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Noa Roei is a lecturer at the department of Literature at the University of Amsterdam and a research fellow at ASCA (Amsterdam School of Cultural Analysis). Her research project investigates representations of the military subject in contemporary Israeli art, under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Mieke Bal and Dr. Murat Aydemir
Link: Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis (ASCA)
Link: Faculty ofHumanities, UvA
Academic Background
2003-2004: MA (with distinction) Cultural Analysis, University of Amsterdam. Thesis title: Politics on Display: Contemporary Art Exhibitions in Israel.
1999-2002: BA (with distinction) Psychology and Art History, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem. Thesis title: The Surrealist Unconscious: the Unconscious Between Zigmund Freud and Andre Breton.
Awards
ASCA article award 2008, "Kebab in Theory: A Treatise on Political Vision"
Link to article: Kebab in Theory
Academic Publications
"Consuming Nostalgia: Greetings to the Soldier-Citizen." In Ranen Omer-Sherman and Rachel S. Harris (eds.), War and Narrative in Israeli Society and Culture.Detroit: Wayne State University Press (forthcoming)
“Molding Resistance: Aesthetics and Politics in the Struggle of Bil’in Against the Wall.” In Mieke Baland MiguelHernandez-Navarro (eds.), Politics of Living: In Migratory Culture. Amsterdam: Rodopi (forthcoming)
“Can(n)ons of Israeli Society.” In Carolyn Birdsall, Maria Boletsi, Itay Sapir and Pieter Verstraete (eds.), Inside Knowledge: (Un)Doing Ways of Knowing in the Humanities. Cambridge: Cambridge Scholars Publishing (2009) “Kebab in Theory: A Treatise on Political Vision.” Image & Narrative [e-journal], 18 (2007)
“Framing Art as Action: Rethinking Refusal in Contemporary Israeli Art .” Afterimage, 34 (2006)
Link to article: The Politics of Aesthetics between Bil'in and Tel Aviv [Hebrew]
Link to article: The Politics of Aesthetics between Bil'in and Tel Aviv [English]
Link to article: Kebab in Theory
Invited Lectures
"Preconceptions: Avenues of Interpretations." Writing Order! conference on art writing, Holon, Israel, 7.5.2009
"Blue, White and Olive-Green: Soldiers in Israeli Art and Visual Culture." Jewish Historical Museum, Amsterdam, 16.11.2008
"Peace Fighters: A critical introduction to conscientious and politicalrefusal movements in Israel. " Broeinest, Amsterdam, 12.1.2007
"Sky Catcher: Clouds and the Epistemology of the Unknowable." Project Launch of Luna Maurer's Skycatcher, De Balie, Amsterdam, 10.10.2006
Link to recording: Writing Order! [Hebrew]
Link to website: Sky Catcher by Luna Maurer
Academic Presentations
"What’s not Queer Here: Homonationality in Contemporary Israeli Art." Queer Soirées, ASCA, Amsterdam, 13.11.2008
"Consuming Nostalgia: History andMemory in Honi Ha’Meagel’s '40 Years to Victory.'" Visible Memories conference, Syracuse University, Syracuse NY, 3.10.2008
"Breaking the Silence, One Pink Rose: Mobilizing Political Ineffectiveness in Contemporary Israeli Art." Art and Power conference, Leeds University, LeedsUK,28.9.2008
"Moulding Resistance: Aesthetics and Politicsinthe Struggle of Bil’in Against the Wall. " Encountro II: Migratory Politics conference, Murcia–Amsterdam, 17.9.2008
"Canons of Israeli Society." Inside Knowledge: Undoing Methodologies, Imagining Alternatives conference, ASCA, Amsterdam, 29.3.2007
"A Moral Muddle: Postcards of Peace and Security." Soirées Barbares, ASCA, Amsterdam, 10.9.2006
"Artistic Engagement with Everyday Media Images." Trajectories of Commitment and Complicity conference, ASCA, Amsterdam, 1.3.2006
"Smashing Silences." Sonic Interventions conference, ASCA, Amsterdam, 28.3.2005
"Imprisoned Artworks." Examining the Law conference, Malmö, Sweden, 1.10.2004
Teaching
"Becoming Nation," Studium Generale Rietveld Academie. Guest lecture, fall Semester 2009
“Intermedialities”, Cultural Analysis MA course. University of Amsterdam, fall semester 2007
"Objects of Cultural Analysis", Cultural Analysis MA course. University of Amsterdam, Spring semester 2008
Thesis supervision (second supervisor) "The Work of Sliman Mansour", Maya Mossek-Cohen, BA Museology, Spring semester 2007
Related Projects
Board member, Gate48
Moderator of artist presentations, lectures, and discussions: “Endless Installation:a Ghost Story for Adults”, organized by Public Space With A Roof, SMART Project Space, Amsterdam March-May 2009
Initiator and project coordinator of exhibition, lectures and weekend workshop: "Desert Generation in Amsterdam", Meneer De Wit, Amsterdam November 2007
Moderator of artist presentations, lectures, and discussions: “Pixels of Reality: What Do You Know, What Do You See”, organized by Public Space With A Roof, Overtom 301, Amsterdam May-June 2006
Co-organizer: CASA ( Cultural Analysis Summer Academy ), an international workshop that engaged with topics of “Borders, Markets, Movements”, Amsterdam , June 2005
Assistant director: Glub, a film and installation project by Mieke Bal and ShahramEntekhabi about the aesthetics of migrantculture in Berlin . Amsterdam –Berlin , 2003-2004
Gate48
Public Space with A Roof
CASA
Glub
Desert Generation in Amsterdam