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Dr. Taghreed Yahya-Yunis Dr. Dalit
Bloch-Zemach Dr. Limore Racin |
Unit of Culture Research: Faculty
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Full
professor. Served as chairperson of the Unit between 1996 and 2007. Currently
Studies Consultant. Main fields: Theory and
methodology of culture research, dynamics of heterogeneous systems, the
making and maintenance of large entities, idea-makers and culture entrepreneurs,
culture planning, globalization and intercultural relations, interaction. Specific
fields:
Hebrew culture, Italy, Spanish Galicia, Iceland, Quebec, Catalonia,
Newfoundland, Chapters in European culture. |
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Website: http://www.even-zohar.com |
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e-mail: itamar@even-zohar.com |
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Full professor. Main fields: Intercultural
relations, translation theory, the function of translation in domestic
textual systems, language planning and language standardization. Specific
fields:
Chapters in Hebrew, German and Anglo-American cultures, |
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Website: http://www.tau.ac.il/~toury |
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e-mail: toury@post.tau.ac.il |
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Associate
professor for Semiotics and Culture Research. Chairperson of Unit. Main fields: Culture change and culture
conservation; Identity struggles; The presentation of self and construction
of symbolic capital; Everyday talk; Professional identity and status; Cultural
models and models of emotions; Popular and elite culture; Canon and
canonization; Theory and methodology of culture research; Israeli and
pre-Israeli Hebrew culture. Specific research topics: Negotiations of Israeli
representations in everyday discourse; Identity strategies of marginal
occupations (translators as a case in point); Emotion scripts in interaction
(anger as a case in point); Grassroots environmentalism and regional history
(Western Galilee in early Israeli Statehood period); Distinction and
integration relationships between high-status immigrants and local elite (German-Jewish
immigrants in British-ruled Palestine). Earlier
research:
Repertoire construction and canon formation in late 18th century
German literature and culture; Repertoire change and canon formation of the
popular song in America and Israel during the 1970s. |
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Website: http://www.tau.ac.il/~rakefet |
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e-mail: rakefet@post.tau.ac.il |
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Full
professor. (Department of History) |
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Website: http://www.tau.ac.il/~algazi |
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e-mail: gadi.algazi@gmail.com |
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Lecturer at the Department of Sociology, Political Science and Communication at the Open University of Israel since 2009, and adjunct lecturer at the TAU Unit of Culture Research since 2006. Main fields: Culture of everyday life; the socio-cultural shaping of the body; gender relations; ethnic relations; racial concepts and racism; gay and lesbian studies and queer theory. Specific fields: The inculcation of a bodily repertoire in the Jewish community of mandate Palestine; shaping everyday culture during the mandate period, and especially the role of women's organizations in this process; racial discourse in the Yishuv; Independence Park in Tel Aviv as a queer space; Hummus consumption in Israel as a case study for intercultural relations. |
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Website: http://www.openu.ac.il/Personal_sites/dafna-hirsch.html |
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e-mail: dafnahir@post.tau.ac.il |
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