Research Workshop of the Israel Science Foundation
Workshop Program
July 1 - Day 1: Opening & Contextual Foundations (Museum Tour 19:00–21:00)
09:30–10:00 – Arrival & Coffee
10:00–10:15 – Opening Remarks (Orna Alyagon Darr)
10:15–11:45 – Ashley Rubin (Keynote Lecture): Thinking Beyond Abolition: Taking Prisons’ Limitations Seriously
11:45–12:00 – Coffee Break
12:00–13:30 – Romain Tiquet - Too dangerous to go to the Asylum or too mad to go to jail? Case studies from "criminal lunatics" in the Gold Coast (1940s), discussant: Ruth Ginio
13:30–14:30 – Lunch
14:30–16:00 – Orna Alyagon Darr - Who Is a European? The History of Special Treatment in Mandate Palestine’s Prisons, discussant: Romain Tiquet
16:00–16:15 – Coffee Break
16:15–17:45 – Irit Ballas - Israeli Martial Courts Jurisdiction in the West Bank
17:45–19:00 – Dinner Break
19:00–21:00 – Museum Tour – The Underground Museum (formerly Jerusalem Central Prison)
July 2 - Day 2: (Tour 09:00–12:00)
12:00–13:30 – Netanel Dagan & Irit Ballas (Joint Presentation) - Lawful Secrets: Concealment and Disclosure in Shin-Bet Interrogation Reports, discussant: Badi Hasisi
13:30–14:30 – Lunch
14:30–16:00 – Nomi Levenkron - Is "work the path to rehabilitation"?: The struggle to integrate labor into the rehabilitation processes of prisoners in Israel (1952–1958), discussant: Faina Milman
16:00–16:15 – Coffee Break
16:15–17:45 – Nitzana Ben David - “Child Criminals" - From Civil Threats to National Resources: Treatment of Juvenile Offenders in Mandatory Palestine, discussant: Shiran Reichenberg
17:45–18:00 – Coffee Break
18:00–19:30 – Dacia Leslie - Historicising the Reintegration of Persons Deprived of Liberty: Trajectories and Transitions in Pre- and Post-Independence Jamaica, discussant: Yair Sagy
19:30–21:00 – Dinner
July 3 - Day 3
09:30–11:00 – Rotem Giladi - Whipping Whites: Corporal Punishment and Racial Hierarchy in the Union of South Africa, discussant: Gil Rothschild Elyassi
11:00–11:15 – Coffee Break
11:15–12:45 – Shlomi Chetrit - A Concentration Camp near Ness Ziona: Imprisonment and Detention during the Arab Revolt in Palestine, 1936-1939, discussant: Rotem Giladi
12:45–13:45 – Lunch
13:45–15:15 – Yair Sagy & Faina Milman (Joint Presentation) - Making History? The Struggle to End Involuntary Servitude in the US Africa, discussant: Dacia Leslie
15:15–15:30 – Coffee Break
15:30–17:00 – Concluding Roundtable (Open Discussion: All Participants)