Event Date: September 16, 2014 - 12:00 pm
Location: Videoconference
MIRA SUCHAROV, Carleton University.
Presented by CIPS and the International Theory Network (ITN).
Free. In English. Registration is not required. Seating is limited and available on a first come, first served basis.
As the types of media through which scholars share their observations proliferate, and the digital revolution enables much more real-time engagement between writers and their audiences, more thought needs to be given to how scholar-bloggers negotiate their multiple professional and personal identities. Using the Israeli-Palestinian conflict as a backdrop, this talk will challenge the prevailing assumptions about scholarly neutrality and suggest a role for ethno-national subjectivity and scholarly disclosure as a tool for insight and engagement.
Read Mira Sucharov’s CIPS Blog post.
Mira Sucharov is Associate Professor of Political Science at Carleton University in Ottawa. She is the author of The International Self: Psychoanalysis and the Search for Israeli-Palestinian Peace (Albany: SUNY Press, 2005), and numerous articles on emotions and international relations, pedagogy, being a scholar-blogger, Israeli-Palestinian relations and Diaspora Jewish relations. Dr. Sucharov was a 2004 recipient of the Carleton University Teaching Achievement Award, and was a 2011 winner of the Provost’s Fellowship in Teaching. For a column on Holocaust education and Israeli foreign policy, Dr. Sucharov won a 2010 Rockower Award from the American Jewish Press Association. She is a blogger for Haaretz and for The Jewish Daily Forward, and writes a regular column in the Ottawa Jewish Bulletin and Vancouver’s Jewish Independent. She is currently the country analyst for Israel and the Palestinian Territories for Freedom House’s annual Freedom in the World report.
Read Mira Surachov’s CIPS Blog post on this subject.