Presented by Professor Amit Schejter
Professor of Communication Studies and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
Diversity in Israeli society and the social challenges it creates is multidimensional - with political, economic, national, ethnic, gender, and religious identities all playing a role. The massacre of October 7 and the ensuing war in Gaza have strained internal relations in Israeli society among these groups; relations that present both promise and peril for its future.
Amit Schejter, professor of communication studies at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, whose research focuses on diverse and marginalized populations in Israel, will discuss the makeup of Israeli society before the current war with Gaza and the role that diversity plays in Israeli society now and portends for the future.
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Amit M Schejter is a Professor of Communication Studies and former Dean of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at Ben-Gurion University of the Negev (BGU). He has served as President of Oranim College and holds a Visiting Professorship as co-director of the Institute for Information Policy at the Bellisario College of Communications at the Pennsylvania State University. He studies and teaches media policy and law and specializes in the connection between communication and social justice as well as in the advancement of the “right to communicate.” He is the author and editor of eight books and more than eighty articles, book chapters and law reviews as well as founding editor of the Journal of Information Policy.
Schejter previously served as senior advisor to Israeli ministers of Education and Culture Yitzhak Navon and Shulamit Aloni, as Director of Legal Affairs and International Relations at the Israel Broadcasting Authority, and as Vice President for Regulatory Affairs at Cellcom. He has served as chairman and member of several committees that advised various government ministries and the Knesset in the fields of communications and culture. In his work he combines his professional expertise with volunteer work and public activity. He is chairperson of the board of the Association for Civil Rights in Israel, a member of the plenary of the Jaffa Theater - the Center for Arab-Hebrew Culture, and co-director of the Shulamit Aloni Prize.
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