A lecture with Joyce Dalsheim (University of North Carolina at Charlotte) on “Exile at Home: Jewishness, Statelessness, Abandonment.”

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Anthropologist Joyce Dalsheim will draw on her extensive ethnographic research in Israel/Palestine to consider some of the struggles over Jewishness in contemporary Israel. The talk will include thoughts and stories from Israelis across the socioreligious-political spectrum during Dalsheim’s post-October 7 trip to the field. Dalsheim will engage with questions of nationalism, sovereign citizenship, and self-determination, with attention to Hannah Arendt’s work on exile in the context of a shifting sense of abandonment among contemporary Israelis.

Joyce Dalsheim is a cultural anthropologist and professor in the Department of Global Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Her work focuses on questions of identity and conflict, religion and the secular, nationalism, citizenship, sovereignty, and colonialism.

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This event is free and open to the public.