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Hello, The following event may be of interest to you: Israel’s Occupation at 50: Territory and Demography in the West Bank Thursday, November 7, 2019 In this talk, Yinon Cohen demonstrates that the strategies Israel has deployed to dispossess Palestinian land and settle Jews in the West Bank have been uncannily similar to those used in Israel proper. After briefly analyzing the Judaization of space from the Jordan Valley to the Mediterranean Sea, he focuses on territorial and demographic processes in the occupied West Bank (including East Jerusalem) since 1967. He Shows how the settler population has flourished demographically and socioeconomically, thereby enhancing Israel’s colonial project in the West Bank.Yinon Cohen is Yosef H. Yerushalmi Professor of Israeli and Jewish Studies in the department of sociology at Columbia University. Before moving to Columbia in 2007, he was a professor of sociology and labor studies at Tel Aviv University. His research focuses on labor markets, social demography, ethnic inequality, and immigration. His most recent publications are on Israel’s territorial and demographic politics (Public Culture, 2018), Ashkenazi-Mizrahi education gap among third-generation Israelis (Research in Social Stratification and Mobility, 2018), and rising inequality in fringe benefits in the US (Sociological Science 2018). Time: 4:45 pm – 6:00 pm EST/GMT-5 Location: Olin Humanities, Room 102 Sponsor: Human Rights Program; Jewish Studies Program; Middle Eastern Studies Program; Sociology Program Contact: Joel Perlmann. E-mail: [email protected] Phone: 845-758-7667 If you would like to see more events please visit the following URL: http://www.bard.edu/academics/programs/physics/events/