Invited Presentations, Conference Papers, and Conference Panels Organized….

INVITED PRESENTATIONS AT UNIVERSITIES AND SCHOLARLY INSTITUTIONS

1. “Fault Lines: The Women’s Movement, Orthodoxy, and The Secular State in Israel” presented to the International Program in the Humanities and the Department of Religion, University of Pisa, July 14, 2023.

2. "New Constituencies, Independent Judiciaries? The Debates over State-Sanctioned Religious Law in Israel” presented to the Robbins Collection workshop, University of California, Berkeley, Boalt Hall School of Law, Implementing Religious Law in Contemporary Nation-States: Definitions and Challenges, February 2014.

3. "Religion as Resistance to the (Secular) Nation-State” presented to a conference entitled, Judicial Politics and the Accommodation of Religious Minorities, University of Toronto, April 2011.

4. “The Women’s Movement and Religious Authorities in Israel” presented to the Jackson School of International Studies, Program in Jewish Studies series, New Interpretations of Israel: Politics, Society, Culture & Human Rights, University of Washington, March 11, 2008.

5. “Ethnic Politics and Women’s Movement Mobilization in Israel: The Role of Ideas” presented to the conference, Policy from the Grassroots: How Social Forces Shackle and Transform Policymakers organized in honor of Joel S. Migdal, University of Washington, February 25-26, 2007.

6. “Contentious Politics in the Israeli Women’s Movement” presented to the international conference, Contentious Politics in Israel: Past and Present, sponsored by the Institute for Jewish Studies at the University of Antwerp, Belgium, October 18-19, 2006.

7. "Religious Authorities and the Secular State in Israel" invited presentation to the Center for Jewish Studies and the Department of Political Science, University of Miami, February 14, 2005.

8. “Legal Norms, Political Change, and Judicial Community” invited presentation to the Group d’Analyse des Politiques Publiques, École Normale Supérieur - Cachan, Cachan, France, May 2004.

9. “Conflicting Visions: Social Movements and the Religious Law Conflict in Israel” invited presentation, the Middle East Forum, Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Harvard University, October 14, 2003.

10. “Tracing Micro-Processes: Formal and Informal Interactions within the Judicial Community in Israel” invited presentation to the Sawyer Seminar in Comparative Politics, Department of Government, Harvard University, April 23, 2003.

11. “Courting the Court: A Small Women’s Movement, the Judicial Community, and the Battle for the Soul of the Jewish State” invited presentation, Program in Judaic Studies and Department of Near Eastern Studies, Princeton University, February 14, 2003.

12. “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” presented to the Cause Lawyering III Workshop, Cachan, France, October 11-14, 2002, organized by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds.

13. “Group Boundaries and Religious Authorities in Israel: Visions of Society, Visions of State” presented to the Workshop, Boundaries and Belonging, Jackson School of International Studies and the George Taylor Institute, University of Washington, September 2000.

14. “Researching Courts and Legal Community in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council International Dissertation Research Fellows Workshop, Amsterdam, October 2000.

15. “Operationalizing Influence: The Women’s Movement and the High Court in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council Special Topics Dissertation Workshop on States and Societies in the Middle East, Marrakech, Morocco, July 1999.

16. “The Fight for Jurisdiction: Personal Status Law and State-Society Relations in Israel” presented to the Social Science Research Council Near and Middle East Research and Training Fellows Conference, Cairo, March 1997.

17. “Social Movements and Judicial Community in Israel” presented to the Soros Foundation Palestinian Faculty Development Program and Palestinian Rule of Law Program 2009 Joint Fellows’ Conference, College of Design, Construction and Planning, University of Florida, March 20, 2009.

PAPERS AT PROFESSIONAL CONFERENCES AND CONFERENCE PANELS ORGANIZED

18. Chair of panel on ritual, culture, and ethnography. Paper presenter, “Perspectival Politics: Religion, Culture, and Ritual Politics in Two Asian Films.” Presented to the European Association for the Study of Religions. Göteborg, Sweden. Tuesday, August 20, 2024.

19. “Beyond the Death of God: Religion in 21st Century International Politics,” Roundtable, American Political Science Association, Montreal, Canada, September 2022 (Roundtable organized by Patricia Sohn; organized and attended by other participants; not attended by self due to Covid-related travel restrictions).

20. “Beyond the Death of God: Religion and Politics” themed panel and paper for presentation to the Twelfth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, Cordoba, Spain, June 2022 [organized by self; cancelled due to lack of participants related to Covid travel restrictions].

21. Simone Raudino and Patricia Sohn, “Beyond the Death of God” presented to the European Association for the Study of Religion, Pisa, Italy, August/September 2021.

22. Pre-Organized Panel and Individual Paper for July 2020 International Political Science Association conference, Liston, Portugal, was postponed to 2021 due to Covid-19 impact on international travel and conferences (organized by Patricia Sohn) (panel was ultimately cancelled).

23. Patricia Sohn and Esther Carmel-Hakim, “Palestinian and Jewish Women’s Peace and Interfaith Coexistence: From Formal Workshops to Cooking Kitchens” to be presented to the Mid-West Political Science Association, Chicago, IL, April 2019.

24. “Human Rights in Israel” presented to the conference, Jewish History and Culture: New Insights from Florida Scholars, part of the Gimelstob Symposium in Judaic Studies, organized by Frederick Greenspahn, Florida Atlantic University, January 28-29, 2018.

25. “Convenor” (organizer) and Co-Discussant, panel, Religion and Law, organized for the Research Committee (RC09) on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July 2016.

26. “Religion and State Through the Lens of Jewish Law in Israel” presented to the pre-organized panel, Religion and Law, Research Committee (RC09) on Comparative Judicial Studies, International Political Science Association, Poznan, Poland, July 2016.

27. Col. Dr. Haluk Karadağ and Patricia J. Woods, “Rights or Riots: Regional Institutional and Cultural Legacies in the MENA Region, and the Case of Turkey” presented to the Congress Session on Political Institutions and Civic Engagement’s panel on Content and Discontent With Government in an Unequal World, International Political Science Association, July 2016.

28. “Conflicting Visions: The Women’s Movement and State Religious Authorities in Israel” presented to the Fifth International Conference on Religion and Spirituality in Society, University of California-Berkeley, April 2015.

29. “The Israeli Women's Movement and Israeli Legal Culture” presented to the Association for Jewish Studies, Boston, MA, December 2013.

30. “Doing Daily Battle in Israel: Women's Political Mobilization” presented to the American Political Science Association annual conference, Seattle, WA, September 2011.

31. “Women’s Political Resistance in Israel,” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Brandeis University, June 2011.

32. “The Ideational Foundations of Israel’s ‘Constitutional Revolution,’” International Political Science Association, Comparative Judicial Studies section, Bologna, Italy, June 2010. Paper distributed in my absence (unable to attend due to a conflict with a research trip).

33. Organizer, organized panel, A Comparative Analysis of Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis, American Political Science Association, August 2007.

34. “The Judicial Construction of Liberal Rights and Judicial Power: The Case of Israel,” presented to the American Political Science Association as part of an organized panel, “A Comparative Analysis of Ran Hirschl’s Hegemonic Preservation Thesis.”

35. “Strategic Alliances and the Homogenizing Nation-State: Religion, Family, and Tribe in Iraq and Israel” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 2007, and to the University of Florida Department of Political Science Research Colloquium, February 2007.

36. Chair and Discussant, Organized Panel on Citizenship and Civic Participation, Law and Society Association Conference, Baltimore, MD, July 6, 2006.

37. “Religion and the Nation-State: Competing Authorities in Israel and Iraq” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Banff, Canada, May 30, 2006.

38. “Israel’s Court-Driven Constitutional Revolution” presented to the American Political Science Association panel on Courts and Comparative Democratization, September 3, 2005.

39. “The Israel High Court and Its Constitutional Revolution: History and Community” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 2005.

40. “Weak Ties, Judicial Power, and the Role of the Judiciary in a Democracy” presented to the American Political Science Association, September 2004.

41. Discussant, Comparative Politics Theme Panel, “Democratization and Judicial Reform,” American Political Science Association Conference, September 2004.

42. "Cause Lawyers as Knowledge Holders and Legal Innovators for the State" co-authored with Scott W. Barclay, Department of Political Science, University of California, Santa Cruz, presented to the Law and Society Association, June 2003.

43. “Tracing Micro-Processes: Formal and Informal Interactions within the Judicial Community in Israel” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, San Diego, California, April 2003.

44. “Cause Lawyers and Judicial Community in Israel: Legal Change in a Diffuse, Normative Community” presented to the Cause Lawyering III Workshop, Cachan, France, October 11-14, 2002, organized by Austin Sarat and Stuart Scheingold, eds.

45. “The Irony of State Incorporation” presented to the American Political Science Association Religion and Politics section, August 2002.

46. “Cause Lawyers, Rights Revolution, and Judicial Power” presented to the Association for Israel Studies, Vail, Colorado, May 2002.

47. "Cause Lawyers and the Judicial Community in Israel" presented to the Law and Society Association, pre-organized panel on Socio-Political Variation and Cause Lawyering Possibilities, Vancouver, B.C., May 2002.

48. “Opportunities and Influence: The Case of a Small Social Movement and the Israel High Court of Justice” presented to the American Political Science Association, September 2000.

49. “An Historical Institutionalist Model of Social Influence in a State Institution: The Israeli High Court of Justice” presented to the Israel Law and Society Association, November 1999.

50. “Operationalizing Influence: The Women’s Movement and the High Court in Israel” presented to the Western Political Science Association, March 1999.

51. “Specifying Standpoint: Coalition, Difference, and Conflict in the Israeli Women’s Movement” presented to the Middle East Studies Association, December 1998.

52. "New Constituencies, Independent Judiciaries: The Women's Movement and the Religious Law Debates" presented to the Association for Israel Studies, June 1998.

53. "Judicialization of Politics, or Politization of the Judiciary? The Women's Movement, the High Court, and the Religious Law Debates in Israel" presented to the Association for Israel Studies panel of the Middle East Studies Association conference, November 1997.

54. "Women in Israel: The Nexus of Religion, Politics and Law" presented to the Middle East Studies Association, December 1995.