Talks

  1. 2019a “Revisiting Vichy Forced Labor Camps in the Sahara, 1940-1945.” Yale Program for the Study of Antisemitism, Yale University, 12, September.
  2. 2019b “Religious Minorities in the Middle East.” Middle Eastern Millennials through Literature, Culture, and Media. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, University of Arizona, Tucson, August 8.
  3. 2019c “The Minority Question: Historicizing Morocco’s Discourse of Tolerance.” Tolerance in Mediterranean Societies: History, Ideas and Institutions. King Abdul-Aziz Foundation for Islamic Studies and Human Sciences. Casablanca, 11-13 July.
  4. 2019d “Morocco and the Holocaust: The Story of Mohammad V Saving Jews during WWII, 1940-1945.” Uncommon Commonalities: Jews and Muslims of Morocco. Center for Jewish History, June 17-19, New York.
  5. 2019e “The Virtual Mellah: An Ethnography of Moroccan Jewish Diaspora Online.” Uncommon Commonalities: Jews and Muslims of Morocco. Center for Jewish History, June 17-19, New York.
  6. 2019f “Writing Saharan Jewish History Through Muslims’ Memories.” Colloque International dédié à Haïm Zafrani, Académie du Royaume du Maroc, June 12-13, Rabat, Morocco.
  7. 2019g “Beyond Hollywood’s Casablanca: North Africa and the Holocaust.” A Conversation at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum [With Sarah A. Stein]. May 21, Washington DC.
  8. 2019h “Ethnography: Why Art Now?” Anthropology Colloquium in Collaboration with the Center for Ethnography. Department of Anthropology, University of California, Irvine. May 2.
  9. 2019i “Paper, Heat and Termites: Private Manuscripts of Southern Moroccan Oases.” UCLA Information Studies Colloquia, Los Angeles, April 11.
  10. 2019j “Cemeteries, Shrines and Museums: Jewish-Muslim Encounters in Present-Day Morocco.” Culture Power and Social Change, Department of Anthropology, UCLA, April 4.
  11. 2019k “Cemeteries, Shrines and Festivals: Jewish-Muslim Encounters in Present-Day Morocco.” Jews and Judaism in Moroccan Society: History in the Present. Tangier American Legation. Institute for Moroccan Studies. April 2, Tangier, Morocco. [Via Video].
  12. 2019l “North African Jewish-Muslim Relations and the Threat of European Anti-Semitism, 1934-1940.” Middle East and North Africa Studies Centre. Ryerson University, Toronto, Canada. April 2.
  13. 2019m “The Holocaust and North Africa: French Labor Camps in North Africa, 1940-1945.” Sephardic Kehila Centre, Thornhill, ON, Canada, April 1.
  14. 2019n “Saharan Judaism: Voices from Africa’s Margins.” Jewish Africa Conference: Past, Present and Future, New York, American Sephardic Federation, January 27-29.
  15. 2019o “Jewish Studies in Morocco: A Conversation with Khalid Ben-Srhir.” Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies. Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA. January 15.
  16. 2018a “North Africa and the Holocaust.” Illinois Holocaust Museum and Education Center. December 13, Chicago (Funded).
  17. 2018b “The Holocaust and North Africa.” Book Talk. Alan D. Leve Center for Jewish Studies, UCLA. November 27.
  18. 2018 “Invisible Diaspora: Moroccan Jewish Communities in Latin America.” Latin America as a Horizon of thought. 45th Session of the Academy of the Kingdom of Morocco. April 24-26, Rabat.
  19. 2018 “Memories of Absence: How Muslims Remember Jews in Morocco.” Tuesday Club Series, Em Habanim Sephardic Congregation. April 17, Valley Village, Los Angeles.
  20. 2018 “The Jewish Question in Contemporary North Africa. What Changed?” Theory and Forgetting: The Jewish Question Again. A Symposium. Cornell Jewish Studies and Society for the Humanities, Cornell University. March 18, Ithaca.
  21. 2018 “Moroccan, Jewish and Latin American: A Historical Portrait of an Invisible Migration.” Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures.  Cornell University. March 19, Ithaca.
  22. 2017 “Of Synagogues, Shrines and Cemeteries: Morocco’s Jewish Life in Memory.” International Conference: Jews in Muslim Societies- History and Prospects. October 24-27. Jewish Museum in Berlin, Germany. Keynote Lecture.
  23. 2017 “Politics of Memory: Muslim Perception of Jews in Postcolonial Morocco.” 60thAnnual Missouri Valley History Conference. Keynote Lecture. University of Nebraska. March 2, Omaha.
  24. 2017 “The Moroccan Monarchy and the Jews during Vichy in History and Memory.” Conference on Colonial Morocco Revisited. Centre Jacques Berque, Rabat, Morocco. July 11-13, Rabat.
  25. 2017 “Jews, Water Ownership and Shari‘a Law in a Southern Moroccan Oasis.” Morocco Image: Then and Now. Center for Middle Eastern Studies, Lund University, Sweden. June 30-July 2, Marrakesh.
  26. 2017 “Towards a Historical Ethnography of Moroccan Jews: Navigating Personal Narratives, Historical Archives, and Internet Databases.” Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. June 14, Beersheba.
  27. 2017 “The Logic of Anti-Semitism: A Berber Immigrant Narrative about Jews in Sweden.” Connected Pasts and Futures: Jews and Muslims of Europe. The London School of Economics and Political Science. June 8-9, London.
  28. 2017 “A Righteous Sultan?”: The Memory of Mohammed V as Protector of Moroccan Jews in Holocaust Geographies.” St. Antony’s College Middle East Center, University of Oxford. June 6, Oxford.
  29. 2017 “Images of Jews in Television and Newspapers in Postcolonial Morocco.” History and Society on Television in the Middle East, University of Maryland College Park. April 7, Maryland.
  30. 2017 “Israel in Morocco: Tourism, Cultural Conversation and Normalization Debates in Morocco, 1960s-Present.” The Joseph and Alma Gildenhorn Institute for Israel Studies, University of Maryland College Park. April 5, Maryland.
  31. 2017 “Jewish Refugees in Saharan Labor Camps during WWII.” The Jewish Federation of Omaha, Nebraska. March 3, Omaha.
  32. 2017 “Managing Blackness: the Politics of Race and the Economics of African Identity in 21stCentury Morocco.” Department of Anthropology, UCLA, Culture, Power, Social Change (CPSC) Series, African Studies Center, Center for Near Eastern Studies, February 16, Los Angeles.
  33. 2016 “The Anti-Fascist Alliance: North African Jews and Muslims Partner Against French and Nazi Anti-Semitism, 1936-1940.” Jewish Studies Sitomer Annual Lecture. Vassar College, Poughkeepsie. January 28, New York.
  34. 2016 “North African Baha’is and Christians in the Time of Arab Uprisings.” Workshop: Minorities in the Islamic World. Stockholm University, Sweden. December 20, Stockholm.
  35. 2016 “Moroccan Jews and the Politics of Memory.” Workshop: Minorities in the Islamic World. Stockholm University, Sweden. December 19, Stockholm.
  36. 2016 “Peculiar Ties: The Cultural and Political Capital of North African Judaism in Israel.” Balancing Unity and Diversity: Israel Changing Society and Politics, University of Arizona. December 4-5, Tucson.
  37. 2016 “Urbanizing the Sahara: the Politics of Settlement and Urban Development in El-Ayoun.” MESA, Boston.
  38. 2016 “Les relations judéo-musulmanes au Maroc: une lecture anthropologique.” SOC, Casablanca. May 19, Casablanca.
  39. 2016 “Geographies of Tolerance/Convivencia: State, Space and Jewish-Muslim Ligatures in Morocco.” University of California, San Diego. May 9, San Diego.
  40. 2016 “Jewish-Muslim Relations in Morocco: An Anthropological Perspective.” Center for Jewish Studies, California State University, Long Beach. May 4, Long Beach, .
  41. 2016 “The Righteous Sultan: Mohammed V in Postcolonial Holocaust Geographies.” Working Group in Jews in the Maghrib and Middle East. University of Southern California. April 1, Los Angeles.
  42. 2016 “Israel in Morocco: Berber Discourses of Political Normalization.” Conference on: Boundaries and Transgressions: a conference on Transnational Jewish-Muslim Relations. University of Florida. March 9, Gainesville.
  43. 2016 “Bernard Lecache, the International League Against Anti-Semitism, and the Advocacy of Jewish-Muslim Partnership.” Conference on Abrahamic Religions: Challenges and Cooperation in the Age of Extremism. Manhattan College, New York, February 28-March 1, New York.
  44. 2016 “Fearing the Few: The Baha’i Question in Post-colonial Morocco.” UCLA Center for the Study of Religion, UCLA. February 17, Los Angeles.
  45. 2016 “The Anti-Fascist Alliance: North African Jews and Muslims Partner Against French and Nazi Anti-Semitism, 1936-1940.” Middle Eastern and North African Studies. Northwestern University, Illinois. February 15, Evanston.
  46. 2015 “Eyewitness Djelfa: Daily Life in a Saharan Vichy Labor Camp.” On The Margins of the Holocaust: Jews, Muslims and Colonialism in North Africa during the Second World War,  UCLA. November 15-16, Los Angeles.
  47. 2015 “Between Morocco and Israel: Jewish Memory and Heritage.” Roundtable with André Levy and Yael Zerubavel. The Allen and Joan Bildner Center for the Study of Jewish Life. Rutgers University, October 11, Rutgers.
  48. 2015 “When Jews Disagree over a Muslim Righteous Among the Nations: The Memory of Mohammed V in Post-Colonial Holocaust Geographies.” International Workshop on Historical Comprehension and Moral Judgment of World War II and the Holocaust- The View from North Africa- Morocco, Tunisia, Algeria and Libya,  the Hebrew University of Jerusalem. June 21-22, Jerusalem.
  49. 2015 “Bureaucracy of War: Jewish and non-Jewish Refugees in Morocco, 1940-1945.” Judaic Studies, Princeton University. April 16.
  50. 2015 “Toward a Post-Colonial Historiography of Moroccan Jews: Navigating Personal Narratives, Archival Documents and Internet Databases.” Al-Akhawayn University, Ifrane, Morocco, September 3.
  51. 2014 “Soft Soundscapes: State, Space and Jewish-Muslim Ligatures in Morocco.” The Materiality of Affect in North Africa: Politics in Flux Workshop. New York University. October 3-4.
  52. 2014 “The Politics of Convivencia: An Anthropology of Jewish-Muslim Relations in an Age of Communal Violence.” Anthropology. Australian National University, Canberra. August 20.
  53. 2014 “The Politics of Convivencia: An Anthropology of Jewish-Muslim Relations in an Age of Communal Violence.” Anthropology. University of Queensland, Brisbane. September 5.
  54. 2014 “The Memory and Representation of Jews in Morocco.” Workshop on Social Current in the Maghreb. Center for International and Regional Studies, Georgetown University School of Foreign Service in Qatar, January 7-8, Washington DC.
  55. 2014 “Jewish-Muslim Relations and Muslim Politics.” Florida Society for Middle East Studies. Florida Atlantic University, March 1.
  56. 2014 “Partners Against Anti-Semitism: North African Jews and Muslims Respond to Hitler, 1936-1940.” Miami University, Oxford, Ohio, April 24.
  57. 2014 “Telling Histories of Violence: Hassan II and His Opposition in Moroccan Newspapers in the Era of Mohammed VI.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Washington, DC.
  58. 2014 “Soundtracks of Jerusalem: North African Hip Hop Artists and the Middle Eastern Conflict.” The Western Jewish Studies Annual Conference, University of Arizona, Tucson May 3-5.
  59. 2013 “Partners Against Anti-Semitism: North African Jews and Muslims Respond to Hitler, 1933-1940.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, District of Columbia.
  60. 2013 “Scripting the Shoah: The Holocaust in Moroccan Official and Public Discourses.” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
  61. 2013 “Toward a Post-Colonial Historiography of Rural Jewry: Navigating Personal Narratives, Archival Documents and Internet Databases in Southern Morocco.” University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
  62. 2013 “Doing Research on Anti-Semitism and the Holocaust in the Arab World: A Native Perspective.” United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. Washington, District of Columbia.
  63. 2013 “The Politics of Memory: Muslim Perceptions of Jews in Postcolonial Morocco.” Department of Anthropology, UCLA. Los Angeles.
  64. 2013 The Elegant Plume: Ostrich Feathers, North African Commercial Networks and European Capitalism. University of Minnesota, Minneapolis.
  65. 2013 ““Le Droit à Vivre”: LICA and North African Jews, 1935-1940. “University of Washington, Seattle.
  66. 2013 “Propaganda in Translation: North African Muslims Respond to Racial Nazi Policies During 1930s and early 1940s.” Yale University, New Haven.
  67. 2013 “Soundtracks of Jerusalem: North African Youth, Hip-hop and Middle Eastern conflict.” Leiden University, Netherlands.
  68. 2012 “‘Muslim Purity’ and ‘Jewish Danger’: Discourses of Normalization with Israel in the Arab World.” Center of Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium Series. Yale University, New Haven.
  69. 2012 “Saharan Jewry and the Politics of Minority Identity in North Africa: Studies at the Intersection of History and Memory.” Department of Near Eastern Studies, Religious Studies Program, and Judaic Studies Program. Cornell University, Ithaca.
  70. 2012 “The Performance of Toleration: Communities of Tolerance and the Festivalization of Interfaith Dialogue in the Arab World.” Historical, Philosophical and Religious Studies and Jewish Studies. College of Liberal Arts and Sciences. Arizona State University, Tempe.
  71. 2012 “North African Jewish Manuscripts Workshop.” Yale University, New Haven.
  72. 2012 “Feathers, Trans-Saharan Trade and European Capitalism in North Africa.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boulder, Colorado.
  73. 2011 “Dry Wells: Water Use, Sustainability and the Challenge of Human Settlement in Southern Moroccan Oases.” For the Love of Water: Exploring Global Water Issues. UISFL Directors’ Meeting and Conference. US Department of Education. Westward Look Resort, Tucson, Arizona.
  74. 2011 “Legal Syncretism, Private Archives and the Historiography of Southern Moroccan Jewry.” Intertwined Worlds: Judaeo-Islamic Tradition. Sewlyn College, University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom. September 12.
  75. 2011 “Shoot-outs for the Nation: Football and Politics in Moroccan-Algerian Relations.” School of Middle Eastern and North African Studies Lecture Series. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.
  76. 2011 “Acceptance and Denial: Discourses of the Holocaust in Moroccan Newspapers.” Wellesley College, Massachusetts.
  77. 2011 “Saharan Jewry: History, Memory and the Politics of Identity.” Pan-African Studies and the Jewish Studies Program. Kent State University. Kent, Ohio.
  78. 2011 “Of Judaism, Morocco, and Israel: The Jewish Question in Contemporary Moroccan Politics.” Center for Judaic and Holocaust Studies, Youngstown State University. Youngstown, Ohio.
  79. 2011 “Net-Intifada: Moroccan Youth, Cyberspaces and the Palestinian Conflict.” Intertwined Worlds: Judaeo-Islamic Tradition. Sewlyn College, University of Cambridge. Cambridge, United Kingdom.
  80. 2011 “Taming Games: State, Football and Social Discipline in Post-Colonial Morocco.” Center for African Studies. University of Florida, Gainesville.
  81. 2011 “Between History and Memory: Jews in Moroccan Muslim Narratives.” International Symposium 2000 Years of Jewish Life in Morocco: An Epic Journey. American Sephardic Federation. New York, New York.
  82. 2011 “Pledging Water: Qadis, Jews and Water Ownership in a Saharan Moroccan Community.” Maurice Amado Seminar in Sephardic Studies. UCLA Center for Jewish Studies. Los Angeles, California.
  83. 2011 “Jewish Communities in North Africa.” Sun City Vistoso Havurah. Tucson, Arizona.
  84. 2011 “Youth, Social Protest and the Festivalization of Hip-Hop.” Near Eastern Studies and Center for Middle Eastern Studies Colloquium Series. University of Arizona, Tucson.
  85. 2010 “Between Morocco, Israel, and Judaism: Muslim Perceptions of Jews in Post-Independence Morocco.” Conference on Fragmented Modern Jewish-Muslim Encounters: The Role of Religion, Race, and the Secular. Organized by the Center for Advanced Judaic Studies, University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
  86. 2010 “Muslims and Jews Together: Seeing From Without; Seeing from Within.” International Conference, University of California at Berkeley and Davis. Berkeley and Davis, California.
  87. 2010 “The Performance of ‘Convivencia’: Communities of Tolerance and the reification of Sacred Space.” National Conference on “Sacred Space, Sacred Sound.” University of North Carolina. Chapel Hill, North Carolina.
  88. 2010 “Virtual Jews: Reviving Community Memories Among Moroccan Jews in Cyberspaces.” Association for Jewish Studies, 42 Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
  89. 2009 “Virtual Jews: Reviving Community Memories Among Moroccan Jews in Cyberspace.” Portland State University. Portland, Oregon.
  90. 2009 “Studying up and Down: Towards an Anthropology of the discourse of Tolerance and Religious Dialogue in the Arab World.” International Conference on La Justice et Paix dans les Saintes Écritures et la Pensée Philosophique. Organized by La Chaire Ben Ali pour le Dialogue des Civlisations et de Religions. Université Tunis, El Manar. Tunis, Tunisia.
  91. 2009 “Saharan Jews Under Vichy: A Historical Assessment.” Summer Research Workshop on North Africa and Its Jews in the Second World War. The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, July 13-24. Washington, District of Columbia.
  92. 2009 “Saharan Jews: Historical and Historiographical Reflections.” International Conference on “Saharan Crossroads: Views from the North.” Organized by the American Institute for Maghrib Studies and West African Research Association. Tangier, Morocco.
  93. 2009 “Youth “Cybernoise”: Youtube, Political Activism and the Festivalization of Descent in Morocco.” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting. Boston, Massachusetts.
  94. 2008 “From Marock to Moshe: The Jewish Question in Cotemporary Moroccan Cinema.” Conference on Cinema and the Maghreb. Organized the American Institute of Maghrebi Studies. Tunis, Tunisia [co-authored with Oren Kosansky].
  95. 2008 “‘Sacred Week’: Re-Experiencing Jewish-Muslim Co-Existence in Urban Moroccan Space.” Conference on Sharing Scared Space: Religion and Conflict Resolution. Columbia University. New York, New York.
  96. 2008 “A Rumor over the Internet: Radio al-Islam and the Discourse on Jews within Europe.” International Conference on Muslims and Jews in Christian Europe. University of Munich. Munich, Germany.
  97. 2008 “‘Water for rahn’: Jews, Water Ownership, and Shari‘a Law in a Southern.” International Conference on Les Juifs du Maghreb de l’époque coloniale à nos jours – histoire, mémoire et écritures du passé. Organized by Société d’histoire des Juifs de Tunisie, Sorbonne. Paris, France.
  98. 2007 “‘Berber Rida’: Amazighism and the Appropriation of Jewish Discourse.” 13thAnnual Conference of the Western Jewish Studies Association. Portland State University. Portland, Oregon.
  99. 2007 “Jews at the Moroccan Museum: Post-Independence Politics of Historical Amnesia and Memory.” Conference on Jews and Muslims in the World of Islam. University of Maryland. College Park, Maryland.
  100. 2006 “Edmond Amran El Maleh and the Cartography of a Moroccan Jewish Dhikraa.” Middle East Studies Association. Boston, Massachusetts.
  101. 2006 “The Myth of the Natural Gift: An Anthropological Understanding of Underachieving Students in a Southern Moroccan Community.” American Anthropological Association. San Jose, California.
  102. 2005 “From ‘Little Jerusalem’ to the Promised Land: Sous Rural Jewry (Morocco) Exodus to Israel.” Presented for the Association for Israeli Studies Annual Conference. University of Arizona.
  103. 2005 “Same Folkdances, New Marketing Ideologies: Emerging Berber Ethnicity, National Cultural Hybdrity and Folklore Commoditization.” Presented in Berbers and Other Minorities in North Africa: A Cultural Reappraisal. Portland State University.
  104. 2005 “Muslim Judges and Jews: Sources for the Socio-Economic Study of a Saharan Oasis Jewry.” Middle East Studies Association, Washington DC.
  105. 2005 “European Travel Narratives and Southern Moroccan Jewry Reconsidered: Historical Facts, Personal Biases, Colonial Ideologies?” Presented in Rethinking Jewish Culture and Society in North Africa. American Institute for Maghribi Studies Conference. Tangiers, Morocco.
  106. 2005 “From Discourse to Labeling: Generational Differences in Muslim Narratives about Jews.” Center for Middle Eastern Studies. University of Arizona. Tucson, Arizona.