When:
Thursday, April 24, 2025
12:30 PM - 2:00 PM CT
Where: Crowe Hall, Crowe 5-138, 1860 Campus Drive, Evanston, IL 60208 map it
Audience: Faculty/Staff - Student - Post Docs/Docs - Graduate Students
Contact:
Katie Jenio
(847) 467-5748
Group: The Crown Family Center for Jewish and Israel Studies
Category: Academic
"Trouble in Utopia: The end of Socialism in an Israeli Kibbutz (1975-2020)”, with Omri Senderowicz
Omri Senderowicz is a Visiting Assistant Professor at the Jewish Studies Department at the University of Kansas and an Israel Institute Teaching Fellow. He holds a Ph.D. in Anthropology and History from the University of Michigan, where his dissertation focused on the end of socialism in an Israeli kibbutz. His research interests include the study of post-socialism, the anthropology of ethics, interpersonal conflict, and ethnic politics in Israel. At the University of Kansas, he teaches courses on the history of Israel and Zionism, the Arab-Israeli conflict, and sociocultural anthropology.