The British Mandate in Palestine: Regional and Global Contexts - Greetings - David Harel

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The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities takes pleasure in inviting you to attend an international conference

marking a century from the start of the Palestine Mandate

The British Mandate in Palestine: Regional and Global Contexts

Monday, September 11, 2023

Greetings
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David Harel
Pesident of the Academy

Margalit Finkelberg
Vice President of the Academy

Opening Remarks
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Liat Kozma
Former Israel Young Academy Member, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Billie Melman
Academy Member, Tel Aviv University

Comparing Mandates: A Global View
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Chair
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Ruth Ginio
Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Glass Houses and Empire: The British and French Mandates in Africa, 1914–1946
Michael D. Callahan, Kettering University

British Rule in Palestine, the Mandates System, and the Global Color Line
Nimrod Ben Zeev, Tel Aviv University

From Colonial Policy Studies to Development Studies: Japan’s Pacific Mandate in the International Discourse
Tomoko Akami, Australian National University

Borders and Landscapes: Peripheries, Regions, and Empires
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Chair
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Motti Golani
Tel Aviv University

Making Borders from Below: Female Cross-Border Infringements along the Turkish–Syrian Boundary, 1926–1946
Jordi Tejel, University of Neuchâtel

Great Expectations: Oil, International Corporations, and Imaginaries of Modernity in Mandate Palestine
Shira Pinhas, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev

Progress in the Levantine Countryside: Agrarian Development under the British and French Mandates in Palestine and Syria
Basma Fahoum, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Shifting Sands: Mandatory Environmentalism and the Making of the Modern Coastal Plain in the Southeastern Mediterranean
Dotan Halevy, Polonsky Academy, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute

Tuesday, September 12, 2023

Educating Mandates: French, British, and German Perspectives
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Chair
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Ami Ayalon
Tel Aviv University

Comparing Systems: Lebanese Perspectives on French, British, and German Educational Institutions in the Mandate Period
Esther Möller, Centre Marc Bloch Berlin and The Leibniz Institute of European History, Mainz

Local, National, and Colonial Criteria: Standardized Testing in Britain’s Middle Eastern Mandates
Hilary Falb Kalisman, University of Colorado Boulder

Wishful Thinkers: Egyptian, Iraqi, and Palestinian Pedagogical Reformers during the Interwar Period
Yoni Furas, University of Haifa

Planning Urban Spaces: Transnational and Local Histories
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Chair
Mustafa Abassi
Tel-Hai College

Writing ‘Colonial Urbanism’: Architects vs Urban Planners and the Imperial Idea of Partition
Shira Wilkof, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology

Planning the Qasba: Imposing Colonial Lines on Indigenous Societies – The Case of Lydda
Tawfiq Da‘adli, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel Young Academy Member

Between Mandate Authorities and Local Communities: Impoverished Neighborhoods in Palestine, 1920–1945
Elia Etkin, University of Haifa

Social Policy: Administrations, Governments, and Networks
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Chair: Abigail Jacobson
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Mirror Images? A Comparative View of Social Policy in Cameroon and Palestine under Mandate
Kenneth Orosz, Buffalo State University

Between the Central and Local Administrations: A Local History of Public Health in Mandate Palestine
Ahmad Mahmoud, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Charity and Changing Social Networks: The Haifa Infant Welfare Association, 1924–1952
Nicole Khayat, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem

Concluding Remarks
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Organizing Committee Members Liat Kozma and Billie Melman

September 11–12, 2023