Performing Democracy: Access to the Public Sphere
Session chairs:
Iris Nachum, Hebrew University of Jerusalem & Verena Frick, Catholic University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt
Civic solidarity in and through the city: Public sphere, city-zenship, and polarization
Nir Barak, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Street Politics, Counterforces and Democratic Culture in Post-Nazi Cities
Claudia Gatzka, University of Freiburg
Public Space as Democratic Place. The Importance of Everyday Practices
Johannes Müller-Salo, University of Münster
The Spatial Limits of Democracy:
Arab Women’s Right to the City in the Mixed Cities of Lod and Jaffa
Fahima Abbas, Hebrew University of Jerusalem/ Israel Democracy Institute
Making Home under Conditions of Instability
Session chairs:
Elia Etkin, University of Haifa & Anna Steigemann, HafenCity University Hamburg
Neighborhood as Home, City as Alienating:
Gendered Exchange Circles and Place Belonging in Peripheral Tel Aviv
Tal Shamur, Tel Aviv University
A New Home in a New Homeland:
Dwellings for elderly Jewish immigrants in Mandatory Palestine
Sigal Davidi, Tel Aviv University
Stability and change of neighbourhood perceptions in high-turnover urban areas
Alice Barth, University of Bonn
Rethinking Food Poverty: Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Innovations, and Societal Impact
Session chairs:
Dana Kaplan, The Open University of Israel & Tina Bartelmeß, University of Bayreuth
Geographies of Food Security: Understanding Food Security beyond the North–South Divide
Meike Brückner, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin
Sowing Stability, Cultivating Continuity: Understanding Food Insecurities through Bedouin Traditional Farming Practices of Heritage Wheat under Climate and Political Uncertainty
Miri Lavi-Neeman, The Arava Institute for Environmental Studies
From Rights to Charity: Food Banks and the Transformation of Welfare (State) Arrangements
Holger Schoneville, University of Duisburg-Essen
Beyond Charity: Governance, Lived Experience, and Local Action in Food Assistance in Israel
Orly Tamir, Sheba Medical Center
Access, Equity, and Multilingual Realities
Session chairs:
Natalia Meir, Bar-Ilan University & Erkan Gürsoy, University of Duisburg-Essen
Cultural-Linguistic Nature of a Community and Its Textual Implications:
A Case Study of One Medieval Jewish Moral Book
Barak Avirbach, Oranim College of Education / Tel-Hai University of Kiryat Shmona in the Galilee
Muted Multilingualism: Heritage Languages and Access to Phonological Learning
Jonas Grünke, University of Regensburg
Multilingual adolescent migrants in Germany and their language priorities
Anna Ritter, University of Koblenz
Bilingualism and Neurodiversity across different cultural groups:
The role of linguistic and sociocultural environments
Sveta Fichman, Talpiot College of Education / Hadassah College