Presentations

Academic Conference Paper Presentations:

July 7, 2025, “Palestinian-Israeli Medical Cooperation: A Path Forward,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, Haifa, Israel

October 30, 2024, “Active Learning and Middle Eastern Politics: AI-Based Pedagogic Approaches,” International Studies Association ELIAS-CIDE Applied and Experiential Learning Workshop, Mexico City, Mexico
July 3, 2024, “Teaching the Arab-Israeli Conflict with AI-Based Pedagogy,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, Prague, Czech Republic
October 2023, “From the Arab Peace Initiative to the Abraham Accords,” International Studies Association International Security Studies Section and American Political Science Association of America International Studies Section, Colorado Springs, CO
October 2023, “Teaching Sensitive Topics in International Affairs: AI and Middle Eastern Politics,” International Studies Association, Atlanta, GA

June 2023, “Cultural Diplomacy, Novel Political Behavior and the Abraham Accords,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Meeting, New York, NY
December 3, 2022, “From the Arab Peace Initiative to the Abraham Accords,” Middle East Studies Association Annual Meeting, Denver, CO
June 30, 2022, “A ‘Warm Peace?’ Popular Music and Cultural Diplomacy in the Abraham Accords,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference, Bar Ilan University, Israel
February 22, 2022, “Zionist Notions of Jewish Indigeneity to Palestine in American Hebrew Musical Culture: 1920-1948,” American Historical Association Annual Meeting (digital program)
September 2021, “Zionism and the Zionization of American Jewry through Music,” Armenian Studies and Israel Studies: New Scholarship, Shared Themes, Mutual Lesson, a Workshop hosted by the Azrieli Center for Israel Studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, Beer Sheva, Israel
June 8, 2021, “Is the Fear of Brain Drain Justified? Elite Israeli Jazz,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference
December 15, 2020, “Conservative Judaism, American Zionism, and Hebrew Folks Songs in the First Half of the 20th Century,” Association for Jewish Studies Annual Conference
June 30, 2020, “The Jewish National Fund: Land Purchases in Palestine, Fundraising in America, and Hebrew Music During a Period of Zionist Growth,” Association for Israel Studies Annual Conference
June 11, 2020, “American Zionism’s Musical Roots: A Look at the Past to Understand the Present and Future of US-Israel Relations,” American Jewish Historical Society’s 2020 Biennial Conference

Invited Lectures:

May 20, 2025, “Israeli Culture and Domestic Politics,” US Department of State Foreign Service Institute, Arlington, VA
April 4, 2024, “Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America,” New York University, New York, NY
March 18, 2024, “Singing the Land: Hebrew Music and Early Zionism in America,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA
November 16, 2023, “The Gaza War in Context,” The University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
October 23, 2023, “The Gaza War: Political and Social Context,” Georgia Gwinnett College, Gwinnett, GA
January 11, 2023, “Zionist Culture in Words, Art and Music: An Expert Panel of Scholars in Conversations with Professor Emeritus Ken Stein,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA
November 1, 2022, “Israeli National Elections, American Midterms and the US-Israel Relationship,” University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
February 22, 2022, “US-Israel Military Partnerships: Dinner, Lecture, and Discussion with Duke Professor Eli Sperling,” University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC
January 23, 2022, “The Jewish National Fund: Land Purchases in Palestine and America Hebrew Musical Culture,” North Carolina Jewish Studies Seminar, Duke University, Durham, NC
October 1, 2020, “Hebrew Music and the Development of Transnational Zionism Amongst American Jewry: 1920s–1940s,” Sonoma State University—a joint lecture as part of Sonoma State’s Jewish Music Series and Lecture Series on Israel Studies, Rohnert Park, CA
April 28, 2020, “Israel, Zionism and Progressive Judaism in America,” American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
March 3, 2020, “From Sadat’s Visit to Jerusalem–Today: Challenges and Opportunities in Arab-Israeli Multi-Lateral Negotiations,” St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
June 25, 2019, “The Formation and Evolution of Israeli National Culture,” Emory University, Atlanta, GA
November 27, 2018, "Hebrew Music and the Proliferation of American Zionism: 1920–1948," Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA