edward Elgar.  Accepted and scheduled for publication in 2021.
  • “1769—Dartmouth, Machines and Modernity,” in Dartmouth and the World: Religion and Political Economy in the Long Eighteenth Century, edited by Henry C. Clarke. Fairleigh Dickenson University Press/Rowman & Littlefield. Accepted and scheduled for publication in 2021.
  • “Will COVID-19 Bring Down Governments?  Will it bring Rebellions and Revolutions?” in Pandemics: A Multi-Disciplinary Approach, edited by Philippe Bourbeau, Jean-Michel Marcoux and Brooke A. Ackerly. Under Contract with Oxford University Press. In review.

 

 

Hobbs C and Midgley G (2020). How Systems Thinking Enhances Systems Leadership. In, Systems Leadership in the Public Sector. O’Sullivan, O. and Webber, C. (eds.). National Leadership Centre, London.

 

Midgley G (2021). The Systemic Intervention Approach. In, Routledge Handbook of Systems Thinking. Cabrera, D., Cabrera, L. and Midgley, G. (eds.). Routledge, London.

 

Midgley G and Rajagopalan R (2021). Critical Systems Thinking, Systemic Intervention and Beyond. In, The Handbook of Systems Science. Kijima, K., Deguchi, H. and Metcalf, G. (eds.). Springer, New York.

 

Midgley G (2020). Foreword. In, Immersive Systemic Knowing: Rational Analysis and Beyond. Rajagopalan, R. (author). Springer, New York.

 

 

Smith, Simon, ‘Managing and Mismanaging Departure: The South Arabian Federation and the United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective’, in Clive Jones and Noel Brehony (eds.), Britain’s Departure from Aden and South Arabia: Without Glory but Without Disaster (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2020)

 

 

 

Encyclopedia and Handbook Entries

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • “Tolerating Racism and Hate Speech: A Critique of C.E. Baker’s ‘Almost’ Absolutism”, in Mitja Sardoc (ed.), The Palgrave Handbook of Toleration (Cham: Palgrave, 2021). https://link.springer.com/referencework/10.1007%2F978-3-030-03227-2
  • “John Stuart Mill”, The Hebrew Encyclopaedia (Tel Aviv: Schocken, 2021, Hebrew).
  • “Ehud Olmert”, The Hebrew Encyclopaedia (Tel Aviv: Schocken, 2021, Hebrew).
  • “Cultural Diversity”, in Mitja Sardoc (ed.), Encyclopedia of Diversity(Dordrecht: Springer, forthcoming).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, and Amos Guiora, “Democracy and Security in Israel”, in Leonard Weinberg, Elizabeth Francis et al (Editors), Routledge Handbook of Democracy and Security (London and New York: Routledge, 2021): 172-190.

 

 

Invited Articles

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • “Genuine, Principled and Tactical Compromise”, Studia Iuridica Lublinensia, Vol. 30(2) (2021): 11-31.
  • “Bullying, Cyberbullying and Parental Responsibility”, International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST), Vol. 8(2) (2021): 1-20.
  • “Israel Ethnic Democracy”, Berkley Forum (August 6, 2021).
  • “The Future of the Internet”, Academia Letters, Article 1962 (2021). https://doi.org/10.20935/AL1962

 

 

Articles in Conference Proceedings

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Hate Speech, Holocaust Denial and Facebook”, ISGAP-Oxford Summer Institute in Critical Antisemitism Studies in Curriculum Development, in Cahrles A. Small (ed.), Antsemitism and Pedagogy (Oxford: ISGAP, 2021).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israel Facing Covid-19”, Public Governance, Administration and Finances Law Review, Vol. 6. No. 1. (2021) 7–17.

 

 

Published interviews

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Just, Reasonable Multinationalism, Vital Interests, Fordham University, New York: https://www.centeronnationalsecurity.org/vital-interests-issue-87-raphael-cohen-almagor

 

 

Research Reports

 

Espinosa A, Midgley G, Vachkova M and Walker J (2021). Review of the Hull University Teaching Hospitals (HUTH) Trust’s COVID Response in the First and Second Waves: Overview Report. Centre for Systems Studies client report to the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

Espinosa A, Midgley G, Vachkova M and Walker J (2021). Technical Report: Review of HUTH’s Covid Response. Centre for Systems Studies client report to the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

Helfgott A and Midgley G (2020). Exploring Boundaries in Food Systems Research: Implications for Projects on UK Food Security. Global Food Security Programme, Swindon.

 

Powell L and Midgley G (2020). Active Withernsea Deep Dive Report to Sport England: Inequalities Impacting on Physical Activity, and Policies to Mitigate or Prevent Those Inequalities. East Riding of Yorkshire Council, Beverley.

 

Vachkova M, Midgley G, Espinosa A and Walker J (2021). Review of the Hull University Teaching Hospital (HUTH) Trust’s COVID Response: Interim Report. Centre for Systems Studies client report to the Hull University Teaching Hospitals NHS Trust.

 

 

Blogs

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael (2021). A theory of just, reasonable multiculturalism, LSE, https://blogs.lse.ac.uk/europpblog/2021/09/29/a-theory-of-just-reasonable-multiculturalism/

 

 

Hobbs C and Midgley G (2021). How Systems Thinking Enhances Systems Leadership. Integration and Implementation Insights, https://i2insights.org/2021/04/13/systems-thinking-and-leadership/?fbclid=IwAR3NZm6tYHsyzM5Z5Cgwq7t7XOxCi_aol2IwwGLElulRxrGmuPWkiE_m-ds

 

 

Editorial Boards of Journals

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, international board member, International Journal of Doctrine, Judiciary and Legislation by the Egyptian Judiciary in Arabic, French and English.

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • Editorial Board, Open Journal of Philosophy, (2011-2015, 2021).
  • Advisory Board, NIU Journal of Social Sciences (2020 – ).
  • Associate Editor, International Journal of Smart Security Technologies (IJSST), (2021 – ).
  • Editorial Board, Siberian Law Review (2021 – ).
  • Editorial Board, Journal of Media Ethics (2021 – ).

 

 

Goldstone, Jack: Editorial Board:  Russian Economic Review

 

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert:

  • International Journal of Systems and Society (November 2019 to May 2020).
  • Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (from August 2020).
  • Journal of Systems Thinking (from April 2021).
  • Modernization. Innovation. Research (from March 2021).
  • World Futures (from May 2021).

 

 

Smith, Simon:

International Advisory Board, Journal of Maltese History (2008 – )

 

 

Tal, David – (2020 – ) Editorial Board, Israel Studies series, McGill-Queen’s University Press.

 

 

Journal and Book Series Editing

 

Grabbe, Lester L.

Editor of the monograph series, Library of Second Temple Studies, for Bloomsbury T & T Clark, London.

 

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert:

  • Co-editing a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science on the work and influence of Alexandre Bogdanov, with a 2022 deadline (with O. Senalp).

 

  • Co-editing a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science with the title ‘Festschrift for Mike Jackson’ (with RL Flood).

 

  • Co-editing a special issue of Systems Research and Behavioral Science on systemic innovation, with a 2022 deadline (with E Lindhult and S Sankaran).

 

  • Editing a book series for Routledge on systems thinking.

 

 

Keynote/Plenary Addresses, Lectures, Conferences and Seminars

 

Afanassieva, Marianne, online Doctoral Colloquium session of the EURAM (European Academy of Management) conference “Reshaping capitalism for a sustainable world” 14-15 June 2021.

 

 

Brener, Alan H., Book Launch of his two books: Housing and Financial Stability and Strategies for Compliance, UCL Centre for Ethics and Law (May 2021).

this year for his two books. The publications are:

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, Association Africaine du Droit du Travail annual conference. Paper on the Gig Economy. February 2021.

  • Paper on United Nations Global Compact, Buenos Aires (July 2021).
  • Fifth Belvedere Forum on line -Discussant (15th September, 2021).

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael

  • “From Hate Speech to Hate Crime to Terrorism”, 74th Dies Natalis conference, Groningen, The Netherlands (25 November 2021).
  • “Coercion by the Orthodox Minority in Israel”, Multicultural Citizenship 25 years later, Université Paris 1-Panthéon Sorbonne (18-19 November 2020, online).
  • “Google and Corporate Social Responsibility: YouTube in the Service of Hate Speech, Hate Crimes and Terrorism”, Sixth International Conference on Hate Studies (4-6 November 2021) (Online conference).
  • “Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism: The Challenge of Multiculturalism in Israel”. European Association of Israel Studies (10-12 October 2021) (Online conference).
  • “Human Rights and Justice in Exceptional Times. Track and Trace in Israel: Promoting Health Rights and Invading Privacy Right”, European Consortium for Political Research (ECPR) (30 August – 3 September 2021) (Online conference).
  • “Is there a “right” to ridicule? The Charlie Hebdo Affair”, International Society for Public Law’s ICON•S Annual Conference (6-9 July 2021, Online conference).
  • “Israel Facing COVID-19: Challenges, Problems and Successes”, Pandemic and Governance: Towards an Approximation of Covid-19’s Legal, Administrative, Fiscal and Political Dilemmas, The Eötvös József Research Centre of the University of Public Service, Budapest (30 June 2021) (Online conference).
  • “From Hate Speech to Hate Crime to Terrorism”, Contemporary Extremism: Manifestations and Responses, University of Huddersfield (31 March 2021) (Online conference).
  • “Ethics, Academic Freedom and Politics”, International Teaching Month, Institute of Law, Nirma University, India (10-22 February 2021) (Online conference).
  • “Bonding: American Relationships with Israel 1956-2000”, Limmud Manchester (7 February 2021) (Online conference).
  • Book celebrations: “Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism”, School of Global Studies, University of Gothenburg (2 September 2021); Centre on Human Rights in Conflict, University of East London (20 October 2021); Faculty of Law, University of Reading (27 October 2021); UCL Centre for Ethics and Law (4 November 2021); Faculty of Business, Law and Politics, University of Hull (12 November 2021, 8 December 2021, 27 April 2022); Sdeh Boker, Ben-Gurion University (30 November 2021); Queen’s University, Belfast (15 December 2021); Limmud Manchester (6 February 2022); Lund University and Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs (forthcoming).
  • “Arafat, Barak and Clinton at Camp David: Clashes of Characters and Conduct”, Queen’s University Belfast (2 June 2021).
  • “The 2021 Israeli Election”, Meretz UK (12 April 2021, online).
  • “Taking Hate Seriously: The Scope and the Challenge of Hate Speech on the Internet”, ISGAP (2 March 2021, online).

 

 

Connelly, James M., “Environmental justice and sustainability”, Marmara University Conference on Sustainability, 9th December 2020.

  • “Rewilding History”, Institute of Historical Research, November 26th 2020
  • “War, Idealism and Christian ethics”, Centre for Idealism and New Liberalism, University of Hull, 25th November 2020.

 

 

Drewry, David

  • Panel member for British Council event “Britain as a Science Super-power”.
  • Speaker at the presentations’ ceremony for the L’Oreal-UNESCO “Women in Science” Awards.
  • UNESCO Heritage Conference (February 2021).

 

 

Goldstone, Jack

  • Lecture on China’s global strategy, MacKinder Forum, 8/22/20
  • Lecture on Demographic Transition in Africa, UK Foreign Commonwealth and Development Office, 10/08/2020
  • Lecture on Revolutions, Oxford University, Public Philosophy event 10/29/20
  • Presentation on Global Population Issues, Cascade Institute, Vancouver,

Canada, 11/13/20.

  • Lecture on China’s foreign policy, Greenspring Foreign Policy Series, 11/20/20
  • Participant, German Ministry for Economic Cooperation and Development conference on “Population Changes in Africa – Impact on Security, Governance, and Development,” 3/23/21.
  • Participant, CATO Workshop on “Exploring the Role of Freedom in Human Progress,” 3/31/21.
  • Presenter, Panel on George Lawson’s Anatomies of Revolution, International Studies Association annual meeting, 4/7/21.
  • Participant, Workshop on forecasting future scenarios for Africa, sponsored by the Gordon Institute of Business Science, University of Pretoria, and the African Institute for Security Studies. 5/18-5/19/21.

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L.

Apocalypse How? Toward a Revised Definition, with Persian  Examples”, paper read at the conference, Apocalypticism 2021, the 11th Enoch Seminar / LMU Munich Congress on Apocalypticism in Antiquity, an online conference, 23-27 May, 2021.

 

 

Midgley, Gerald Robert

  • Systems East and West 2.0, Sepang, Malaysia, November 2021.
  • 11th European Union for Systemics (EUS) and 17th National and International Helenic Society for the Systems Sciences (HSSS) Annual Congress, Athens, Greece, October 2021.

 

  • 16th Brazilian Systems Congress, Municipal de Franca, Brazil, October 2021.
  • 65th Annual Meeting of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (ISSS), Kentucky USA, July 2021.
  • Annual Conference of the National Research School on Management and IT, Uppsala, Sweden, May 2021.
  • Two keynotes at the 4th International Conference on Global Entrepreneurial University Metrics, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 2021.
  • 6th International Research and Practice Conference on Systems Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, December 2020.
  • 16th National and International Helenic Society for the Systems Sciences (HSSS) Annual Conference, Tripoli, Greece, September 2020.
  • Annual Scientific and Practical Conference on System Economics, Socio-Economic Cybernetics, and Soft Measurements in the Economy, Moscow, Russia, May 2020.
  • Systems Leadership Workshop for the Cabinet Office’s National Leadership Centre, Bristol, UK, February 2020.

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu delivered three major addresses via online platforms on different aspects of Gandhi’s philosophy and politics to various audiences in India.

 

 

Tal, David

“The sleeping giant of Christian Zionism has awakened’: The Israeli Right and the Evangelicals,” Centre for the Study of the United States, Tel Aviv University, June 17, 2021.

“The Making of an Alliance: The Origins of the Israeli – American Special Relationships,” Middle East Study Group, University of Hull, Hull, UK, November 25, 2020 (online).

“Israel’s Victory in the June 1967 War and the Idea of Occidentalism”, International Baltic Military History Conference: Small but Capable? Quality against Mass in Military History, Tartu, Estonia, 22–23 September 2020 (online).

 

 

 

International Service

 

Goldstone, Jack:

  • Chair of Political Science Unit, Research Evaluation Exercise 2020 for Hong Kong Public Universities 2020

This was major professional service involving review of over 150 books, articles,

and department plans and reports from all faculty in all departments of political

science and public policy in Hong Kong’s eight public universities.  These were

then discussed and rated in both small group discussions and four major meetings, held by ZOOM over six months.

  • Chair of External Review Committee: For Candidate for promotion at Hadassah College of Jerusalem. Solicited six international scholars to write outside letters, chaired committee of three (myself and two Israeli scholars from other universities) and wrote report on the outside letters and committee deliberations.

 

 

 

MESG Significant achievements – 2018-2020

MESG Significant achievements – December 2020

 

Honorary Chairs

Carby-Hall, Jo, Honorary Chair, Andrzej Frycz Modrzewski Kraków University, Poland (since 2005).

Carby-Hall, Jo, Honorary Chair, University of Bordeaux, France (since 2003).

Chair

Shah, Niaz A. secured a Personal Chair in Law in August 2018.

Awards

Midgley, Gerald, was admitted as an Academician to the International Academy for Systems and Cybernetic Sciences (IASCYS) (2019).

 

Certification

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Senior Fellow of the British Higher Education Academy (2018).

 

Zaky, Ahmed, Passport to Teaching, Faculty of Business, Law, and Politics, University of Hull (2019).

 

Professional Appointments

Brener, Alan was appointed Deputy Director of the Centre for Ethics and Law, UCL. https://www.ucl.ac.uk/ethics-law/

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Inaugural Member of the Advisory Committee, Initiative on Youth-oriented Online Hate, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (2014-2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Board member, Global Listening Center (2017 -).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Board member, Association for Israel Studies (AIS) (2017-2021); Board member, AIS Committee on Academic Freedom (2019 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Chair, Shapiro Prize for best book in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies (2017-2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Ethics and Policy Initiative, Durham University (2017 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Media Policy Index Panel of Experts (2018 -).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Steering Committee, ECPR Standing Group on Human Rights & Transitional Justice (2020 -).

 

Drewry, David, Strategic Advisory Board, Oxford University Polar Forum (2019- ).

 

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the Sustainability Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (February 2019 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the Transformational Evaluation for Transformational Development (TE-TD) Working Group of the SDG Transformations Forum (May 2018 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the College of Assessors of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand (February 2018 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the Complex Systems Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the Philosophy Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Doctoral Advisory Committee of the Leadership and Systemic Innovation Program at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina (March 2016 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Vice-President of the International Society for the Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2014 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (August 2014 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Editorial Board of the College Publications Systems Series (August 2013 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Nominated to the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Disaster Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (May 2013 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Scientific Council of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (Vienna, Austria) (January 2012 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Nominated to the Executive Council of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2003 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (September 2002 – Present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed to the Review Board of the British Council Newton Fund (June 2018 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Appointed as a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute (June 2015 to present).

Midgley, Gerald, Elected to the Management Committee of the Community Operational Research Network (April 1993 – Present).

Smith, Simon, External examiner, London School of Economics, Department of International History undergraduate programmes (2017- )

Smith, Simon, Member of the Friends of the National Archives Council (2020-)

Smith, Simon, Member of the British-Yemeni Society (2020-)

Smith, Simon, Fellow of the Royal Historical Society (2000-)

Smith, Simon, Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (2007-)

Smith, Simon, Fellow of the Royal Asiatic Society (2005-)

Visiting Professorships and Scholarship

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Visiting Professor, Nirma University, Institute of Law, India (January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Visiting Scholar, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich (August-September 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, ISGAP Fellow (2020 – ).

 

Midgley, Gerald, January 2020 to Present: Visiting Professor, Department of Informatics, Faculty of Technology, Linnaeus University, Växjö, Sweden.

Midgley, Gerald, July 2012 to Present: Visiting Professor, School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna, Sweden.

Midgley, Gerald, January 2008 to Present: Adjunct Professor in the School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.

Midgley, Gerald, January 2007 to Present: Adjunct Professor in the School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.

Midgley, Gerald, July 2005 to Present: Adjunct Professor in the Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand. Supervising a Ph.D. student and contributing to the research of the school.

 

Publications

Bammer G, O’Rourke MO, O’Connell DO, Neuhauser L, Midgley G, Klein JT, Grigg NJ, Gadlin H, Elsum IR, Bursztyn M, Fulton EA, Pohl C, Smithson M, Vilsmaier U, Bergmann M, Jaeger J, Merkx F, Vienni Baptista B, Burgman MA, Walker DH, Young J, Bradbury H, Crawford L, Haryanto B, Pachanee C, Polk M and Richardson GP (2020). Expertise in Research Integration and Implementation for Tackling Complex Problems: When is it Needed, Where can it be Found and How can it be Strengthened? Palgrave Communications, 6, 5. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-019-0380-0

 

Bielby, Phil, “Not ‘us’ and ‘them’: towards a normative legal theory of mental health vulnerability”, International Journal of Law in Context, vol. 15(1) (2019): 51-67.

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, and Lourdes Mella Mendez (Eds), Labour Law and the Gig Economy: Challenges Posed by the Digitalisation of Labour Processes (London: Routledge, 2020).

Carby-Hall, Jo, and Lourdes Mella Mendez (Eds), Regulating the Platform Economy (London: Routledge, 2020).

Carby-Hall, Jo, Worker Participation in Europe (London: Routledge, 2018)

Carby-Hall, Jo, “Multinationals, SMEs and Non-Profit Organisations Participating in the UN Global Compact”, in Jose Luis Gil y Gil and Dr Tatsiana Ushahova (Eds) (Spain: Lex Social, 2020): pp.130 –173.

Carby-Hall, Jo, « Le Dialogue Social au Royaume Uni », in Philippe Auvergnon and Chrystal Kenoukon (Eds) , Enjeux et Realites du Dialogue Social dans les Pays de L’Espace OHADA et Ailleurs dans le Monde (Paris: L’Harmattan, 2018): 435–447.

 

Chakma, Bhumitra, South Asian Regionalism: The Limits of Cooperation (Bristol: Bristol University Press, 2020); https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/south-asian-regionalism

Chakma, Bhumitra, “The BRI and Sino-Indian Geo-Economic Competition in Bangladesh: Coping Strategy of a Small State”, Strategic Analysis, vol. 54, no. 3 (2019), pp. 227-239.

Chakma, Bhumitra, “Security Perceptions and Practices of the Indigenous People of the Chittagong Hill Tracts in Bangladesh”, International Quarterly for Asian Studies, vol. 49, nos. 1-2 (2018), pp. 79-100.

Chakma, Bhumitra, “SAARC and region-building: Is South Asia a Region?”, Journal of Indian Ocean Region, vol. 14, no. 2 (2018), pp. 189-205.

Chakma, Bhumitra was Guest edited a special issue of Strategic Analysis, vol. 43, no. 3 (2019); special issue on “The BRI and India’s Neighbourhood: Geopolitics of Connectivity”. PS: the guest editor’s introduction is the third most read piece in the history of the journal: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/09700161.2019.1607030

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Discrimination against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 45, No. 2 (2018): 290–310.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “When A Ritual Murder Occurred at Purim. The Harm in Hate Speech”, El profesional de la información, Vol. 27, No. 3 (2018): 671-681, https://recyt.fecyt.es/index.php/EPI/issue/view/3351/showToc

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Addressing Internet Dangerous Expressions: Deliberative Democracy and CleaNet ©”, Journal of Internet Law, Vol. 21, No. 11 (May 2018): 3-15.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Oslo Peace Process: Interview with Joel Singer”, Israel Affairs, Vol. 24, No. 5 (2018): 733–766.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Between Individual Rights and Group Rights”, Academicus ISJ, Vol. 18 (2018): 9-25. http://www.academicus.edu.al/?subpage=volumes&nr=18

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Cyberterrorism”, in Barney Warf (ed.), SAGE Encyclopedia of the Internet (Thousand Oaks, CA.: SAGE Publications Inc., 2018): 169-171.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “In Support of Two-State Solution”, Youth Law Journal (12 November 2018), https://www.theylj.co.uk/in-support-of-two-state-solution/

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Interview with Former Head of Mossad Shabtai Shavit”, Fathom (January 2019), http://fathomjournal.org/there-is-a-window-of-opportunity-to-resolve-our-conflict-with-the-palestinians-an-interview-with-former-mossad-director-general-shabtai-shavit/

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Racism and Hate Speech – A Critique of Scanlon’s Contractual Theory”, First Amendment Studies, Vol. 53 (2019): 41-66.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Keys for Peace in the Middle East: Interview with Ambassador Itamar Rabinovich”, Israel Affairs, Vol. 25, No. 4 (2019): 699-725.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israel-PLO Peace Process: Interview with Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer”, Israel Studies, Vol. 24, No. 3 (2019): 127-156.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Lessons from the Israeli-Egyptian Peace Talks: An Interview with Aharon Barak”, Israel Studies Review, Vol. 34, Issue 2 (Autumn 2019): 1–32.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Should Liberal Government Regulate Male Circumcision Performed in the Name of Jewish Tradition?”, SN Social Sciences, Vol. 1, Article 8 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s43545-020-00011-7 (published online 9 November 2020).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “History of Track II Peace Negotiations: Interview with Hussein Agha”, Israel Studies, Vol. 26(1) (2021): 47-72.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, and Mohammed S. Wattad, “The Legal Status of Israeli-Arabs/Palestinians”, GNLU Law & Society Review, Vol. 1 (March 2019): 1-28.

 

Connelly, James, D. Carrick and D. Whetham (eds.), Making the Military Moral (London: Routledge, 2020).

Connelly, James, “Can Historians be Impartial”, New History, Vol. 23 (2019): 1-16 [in Chinese]

 

Fazey I, Schäpke N, Patterson J, Hultman J, van Mierlo B, Säwe F, Caniglia G, Wiek A, Wittmayer J, Paulina Aldunce J, Al Waer H, Battacharya N, Bradbury H, Carmen E, Colvin J, Cvitanovic C, D’Souza M, Göpel M, Goldstein B, Hämäläinen T, Harper G, Henfry T, Hodgson A, Howden MS, Kerr A, Klaes M, Lyon C, Midgley G, Moser S, Mukherjee N, Müller K, O’Brien K, O’Connell DA, Olsson P, Page G, Reed MS, Searle B, Silvestri G, Spaiser V, Strasser T, Tschakert P, Uribe-Calvo N, Waddell S, Rao-Williams J, Wise R, Wolstenholme R, Woods M and Wyborn C., “Ten Essentials for Action-Oriented and Second Order Energy Transitions, Transformations and Climate Change Research”, Energy Research and Social Science, 40 (2018): 54-70.

 

Grabbe. Lester L.,. A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 3: The Maccabaean Revolt, Hasmonaean Rule, and Herod the Great (175-4 BCE) (Library of Second Temple Studies 95; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2020), pp. xxv + 609.  ISBN 978-0-567-69294-8.

Grabbe. Lester L.,  A History of the Jews and Judaism in the Second Temple Period 4: The Jews under the Roman Shadow (4 BCE–150 CE) (Library of Second Temple Studies ; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

Grabbe. Lester L., (ed.).  “Not Even God Can Alter the Past”:  Reflections on 16 Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology (LHBOTS 663; ESHM 11; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018), pp. xvi + 240.  ISBN 978-0-567-68056-3.

Grabbe. Lester L., (ed.).  The Hebrew Bible and History: Critical Readings (Critical Readings in Biblical Studies; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2019), pp. xxi + 564.  ISBN 978-0-567-67267-4.

Grabbe. Lester L., “The Oral, the Written, the Forgotten, the Remembered: Studies in Historiography and their Implications for Ancient Israel”, in Lester L. Grabbe (ed.), “Even God Cannot Change the Past”: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology (LHBOTS 663; ESHM 11; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018), 125-51.

Grabbe. Lester L., “Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology: A Personal View of the Results”, in Lester L. Grabbe (ed.), “Even God Cannot Change the Past”: Reflections on Seventeen Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology (LHBOTS 663; ESHM 11; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2018), 215-31.

Grabbe. Lester L., “Prophets in the Chronicler: The Books of 1 and 2 Chronicles and Ezra-Nehemiah”, in Christopher A. Rollston (ed.), Enemies and Friends of the State: Ancient Prophecy in Context (University Park, PA: Eisenbrauns, 2018), 297-310.

Grabbe. Lester L., “Iron Age: Tribes to Monarchy”, in Robert G. Hoyland and H. G. M. Williamson (eds), The Oxford Illustrated History of the Holy Land (Oxford University Press, 2018), 33-60.

Grabbe. Lester L., “What Did Author of Acts Know about Pre-70 Judaism?” in J. Harold Ellens, Isaac W. Oliver, Jason von Ehrenkrook, James Waddell, and Jason M. Zurawski (eds), Wisdom Poured Out Like Water: Studies on Jewish and Christian Antiquity in Honor of Gabriele Boccaccini (Deuterocanonical and Cognate Literature Studies 38; Berlin/New York: De Gruyter, 2018), 450-62.

Grabbe. Lester L., “Cultic Prophets Déja vu”, in Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ed.), Prophecy and Its Cultic Dimensions (JAJSup 31; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2019), 39-49.

Grabbe. Lester L., “The Writings in the Early Postexilic Period (Cyrus through Ezra-Nehemiah)”, in Donn F. Morgan (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Writings of the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2019), 19-32.

Grabbe. Lester L., “History of Religion”, in Samuel E. Balentine (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Ritual and Worship in the Hebrew Bible (Oxford University Press, 2020).

 

Gregory A, Atkins J, Midgley G and Hodgson A., “Stakeholder Identification and Engagement in Problem Structuring Interventions”, European Journal of Operational Research, 283 (2020): 321-340.

 

Hobbs C and Midgley G., “How Systems Thinking Enhances Systems Leadership”. In O’Sullivan, O. and Webber, C. (eds.), Systems Leadership in the Public Sector (London: National Leadership Centre, 2020).

 

Iqbal, Khurshid, and Niaz A Shah, “Defining Terrorism in Pakistani Terrorism laws: A Comparative Jurisprudential Analysis”, Global Journal of Comparative Law 7 (2018): 272 – 302. 

 

Iqbal, Khurshid, and Niaz A Shah ‘Civil Disputes Leading to Crimes: A Baseline Study of Terrorism Affected North Western Pakistan’ The Australian Journal of Asian Law, Vol 18(1), 1-17.   

 

La Torre, Massimo, Il diritto contro se stesso: Saggio sul positivismo giuridico e la sua crisi (Olschki: Firenze 2020).

La Torre, Massimo, L. Niglia and M. Susi (eds.), The Quest for Rights: Ideal and Normative Dimension (London: Alber, 2020).

La Torre, Massimo, E. Giannetto (eds.), Guido Calogero, Logo e Dialogo (Rubbettino, Soveria Mannelli, 2020).

La Torre, Massimo, “Populism as a Spectre and an Unmanageable Concept”, in I. Van Geerst et al. (eds.), Vox populi (London: Elgar, 2020).

La Torre, Massimo, “Spinoza, Baruch”, in St. Kirste et al. (eds.), IVR Encyclopeadia of Philosophy of Law (Berlin: Springer, 2020).

La Torre, Massimo, “The Jurist as True Philosopher”, Rechtstheorie (2019).

 

Shah, Niaz A., “The Unwilling and Unable Test in International Law: The Use of Force against Non-state Actors in Pakistan”, The Asian Yearbook of Human Rights and Humanitarian Law, Vol (4) (2020): 109-138.

Shah, Niaz A., “The Right to a Fair Trial: Military Justice System in Pakistan”, Journal of International Humanitarian Legal Studies (7), 1 – 37.

Shah, Niaz A., “Charlie Hebdo: Testing the Limits of Freedom of Expression”, Muslim World Journal Human Rights: DOI 10.1515/mwjhr-2017-0007.

Shah, Niaz A., Judicial Resource Book on Violence against Women: Combating Violence against Women and Girls for Cambodia, India, Pakistan and Thailand. UN Women and the Commonwealth Secretariat. Visit the link for free download: Judicial Resource Book on Violence Against Women for Asia | Commonwealth Bookshop

Nicholas G, Foote J, Kainz K, Midgley G, Prager K and Zurbriggen C, “Towards a Heart and Soul for Co-Creative Research and Practice: A Systemic Approach”, Evidence and Policy, 15(3) (2019): 353-370.

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, Ethnocentric Political Theory (Cham: Palgrave, 2019).

 

Scoboria, A., Mazzoni, G., Ernst, A., D’argembeau, A., “Validating belief in occurrence for future autobiographical events”, Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research and Practice. 7(1) (2020):  4-24.

Scoboria, A. Mazzoni, G., Ernst, A. D’Argembeau, A., “Validating belief in occurrence for future autobiographical events”, Psychology of Consciousness, Theory, Research and Practice (2020).

Scoboria, A., Otgaar, H. , Mazzoni, G., “Defending and reducing belief in memories: An experimental  laboratory analogue”, Memory & Cognition (46), (2018): 770-786, doi.org/10.3758/s13421-018-0800-1

 

Smith, Simon, “Managing and Mismanaging Departure: The South Arabian Federation and the United Arab Emirates in Comparative Perspective”, in Clive Jones and Noel Brehony (eds.), Better not to linger: Britain’s Departure from South Arabia (Berlin: Gerlach Press, 2020).

 

Smith, Simon, “In the Shadow of the Balfour Declaration: British Policy towards Israel and the Occupied Territories during the Coalition and Conservative Governments, 2010-2016”, in Tore T. Petersen (ed.), Israel in a Turbulent Region: Security and Foreign Policy (London and New York: Routledge, 2020).

 

Smith, Simon, Britain and the Arab Gulf after Empire, 1971-1981: Kuwait, Bahrain, Qatar and the United Arab Emirates (London Routledge, 2019).

 

Smith, Simon, Kuwait, 1950-1965: Britain, the al-Sabah, and Oil (Beirut: Josur Publishers, 2018 – in Arabic).

 

Smith, Simon, “Failure and success in state formation: British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”, in Clive Jones (ed.), Britain and State Formation in Arabia: From Aden to Abu Dhabi (Routledge, 2018).

 

Smith, Simon, “Imperial policy”, in David Brown, Robert Crowcroft, and Gordon Pentland (eds.), Oxford Handbook of Modern British Political History, 1800-2000 (Oxford University Press, 2018)

 

 

Torres-Cuello MA, Pinzon-Salcedo L and Midgley G., “Developing a Systemic Program Evaluation Methodology: A Critical Systems Perspective”, Systems Research and Behavioral Science, 35(5) (2018): 538-547.

 

 

Editorial Boards

Carby-Hall, Jo, Ius et Lex” in Warsaw since 2003

Carby-Hall, Jo, Revue de Droit Comparé du Travail et de la Sécurité Sociale » Bordeaux since 1999 and

Carby-Hall, Jo, « Derecho de la Securidad Social » Madrid since 2014

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Editorial Board, Ethical Space: International Journal of Communication Ethics, http://www.abramis.co.uk/ethical-space/aims.htm (2003 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Advisory Board, European Journal of Analytic Philosophy, https://www.ffri.hr/phil/casopis/ (2005 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, International Editorial Board, Science and Engineering Ethics, https://www.springer.com/journal/11948/editors (2005 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Advisory Reviewer Board, Pain and Therapy, http://www.springer.com/springer+healthcare/journal/40122 (2014 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Editorial Board, Israel Studies, http://www.iupress.indiana.edu/pages.php?pID=82&CDpath=4 (2019 – ).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Advisory Board, NIU Journal of Social Sciences (2020).

 

Midgley, Gerald, Community, Work and Family (from January 1997).

Midgley, Gerald, Emergence: Complexity and Organization (from September 2002).

Midgley, Gerald, International Journal of Communication Sciences (from October 2014).

Midgley, Gerald, International Journal of Information Technologies and the Systems Approach (from Nov 2006).

Midgley, Gerald, International Journal of Knowledge and Systems Sciences (from July 2004).

Midgley, Gerald, International Journal of Systems and Society (November 2019 to May 2020).

Midgley, Gerald, Journal of Awareness-Based Systems Change (from August 2020).

Midgley, Gerald, Journal of Globalization Studies (from October 2009).

Midgley, Gerald, Journal of Systemics, Cybernetics, and Informatics (from August 2013).

Midgley, Gerald, Organizational Transformation and Social Change (from January 2002).

Midgley, Gerald, Revista Gerencia y Politicas de Salud (from September 2001).

Midgley, Gerald, Saba Journal of Information Technology and Networking (from June 2017).

Midgley, Gerald, Skills at Work (from January 2004).

Midgley, Gerald, Systemic Practice and Action Research (from September 1994).

Midgley, Gerald, Systems (from January 2012).

Midgley, Gerald, Systems Research and Behavioral Science (from December 2003).

 

Smith, Simon, International Advisory Board, Journal of Maltese History (2008-).

  

Guest Editorialship

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Guest Editor, Applied Cognitive Psychology

 

Johnson MP and Midgley G., “Community Operational Research: Innovations, Internationalization and Agenda-Setting Applications”, European Journal of Operational Research, 268 (2018): 761-770.

 

 

Research Grants

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy (ISGAP) Fellowship, St. John’s College, Oxford ($7,000) (July-August 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Grants, The Swiss National Science Foundation (2016-2017-2018) (€10,000).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, UCL Distinguished Visiting Professorship (2019) (£7,500).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, The Israel Institute Research Grant (2019) ($8,000).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, NIH Research support (with Dr Scott Kim) ($11,000) (2020-2021).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Perry World House International Visitors Grant, University of Pennsylvania (2020, postponed due to COVID19) ($4,000).

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Leverhulme Trust, UK (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Bial Foundation, UK (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Polish National Science Funds, in collaboration with the Jagellonian University, Krakow (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Sapienza large internal grants (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Marie Curie, visiting scholar (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Sapienza funds for the organization of a workshop for judges (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Marie Curie, visiting scholar (2019)

 

Midgley, Gerald, Research on the theory of co-creation for sustainability (funded by SESYNC, USA).

Midgley, Gerald, £60,000 from the Swedish Knowledge Fund to partner with colleagues at Linnaeus University and Electrolux Ltd (Sweden) to look at how systems thinking can be used to improve the design of information systems in the context of sustainability (2020).

Midgley, Gerald, £20,000 from Research England to support the UK Cabinet Office in looking at how they can build capabilities in systems thinking within the civil service, improve policy making across ministry boundaries, and better tackle wicked problems (2020).

Midgley, Gerald, £65,000 from East Riding Council to support the ‘Active Withernsea’ project increase healthy physical activity in the town of Withernsea through a systems approach to community development (2019).

Midgley, Gerald, £1,131,048 from the Engineering and Physical Science Research Council (EPSRC) for a project on building a circular plastics economy (I am one of 25 Hull-based co-investigators on this grant) (2018).

Midgley, Gerald, £25,378 from Research Councils UK (subcontract to University of Oxford) for action research on boundary dilemmas in their programme of projects entitled ‘Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context’ (2018).

Midgley, Gerald, £20,000 from the Research Councils UK Grand Challenges Research Fund for a pump-priming study on transitions to positive peace (2018).

Midgley, Gerald, £2,000 from Chalmers University, Sweden, to contribute to their Urban Futures PhD programme (2018).

  

Conference organization

Chakma, Bhumitra organised an international workshop on ‘The BRI and India’ in Hull in September 2018.

 

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Program Committee of the 7th Research and Practice Conference on System Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, December 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference on Computational Vision and Robotics (ICCVR-2020), Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, June 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Program Committee of Systemic Economics, Socio-Economic Cybernetics and Soft Measurements in the Economy, Moscow, Russia, May 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 2019 Conference of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Science (KSS2019), Da Nang, Vietnam, November/December 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, Member, Technical Program Committee of the 3rd International Conference on Data Science and Business Analytics, Istanbul, Turkey, October 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the 9th Annual International Conference of Information and Communication Technology, Nanning, China, January 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Technical Program Committee of the International Conference of Information Technology and Electrical Engineering, Guangzhou, China, December 2018.

Midgley, Gerald, Member, Program Committee, 5th Jubilee Research and Practice Conference on System Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, November 2018.

Midgley, Gerald, Member of the Program Committee of the 19th International Symposium on the Knowledge and Systems Sciences, Tokyo, Japan, November 2018.

 

Zaky, Ahmed, PhD Colloquium, Faculty of Business, Law, and Politics, University of Hull (10 July 2019).

 

Conference papers/ Invited talks

Afanassieva, Marianne, “How are UK organisations coping with the pandemic? Focus on the creative and cultural sector: UK theatres”, Presenter and Panellist, Panel Discussion, 8th International Seminar and Conference on Learning Organisation (ISCLO) 2020.

Afanassieva, Marianne, “Learning Organisation in the New Normal Era”, Telcom University, Bandung, Indonesia, 11 November 2020, online.

Afanassieva, Marianne, Workshop chair and discussant: “Yorkshire: Place or Brand?, HUBS and Yorkshire transformations Ltd”; discussing The Yorkshire brand and The political parameters of Yorkshire identity, 28 October 2019.

Afanassieva, Marianne, “Ageing people’s trust in digital assistive technology: Initial trust formation”, paper presented by co-author, Dr Marina Weck, at 2019 International Conference on Management and Education, Tokyo, Japan, 4-7 July 2019.

 

Alzawawi, Bashir, “Understanding Libya’s Political and Armed Crisis – Its Regional and International Ramifications”, University of Hull (4 December 2019).

 

Bielby, Phil, “Beyond surviving to thriving? Compassion, human rights and public mental health”. Invited talk given to the Hull and East Riding Humanists Group, Beverley, East Yorkshire (19 March 2018).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, Keynote Lecture, “Multinational Enterprises and the Global Compact,” international seminar “`Estanderes Laborales y Responsabilidad de las Empresas Multinacionales. Dessafios en un Mundo Global”, Alcala de Henares (14-16 December 2019).

Carby-Hall, Jo,  “Legal Aspects of One of the New Forms of Employment,” The 11th Congreso Global de Derecho Laboral y Relaciones de Trabajo, Buenos Aries, Argentina (7-9 November 2019).

Carby-Hall, Jo, Keynote Lecture, “The Taylor Review 2017 – A Critical Appreciation on a Selection of its Legal Content,” International Conference “Technological Innovation and the Future of Work: Emerging Aspects Worldwide”, Santiago de Compostela (7-8 June 2018).

Carby-Hall, Jo, ran a two day post-graduate (Master and Doctoral students) workshop at Vigo University on “The Incorporation of the Collective Agreement into the Individual Contract of Employment and Collective Bargaining British Style” (2-3 March 2018).

 

Chakma, Bhumitra 2019: ‘Strategic Stability in South Asia: An Indian Perspective’, conference presentation via Skype at a conference organised by Strategic Vision Institute in Islamabad, 7 November 2019.

Chakma, Bhumitra 2018: ‘‘The BRI and Sino-Indian geo-economic competition in Bangladesh,’ paper presented at an international workshop organised by the South Asia Project, University of Hull on 11-13 September 2018

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Hate Speech on the Internet”, 21st Nirma International Conference on Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India (11-13 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Digital Seduction of Evil: Cyberterrorism and Hate Speech on the Internet”, Xescom Communication Congress, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain (22-23 March 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Racism and Antisemitism”, Institute for the Study of Global Antisemitism and Policy, St. John’s College, Oxford (29 July-10 August 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Antisemitism and Xenophobia in Europe and the Role of the Israeli Government”, The Westbury Group Conference, Madrid (1-3 April 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The End of self-Regulation: On the Role of Internet intermediaries in Countering Terror”, NATO Science for Peace and Security Programme, The Post ISIS-era: Regional and Global Implications, Georgetown Marriott Hotel, Washington DC.  (6-8 September 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Camp David 2000: Clashes of Characters and Conduct”, The 1949 Rhodes Armistices – 70 Years After: An International Conference on History, Policy and Law, Conference Hall of the South Aegean Region, Rhodes, Greece (30 October-3 November 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Online Hate and Antisemitism”, Combating Online Anti-Semitism Workshop organised by The European Commission and Oxford Digital Diplomacy Group, European Commission Charlemagne, Brussels (28-29 November 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israel Facing COVID-19: Social responsibility, protecting lives and human rights”, Pandemic and Governance, University of Public Service (Budapest) and the Centre for Public Finances of Central and Eastern Europe (Bialystok) (5-6 November 2020, online).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Holocaust Denial in Canada”, Vanier College Symposium on the Holocaust and Genocide, Montreal (11 November 2020, online).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Irresponsible Freedom of Speech: Cyberbullying and Suicide”, GLS Law College, Ahmedabad, India (6 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Liberalism, Tolerance and Multiculturalism: The Bounds of Liberal Intervention in Affairs of Minority Cultures”, GCLS Open House Lecture Series, Gujarat National Law University Gandhinagar, India (8 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Conducting Research in Law and in the Social Sciences”, Nirma University, Institute of Law, India (9 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Department of Political Science, University of Baroda, India (10 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture 2018, “Multiculturalism in Liberal Democracies: The bounds of intervention in practices of minority cultures”, Centre for General Semantics, Vadodara, India (17 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Striking A Balance: Multiculturalism and Human Rights”, MNIT Jaipur, India (19 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Possible Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Limmud Manchester (4 February 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Debate, ‘This House Believes the Two State Solution is Dead’: View Against, Cambridge Union Debating Society (22 February 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, University of Girona, Spain (19 March 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Online Hate”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (20 March 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Was Trump’s Decision to Relocate the American Embassy to Jerusalem Correct?”, Manchester (13 May 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Hate on the Internet”, St. John’s College, Oxford University (7 August 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Multiculturalism and Liberal Democracy: Striking A Just, Reasonable Balance”, Hull Guildhall (15 January 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Preliminary Thoughts on the 2019 Elections in Israel”, Jewish Community Centre, London (11 April 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Just, Reasonable Multiculturalism”, Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL) (24 April 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Online Hate”, Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL) (7 May 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Digital Seduction of Evil: Terrorism and Hate Speech on the Internet”, Institute of Advanced Legal Studies (19 June 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Legislating on Moral Issues in the Jewish State”, UK Lawyers for Israel, London (25 July 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Clinton, Barak and Arafat: Clashes of Personalities and Cultures”, PRIO, Oslo (28 August 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Elections in Israel – September 2019”, JW3 London (22 September 2019).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Significance of the Oslo Peace Process”, London (1 March 2020).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Tracking citizens during a pandemic: A conversation about the ethics and efficacy of ‘test and trace’”, The Anscombe Centre, Oxford (16 September 2020).

 

Grabbe. Lester L., Conference on “The Period of the Middle Maccabees: from the death of Judas through the reign of John Hyrcanus (ca. 160–104 BCE)”, The Enoch Seminar, June 10th-15th, 2018, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada, Milan, Italy.  I read a response to Jutta Jokiranta (University of Helsinki), “The Dead Sea Scrolls sect in the 2nd c. BCE”.

Grabbe. Lester L., 10th Enoch Seminar: “Enoch and Enochic Traditions in the Early Modern Period: A Reception History, From the 15th to the End of the 19th Centuries”, 9-14 June 2019, Villa La Stella, Florence, Italy.  I read the paper, “Response to Jared W. Ludlow, ‘Enoch in the Tradition of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormonism)’”.  Publication is being considered.

Grabbe. Lester L., Conference on “Chronicles and the Priestly Literature”, 18-20 November 2019, Université de Lausanne, Switzerland, organized by Jaeyoung Jeon (Université de Lausanne) and  Louis Jonker (University of Stellenbosch).  I read the paper, “Scribes in the Post-Exilic Temple: A Social Perspective”.  Editing (by Jeon and Jonker) seems to be complete for the volume in which it will be published.

Grabbe. Lester L., Online meeting of the Enoch Seminar, 29 June to 2 July 2020 on “Concepts of Evil in Second Temple Judaism and Christian Origins”.  My paper was in response to another paper, James C. VanderKam, “Early Appearances of Evil and Their Effects According to the Book of Jubilees”.

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Padova, Psychology and Law Society (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Milano, Italy talk for Magistrates (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Girona, Spain, Talk for Spanish Law Scholars (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Girona, Spain, Talk for South American Law Scholars (2020)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Padova, Italy, Italian Psychology and Law Society (2019)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, 3 talks, Scuola Superiore Magistratura, Scandicci, Firenze (2019)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Talk, Montecitorio, Italian House of Representatives, Roma, Italy (2019)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, La Coruna, Spanish Superior Magistrates School, Poder Judicial (2019)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Lima, Peru, talk for supreme court judges (2018)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Cajamarca, Peru, talk for the Lawyers Guild (2018)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Cuzco, Peru, talk for the Lawyers Guild (2018)

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Padova, Italy, Psychology and Law Society (2018)

 

Midgley, Gerald, 6th International Research and Practice Conference on Systems Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, December 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, 16th National and International Helenic Society for the Systems Sciences (HSSS) Annual Conference, Tripoli, Greece, September 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, Annual Scientific and Practical Conference on System Economics, Socio-Economic Cybernetics, and Soft Measurements in the Economy, Moscow, Russia, May 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, Systems Leadership Workshop for the Cabinet Office’s National Leadership Centre, Bristol, UK, February 2020.

Midgley, Gerald, International Transdisciplinarity Conference, Gothenburg, Sweden, September 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, 61st Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society, Canterbury, UK, September 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, ‘Ackoff 100’: a Conference Celebrating Russell L. Ackoff’s Centenary, Philadelphia, USA, July 2019.

Midgley, Gerald, Annual Conference of the American Cybernetics Society, Vancouver, Canada, June 2019.

Midgley, Gerald,             5th Jubilee International Research and Practice Conference on System Analysis in Economics, Moscow, Russia, November 2018.

Midgley, Gerald, Systems Thinking stream of the 60th Annual Conference of the Operational Research Society, Lancaster, UK, September 2018.

 

Shabbir, Haseeb participated in a Symposium on Race, Fundraising and Philanthropy for POC/BAME practitioners, 25 November 2020.

Shabbir, Haseeb, “Diversity and Inclusion”, talk at Humber Tech Week, 7 November 2020.

Shabbir, Haseeb delivered a talk on anti-racism and marketing to 150, 000 delegates at the world marketing summit, 6 November 2020.

Shabbir, Haseeb, “Inclusive Communications in Fundraising and Philanthropy”, talk for PyroTalks. 29 October 2020.

Shabbir, Haseeb, Panelist at EDI panel for Individual Giving Conference, Institute of Fundraising, 30 November 2020.

 

Smith, Simon, “Imperialism after empire? Britain and Qatar in the aftermath of the withdrawal from East of Suez”, British International History Group conference, University of Lancaster, 5-7 September 2019

  

Current projects

Afanassieva, Marianne, Talent Management in Greek SMEs, with Prof Hugh Scullion and colleagues from Greece (Dr Foteini Kravariti; Dr Konstantinos Tasoulis and Dr Georgios Theriou).

Afanassieva, Marianne, “Talent and Career Issues in Grassroots Organisations in Emerging Industries with Prof Hugh Scullion and with research partners in Indian Institute of Management Kozhikode (IIMK)”, Kerala, India.

Shah, Niaz A. started a long term programme on the Rule of Law and Human Rights for Pakistani judges. He has led eight training sessions so far and has trained under two hundred judges at the University of Hull.

 

PhD supervision

Afanassieva, Marianne: Dr Khalid Alogaili, “The Influence of National Culture on Leadership Styles in Saudi Arabia”.

Afanassieva, Marianne: Dr Jasim Tariq, “Exploring Entrepreneurial Motivations and Barriers: a study of female business owners in Pakistan.

Afanassieva, Marianne: Abdulaziz Alnafaa, “Exploring the impact of Saudi Vision 2030 on women empowerment in the public sector of Saudi Arabia”.

 

 Master class

Carby-Hall, Jo ran a post graduate master class consisting of Master and Doctoral students entitled “New Forms of Technology and their effect on the labour market” at Porto University Faculty of Law, Portugal (October 2017).

 

 Expert witness

The Secretary for the Home Department instructed Professor Shah as an expert on Pakistani citizenship law in the case of Hasham Tariq v The Secretary of State for the Home Department [2019] EWHC 3373 (Admin) in the High Court.

 

Other activities

Carby-Hall, Jo, was invited by the Egyptian Judiciary to be a Board member of a new refereed law journal which will start publishing in 2021. The journal will publish in the Arabic, French, Spanish and English languages. The Board will be chaired by the President of the Supreme Court of Egypt.

Carby-Hall, Jo, was invited to join a team of maritime lawyers internationally (from the USA, the UAE, France, Italy, Kuwait and Saudi Arabia) to become a founding member of a new Maritime Law Centre. The purpose of that centre will be to give legal advice to the shipping industry in Egypt and elsewhere, to educate the shipping industry on shipping law, and to carry out arbitration, mediation and conciliation in shipping disputes.

Carby-Hall, Jo, is an active member of the Vice-Chancellor’s Circle to which he was invited two years ago. The function of the Circle is to advise the Vice- Chancellor on various issues relevant to university matters. 

 

MESG Significant achievements – July 2018

New Books:

Carby-Hall, Jo, Worker Participation in Europe (London and New York: Routledge, 2018).

 

 

Grabbe, Lester, 1 and 2 Kings: History and Story in Ancient Israel: An Introduction and Study Guide (T & T Clark Study Guides to the Old Testament; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017), pp. ix + 111.  ISBN 978-0-567-67085-4.

 

Grabbe, Lester, Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (2nd edn; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017), pp. xxii + 365.  ISBN 978-0-567-67043-4.

 

Grabbe, Lester, Faith and Fossils: The Bible, Creation, and Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, 2018), pp. xiii + 182.  ISBN 978-0-8028-6010-4.

 

Hatzistavrou, Antony, Authority and Expertise in Plato and Aristotle (London: Routledge, forthcoming 2018).

 

Other Publications:

 

Bielby, Phil (2018). ‘Not ‘us’ and ‘them’: towards a normative legal theory of mental health vulnerability’, International Journal of Law in Context 1–17. https://doi.org/10.1017/S1744552318000149 (Online first view forthcoming, June 2018)

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, “The Legal Impact of Brexit on Eafarers’ Employment”, in J.B. Bosch (Editor), Retos Presentes y Futuros de la Politica de la Union Europea (October 2017): 273-299.

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, “Innovatory Forms of Employment in the 21st Century Versus Employment Status”, in Maria Rahina (Ed), Sociedad de Permutase Combinac. Problemas Juridic da Economia Colaboritiva (Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018, forthcoming).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, “Modern Forms of Employment and Public Procurement”. To be published in 2019 by  the University of Lodz  Press.

Carby-Hall, Jo, “”Brexit means Brexit”. Quels Effets sur le Droit du Travail”, Revue du Droit Compare du Travail et de la Securite Sociale. Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (October 2017): 194–197.

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “JS Mill’s Boundaries of Freedom of Expression: A Critique”, Philosophy, Vol. 92, No. 362 (October 2017): 565-596.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?”, Special Symposium on Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (NY and Washington DC.: Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2015), Philosophia, Vol. 45:3 (2017): 919-929.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Balancing Freedom of Expression and Social Responsibility on the Internet”, Special Symposium on Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side, Philosophia Vol. 45:3 (2017): 973-985.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Terrorism Online”, Fordham Law Review, Vol. 86 (November 2017): 425-453.

 

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “H. H. Rowley’s Aramaic of the Old Testament after (Almost) a Century”, in Frederick E. Greenspahn and Gary A. Rendsburg (eds), Le-ma‘an Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock), 294-315.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Jeroboam I? Jeroboam II? Or Jeroboam 0?  Jeroboam in History and Tradition”, in Oded Lipschits, Yuval Gadot, and Matthew J. Adams (eds.), Rethinking Israel: Studies in the History and Archaeology of Ancient Israel in Honor of Israel Finkelstein (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2017), 115-24.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Heavenly Porkies: Prophecy and Divine Deception in 1 Kings 13 and 22”, in Shelley L. Birdsong and Serge Frolov (eds), Partners with God: Theological and Critical Readings of  the Bible in Honor of Marvin A. Sweeney (Claremont Studies in Hebrew Bible and Septuagint 2; Claremont, CA: Claremont Press, 2017), 101-10.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Johnson MP, Midgley G and Chichirau G (2018). Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 1178-1191.

 

Johnson MP and Midgley G (2018). Community Operational Research: Innovations, Internationalization and Agenda-Setting Applications. European Journal of Operational Research, 268, 761-770.

 

Johnson M, Midgley G and Chichirau G (2017). Emerging Trends and New Frontiers in Community Operational Research. Research Memorandum No.101, Business School, University of Hull.

 

Lindhult E and Midgley G (2017). What is Systemic Innovation? Research Memorandum No.99, Business School, University of Hull.

 

Lowe D, Oliver P, Midgley G and Yearworth M (2018). Evaluating how System Health Assessment can Trigger Anticipatory Action for Resilience. In, Disciplinary Convergence in Systems Engineering Research. Madni AM, Boehm B, Ghanem RG, Erwin D and Wheaton MJ (eds.). Springer, New York.

 

Lowe D, Oliver P, Midgley G and Yearworth M (2017). Evaluating how Internal Health Assessment Can Trigger Anticipatory Intervention as Part of a Resilient System. Research Memorandum No.102, Business School, University of Hull.

 

Lundmark, Thomas, “Review of Allan C. Hutchinson, Toward an Informal Account of Legal Interpretation, New York: Cambridge University Press, 2016”, Modern Law Review, vol 80, Issue 6 (November 2017), pp 1178-1183.

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Jensen Mark, et al. “New directions in hypnosis research: Strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience”.   Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2017.

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Aguirre Carmen et al. Exploring the mechanisms of selective forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 2017

 

Midgley G, Johnson MP and Chichirau G (2018). What is Community Operational Research? European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 771-783.

 

Midgley G (2018). Reflections on the CPTS Model of Interdisciplinarity. In, Reason, Faith and Practice in Our Common Home: Feschrift in Honour of Sytse Strijbos. Boshuijzen-vanBurken, C. and Haftor, D. (eds.). CPTS: Maarssen.

 

Midgley G, Nicholson J and Brennan R (2017). Dealing with Challenges to Methodological Pluralism: The Paradigm Problem, Psychological Resistance and Cultural Barriers. Industrial Marketing Management, 62, 150-159.

 

Midgley G (2017). The Mälardalen Visiting Professorship in Systemic Innovation: A Report to the Swedish Knowledge Foundation. Mälardalen University, Eskilstuna.

 

Midgley G, Johnson M and Chichirau G (2017). What is Community Operational Research? Research Memorandum No.100, Business School, University of Hull.

 

 

O’Sullivan, Noel, and Young-Ju Hoang, “Gendered Militarisation as State of Exception on the Korean Peninsula’, Third World Thematics: A TWQ Journal (May 2018): 1-15.

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, “Limits of Free Speech”, Philosophia, Vol. 45:3 (2017), pp. 931-935.

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, “Foreword”, Amina Yakin (ed.), British Muslims and Multiculturalism (2018).

 

 

Smith, Simon, C. “Failure and success in state formation: British policy towards the Federation of South Arabia and the United Arab Emirates”, in Clive Jones (ed.), Britain and State Formation in Arabia: From Aden to Abu Dhabi (Routledge, 2018).

 

 

Ufua D, Papadopoulos T and Midgley G (2018). Systemic Lean Intervention: Enhancing Lean with Community Operational Research. European Journal of Operational Research, 268(3), 1134-1148.

 

 

Museum Exhibition

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Exhibition at the Museo Nazionale dell’Ebraismo Italiano e della Shoah in Farrara (14 December 2017 to 16 September 2018):

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Italian exhibition guide: Anna Foa, Giancarlo Lacerenza, and Daniele Jalla (eds.), Ebrei, una storia italiana: I primi mille anni (Verona: Electra, 2017), 40-44: “La Diaspora ebraica al tempo dei Maccabei”.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., English exhibition guide: Anna Foa, Giancarlo Lacerenza, and Daniele Jalla (eds.), Jews, an Italian Story: The First Thousand Years (Verona: Electra, 2018), 40-44: “The Jewish Diaspora to the Time of the Maccabees”.

 

Grants/Awards/Fellowships:

Jo Carby-Hall: The aforementioned international conferences have been funded by a variety of bodies which include the ILO in Geneva, the Galicia Local Authority in Spain, the Porto Local Authority in Portugal, a variety of businesses in Europe, the Government Department of Higher Education in Spain and Portugal, the European Union, and the various university funds. Jo Carby-Hall and the University of Hull has been one of the applicants for each of those conferences.

 

Raphael Cohen-Almagor received a grant from The Swiss National Science Foundation (2017-2018). He received Visiting Professorship, Nirma University, Institute of Law, India (January 2018); Visiting Scholarship, Department of Philosophy, University of Zurich (August-September 2018), and The Distinguished Visiting Professor to the Faculty of Laws, University College London (UCL) (2019).

 

 

James Connelly received a Leverhulme Senior Scholarship for 2017-2018.

 

 

Giuliana Mazzoni received a grant from the Newton Fund for 2017.

 

 

Gerald R Midgley participated in the following externally-funded projects:

 

  • Understanding boundary dilemmas in global food security projects: action research in support of the Research Councils UK (RCUK) programme, ‘Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context’ (funded by the RCUK).

 

  • Scoping a multi-country bid on the use of systems thinking with nations recovering from conflict (funded by the Grand Challenges Research Fund).

 

  • Systems thinking with stakeholders from farming, consumer advocate and public health organizations to explore what it would take to secure a voluntary agreement to tackle the over-use of antimicrobials in agriculture in the USA. Sub-contract to Texas A&M University, where the Principle Investigator is based (funded by US Department of Agriculture).

 

  • Research on the theory of co-creation for sustainability (funded by SESYNC, USA).

 

 

Gerald R Midgley also secured the following Research Grants:

 

  • £25,000 from Research Councils UK for action research on their programme of projects entitled ‘Resilience of the UK Food System in a Global Context’ (2018).

 

  • £20,000 from the Research Councils UK Grand Challenges Research Fund for a pump-priming study on transitions to positive peace (2018).

 

  • £2,500 from Chalmers University, Sweden, to contribute to their Urban Futures PhD programme (2017).

 

  • £7,500 from the Global Change Institute (University of Queensland) and the Sustainable Futures Forum (University of Technology, Sydney) to research systemic intervention in food security (2017).

 

Noel O’Sullivan was awarded by US Liberty Fund a contract of $54,500 by the US Liberty Fund to direct a four-day international conference in France (at Avignon) on the theme: “Is liberal democracy doomed to self-destruction?”.

 

Noel O’Sullivan was also awarded by US Liberty Fund a second contract of $54,500 to direct a four-day international conference on the theme “Freedom, power and the concept of the political in Carl Schmitt, F. A. Hayek and Michael Oakeshott”. The venue will be Middlethorpe Hall (near York).

 

 

Nick Zangwill received the Murphy Fellowship for 2017-2018 in New Orleans.

 

 

Conference Presentations / Research Seminars: 

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo. Keynote at A Coruna, Spain at Campus do Mar (consisting of the maritime elements of A Coruna, Vigo and Santiago de Compostela universities and two national Spanish Maritime Institutes) (October 2017). International conference entitled “Retos Presentas y Futuras de la Polirica Maritima Intergrada de la Union Europea”.

 

Carby-Hall, Jo. Keynote at Porto, Portugal, “Sociedad de Permutase Combinacoes. Problemas Juridicos da Economia” (October 2017).

Carby-Hall, Jo. Keynote at Santiago de Compostela, Spain, “Technological Developments and their Effect on Labour Laws” (April 2018). This international conference was dedicated “In honour of Professors  Dr. Dr Honoris Cause Jo Carby-Hall of the University of Hull and Manfred Weiss of Goethe University Frankfurt.”

Carby-Hall, Jo. Keynote at Vigo, Spain, “”Strategic Blue Growth and the Law of the Sea” (June 2018).

 

Carby-Hall, Jo. Keynote at Lodz, Poland, “Labour Law Developments in Public Procurement” (November 2018).

 

As part of the Consular Branch activities in the University of Hull Jo Carby-Hall with the collaboration of the head teacher of the Polish School in Hull, Hull schools, Dr Nick Evans, the head of the Polish Community in Hull, Antony Lishak  (an expert on Irena Sendler) and others organised in June 2018 a successful exhibition and well attended public lecture given by Antony Lishak.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Euthanasia in Belgium and in The Netherlands”, UCSIA Conference on Euthanasia, University of Antwerp (16-17 November 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Corporate Social Responsibility and Hate Speech on the Internet”, 21st Nirma International Conference on Management, Nirma University, Ahmedabad, India (11-13 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Digital Seduction of Evil: Cyberterrorism and Hate Speech on the Internet”, Xescom Communication Congress, Universidad de A Coruña, Spain (22-23 March 2018).

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Meeting of the Enoch Seminar in Camaldoli, Italy (18-23 June 2017), From tôrāh to Torah: Variegated Notions of Torah from the First Temple Period to Late Antiquity.

I was respondent to the paper, “Torah as Speech Performance in Pentateuchal Narrative” by Jacqueline Vayntrub.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Combined meeting of the European Association of Biblical Studies and the Society of Biblical Literature, Humbolt University, Berlin (7-11 August 2017):

In the session, Historical Approaches to the Bible and the Biblical World, I gave the paper, “How the Minimalists Won!”  The papers from that session are in the process of editing for publication.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Meeting of a special colloquium on the Routledge-commissioned volume, Eschatology in Antiquity, at the University of Reading (30 September 2017):

I was respondent to the paper, “Eschatology in the Dead Sea Scrolls: New Perspectives from Cultural Analysis and Ecocriticism”, by Albert Hogeterp.  (My own contribution to the volume, which is now in the process of being edited, is entitled, “Daniel and Daniel Apocalyptica”).

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Meetings of the American Schools of Oriental Research and the Society of Biblical Literature, Boston (15-21 November 2017):

I gave the invited paper, “The Governor of Yehud—Inside Out”, in the joint ASOR-SBL session, New Light on Persian Period Judah.  I understand there are plans to publish the papers from that session.

 

 

Midgley, Gerald R., Keynote: 3rd Annual Metaphorum on Cybernetics and Organization, Liverpool, UK, November 2017.

 

 

O’Sullivan, Noel was invited by the Serbian Institute for European Studies to give a seminar on “The contemporary Western debate about the nature of the political” (29 January–1 February 2018).

 

 

Smith, Simon, C., “In the shadow of the South Arabian Federation: British policy making and the emergence of the United Arab Emirates”, Without glory but without disaster: Learning the lessons of British withdrawal from South Arabia on 30 November 1967, Royal United services Institute Conference (4 December 2017).

 

Smith, Simon, C., “British policy towards Israel and Palestine under the Coalition and Conservative Governments, 2010-16”, Contemporary Israel in a turbulent region: Politics, economy and security, Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim (21-22 August 2017).

 

 

Invited Lectures:

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side”, Cardiff University (8 June 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: Social and Legal Aspects”, Hartington Hall (9 September 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Limmud Leeds (29 October 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israel at 69 – Key Considerations and Challenges”, Hawkhills (5 November 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Search for Peace in the Middle East”, Glasgow (10 December 2017).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Irresponsible Freedom of Speech: Cyberbullying and Suicide”, GLS Law College, Ahmedabad, India (6 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Liberalism, Tolerance and Multiculturalism: The Bounds of Liberal Intervention in Affairs of Minority Cultures”, GCLS Open House Lecture Series, Gujarat National Law University Gandhinagar, India (8 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Conducting Research in Law and in the Social Sciences”, Nirma University, Institute of Law, India (9 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Department of Political Science, University of Baroda, India (10 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Right to Die with Dignity”, National Law University, Jodhpur, India (13 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Baptism by Fire: Trial of Speech, Democracy and Media in India”, Panel with Ajay Umat and Salil Tripathi, Nirma University, Institute of Law, India (17 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Balvant Parekh Distinguished Lecture 2018, “Multiculturalism in Liberal Democracies: The bounds of intervention in practices of minority cultures”, Centre for General Semantics, Vadodara, India (17 January 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Striking A Balance: Multiculturalism and Human Rights”, MNIT Jaipur, India (19 January 2018).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Possible Solutions to the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Limmud Manchester (4 February 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “This House Believes the Two State Solution is Dead: View Against”, Cambridge Union Debating Society (22 February 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, University of Girona, Spain (19 March 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Online Hate”, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain (20 March 2018).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Was Trump’s Decision to Relocate the American Embassy to Jerusalem Correct?”, Manchester (13 May 2018).

 

 

Connelly, James was invited to speak at the University of Genoa and at the Nicholaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.

 

 

Grabbe, Lester L was the featured guest scholar at the Society of Biblical Literature annual “Wisdom of the Ages” seminar, with the subject “The Rise of Israel: Historical Theory and Practice in the First and Second Temple Periods”; a panel discussion included an address by him and responses by Professor Axel Knauf of Bern University, Switzerland, and Professor Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, Israel (19th November 2016).

 

Grabbe, Lester L. presented an invited paper, “Cultic Prophecy déjà vu”, at the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 20 November 2016 in San Antonio, Texas (the papers presented at that session will be published).

 

 

Hatzistavrou, Antony, “Ruling and Being ruled’ at the Greek Ideas of Office and Rule”, Carlyle Lectures Workshop, Princeton University (1 December 2017).

 

Hatzistavrou, Antony, “Plato and the Utopia within us”, Yorkshire Network for Ancient Philosophy (11 May 2018).

 

 

Lundmark, Thomas, “Comparative legal approaches”, Basic course in different legal scientific methods, Department of Law, Århus University (12 June 2018).

 

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana was invited to deliver talks at the Scuola Superiore di Magistratura in Italy; at an international meeting on reasoning in the judiciary system in Girona, Spain, and at the European EFCAP meeting in Venice (June 2018).

 

 

O’Sullivan, Noel: Following the translation of his book on Conservatism into Serbo-Croatian, Noel was invited to Belgrade by Belgrade University to give a key note lecture on: “The contemporary relevance of Michael Oakeshott’s political philosophy” (29 January–1 February 2018).

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu delivered a keynote address at Ambedkar conference in Bangalore (2018).

 

Parekh, Bhikhu spoke at the book launch of Democracy in India at the Centre for the Study of Developing Societies in Delhi (2018), and at the launch of Akbar Ahmed’s Islam in Europe at SOAS, London (2018).

 

Parekh, Bhikhu delivered the Balwant Parekh Lecture on “Is Gandhi Still Relevant”, The Centre for Contemporary Thought, Baroda (2018).

 

 

Other:

 

 

Bielby, Phil, ‘Beyond surviving to thriving? Compassion, human rights and public mental health’. Invited talk given to the Hull and East Riding Humanists Group, Beverley, East Yorkshire, 19 March 2018.

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo, Two-day Master class on the “British common law”  at Porto University Portugal (October 2017) (Master and Doctoral students).

Carby-Hall, Jo, One-day Master class on “Collective Agreements and Collective Bargaining – British Style”, (June 2018) (Master and Doctoral students).

Jo Carby-Hall was invited in October 2017 to become a member of the Vice-Chancellors Circle. The aim of this circle is “connecting with each other and building a strong network of University donors” and seeing the V-CC as “being a group that can…share our ambitions and hopes for the future with and who we can look to for useful advice and guidance.” We have already met in Liverpool  at the Everton Football Club and the Royal Liver Building in February 2018 and will be meeting at Headingly, Leeds on 17th July 2018 Discussions have taken place with the V-C in Liverpool and will take place in Leeds during the one day cricket match between England and India.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael served as Chair, Shapiro Prize for best book in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies (2017- ). He became a member of The Ethics and Policy Initiative, Durham University, and The Media Policy Index panel of experts, and a Board member of The International Association of Israel Studies. Raphael joined the Editorial Board, Modern Management Forum, http://ojs.usp-pl.com/index.php/Modern-Management-Forum

 

 

Mazzoni, Giuliana was external examiner for the program in Neuroscience, University of Torino, Italy, and was invited to collaborate to two scientific documentaries (Lambent Productions and BBC2, in UK).

 

 

Midgley, Gerald R received Visiting Professorships at:

 

  • School of Innovation, Design and Engineering, Mälardalen University, Sweden.
  • School of Political and Social Sciences, University of Canterbury, New Zealand.
  • School of Agriculture and Food Sciences, University of Queensland, Australia.
  • Victoria Business School, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand.

 

Midgley, Gerald R appointed to the Assessment and Evaluation (A&E) Working Group of the SDG Transformations Forum (May 2018 to present); Appointed to the College of Assessors of the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment (MBIE), New Zealand (February 2018 to present); Appointed to the Complex Systems Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to Present); Appointed to the Philosophy Board of the Lifeboat Foundation, a global think tank for the sustainability of humanity (March 2017 to Present); Doctoral Advisory Committee of the Leadership and Systemic Innovation Program at the Buenos Aires Institute of Technology, Argentina (March 2016 to Present); Vice-President of the International Society for the Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2014 – Present); Member of the Board of Trustees of the International Society for the Systems Sciences (August 2014 – Present); Member of the Editorial Board of the College Publications Systems Series (August 2013 – Present); Nominated to the International Advisory Board of the Centre for Disaster Resilience, Recovery and Reconstruction at the University of Auckland, New Zealand (May 2013 – Present); Member of the Scientific Council of the Bertalanffy Center for the Study of Systems Science (Vienna, Austria) (January 2012 – Present); Nominated to the Executive Council of the International Society for Knowledge and Systems Sciences (November 2003 – Present); Fellow of the Institute for the Study of Coherence and Emergence, Phoenix, Arizona, USA (September 2002 – Present); Appointed to the Expert Advisory Board for a research project on the resilience of fruit and vegetable supplies in the UK as part of the Global Food Security’s ‘Resilience of the UK Food System Programme’, with support from BBSRC, ESRC, NERC and the Scottish Government (March 2017 to March 2020); Appointed as a Distinguished Fellow of the Schumacher Institute (June 2015 to present); Elected to the Management Committee of the Community Operational Research Network (April 1993 – Present).

 

Midgley, Gerald R serves on the following Journal and Book Series Editorial Bards in the capacity of:

 

  • Co-edited a special issue of European Journal of Operational Research on Community Operational Research, 2018 (with M. Johnson).

 

  • Editor of the Systems Thinking Series of books from Routledge (from April 2017 to present).

 

  • Deputy Editor of Systemic Practice and Action Research (from January 2015 to present).

 

  • Honorary Editor, International Journal of Applied Systemic Studies (from Feb 2015 to present).

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu was invited to be the Founding Patron of Hull U.K. City of Culture.

 

 

Zangwill, Nick was Visiting Research Professor at The Murphy Institute Center for Ethics and Public Affairs, Tulane University.

 

 

MESG Significant achievements – July 2017

Major Publications:

Beyer, Conny, International Political Psychology (Houndmills: Palgrave 2016).

Beyer, Conny, “World Polity: Anatomy of and arguments for regional and global integration”, International Journal for Business and Social Sciences, 2017.

Beyer, Conny, “How to End Civil Wars and the Psychology of Terrorism”, Journal of Deradicalisation, 2017.

 Carby-Hall, Jo:

chapter in a book in the English edition by Cambridge Publishers and in the Italian edition  by ADAPT (Biaggi Centre of Research, Bergamo University).

Santiago keynote lecture: submitted paper to the editorial board of the book for peer reviewing and completed the final proof reading prior to its publication scheduled in May 2017.

In June 2016 we held a European conference at A Coruna University on laws of the sea having obtained funds for this one year research programme from the EU, Redexmar, The Spanish government and IUEE. After the usual peer-reviewing and proof reading phases, I understand that the book of some 500 pp was published in December, 2016. I await copies from Bomarzo, the publishers.

 Carby-Hall, Jo, “Les lois britanniques du travail apres Brexit”, Revue Compare de Droit du Travail et de la Securite Sociale, Research Centre at the University of Bordeaux. Publishers: Presses Universitaires de Bordeaux (2017).

Chakma, Bhmitra, ‘Democratic Transition and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons,’ in Shaun Gregory (ed.), Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan (London: Routledge, 2016): 234-251.

Chakma, Bhmitra, ‘The CHT and the Peace Process,’ in Ali Riaz and M Sajjadur Rahman, eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 306-315.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Discrimination against Jewish Women in Halacha (Jewish Law) and in Israel”, British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies (Published online: 02 Dec 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Jihad Online: How Do Terrorists Use the Internet?”, in Francisco Campos Freire,  Xosé Rúas Araújo, Valentín Alejandro Martínez Fernández, and Xosé López García (eds.), Media and Metamedia Management (Dordrecht: Springer, 2017), pp. 55-66.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity”, in Anna Triandafyllidou and Tariq Modood (eds.), More or Less Secularism? European Problems, Asian Lessons (Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “President Trump and the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, E-International Relations (10 March 2017)

http://www.e-ir.info/2017/03/10/president-trump-and-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Jihad on the Information Superhighway”, Sustainable Security, Oxford Research Group (26 May 2017), https://sustainablesecurity.org/2017/05/26/jihad-on-the-information-superhighway/

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “JS Mill’s Boundaries of Freedom of Expression: A Critique”, Philosophy (2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Euthanizing People Who Are ‘Tired of Life’ in Belgium”, in David Albert Jones, Chris Gastmans and Calum MacKellar (eds.), Euthanasia and Assisted Suicide: Lessons from Belgium (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2017).

The journal Philosophia will publish a special issue dedicated to Cohen-Almagor’s book Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (NY and Washington DC.: Cambridge University Press and Woodrow Wilson Center Press, 2015).

Connelly, James, R.G. Collingwood: A Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

Connelly, James, ‘Italian Triangulations: R. G. Collingwood and his Italian Colleagues’, Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2016. 1-20. doi 10.1163/18722636-12341331 [publication confirmed]

Grabbe, Lester L. (ed.),   The Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age (LHBOTS; European Seminar in Historical Methodology 10; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016).

Grabbe, Lester L. and Gabriele Boccaccini, assisted by Jason Zurawski (eds) The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (Library of Second Temple Studies 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016) viii + 261.  ISBN 978-0-567-66614-7.

Grabbe, Lester L., “Introduction”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 3-9.

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview—An Introduction”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 11-31.

Grabbe, Lester L., Responses to Daniel A. Machiela and Vicente Dobroruka, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 157-58, 168.

Grabbe, Lester L., “Perspectives on the Apocalyptic Worldview in the Hasmonean Period”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 237-51.

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Priesthood in the Persian Period: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi”, in Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ed.), Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve (Ancient Near Eastern Monographs 14; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016), 149-56.

Grabbe, Lester L.,  “‘Son of Man’: Its Origin and Meaning in Second Temple Judaism”, in Loren T. Stuckenbruck and Gabriele Boccaccini (eds), Enoch and the Synoptic Gospels: Reminiscences, Allusions, Intertextuality (SBL Early Judaism and its Literature 44; Atlanta, GA: SBL Press, 2016), 169-97.

Grabbe, Lester L.,  “2. Prophecy and Priesthood”, in Carolyn J. Sharp (ed.), The Oxford Handbook of the Prophets (Oxford University Press, 2016), 23-36.

Grabbe, Lester L.,  “The Mighty Men of Israel: 1-2 Samuel and History”, in Walter Dietrich, Cynthia Edenburg, and Philippe Hugo (eds), The Books of Samuel: Stories – History – Reception History (Bibliotheca Ephemeridum Theologicarum Lovaniensium, 284: Leuven: Peeters, 2016), 83-104.

Grabbe, Lester L.,  “The Last Days of Judah and the Roots of the Pentateuch: What Does History Tell Us?”, in Peter Dubovský, Dominik Markl, and Jean-Pierre Sonnet (eds), The Fall of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Torah (FAT 107;  Tübingen: Mohr Siebeck, 2016), 19-45.

Grabbe, Lester L.,  “H. H. Rowley’s Aramaic of the Old Testament after (Almost) a Century”, in Frederick E. Greenspahn and Gary A. Rendsburg (eds), Le-ma‘an Ziony: Essays in Honor of Ziony Zevit (Eugene, OR: Wipf and Stock, 2017), 294-315.

Grabbe, Lester L., Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (2nd edn; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2017).

Grabbe, Lester L., Creation Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The Bible and Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, in the press).

Grabbe, Lester L., (ed.), Reading the Hebrew Bible from a Historical Perspective (Critical Readings Series; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

Grabbe, Lester L., (ed.), “Not Even God Can Alter the Past”:  Reflections on 17 Years of the European Seminar in Historical Methodology (LHBOTS ; European Seminar in Historical Methodology 11; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Jensen Mark, et al. “New directions in hypnosis research: Strategies for advancing the cognitive and clinical neuroscience”.   Neuroscience of Consciousness, 2017.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Aguirre Carmen et al. Exploring the mechanisms of selective forgetting. Frontiers in Psychology, 2017

Mazzoni,  Giuliana, Scoboria, Alan et al. A review of findings and theoretical implications. In R Nash, J Ost, False and distorted memories. Psychology Press, 2016

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Iacullo Vittorio M, et al Inducing false memories by manipulating memory self efficacy. Learning and Individual Differences, 2016.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Scoboria Alan, et al. Subtypes of non-believed memories reveal differential outcomes of challenges to memories. Memory, 2916.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Vannucci, Manila et al. Visual object imagery and autobiographical memory. Memory, 2016.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, Scoboria, Alan. Invited commentary on Brewin and Anderson (2016). Applied Cognitive Psychology, 2016.

Parekh, Bhikhu, Debating India: Essays on Indian Political Discourse (Oxford University Press, 2016).

Ward, Tony, and Penny Green, ‘Law, the State, and the Dialectics of State Crime’, Critical Criminology, 24(2), (2016): 217-230.

Grants/Awards/Fellowships:

Conny Beyer project ARRIVAL: Mental health of migrants in Hull is supported by the Wellcome Trust.

Jo Carby-Hall won grants from the EU, the Ministry of Higher Education and Research of the Spanish Government, and the Madrid Local Authority and businesses for a series of international conferences on comparative aspects of commercial, company, constitutional and labour laws.

Raphael Cohen-Almagor received a grant from The Swiss National Science Foundation (2016-2017).

James Connelly received a Leverhulme Senior Scholarship for 2017-2018.

Giuliana Mazzoni received a grant from the Newton Fund for 2017.

Nick Zangwill received the Murphy Fellowship for 2017-2018 in New Orleans.

Conference Presentations / Research Seminars: 

Carby-Hall, Jo delivered the keynote lecture at an international seminar, Alcala de Henares University, Spain (December 2016).

 Carby-Hall, Jo delivered the keynote lecture “Novel Forms of Employment in the UK”, Santiago de Compostela University (April 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Keynote Speaker: “Democracy, Tolerance and Multiculturalism”, 4th International Conference: Shared Living in A Mixed City, The Adam Institute for Democracy and Peace, Jerusalem (November 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Plenary Session: “The Role of Internet Intermediaries in Tackling Terrorism Online”, Terrorist Incitement on the Internet, Fordham Law School, New York (April 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Baker and Scanlon on Freedom of Expression – A Critique”, PSA 67th Annual International Conference, University of Strathclyde, Glasgow (April 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Arafat, Barak and Clinton at Camp David: Clashes of Characters and Conduct”, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University (June 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Governance of Religious Diversity”, 33rd Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University (June 2017).

Connelly, James, ‘Dealing With a Difficult Past, Looking into the Future: Transitional Justice in Poland in European Perspective’, St Antony’s College, Oxford, May 31st – June 1st 2016.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Modulating pain via the rubber hand illusion”, First SIPS meeting, Leiden. Holland (April 2017).

Mazzoni, Giuliana, et al, “Subtypes of non-believed memories”, SARMAC meeting, Sydney, Australia (January 2017).

Mazzoni, Giuliana, et al, “False memories for actions”; “All in the mind: Highly Superior Autobiographical Memories”, Annual Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Boston, USA (November 2016).

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Non-Believed memories and decision making”; “Direct vs generative forgetting”, ICOM, Budapest (July 2016).

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Consequences of non-believed memories”, International Meeting of the Psychonomic Society, Granada, Spain (May 2016).

Parekh, Bhikhu delivered this year’s Ibn Rushd lecture at the Muslim Institute (London, May 2017)  on “Multiculturalism in the Age of Trump and Brexit”

Parekh, Bhikhu delivered a talk on “Mahatma Gandhi” (Mumbai, January 2017).

Invited Lectures:

Beyer, Conny presented her research at the European Center for the Study of Extremism Conference, University of Cambridge, London (April 2017) and at the research seminar of the Politics Department of the University of Swansea, Swansea (March 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Debate, ‘This House Believes a Two-State Solution in the Middle East is Unattainable’, The Oxford Union (19 May 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Freedom of Speech and Media Ethics”, Department of Communication, University of Liverpool (3 February 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Complexity of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, The Indian Cultural Club, Hull (17 February 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Limmud Hull (7 May 2017).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side”, Cardiff University (8 June 2017).

Connelly, James was invited to speak at the University of Genoa and at the Nicholaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.

Grabbe, Lester L was the featured guest scholar at the Society of Biblical Literature annual “Wisdom of the Ages” seminar, with the subject “The Rise of Israel: Historical Theory and Practice in the First and Second Temple Periods”; a panel discussion included an address by him and responses by Professor Axel Knauf of Bern University, Switzerland, and Professor Aren Maeir of Bar-Ilan University, Israel (19th November 2016).

Grabbe, Lester L. presented an invited paper, “Cultic Prophecy déjà vu”, at the Prophetic Texts and their Ancient Contexts Group meeting, Society of Biblical Literature, 20 November 2016 in San Antonio, Texas (the papers presented at that session will be published).

 Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Rignano Flaminio: a reflection of a criminal court case”. Annual meeting of the Italian Society for Psychology and the Law.  University of Padova, Italy

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Identification in eyewitness memory”. Annual meeting of the Italian Society for Psychology and the Law. University of Padova, Italy.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “False memories and the criminal court”. Rome, Osservatorio Penale, Italy.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “False memories in Eyewitness Testimony”, Genova Science Festival, Italy.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Slipping the mind”, Edinburgh Science Festival, UK

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Beautiful memories: a journey from forgetting to exceptional memory”. A Pint of Science, Hull, UK.

Mazzoni, Giuliana, “Memories: what matters is the subjective belief”. ‘A philosophical approach to episodic memory’ meeting, University of Grenoble, France.

Parekh, Bhikhu, “Multiculturalism in Britain”, Annual Lecture, East Riding College (May 2017).

Parekh, Bhikhu, Keynote Lecture, “The Governance of Religious Diversity”, Cardiff University (May 2017).

Parekh, Bhikhu, The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (April 2016).

 

 

 

 

 

Other:

Beyer, Conny is External for the University of Leicester, MA International Relations and Security (2016-2021). She has granted interviews on Brexit to Radio Humberside (2016) and the Spanish El Pais (2016). She was also interviewed on the US Presidential Elections in International Affairs Forum (2016).

Carby-Hall, Jo was invited to run a Master Class on various labour law topics in October 2017 at the University of Oporto, Portugal.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael served on Validation external panel of experts, Leeds Trinity University, programmes in Politics and International Relations (2016) and was Chair, Annual Ben Halpern Award for Best Dissertation in Israel Studies (2016-2017). In June 2016, Rafi was elected to serve as a Board member of The International Association of Israel Studies and of The Global Listening Center.

Mazzoni, Giuliana  external examiner for the program in Neuroscience, University of Torino, Italy, and was invited to collaborate to two scientific documentaries (Lambent Productions and BBC2, in UK).

Parekh, Bhikhu’s book Debating India was the subject of a panel discussion at the Centre for Contemporary Thought in Baroda, India (January 2017). Bhikhu is invited to the Prime Minister Forum in India (July 2017).

Zangwill, Nick was visiting Professor in Philosophy at Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan (March 2017). Nick was also Visiting Prof in the Music Dept, University of the Arts, Belgrade, Serbia (April 2017).

MESG Significant achievements – May 2016

Major Publications:

Beyer, Conny, International Political Psychology (Houndmills: Palgrave 2016).

Chakma, Bhmitra, South Asia’s Nuclear Security (London: Routledge, 2015).

Chakma, Bhmitra, “Sheikh Hasina Government’s India Policy: A three-level game?,” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol 2, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 27-51.

Chakma, Bhmitra, ‘Democratic Transition and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons,’ in Shaun Gregory, ed., Democratic Transition and Security in Pakistan (London: Routledge, 2016), pp. 234-251.

Chakma, Bhmitra, ‘The CHT and the Peace Process,’ in Ali Riaz and M Sajjadur Rahman, eds., Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (New York: Routledge, 2016), pp. 306-315.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (Washington DC.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Addressing Incitement in Israel”, in Aharon Barak et al. (eds.), Essays in Honour of Deputy President of the Israel Supreme Court Eliyahu Mazza (Jerusalem: Nevo, 2015), pp. 457-488 (Hebrew).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Internet Architecture, Freedom of Expression and Social Responsibility: Critical Realism and Proposals for a Better Future”, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2015), pp. 147-166.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?”, Philosophia (2015),
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-015-9658-7

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Netcitizenship: Addressing Cyberevenge and Sexbullying”, Journal of Applied Ethics and Philosophy, Vol. 7 (2015), pp. 14-23.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israeli Democracy and the Rights of Its Palestinian Citizens”, Ragion Pratica, Vol. 45 (December 2015), pp. 351-368.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Parameters for Two State Solution”, Palestine-Israel Journal, Vol. 21, No.2 (2015), pp. 112-119.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Between Speech and Terror: The Charlie Hebdo Affair”, The Great War Series (Part II), The Critique (7 January 2016), http://www.thecritique.com/articles/critique-magazine-exclusives-model-18/

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Resolvendo o Conflito Israelense-Palestino – uma Solução Bi-Estatal”, Oriente-Se, Vol. 1 (February 2016), pp. 72-79, https://lnkd.in/eCMAZA7

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Tolerance”, in Kocku von Stuckrad and Robert Segal (eds.), Vocabulary for the Study of Religion (Leiden: Brill, 2016).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Facebook and Holocaust Denial”, Justice, Vol. 57 (2016), pp. 10-16.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Hate and Racist Speech in the United States – A Critique”, Philosophy and Public Issues (2016, forthcoming).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “John Stuart Mill”, The Hebrew Encyclopaedia (2016, Hebrew, forthcoming).

 

 

Connelly, James, R.G. Collingwood: A Biography (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2018).

 

Connelly, James, ‘Italian Triangulations: R. G. Collingwood and his Italian Colleagues’, Journal of the Philosophy of History, 2016. 1-20. doi 10.1163/18722636-12341331 [publication confirmed]

 

 

Dingli, Sophia, ‘We need to talk about silence: Re-examining silence in International Relations’, European Journal of International Relations, vol.21, no.4 (December 2015), pp.721-742.

Kennedy, Caroline and Sophia Dingli, ‘Gender and Security’ in Alan Collins (ed.), Contemporary Security Studies, 4th ed. (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2016), pp. 154-163.

 

Edles, Gary J., and Marshall J. Breger, Independent Agencies in the United States: Law, Structure, and Politics (NY: Oxford University Press, 2015).

 

Korpel, Marjo C. A., and Lester L. Grabbe (eds), Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond: A Volume of Studies in Honour of Bob Becking (Library of Hebrew Bible/Old Testament Studies 616; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015) xl + 383.  ISBN 978-0-56766-380-1.

 

Grabbe, Lester L. and Gabriele Boccaccini, assisted by Jason Zurawski (eds) The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (Library of Second Temple Studies 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016) viii + 261.  ISBN 978-0-567-66614-7.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Ancient Israel: What Do We Know and How Do We Know It? (2nd edn; London/New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Creation Doesn’t Mean What You Think It Means: The Bible and Evolution (Grand Rapids, MI: Eerdmans, in the press).

 

Grabbe, Lester L. (ed.),   The Land of Canaan in the Late Bronze Age (LHBOTS; European Seminar in Historical Methodology 10; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Legal Experts: Greco-Roman Period and New Testament”, in Brent A. Strawn (ed.), Oxford Encyclopedia of the Bible and Law (2 vols; OUP, 2015), vol. 1, pp. 527-35.  ISBN 978-0-19-984330-5.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “King David and El Cid: Two ‘Apiru in Myth and History”, in Rannfrid I. Thelle, Terje Stordalen and Mervyn E. J. Richardson (eds), New Perspectives on Old Testament Prophecy and History: Essays in Honour of Hans M. Barstad (VTSup 168; Leiden: Brill, 2015), 230-45.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Penetrating the Legend: in Quest of the Historical Ezra”, in Marjo C. A. Korpel and Lester L. Grabbe (eds.), Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond: A Volume of Studies in Honour of Bob Becking (LHBOTS 616; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015), 97-110.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Reality of the Return: The Biblical Picture versus Historical Reconstruction”, in Jonathan Stökl and Caroline Waerzeggers (eds),  Exile and Return: The Babylonian Context (Beihefte zur Zeitschrift für die Alttestamentliche Wissenschaft 478; Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2015), 292-307.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Use and Abuse of Herodotus by Biblical Scholars”, in Anne Fitzpatrick-McKinley (ed.), Assessing Biblical and Classical Sources for the Reconstruction of Persian Influence, History and Culture (Classica et Orientalia 10; Wiesbaden: Harrassowitz, 2015), 49-72.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “History and the Nature of Cultural Memory: The Alamo and the ‘Masada Complex’”, in Ian Douglas Wilson and Diana V. Edelman (eds), History, Memory, Hebrew Scriptures: A Festschrift for Ehud Ben Zvi (Winona Lake, IN: Eisenbrauns, 2015), 347-59.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Introduction”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 3-9.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview—An Introduction”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 11-31.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., Responses to Daniel A. Machiela and Vicente Dobroruka, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 157-58, 168.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “Perspectives on the Apocalyptic Worldview in the Hasmonean Period”, in Lester L. Grabbe and Gabriele Boccaccini, with Jason M. Zurawski (eds), The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (LSTS 88; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2016), 237-51.

 

Grabbe, Lester L., “The Priesthood in the Persian Period: Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi”, in Lena-Sofia Tiemeyer (ed.), Priests and Cults in the Book of the Twelve (Ancient Near Eastern Monographs 14; Atlanta: SBL Press, 2016), 149-56.

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, Debating India: Essays on Indian Political Discourse (Oxford University Press, 2016).

 

 

Ward, Tony, and Penny Green, ‘Law, the State, and the Dialectics of State Crime’, Critical Criminology, 24(2), (2016): 217-230.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Grants/Awards/Fellowships:

 

Bhumitra Chakma received grants from the British Council and the British Army Horizon Project.

 

James Connelly Commenced as Principal Investigator on ESRC funded project on The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cybersecurity, 2014-16. ESRC Grant Ref: ES/L013177/1

 

 

Noël O’Sullivan received four contracts awarded of $55,000 each to organize and direct or co-direct four international Liberty Fund conferences.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Presentations / Research Seminars: 

 

Beyer, Anna Cornelia participated in a number of conferences on terrorism, such as the STR Conference on Terrorism and Political Violence in London, and has been invited to present at a workshop on terrorism at Harvard University in the coming spring. She was also invited to and participated in the Israel and the Middle East Conference at Exeter College, Oxford. Dr. Beyer will present her recent research on psychology and terrorism at the International Society for Political Psychology Conference in San Diego, July 2015, and at the STR Conference in Birmingham, September 2015.

 

 

Carby-Hall, Jo was invited to a lecture tour in Poland, France and Spain to present his work on immigrant rights and labour law.

 

 

Chakma, Bhumitra presented a paper – ‘Nuclear Zero and South Asia’s Nuclear Weapons,’ – at the 40th anniversary British International Studies Association Conference held in London, 16-19 June 2015.

 

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Status of Women”, The Governance of Religious Diversity. More or Less Secularism?, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (10-12 June 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Impact of the Middle East on Global Peace”, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria (24-29 September 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Just and Unjust War: A Study of the Israeli Lebanon War of 1982”, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński University Warsaw (13-14 October 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?”, University of Vigo, Spain (27-28 November 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Taking Hate Seriously: The Scope and the Challenge of Hate Speech on the Internet”, The Politics of Hate: Community, Societal and Global Responses, University of Limerick (24-26 May 2016).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Blasphemy in 19th Century: A Millian Perspective”, Honor in Changing Society, College of Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel (19 June 2016).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Just and Unjust War: A Study of the Israeli Lebanon War of 1982”, 32nd Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies
“A Western or Eastern Nation? The Case of Israel”, Jerusalem (20-22 June 2016).

 

 

Connelly, James, ‘Dealing With a Difficult Past, Looking into the Future: Transitional Justice in Poland in European Perspective’, St Antonys College, Oxford, May 31st – June 1st 2016.

 

Connelly, James, PaCCS Workshop “Responsive Research & Development”, Royal Society, 20 May 2016.

 

Connelly, James, ‘Speech acts, context and tempered agency in a digital world’, Citizens Online Governing the internet and the possibility of privacy, 17th February 2016, London.

 

Connelly, James, ‘Idealism and Environmental Virtues’, and ‘The EU and the Environment’, University of Genoa, November 24-27th 2015.

 

Connelly, James, ‘The Common Good and Cybersecurity’, Data Bodies conference, Watermans Art Centre, London, 14th November 2015 ERCS.

 

 

Dingli, Sophia, 18 March 2016, ‘A political approach to peace theory and practice in Yemen: Beyond liberal, post-liberal and resilience theories’, ISA Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA

Dingli, Sophia, 18 March 2016, ‘Obama’s Arabian Debacle? Re-examining US Policy in Yemen’, ISA Annual Convention, Atlanta, USA

Dingli, Sophia, 2 March 2016, ‘Silence Unbroken? A critique of the concept of silence in international theory and practice’, International Politics Research Group Seminar, University of Sheffield.

 

O’Sullivan, Noël was invited to attend a Liberty Fund conference in Spain (at Santiago di Compostella) on the thought of de Corales (9th.-12th. April 2015).

 

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, Keynote Lecture, The Governance of Religious Diversity. More or Less Secularism?, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (10-12 June 2015).

 

Parekh, Bhikhu, The Multicultural Question in a Mobile World, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (7-8 April 2016).

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Invited Lectures:

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Aftermath of the 2015 Israeli Elections”, London (23 July 2015).

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael was invited to present his new book Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side — Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway in many forums including Dartmouth College, USA; Jerusalem, Israel; Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria; University of Vigo, Spain; Dublin, Ireland; University of Antwerp School of Law, Belgium; Bar-Ilan University, Israel; IDC, Israel; University of Salford, England.

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Debate, ‘This House Believes a Two-State Solution in the Middle East is Unattainable’, The Oxford Union (19 May 2016).

 

 

Connelly, James was invited to speak at the University of Genoa and at the Nicholaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.

 

 

Other:

 

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Who’s Who in the World, 32nd Edition (2015); 33rd Edition (2016), and in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2015).

 

 

 

On 19 May 2016, Prof. Cohen-Almagor was invited to take part in a debate organised by one of the world most distinguished debating societies – The Oxford Union. The debate revolved around the question whether the two-state solution for Israel and Palestine is still viable. The Motion was titled: This House Believes A Two-State Solution in the Middle East is Unattainable.

 

 

 

 

 

The Pre-Debate Poll showed: This House Believes A Two-State Solution in the Middle East is Unattainable

41% Aye

59% No

On the pro two-state solution were Prof. Cohen-Almagor , Sam Sussman, an MPhil International Relations student from Pembroke College who is also the founder of Extend, an NGO which facilitates conversations between American Jewish leaders and Palestinians; Yiftah Curiel, Head Spokesperson of the Israeli Embassy in London, and John Lyndon, Executive Director of OneVoice, an international grassroots movement which supports a two-state solution by amplifying the voices of mainstream Israelis and Palestinians.

On the endorsing side of the motion were Manal Cheema, a second-year PPE student also from Pembroke College; Gideon Levy, an Award-winning columnist for Haaretz whose writing focuses on the Israeli occupation of the West Bank and Gaza; Salma Karmi-Ayyoub, criminal barrister and external consultant for Al Haq, a Palestinian human rights organisation, and Prof. Padraig O’Malley, a specialist in divided societies and the author of a book I teach titled “The Two-State Delusion: Israel and Palestine – A Tale of Two Narratives.”

The pro two-state solution won by 2 to 1, vast majority endorsing the two state solution. Indeed, any other solution would be far more costly, far more violent.

The official announcement was: Tonight’s Motion: This House Believes A Two-State Solution in the Middle East is Unattainable.

Results:

Aye: 37%

No: 63%

Photos of the event.

Oxford Union Trinity

MESG Significant achievements – February 2016

Major Publications:

Chakma, Bhmitra, South Asia’s Nuclear Security (London: Routledge, 2015)

Chakma, Bhmitra, “Sheikh Hasina Government’s India Policy: A three-level game?,” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol 2, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 27-51.

Cohen-Almagor, RaphaelConfronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (Washington DC.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2015).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Addressing Incitement in Israel”, in Aharon Barak et al. (eds.), Essays in Honour of Deputy President of the Israel Supreme Court Eliyahu Mazza (Jerusalem: Nevo, 2015), pp. 457-488 (Hebrew).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Internet Architecture, Freedom of Expression and Social Responsibility: Critical Realism and Proposals for a Better Future”, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research, Vol. 28, No. 2 (2015), pp. 147-166.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “John Stuart Mill”, The Hebrew Encyclopaedia (2015, Hebrew).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side?”, Philosophia (2015),
http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s11406-015-9658-7

Connelly, James, R. G. Collingwood: a Research Companion (With P. Johnson and S. Leach) Bloomsbury, 2015.

 

Grants/Awards/Fellowships:

James Connelly Commenced as Principal Investigator on ESRC funded project on The Common Good: Ethics and Rights in Cybersecurity, 2014-16. ESRC Grant Ref: ES/L013177/1

Noël O’Sullivan received four contracts awarded of $55,000 each to organize and direct or co-direct FOUR international Liberty Fund conferences:

 

 

 

 

 

Conference Presentations / Research Seminars: 

  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia participated in a number of conferences on terrorism, such as the STR Conference on Terrorism and Political Violence in London, and has been invited to present at a workshop on terrorism at Harvard University in the coming spring. She was also invited to and participated in the Israel and the Middle East Conference at Exeter College, Oxford. Dr. Beyer will present her recent research on psychology and terrorism at the International Society for Political Psychology Conference in San Diego, July 2015, and at the STR Conference in Birmingham, September 2015.
  • Chakma, Bhumitra presented a paper – ‘Nuclear Zero and South Asia’s Nuclear Weapons,’ – at the 40thanniversary British International Studies Association Conference held in London, 16-19 June 2015.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Status of Women”, The Governance of Religious Diversity. More or Less Secularism?, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (10-12 June 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Impact of the Middle East on Global Peace”, Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria (24-29 September 2015).
  • Connelly, James, ‘R.G. Collingwood on Philosophical Method, Concepts and Presuppositions’, Symposium on Collingwood and Metaphilosophy, British Society for History of Philosophy, University of York, 9-11 April 2015.
  • Connelly, James, ‘Being an Environmental Idealist’, PSA conference, University of Sheffield, 30th March – 1st April 2015.
  • Dingli, Sophia, ‘Meditations on silence and agency: Beyond paradigms of victimisation in Cyprus and Yemen’, ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA (18-22 Feb 2015)
  • Dingli, Sophia, ‘The Cypriot Peacebuilding Process & the Agency of Marginalized Feminine Actors’, ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA (18-22 Feb 2015)
  • Khalfey, Sameera, “Ideology, Religion and Politicised Religion”, ISA 56th Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana (February 18th-21st, 2015).
  • O’Sullivan, Noël was invited to attend a Liberty Fund conference in Spain (at Santiago di Compostella) on the thought of de Corales (9th.-12th. April 2015).

 

Invited Lectures:

  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Aftermath of the 2015 Israeli Elections”, London (23 July 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael was invited to present his new book Confronting the Internet’s Dark Side — Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway in many forums including Dartmouth College, USA; Jerusalem, Israel; Salzburg Global Seminar, Salzburg, Austria; University of Vigo, Spain; Dublin, Ireland; University of Antwerp School of Law, Belgium; University of Salford, England.
  • Connelly, James was invited to speak at the University of Genoa and with Colin Tyler to speak also at the Nicholaus Copernicus University, Torun, Poland.

 

Other:

  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Who’s Who in the World, 31st Edition (2014); 32nd Edition (2015) and in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2015).

2014-2015

Middle East Study Group (MESG), University of Hull

Significant achievements:

  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia, has been promoted to Senior Lecturer.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Who’s Who in the World, 31st Edition (2014); 32nd Edition (2015); 33rdEdition (2016).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Leading Professionals of the World, International Biographical Centre (2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in 2000 Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2015).
  • Edles, Gary, Entry in Who’s Who in America and Who’s Who in American Law, both the 2014 editions.

 

Publications:

Books:

  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia, Inequality and Violence. A Re-appraisal of Man, the State and War (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014).
  • Carby-Hall, Jo (ed.), Essays on Human Rights: A Celebration of the Life of Dr. Janusz Kochanowski (Warsaw: Jus et Lex Publishers, 2014).

 

 

 

 

  • Chakma, Bhmitra (ed.), South Asia in Transition: Democracy, Political Economy and Security (London: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014).
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, South Asia’s Nuclear Security (London: Routledge, 2015)
  • Cohen-Almagor, RaphaelConfronting the Internet’s Dark Side: Moral and Social Responsibility on the Free Highway (Washington DC.: Woodrow Wilson Center Press and Cambridge University Press, 2015).
  • Collin, Richard Oliver and Pamela L. Martin, An Introduction to World Politics: Conflict and Consensus on a Small Planet (Boulder, Colorado: Rowman and Littlefield, 2013).
  • Edles, Gary J., Independent Agencies in the United States: Law, Structure and Politics (NY: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, Firebrand Waves of Digital Activism 1994-2014: Studies on the Rise and Spread of Hacktivism and Cyberconflict, Palgrave MacMillan. (Monograph submitted to publisher January 2015 and currently in production, publication date 1st September 2015).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, The Digital Transformation of the Public Sphere: Conflict, Migration, Crisis and Culture in Digital Networks, co-edited with Dennis Nguyen and Elisa Serafinelli, Palgrave Macmillan. (In preparation, submission date 1/9/2015).
  • Parekh, Bhikhu, Debating India (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • Uberoi, Varun and Modood, Tariq (eds.) Multiculturalism Rethought: Essays in Honour of Bhikhu Parekh(Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 2015).

 

Articles:

  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): Insights from Para-Psychology and Applications to International Relations. Accepted in Peace Review.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): The Middle Eastern Eagle: How the MENA Region can Rise. International Relations and Diplomacy, 2:2, 144-149.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): On Inequality and Violence. In: Ramirez, Martin et al. (eds): Broader Perspectives on Violence, Aggression and Terrorism. Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, pp. 50-64.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): Human nature, international hierarchies and ISIS. International Affairs Forum.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): Malala’s revolution. International Affairs Forum.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): Minds, Bodies and Feminism. International Affairs Forum.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): “Laender mit mehr Gleichheit sind generell gluecklicher”. Interview on Inequality and Violence republished in Friedenspolitischer Ratschlag.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2014): A Reply to Mearsheimer. International Affairs Forum. Republished inStrategy International and ISN Blog.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia (2015): Global Integration as an Antidote to CrisisWorld State Journal.
  • Carby-Hall, Jo, “The 1960 Constitution of Cyprus and its Aftermath”, in a Liber Amicorum in honour of Professor Zbigniew Maciag (THE leading constitutional lawyer of Poland). Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.
  • Carby-Hall, Jo, “Communist Parties: Britain and Celebrations in Cold War Cyprus. 1945 – 1955 Journal of Cold War Studies of Harvard University (2014).
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, “Liberal Peace and South Asia”, India Quarterly, Vol. 70, No. 3, (2014), pp. 187-205.
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, “Explaining South Asia’s Emerging Regional Order: Is the Region Ripe for a Liberal Peace?”, India Quarterly , Vol. 70, No. 3 (September 2014), pp. 187-205.
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, “Sheikh Hasina Government’s India Policy: A three-level game?,” Journal of Asian Security and International Affairs, Vol 2, No. 1 (April 2015), pp. 27-51.
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, “Democratic Transition and Pakistan’s Nuclear Weapons”, in Shaun Gregory (ed.),Democracy and Security in Pakistan (London: Routledge, 2015).
  • Chakma, Bhmitra,  “The CHT and the Peace Process”, in Ali Riaz and Mohammed Sajjadur Rahman (eds.),Routledge Handbook of Contemporary Bangladesh (New York: Routledge, 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Suggestions for Israeli-Palestinian Agreement”, New Directions (Kivunim Hadashim), No.30 (June 2014), pp. 144-159 (Hebrew).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Avoiding the Destruction of the Third Temple: Separating State and Religion”, in Yossi Goldstein (ed.), Religion Nationalism: The Struggle for Modern Jewish Identity, An Interdisciplinary Annual (Ariel: Ariel University, 2014), pp. 170-189.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Amos N. Guiora, “Legitimate Target” (NY: Oxford University Press, 2013), Democracy and Security, Vol. 10, Issue 1 (2014), pp. 101-104.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Ruth Gavison (ed.), “The Two-State Solution” (NY and London: Bloomsbury, 2013), Middle Eastern Studies, Vol. 50, Issue 4 (2014), pp. 683-687.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israel versus Palestine? Who do you support?”, The Daily Journalist, World Wide Experts (July 18, 2014), http://thedailyjournalist.com/elcafe/israel-versus-palestine-who-do-you-support/
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Breaking the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock – Two State Solution”, Global Education Magazine: International Day of Peace (September 21, 2014), pp. 58-63, http://www.globaleducationmagazine.com/breaking-israeli-palestinian-deadlock-state-solution/
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “BBC World without Terror”, The Jerusalem Post (December 17, 2014), http://www.jpost.com/landedpages/printarticle.aspx?id=384993
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Creating a New Road Map for Resolving the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, E-International Relations (December 26, 2014), http://www.e-ir.info/2014/12/26/creating-a-new-road-map-for-resolving-the-israeli-palestinian-conflict/
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Breaking the Israeli-Palestinian Deadlock”, Retos International, Vol. 5, No. 11 (2014), https://openaccess.leidenuniv.nl/bitstream/handle/1887/31919/Pages%20from%20Gog%20Magog%20Kahane%20Buber.pdf?sequence=1
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Countering Hate on the Internet”, Annual Review of Law and Ethics, Vol. 22 (2014): 431-443.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “After Leveson: Recommendations for Instituting the Public and Press Council”, The International Journal of Press/Politics, Vol. 19, No. 2 (April 2014), pp. 202 – 225.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Reconciling Liberalism and Judaism? Human Rights in Israel”, in Jo Carby-Hall (ed.), Essays on Human Rights: A Celebration of the Life of Dr Janusz Kochanowski (Warsaw: Jus et Lex Foundation, 2014), pp. 136-163.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Foreword”, in Rusi Jaspal, Antisemitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk (Aldershot: Ashgate, 2014), pp. xiii-xvii.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Abraham H. Foxman and Christopher Wolf, “Viral Hate” (NY: Palgrave-Macmillan, 2013), Political Studies Review, Vol. 13, Issue 2 (May 2015), pp. 281-282.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Addressing Incitement in Israel”, in Aharon Barak et al. (eds.), Essays in Honour of Deputy President of the Israel Supreme Court Eliyahu Mazza (Jerusalem: Nevo, 2015), pp. 457-488 (Hebrew).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Internet Architecture, Freedom of Expression and Social Responsibility: Critical Realism and Proposals for a Better Future”, Innovation: The European Journal of Social Science Research (2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Parameters for Two State Solution”, Palestine-Israel Journal (2015).
  • Collin, Richard Oliver, “Moving Political Meaning across Linguistic Frontiers”, Political Studies, Vol. 61(2) (2013), pp. 282-300.
  • Connelly, James, ‘Electoral Systems: A Glossary’, ‘Key Issues in Choosing an Electoral System’, ‘The Canadian Experience of Electoral Reform’, in Parliament in the New Egyptian Constitution, Global Partners Governance/Arab Forum for Alternatives (2013), pp.59-77. http://www.gpgovernance.net/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/Parliament-in-the-new-egyptian-constitution-FULL-ENG.pdf
  • Craig, Alan, ‘Sderot: the bomb shelter capital of the world’, Fathom (winter, 2014)
  • Craig, Alan and Jones, Clive, ‘Discovery of Israel’s Gas Fields and their geopolitical Implications’, Emirates Centre for Strategic Studies and Research, (July 2013)
  • Dingli, Sophia and Caroline Kennedy, “Lawrence, Tribes, Insurgents and Lessons”, The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society, Vol. XXIII, no.1 (2013/2014.), pp. 7-27
  • Dingli, Sophia and Caroline Kennedy, “The Aden Pivot?: British Counterinsurgency After Aden”, Civil Wars, vol.16, no.1 (2014), pp.66-104
  • Dingli, Sophia, ‘We need to talk about silence: RE-examining silence in International Relations Theory’, forthcoming European Journal of International Relations.
  • Fouladvand S., ‘The Rights of the Accused and the ICC’, published in Second International Conference on Human Rights and Cultural Diversity, Sponsored by The Coalition for the International Criminal Court (CICC) (2013).
  • Fouladvand, S. ‘Complementarity and cultural sensitivity: decision-making by the International Criminal Court (ICC) Prosecutor in the Darfur situation’ (2014) 14 International Criminal Law Review, pp.1028 – 1066.
  • Fouladvand, S. & Vogler, K. “The Convention Against Illicit Traffic in Narcotic Drugs and Psychotropic Substances 1988 and the Global War on Drugs”, in HAUCK, P. & PETERKE, S. (eds) International Law and Transnational Organised Crime (Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2015).
  • Grabbe, Lester L. ‘Elephantine and the Torah’, in Alejandro F. Botta (ed.), In the Shadow of Bezalel: Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 60; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013), 125-35.
  • Grabbe, Lester L. ‘“Her Outdoors”: An Anthropological Perspective on Female Prophets and Prophecy’, in Jonathan Stökl and Corrine L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (SBL Ancient Israel and its Literature 15; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013), 11-25.
  • Grabbe, Lester L. ‘4 Ezra and 2 Baruch in Social and Historical Perspective’, in Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (with Janson M. Zurawski) (eds.), Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (JSJSup 164; Leiden: Brill, 2013), 221-35.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘Religious and Cultural Boundaries from the Neo-Babylonian to the Early Greek Period: A Context for Iconographic Interpretation’, in Christian Frevel, Katharina Pyschny, Izak Cornelius (eds.), A ‘Religious Revolution’ in Yehûd?  The Material Culture of the Persian Period as a Test Case (OBO 267; Fribourg: Academic Press; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 23-42.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., Scribes, ‘Writing, and Epigraphy in the Second Temple Period’, in Esther Eshel and Yigal Levin (eds.), ‘See, I Will Bring a Scroll Recounting What Befell Me’ (Ps 40:8): Epigraphy and Daily Life from the Bible to the Talmud, Dedicated to the Memory of Professor Hanan Eshel (Journal of Ancient Judaism Supplement 12; Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht, 2014), 105-21.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘“The God Who Is Called IAO”: Judaism and Hellenistic Mystery Religions’, in Michael Bömer, Achim Lichtenberger, and Rubina Raja (eds.), Religious Identities in the Levant from Alexander to Muhammed: Continuity and Change (Contextualizing the Sacred 4; Turnhout, Belgium: Brepols, 2014), 75-82.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., “The Exodus and Historicity”, in Thomas B. Dozeman, Craig A. Evans, and Joel N. Lohr (eds.), The Book of Exodus: Composition, Reception, and Interpretation (VTSup 164; Leiden: Brill, 2014), 61-87.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., “Penetrating the Legend: in Quest of the Historical Ezra”, in Marjo C. A. Korpel and Lester L. Grabbe (eds.), Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond: A Volume of Studies in Honour of Bob Becking (LHBOTS 616; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015), 97-110.
  • Grabbe, Lester L., and Marjo C. A. Korpel (eds) Open-Mindedness in the Bible and Beyond: A Volume of Studies in Honour of Bob Becking (LHBOTS 616; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, 2015).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., and Gabriele Boccaccini, assisted by Jason Zurawski (eds) The Seleucid and Hasmonean Periods and the Apocalyptic Worldview: The First Enoch Seminar Nangeroni Meeting, Villa Cagnola, Gazzada (June 25-28, 2012) (Library of Second Temple Studies; London and New York: Bloomsbury T & T Clark, in the press).
  • Green, Penny, and Tony Ward, “Civil Society and State Crime: Repression, Resistance and Transition in Burma and Tunisia”, in W.J. Chambliss and C. Moloney (eds.) State Crime (Critical Concepts in Criminology Series) (London: Routledge, 2014).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, ‘Digital Prometheus: WikiLeaks, the State-Network Dichotomy and the Antinomies of Academic Reason’ co-authored with Andrew Robinson, International Journal of Communication8 (2014) Feature 1-20. 1932–8036/2014FEA0002. Online available at: http://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/2879/1234
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “Hacked or Be hacked: The Quasi-Totalitarianism of Global Trusted Networks”’, co-authored with Martin Gak, forthcoming in New Formations: A journal of Culture/Theory/Politics.
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “Agency in Posthuman IR: Solving the Problem of Technosocially Mediated Agency”, co-authored with Michael Schandorf in E. Cudworth, S. Hobden and E. Kavalski (eds.), Posthuman Dialogues in International Relations (London: Ashgate, 2015).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “Surfing the Revolutionary Wave 2010-12: A Social Theory of Agency, Resistance, and Orders of Dissent in Contemporary Social Movements”, in A. Ornella (ed.), Anthropotechnologies (Inter-Disciplinary Press, 2015).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “A Cyberconflict Analysis of Chinese Dissidents Focusing on Civil Society, Mass Incidents and Labour Resistance”, in G.D. Rawnsley and M.Y.T. Rawnsley (eds.), Routledge Handbook of Chinese Media (London and New York: Routledge, 2015).
  • Kennedy, Caroline and Sophia Dingli, “Lawrence and the Study of War”, The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society, Vol. XXIII, no.1 (2013/2014), pp. 28-38
  • Otgaar, Henry, Scoboria, Alan, Mazzoni, Giuliana. (in press). Non believed memories. Current Directions in Psychological Science.
  • Scoboria, Alan, Boucher, Chantal, Mazzoni, Giuliana (in press). Reasons to withdraw belief in vivid autobiographical memories. Memory
  • Nash, Robert, Hanczakowski, Maciej, Mazzoni, Giuliana (in press). Eyewitness Testimony. International Encyclopedia of Social and Behavioral Sciences.
  • Mazzoni, Giuliana, Clark, Andrew, Nash, Robert (in press). Disowned recollections: Denying true experiences undermines belief more than memory. Acta Psychologica.
  • Mazzoni, Giuliana Rotriquenz, Elisabetta (in press). Elementi di Psicologia della testimonianza (in press). In Ciappi S., Pezzuolo, S. (Eds). Manuale di Psicologia Giuridica, Milan, Hogrefe.
  • Scoboria, Alan, Jackson, Dennis, Talarico, Jennifer., Hanczakowski, Maciej, Wysman, Lauren, & Mazzoni, Giuliana (in press). The role of belief in occurrence within autobiographical memory. Journal of Experimental Psychology: General.

 

Conference Presentations: 

  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia participated in a number of conferences on terrorism, such as the STR Conference on Terrorism and Political Violence in London, and has been invited to present at a workshop on terrorism at Harvard University in the coming spring. She was also invited to and participated in the Israel and the Middle East Conference at Exeter College, Oxford. Dr. Beyer will present her recent research on psychology and terrorism at the International Society for Political Psychology Conference in San Diego, July 2015, and at the STR Conference in Birmingham, September 2015.
  • Beyer, Anna Cornelia presented her monograph ‘Inequality and Violence’ (2014) at the EISA Conference in Warsaw and in various news outlets, such as the BBC and the International Affairs Forum.
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, presented a paper ‘India Factor and Bangladesh Foreign Policy’ at the European Conference on South Asian Studies, July 2014.Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Judaism v Liberalism – The Status of Women in Israel”, 3rd annual International Feminist Journal of Politics Conference, University of Southern California, Los Angeles (9-11 May 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Chair and participant: Leaders who Shaped Israel’s History in Times of “Relative” Peace and in Times of War; “Judaism v Liberalism – The Status of Women in Israel”, 30thAnnual Meeting of the Israel Studies Association, Sde Boker, Israel (23-25 June 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Consequentialism, Slogans Liberals Use and Their Fallacies”, Association for Legal and Social Philosophy Annual Conference, Leeds University (30 June – 2 July 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Religions and Cultures in Dialogue on the Value of Life”, “Peace is the Future – Religions and Cultures in Dialogue, 100 Years after World War I”, Antwerp (7-9 September 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Judaism v. Liberalism: The Status of Women in Israel”, EAIS 3rd Annual Conference on Israel Studies, SOAS, London (14-16 September 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Social Responsibility on the Internet”, Global Expressive Rights and the Internet, Dartmouth College (18-19 April 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Holocaust Denial on the Internet”, The Holocaust and the Contemporary World: International Interdisciplinary Conference, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, Poland (23–24 April 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Hate, Xenophobia and Bigotry on the Internet”, 5th International Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism, Jerusalem (12-15 May 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “How Terrorists Use the Internet?”, Contemporary Issues in the Criminal Justice Systems: Comparative Perspective, Oñati International Institute for the Sociology of Law, Spain (21-22 May 2015).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Monopoly of Jewish Orthodoxy in Israel and Its Effects on the Status of Women”, The Governance of Religious Diversity. More or Less Secularism?, The European University Institute, Florence, Italy (10-12 June 2015).
  • Connelly, James, “Death Rattle of an Empire; Birth Pangs of a Republic”, While the World Was at War: The Birth of the Middle East, University of Hull (15 October 2015).
  • Craig, Alan, Israel 2011: “Riots, Tents and Cottage Cheese”, Leeds Limmud conference (October 2013)
  • Craig, Alan, “Risking Arrest: Almog, Livni and the Israeli struggle to change UK law”, Limmud National Conference, Warwick, January 2014
  • Craig, Alan, “Israel’s ‘Legitimacy Cycle’ and the Use of Deterrent Force in Gaza: A Comparative Analysis of Cast Lead and Pillar of Defence”, European Association of Israel Studies Annual Conference, SOAS, (2013)
  • Craig, Alan, “Israel’s new ‘tough neighbourhood’; Israel-EU relations in the aftermath of the collapse of the 2014 Israel-Palestine negotiations”, European Association of Israel Studies Annual Conference, SOAS, (2014)
  • Dingli, Sophia, “’Silence’ in International Politics: Definitions, Implications and (New) Openings”, ISA Annual Convention, Toronto, Canada (29 March 2014).
  • Dingli, Sophia, ‘Meditations on silence and agency: Beyond paradigms of victimisation in Cyprus and Yemen’, ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA (18-22 Feb 2015)
  • Dingli, Sophia, ‘The Cypriot Peacebuilding Process & the Agency of Marginalized Feminine Actors’, ISA Annual Convention, New Orleans, USA (18-22 Feb 2015)
  • Fouladvand, Shahrzad, “Procedural Fairness in International Courts and Tribunals”, University of Surrey (September 19, 2014 – September 20, 2014).
  • Fouladvand, Shahrzad, “Tackling Modern Day Slavery and Human Trafficking”, Government Knowledge (November 2014).
  • Fouladvand, Shahrzad, “Modern Slavery ‐ policy options, implementation issues and business best practice”, By Westminster Legal Policy Forum (December 2014)
  • Fouladvand, Shahrzad, “Identifying and Investigating Cases of Forced Labour and Human Trafficking”, International Training Centre, Italy (April 20-24, 2015).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘The Ptolemaic Period: A Dark Age in Jewish History’, invited paper for conference on the Judaea and the Judaeans in the Ptolemaic Period: The Long Third Century BCE, Tel Aviv University (31 May to 3 June 2014).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘The Mighty Men of Israel: 1 and 2 Samuel and Historicity’, invited paper at the Colloquium Biblicum Lovaniense in Leuven (Belgium) (29 July to 1 August 2014).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘Historiography and the Last Days of Judah’, invited paper for Joint ASOR/SBL session on Methods of Historiography in the Study of Ancient Israel and the Levant, at the America Schools of Oriental Research and Society of Biblical Literature meeting, San Diego, California (21-25 November 2014).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘The Last Days of Judah and the Roots of the Pentateuch: What Does History Tell us?’, invited paper at a conference on the Fall of Jerusalem and the Rise of the Torah, Pontifical Biblical Institute, Rome (26-28 March 2015).
  • Grabbe, Lester L., ‘Calculating the Endtime: Apocalyptic Chronology in Second Temple Literature’, paper read at the Eighth Enoch Seminar meeting at Villa Cognola, Gazzada, Italy (21-26 June 2015).
  • Khalfey, Sameera, “’Islam’ and the ‘West’: the trend of intractability”, York University, Toronto, Canada (March 2014).
  • Khalfey, Sameera, “From pivot ‘area’ to pivot ‘actions’: ‘Islam’, extremism and critical geopolitics” (ISA, Canada, March 2014).
  • Khalfey, Sameera, “Ideology, Religion and Politicised Religion”, ISA 56th Annual Convention, New Orleans, Louisiana (February 18th-21st, 2015).

Conference Organization:

  • Anna Cornelia Beyer organized a movie screening of War Matters (a documentary on the history of the anti-war movement in Britain) and a talk on terrorism by Dr. Asta Maskaliunaite.
  • Sophia Dingli, Caroline Kennedy, Anna Agenthengelou and Sameera Khalfey co-organize the second of a series of conferences on Reconstructions, September 2014.
  • Sameera Khalfey and Raphael Cohen-Almagor co-organized While the World Was at War: The Birth of the Middle East, University of Hull (15 October 2014).
  • Shahrzad Fouladvand, organised high profile event for the UK’s first Anti-Slavery Commissioner, Kevin Hyland OBE, and chaired the panel, WISE (19 June 2015).

Invited Lectures:

  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? The politics of peace and reconciliation in theMiddle East”, CogTalk event, Plymouth University (30 January 2014).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Roots of the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict”, Amnesty International, Hull (12 November 2014).
  • Craig, Alan, King’s College London: “What ‘warrants’ arrest? UK-Israel relations in the shadow of the Universal Jurisdiction” (5 March 2013).
  • Giuliana Mazzoni, Lectio Magistralis, Science Festival, Genova (29 October, 2014)

Grants:

Teaching:

  • The School of Politics, Philosophy and International Studies opened an MA program with specialization in Middle East studies.
  • Gary Edles is an adjunct professor at Washington College of Law, American University.

Refereeing:

Raphael Cohen-Almagor served as:

PhD external examiner: King’s College War Studies, London (2014).

Reviewer for promotion procedures for: Sapir Academic College (2014); De Monfort University (2014).

Reader for: Open J. of PhilosophyInternational Relations and DiplomacyReview of Educational ResearchEuropean Journal of Comparative Law and GovernanceTerrorism and Political ViolenceInternational Affairs.

Referee, research proposals for: Research Foundation – Flanders (Fonds Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek – Vlaanderen, FWO) (2014); The German Israeli Foundation for Scientific Research and Development (2014).

Reader in media ethics for Routledge (2015).

Reader in Internet Studies for: IGI Global (2013-2014).

Referee, Book Prize in Israel Studies, Association for Israel Studies (2014-2015).

 

James Connelly, consultant, ‘Choosing an Electoral System: The Canadian experience’, Global Partners Governance consultation with members of Constituent Assembly, Cairo, Egypt, October 9th 2013.   

Consultant, Choosing an electoral system: Jordan, London, November 11th 2013. Global Partners Governance

 

Alan Craig served as PhD External examiner: Royal Holloway, London University (2014).

 

Lester L. Grabbe served as:

Referee for promotion: Senior Lecturer in Jewish History to Professor of Jewish History, Tel Aviv University (2014).

PhD external examiner: University of Edinburgh (January 2014).

Reviewer and evaluator for a research application to the Austrian Science Fund (Fonds zur Förderung der wissenschaftlichen Forschung) (2015).

 

Other:

Professor Jaime Cabeza came as a visiting professor from The University of Vigo Law School, Spain (2014-2015).

Cornelia Beyer is now a fellow with the think tank Strategy International and has been granted a visiting fellowship with the University of Massachussetts, Amherst, in July 2015.

Raphael Cohen-Almagor joined the Advisory Committee, Berkman Center for Internet & Society, Harvard University (2014 – ).

Raphael Cohen-Almagor joined the Editorial Board, Journal of Global Research in Education and Social Science (2014 – ).

Alan Craig was appointed treasurer of the European Association of Israel Studies (2014).

Irving Kirsch was appointed Associate Director, Program in Placebo Studies, Harvard Medical School / Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center.

Giuliana Mazzoni is Honorary Member of the Italian Psychology and Law Society for her impact on the Italian legal practice.

Giuliana Mazzoni is Associate Director of MAMRI, Media and Memory Research Initiative (U of Hull)

Giuliana Mazzoni is Associate Editor of the journal Applied Cognitive Psychology

Giuliana Mazzoni’s work appeared in the following media:

  • 2014 BBC Humberside; Hull Daily Mail; Il Sesto Senso, scientific programme (Italian National Television, RAI3);
  • 2013 BBC3 Night Waves; Cheltenham Literary Festival; TEDxHull talks; Voyager scientific documentary (Italian National Television RAI2); Corriere della Sera (Italy); New Scientist article; Scandinavian National TV documentary.

 

2013-2014

Significant achievements:

Sophia Dingli completed her PhD: “Lands of MisImagination? Silence in International Relations Theory and Practice and the Construction of the Periphery” under the supervision of Professor Caroline Kennedy (2010-2013).

Sameera Khalfey received her PhD in 2012 under the supervision Dr David Lonsdale. Her viva was passed by Professor James Piscatori. The thesis was an exploration of the trend of interactions between ‘Islam’ and the ‘West’ questioning the assumption of intractability. Sameera now works in the international development sector working as a researcher within policy.

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Who’s Who in the World, 31st Edition (2014).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Entry in Outstanding Intellectuals of the 21th Century, 8th Edition, International Biographical Centre, Cambridge, England (2014).

 

MESG Events:

Professor Lester Grabbe, MESG, “The Manipulation of History for Ideology: Pro-Palestinian and Pro-Zionist Examples” (16 October 2013).

This study shows how history has been manipulated by both pro-Palestinians and pro-Zionists to support their particular ideology.  Examples will focus around the history of ancient Palestine and of the Jews in antiquity.

 

Ambassador Professor Manuel Hassassian, Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the UK, “The Peace Process –where to?” (20 November 2013, 4pm).

Born in Jerusalem and educated at the College des Frères, Professor Manuel Hassassian left his homeland for brief periods after his high school years to pursue his higher education, earning his BA in Political Science from the American University of Beirut in 1975, his MA in International Relations from Toledo University, Ohio,

U.S.A. in 1976 and his PhD in Comparative Politics from University of Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.A. in 1986.

Professor Manuel Hassassian served Bethlehem University and the Palestinian people with distinction for twenty five years. He is a dynamic professor of political science and has demonstrated brilliant leadership in several key administrative roles at the University: Dean of Students, Dean of the Faculty of Arts and Chair of the Humanities Department and for the past nine years as the Executive Vice President, during which time he also served as the President of the Rectors’ Conference of the Palestinian Ministry of Higher Education and President of the Palestinian-European-American Cooperation in Education (PEACE) program.

Professor Hassassian has been a superb representative of the University at the Ministry of Higher Education, at the Association of Arab Universities, and among other international academic organizations. He has also been a visiting scholar at the University of Reims, France; Villanova University, USA; University of Maryland at College Park, USA; University of Vermont, USA; Earlham College, USA; and the University College, Dublin, Ireland.

In addition to the many demands on his time with senior administrative responsibilities at Bethlehem University, during his tenure at Bethlehem University Professor Hassassian made significant scholarly contributions in the field of political science with the publication of over 100 reviews, articles and chapters, including Palestinian Political Culture, Civic Society and the Concept of Citizenship, The Transformation of Palestinian Civil Society and its Role in Developing Democratic Trends in the West Bank and Gaza Strip, and Historical Justice and Compensation for Palestinian Refugees. Professor Hassassian also served the Palestinian people as a consultant to the Higher Ministerial Committee for Church Affairs, the Ministry of Planning and International Cooperation, UNESCO, the Palestinian Negotiating Team on Refugee Final Settlement, the Orient House P.L.O. Office in Jerusalem as Chief Political Advisor to the late Mr. Faysal Husseini, Minister of State Affairs – Head of the Jerusalem File, and the Ministerial Commission on Refugees, among others.

Among his academic awards and honours, Professor Hassassian was awarded an Honorary Doctorate (Docteur Honoris Causa) by the University of Reims, France, and nominated by the Center of International Development and Conflict Management, University of Maryland, for the Gleitzman Middle East Award.

 

Professor Eric Barendt, Is it legitimate to ban hate speech? (21 November, 16:00-18:00, Wilberforce LT12)

The legitimacy of hate speech bans is one of the hardest questions for liberal democracies to resolve. Can extreme hate speech be restricted without interfering with free political discourse?

Eric Barendt, Emeritus Professor of Law, UCL, is an internationally renowned expert on media law. He was Goodman Professor of Media Law at UCL from 1990 until 2010. Before coming to UCL, he lectured law at St. Catherine’s College, Oxford. Professor Barendt is the author of many important books and articles on media law, the laws of libel and privacy, and freedom of expression, most notably Freedom of Speech (2ndedition: Oxford University Press, 2005). His most recent book is Academic Freedom and the Law (Hart, 2010). Professor Barendt is also the editor of the Journal of Media Law.

 

Mr Dan Meridor, “The Arab Spring and Its Impact on the Middle East and World Order” (18 December 2013, 4pm)

Dan Meridor was Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Intelligence in the Government of Israel from 31.3.2009 until 18.3.2013.

In the years 2003 – 2008 Dan Meridor practiced law at Haim Zadok & Co Law Offices.

At that period Dan Meridor served as Chairman of The Jerusalem Foundation.

 

In 2001-2003 Mr. Meridor served as a Minister in the Israeli government, in charge of strategic affairs, and was a member of the Inner Cabinet.

In 1999-2001 Mr. Meridor served as the Chairman of the Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee of the Knesset.

 

In 1996-1997 Mr. Meridor was the Minister of Finance of Israel. As Minister of Finance, Mr. Meridor initiated sweeping reforms in the economy through massive budget cuts, liberalisation and privatisation.

In 1988-1992 Dan Meridor was the Minister of Justice of Israel. He promoted human rights legislation, and Israel’s first (and so far – only) human rights constitutional laws were enacted during his term, creating the “constitutional revolution”, empowering the Supreme Court with judicial review over Knesset laws.

In 1982-1984 Mr. Meridor served as the Secretary of the Cabinet under Prime Minister Menahem Begin and Yitzhak Shamir.

In 1984 he was elected to the Knesset and he served as a member of the Knesset until 2003. He was elected to the Knesset again at 2009.  In the Knesset, Mr. Meridor served on the Committee of Foreign Affairs and Defense, the Committee of Constitution, Law & Justice and the Ethics Committee.

Mr. Meridor is a graduate of the Faculty of Law in the Hebrew University and practiced law in Jerusalem for many years.

Dan Meridor is a captain (res.) in the I.D.F. He fought as a tank commander in the Six Days War and in the Yom Kippur War.

Mr. Meridor was the Chairman of the Public Council of the Israel Philharmonic Orchestra. Earlier he served as Chairman of the Board of the Israel Museum and as a member of the Board of the Gesher Theatre.

Dan Meridor was born in Jerusalem in 1947, where he lives ever since.

He is married to Dr Leora Meridor, with four children and seven grandchildren.

 

Dr Rusi Jaspal, “Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism in Iran” (8 January 2014).

Anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism constitute two important ideological building blocks of the Islamic Republic of Iran. Yet, there is no existing research into the psychosocial motives underlying the manifestation of anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism at the institutional level in Iran or in the Iranian general population. Here it is argued that there is much heuristic and predictive value in applying tenets of Identity Process Theory (IPT), a socio-psychological model of identity threat and action, to the primarily socio-historical literature on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Iran.

In the first half of the paper, the author provides a summary of anti-Semitism, anti-Zionism and ‘new anti-Semitism’ and IPT. It is argued that (i) anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism may restore feelings of belonging in the Muslim world and beyond; (ii) there are important inter-relations between ingroup and outgroup self-efficacy; (iii) there is a psychological motivation to maintain Shiite ideology and Khomeini’s legacy; (iv) Jews and Israel are constructed and perceived in terms of a threat to group continuity. In the second half of the paper, quantitative survey data, qualitative interview data and qualitative visual and media data are presented in support of these assertions. It is suggested that insights into the motivational principles underlying anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism may inform further empirical research into social representations of Jews and Israel in Iran and potential interventions for mitigating anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism.  More broadly, this paper highlights the potential contribution of social psychology to existing work on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in political science and the humanities.

 

Dr Rusi Jaspal (M.A., Cambridge; M.Sc., Surrey; Ph.D., London) is Lecturer in Psychology at De Montfort University, Leicester, UK. Dr. Jaspal has published widely on identity, intergroup relations and the media, with a particular focus on anti-Semitism and anti-Zionism in Iran and the Muslim world. His work in this area has appeared in journals such as Israel Affairs, The Israel Journal of Foreign Affairs and The British Journal of Middle Eastern Studies. Rusi Jaspal is co-editor (with Prof Dame Glynis Breakwell) of Identity Process Theory: Identity, Social Action and Social Change (Cambridge University Press, 2013) and the author of Anti-Semitism and Anti-Zionism: Representation, Cognition and Everyday Talk (Ashgate, 2013).

 

Publications:

 

  • Carby-Hall, Jo (ed.), Essays on Human Rights: A Celebration of the Life of Dr. Janusz Kochanowski. Scheduled for publication by Jus et Lex publishers on 25th April 2014.
  • Carby-Hall, Jo, “The 1960 Constitution of Cyprus and its Aftermath”, in a Liber Amicorum in honour of Professor Zbigniew Maciag (THE leading constitutional lawyer of Poland). Jagiellonian University Press, 2014.
  • Carby-Hall, Jo, “Communist Parties: Britain and Celebrations in Cold War Cyprus. 1945 – 1955 Journal of Cold War Studies of Harvard University (2014, forthcoming).
  • Chakma, Bhmitra, “Escalation Control, Deterrence Diplomacy and America’s Role in South Asia’s Nuclear Crises”, Contemporary Security Policy (2012), pp.1–23
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “In Internet’s Way: Radical, Terrorist Islamists on the Free Highway”, International Journal of Cyber Warfare and Terrorism, Vol. 2(3) (2012), pp. 39-58.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Religious, Hateful and Racist Speech in Israel”, Shofar, Vol. 31, No. 2 (Winter 2013), pp. 97-115.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “The Six Day War – Interviews with General Aharon Yariv and Ambassador Shimon Shamir, Lessons and Insights”, Social Issues in Israel (Sugioth Chevratiut Be’Israel), Vol. XV (2013), pp. 171-194 (Hebrew).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Regional Study RS86B: A two state solution: an Israeli view with Palestinian perspectives. “Beyond the Taba Promise”, The UK Defence Forum (2013), http://www.ukdf.org.uk/assets/downloads/Atwostatesolution-anIsraeliviewwithPalestinianperspectives.pdf
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Yaacov Lappin, “Virtual Caliphate” (Washington DC: Potomac Books, 2012), Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 25, No. 2 (2013), pp. 344-346.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Ilan Peleg and Dov Waxman, “Israel’s Palestinians” (NY: Cambridge University Press, 2011), Israel Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 2(2013), pp. 391-392.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Ami Pedahzur and Arie Perliger, “Jewish Terrorism in Israel” (NY: Columbia University Press, 2011),Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 25, No. 3 (2013), pp. 501-503.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Joby Warrick, “The Triple Agent” (NY: Doubleday, 2011),Terrorism and Political Violence, Vol. 25, No. 3 (2013), pp. 506-508.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Book Review of Yigal Kipnis, “1973, The Way to War” (Or Yehuda: Dvir, 2012, Hebrew), Israel Affairs, Vol. 19, No. 3(2013), pp. 580-582.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “An Irish union’s boycott fallacy”, The Jewish Chronicle (19 April 2013), https://www.thejc.com/comment/comment/an-irish-union-s-boycott-fallacy-1.43997
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “On Representation”, The Jerusalem Post (12 August 2013), http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/On-representation-322826
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism – 4th International Conference”,Sharnoff’s Global Views (9 August 2013), http://www.sharnoffsglobalviews.com/anti-semitism-159/
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “On Syria”, The Jerusalem Post (31 August 2013), http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/On-Syria-324885
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Flawed decision-making processes in Pennsylvania Avenue and Downing Street”, The Jerusalem Post (23 September 2013), http://www.jpost.com/Opinion/Op-Ed-Contributors/Flawed-decision-making-processes-at-Pennsylvania-Avenue-and-Downing-Street-326800
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Two-State Solution: The Way Forward”, in Sharnoff’s Global Views (22 November 2013), http://www.sharnoffsglobalviews.com/two-state-solution-221/
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Combating Terrorism on the Free Highway”, in Counter Terrorist Trends and Analysis, Vol. 5, Issue 11 (November 2013), pp. 10-13,
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Against Boycotting Israeli Academics, in Sharnoff’s Global Views (3 January 2014), http://www.sharnoffsglobalviews.com/boycotting-israeli-academics-264/
  • Collin, Richard Oliver, “Moving Political Meaning across Linguistic Frontiers”, Political Studies (2012), doi: 10.1111/j.1467-9248.2012.00965.x
  • Collin, Richard Oliver, “Dialect as Destiny: Language and Kurdish National Unity” (forthcoming).
  • Craig, Alan, International Legitimacy and the Politics of Security (Lanham, Maryland: Lexington Books, 2013).
  • Dingli, Sophia, The Politics of (Re)Unification: Lessons from Yemen for Cyprus”, Politics,Vol. 24:2 (FALL 2012), http://www.academia.edu/2626169/The_Politics_of_Re_Unification_Lessons_from_Yemen_for_Cyprus
  • Dingli, Sophia, “Is the failed state thesis analytically useful? The case of Yemen”, Politics, vol. 33, no.2 (2013), pp. 91-100.
  • Dingli, Sophia, Sameera Khalfey & Cristina Leston-Bandeira, ‘The Effectiveness of Incentive Driven Role-Play”, European Political Science, vol.12 (2013), pp. 384-98
  • Dingli, Sophia and Caroline Kennedy, “Lawrence, Tribes, Insurgents and Lessons”, The Journal of the T.E, Lawrence Society, Vol. XXIII, no.1 (2013/2014.), pp. 7-27
  • Dingli, Sophia and Caroline Kennedy, “The Aden Pivot?: British Counterinsurgency After Aden”, Civil Wars, forthcoming.
  • Grabbe, Lester, “Elephantine and the Torah”, in Alejandro F. Botta (ed.), In the Shadow of Bezalel: Aramaic, Biblical, and Ancient Near Eastern Studies in Honor of Bezalel Porten (Culture and History of the Ancient Near East 60; Leiden/Boston: Brill, 2013), pp. 125-35.
  • Grabbe, Lester, “‘Her Outdoors’: An Anthropological Perspective on Female Prophets and Prophecy”, in Jonathan Stökl and Corrine L. Carvalho (eds.), Prophets Male and Female: Gender and Prophecy in the Hebrew Bible, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the Ancient Near East (SBL Ancient Israel and its Literature 15; Atlanta: Society of Biblical Literature, 2013), pp. 11-25.
  • Grabbe, Lester, “4 Ezra and 2 Baruch in Social and Historical Perspective”, in Matthias Henze and Gabriele Boccaccini (with Janson M. Zurawski) (eds.), Fourth Ezra and Second Baruch: Reconstruction after the Fall (JSJSup 164; Leiden: Brill, 2013), pp. 221-35.
  • Green, Penny, and Tony Ward, “Civil Society and State Crime: Repression, Resistance and Transition in Burma and Tunisia”, in W.J. Chambliss and C. Moloney (eds.) State Crime (Critical Concepts in Criminology Series) (London: Routledge, 2014).
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “WikiLeaks Affects: Ideology, Conflict and the Revolutionary Virtual” in Athina Karatzogianni and Adi Kuntsman 9eds.), Digital Cultures and the Politics of Emotion: Feelings, Affect and Technological Change (Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan, 2012).
  • Karatzogianni, A. “Cyberconflict and the Future of Warfare” in Hall Gardner and Oleg Kobtzeff (eds.), Ashgate Research Companion to War London: Ashgate, 2012), Available at:http://works.bepress.com/athina_karatzogianni/8
  • Karatzogianni, Athina, “A Cyberconflict Analysis of the 2011 Arab Spring Uprisings”, in G. Youngs (ed.) Digital World: Connectivity, Creativity and Rights (London and New York: Routledge, 2013).
  • Kennedy, Caroline and Sophia Dingli, “Lawrence and the Study of War”, The Journal of the T.E. Lawrence Society, Vol. XXIII, no.1 (2013/2014), pp. 28-38
  • Khalfey, Sameera, “The Duality of Syria: Civil War and the War on Terror”,  e-IR  (September 2013), http://www.e-ir.info/2013/09/16/the-duality-of-syria-civil-war-and-the-war-on-terror/

 

Conference Presentations:

  • Cornelia Beyer participated in a number of conferences on terrorism, such as the STR Conference on Terrorism and Political Violence in London, and has been invited to present at a workshop on terrorism at Harvard University in the coming spring.
  • Cornelia Beyer presented her forthcoming monograph ‘Inequality and Violence’ (March 2014) at the EISA Conference in Warsaw and in various news outlets, such as the BBC and the International Affairs Forum.
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Combating hate on the Internet-Practical Recommendations”, Global Forum for Combating Anti-Semitism – 4th International Conference, Jerusalem (28–30 May 2013).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael“Just and Unjust Wars: A Study of the Israeli Wars”,29th Annual Conference of the Association for Israel Studies, UCLA (24-26 June 2013).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Chairperson and Discussant of the session on “Reconstruction: The End of Conflict, the Persistence of Struggle”, in Reconstructions Pre- and Post-Conflict: Emerging Powers And The Future Of The World Order, University of Nicosia, Cyprus (1-3 September 2013)
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “In Internet’s Way: Radical, Terrorist Islamists on the Free Highway”, 13th World Summit on Counter-Terrorism, Institute for Counter-Terrorism (ICT), Herzliya, Israel (8-11 September 2013).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Israeli Democracy and the Rights of Its Palestinian Citizens”, European Association for Israel Studies – 3rd International Conference, SOAS, London (15-17 September 2013).
  • Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, Keynote Lecture: “Why Two-State Solution?”; Participant in the closing round-table, in Israel – Palestine 2020 – La guerre de l’eau aura-t-elle lieu ?, University of Angers (30 November – 1 December 2013).
  • Dingli, Sophia, “The Politics of (Re)Unification: Lessons for Cyprus From Yemen”, MESG University of Hull (January 2003).
  • Dingli, Sophia and Anna Agathangelou, “Wither Geopolitica Governance A la Turka TV? Politics of Time, Zones of Empire in Magnificent Century”, ISA Convention (April 2014).
  • Dingli, Sophia, “A Brave New World? Reconstructing Yemen After the Arab Spring”, Reconstructions Workshop, University of Nicosia (1-3 September 2013).
  • Dingli, Sophia, Guest Speaker:  “Yemen: The success-story of the Arab Spring?”, Celebrating Democracy: Viewpoints from Cyprus and the Arab Spring, University of Nicosia (16 September 2013).

 

 

 

 

 

 

NATO briefing
Athina Karatzogianni
 (Social Sciences) recently attended a high-level meeting of senior academics and think-tankers at NATO headquarters in Brussels. The event included briefings from the Deputy Secretary General and other senior NATO staff on matters such as smart defence, public diplomacy, and emerging security challenges focusing on the Mediterranean region. Dr Karatzogianni said: “Following this event, there is an interest in collaboration with the University of Hull in areas we hold expertise, such as new media and citizen activism, cyberdefence policy and maritime issues.” Dr Karatzogianni will host a forthcoming conference to present findings from the European FP7 MIG@NET research into conflict, migration and digital networks on 11 and 12 April at WISE. A range of new courses on new media and political communication, cultural politics and screen studies are now running in Media in Social Sciences from September 2014.

Anti-censorship and activism using digital media
Athina Karatzogianni
 gave talks in Brazil and Sweden on anti-censorship and network activism using digital everyday media. In Brazil she spoke at the “Comunicação e Controle” international conference at the University of São Paulo, which is known for research in this area. In Sweden, Dr Karatzogianni spoke at the International Science Festival in Gothenburg (Vetenskapsfestivalen), one of Europe’s leading science festivals. She hopes that these international lectures will lead to further research and teaching collaborations in this increasingly important area.

 

International Conference in Hull April 2013

Athina Karatzogianni participated in Intersectional Conflict and Dialogue in Transnational Migrant and Digital Diaspora Networks (11-12 April 2013), held at the Wilberforce Institute of Slavery and Emancipation WISE (Oriel Chambers, 27 High Street, Hull, HU1 1NE, UK).

Athina Karatzogianni participated in International Conference MIG@NET “Transnational Digital Networks, Migration and Gender”, 24-26 2013, Panteion University, 136, Syggrou Ave., Athens.

Athina Karatzogianni participated in the WP10 Participation at the European Public Policy Meeting in Nicosia on Friday 23 November 2012.

WP10 Policy Document included in the Thematic Report D 12.

Athina Karatzogianni gave a presentation at MIGNET Panel at Digital Crossroads Conference at Utrecht, 28-30 June 2013.

Panel MIG@NET: Transnational Digital Networks, gender and Migration

‘Intercultural Conflict and Dialogue in Digital Migrant Networks’

Athina Karatzogianni, Oksana Morgunova

Khalfey, Sameera, “’Islam’ and the ‘West’: the trend of intractability”, York University, Toronto, Canada (March 2014).

Khalfey, Sameera, “From pivot ‘area’ to pivot ‘actions’: ‘Islam’, extremism and critical geopolitics” (ISA, Canada, March 2014).

 

Conference Organization:

Raphael Cohen-Almagor co-organized the Law-Politics Annual Lecture, University of Hull.

Sophia Dingli and Sameera Khalfey co-organized a 3-day workshop on Reconstructions Pre and Post- Conflict: Emerging Powers and the Future of the World Order, University of Nicosia on 1-3 September 2013.

Sophia Dingli, Caroline Kennedy, Anna Agenthengelou and Sameera Khalfey co-organize the second of a series of conferences on Reconstructions, scheduled for September 2014.

Invited Lectures:

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Avoiding the Destruction of the Third Temple: Separating State and Religion in Israel”, Centre for Jewish Studies, University of Manchester (3 October 2013).

Cohen-Almagor, Raphael, “Why Can’t We All Just Get Along? The politics of peace and reconciliation in the Middle East”, CogTalk event, Plymouth University (30 January 2014).

 

Grants:

£30,000 for three MA Scholarships in Middle East Studies.

£20,000 toward the organization of an international peace conference, at the University of hull (May 2015).

The conference will bring together academics, practitioners, diplomats and politicians who are experts in the field of peace negotiations. The idea is to invite leaders in the field to discuss and probe avenues for peace in the Middle East. Among the questions that this conference will address:

  • Is two-state solution still viable?
  • Is the suggestion of three states a viable solution?
  • Can there be a Jordanian-Palestinian confederation?
  • Should Israel and Palestine strive for a final status solution or for a piecemeal solution?
  • Are unilateral steps desirable?
  • Can other countries provide constructive assistance and how should they be involved?
  • Who are the potential credible mediators?

In the first instance, active participation will be by invitation only. If needed, a call for paper will be published. We invited President William Jefferson Clinton to lead the conference.

We will invite eight key figures from Israel, eight key figures from the Palestinian Authority, and eight other seasoned practitioners and decision-makers who have experience in peace negotiations.

The international peace conference will be comprised only of plenary sessions. During the conference, experienced experts will present ideas for peace between Israel and Palestine, and workshops will address the sticky problems. There will be one workshop on borders and security, one workshop on Jerusalem and the holy places, and one workshop on refugees.

Each workshop will present a summary of proposals as to how to solve the problem.

The conference will be opened to the public.

The conference will also facilitate direct meeting points for the Palestinians and the Israelis to meet one another and to interact on a personal level. We will organize luncheons, dinners and evening social events for each day of the conference.

 

Invitees

Israel (8 people of the list below):

 

CONFIRMED General (res.) Amos Gilad, senior advisor to the Israeli prime minister

CONFIRMED Mr Efraim Halevy, former Director of the MOSSAD, peace negotiator

MK Tzipi Livni, Minister of Justice, peace negotiator

Professor Moshe Maoz, The Hebrew University, expert on peace negotiations

CONFIRMED Mr Dan Meridor, former Deputy Prime Minister, State of Israel

General (res.) MK Amram Mitzna, peace activist

Mr Ehud Olmert, former prime minister

Dr Ron Pundak, peace negotiator

CONFIRMED His Excellency Ambassador Professor Itamar Rabinovich, senior advisor to Israeli PM

Mr Uri Savir, President of the Peres Center for Peace, peace negotiator

CONFIRMED Mr. Gilad Sher, senior advisor to Prime Minister Ehud Barak

CONFIRMED Dr Asaf Siniver, University of Birmingham, expert on peace negotiations

CONFIRMED His Excellency Ambassador Daniel Taub, Israel Ambassador to the UK

General (res.) Amos Yadlin, Tel Aviv University

 

 

Palestine (8 people of the list below):

 

Mr Hussein Agha, St. Antony’s College, Oxford

Mr Hibah al-Hussaini, peace negotiator

Mr Ziad Asali, Founder and President of the American Task Force on Palestine, Washington DC.
CONFIRMED Dr Hanan Daoud Khalil Ashrawi, senior peace negotiator

Mr Salam Fayyad, former prime minister

Professor Omar M. Dajani, expert on the legal aspects of the conflict in the Middle East

Ms. Raghida Dergham, New York correspondent for al Hayat and founder of the Beirut Institute

Mr Saeb Erekat, Chief Palestinian Peace Negotiator

Mr Akram Hanieh, Editor, Al-Ayyam

CONFIRMED His Excellency Ambassador Professor ManuelHassassian, Palestinian Authority Ambassador to the UK

Mr Emile Hokayem, Senior Fellow for Regional Security at the International Institute for Strategic Studies

CONFIRMED Mr Hussein Ibish, Senior Analyst, American Task Force on Palestine, Washington DC.

Mr Nazmi Jubeh, Jerusalem Expert

Mr Hassan Khader, one of the most insightful and talented Palestinian columnists

Dr Ahmad Khalidi, St Antony’s College, Oxford

Mr Ali Khashaan, Palestine Constitution Committee

Mr Hisham Melhem, Washington Bureau Chief of Al-Arabiya TV

Professor Sari Nusseibeh, President of the Al-Quds University in Jerusalem
Mr Ghaith Omari, Executive Director of the American Task Force on Palestine and former senior advisor to President Abbas

Mr Ahmed Qurei, former prime minister

His Excellency Ambassador Hassan Abdel Rahman, former Palestinian ambassador to the United States and a brilliant analyst

Mr Paul Salem, Director of the Carnegie Middle East Center in Beirut, Lebanon

Professor Saliba Sarsar, Palestinian-American political scientist, Prof. and Associate Vice President for Global Initiatives at Monmouth University

Mr Nabil Shaath, former Foreign Minister

Professor Salim Yaqub, Palestinian-American historian at UC Santa Barbara, and author of several important books

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Other (8 people of the list below):

 

Mr. Sten Andersson, former Foreign Minister of Sweden

Mr Tony Blair, former Prime Minister, Great Britain (expressed initial interest)

Mr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, former Prime Minister of Norway

Mr. Jan Egeland, former Deputy Foreign Minister of Norway

Mr. John Hagard, Swedish foreign office

His Excellency Ambassador Martin Indyk, former US Ambassador to Israel, peace negotiator, Washington DC.

Ms. Mona Juul, former Director of the Foreign Minister Office, Norway

His Excellency Ambassador Daniel Kurtzer, Princeton University

CONFIRMED Dr Aaron David Miller, peace negotiator, Vice President, The Woodrow Wilson Center, Washington DC.

Mr Hassan Mneimneh, Senior Transatlantic Fellow for MENA and the Islamic World at the German Marshall fund
Dr Marwan Muasher, Vice President for studies at the Carnegie Endowment, former Foreign Minister (2002–2004) and deputy prime minister (2004–2005) of Jordan

Mr. Pär Nuder, former Cabinet Secretary, Sweden

Mr. Göran Persson, former Prime Minister of Sweden

Mr. Terje Rød-Larsen, Director of FAFO, Oslo

His Excellency Ambassador Dr Dennis Ross, The Washington Institute

Mr. Thorvald Stoltenberg, former Foreign Minister, Norway

Lord David Trimble, senior peace negotiator, House of Lords, London

The lectures are historical documents. They will be recorded and transcribed.

We intend to publish blogs, newspaper articles, peer-reviewed journal articles, and eventually two books: one an edited volume that will include all lectures; another book will be a monograph on the Israeli-Palestinian peace process and possible proposals for its resolution. We trust the work will be useful to decision-makers, negotiators and implementers of peace.

We expect that this will be a very high volume conference that would attract wide international attention of local, national and international media, scholars and experts on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as well as decision-makers and politicians.

I was able to raise £20,000 for this conference. I need further £40,000 to be able to invite 24 high-profile guests to take part in this important gathering. All advice in this regard is most appreciated.

Cornelia Beyer is currently preparing a project proposal to the European Research Council for a large scale 5 year collaborative project on Participation in Global Governance, including a case study on Iran.

 

Teaching:

We are in the process of opening an MA program with specialization in Middle East studies.

Dr Sophia Dingli and Professor Cohen-Almagor will be offering new modules on the History of the Middle East and on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.

 

Refereeing:

Raphael Cohen-Almagor served as a referee for the European Research Council; Marquis Who’s Who; The Cambridge International Biographical Centre; University of Haifa; Bar-Ilan University; Scholars for Peace in the Middle East (SPME) BDS (Boycotts, Divestment and Sanctions) Task Force; Israel Ministry of Health; Oxford University Press; Sage; Wiley Blackwell, and the journals Asian Journal of CommunicationCooperation and ConflictScience and Engineering Ethics; Open Journal of PhilosophySecurity DialogueQuebec StudiesCanadian Social Science; Kennedy Institute of Ethics JournalHistory ResearchInformation Security Journal: A Global PerspectiveInternational Journal of Law and PsychiatryBritish Medical Journal (BMJ)Res PublicaBMC Health Services ResearchInternational Journal of Press/Politics;International Relations and Diplomacy.

 

Other:

Cornelia Beyer has joined the CRISE Network Oxford University and the ECPR Standing Group on Political Violence, as well as the International Institute for Strategic Studies and Chatham House, and the think-tank Strategy International as a research fellow.

Raphael Cohen-Almagor joined the Editorial Board, International Relations and Diplomacy.

Raphael Cohen-Almagor joined the Steering Committee, International Grassroots Faculty for Academic Freedom and Integrity (2014 – ).