Conferences
February 15-16, 2009: "'Self Evaluation' by means of art: Brenner Reading Belinskii"
International Conference: The Expanse of Russia in Israel
University of Tulane, New Orleans.
September 23, 2009: "The reception of Leo Tolstoy in the Hebrew Literature"
International Conference: Teach the Young According to Their Way: Trends in Late 19th-Early 20th Century Jewish Education
University College London
March 6-7, 2010:"Brenner's Literary Criticism and Theories of Russian Realism"
International Workshop: Perspectives on Brenner
Columbia University, New York
October 3-6, 2010: "Place, Language, and Belonging in Joseph Brodsky's Essays"
International Conference: In and Out of Place: Dynamics of Belonging, 2nd Annual German-Israeli Frontiers of Humanities Symposium (GISFOH 2010),
Potsdam
January 2, 2011: "Tolstoy, Zionism, and the Hebrew Culture",
The Scholion Lectures Marathon
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 15-19, 2012: "From Particular to Universal: Hebrew Literature by Post-Soviet Immigrants"
International Conference: Russian Jewish Migration Across Borders, Across Time Columbia University, New York
March 18, 2014: "Between Aesthetics and Politics: Reflections on Early Hebrew Criticism"
Inter-disciplinary conference: Borders
Sapir College, Sderot
June 24-26, 2014: "Brenner and Dostoevsky"
Annual Conference of National Association of Professors of Hebrew Annual Conference
Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva
Dec 28-30, 2014: "Simon Dubnov as Literary Critic"
International Conference in the honor of Prof. Israel Bartal: Making History Jewish
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
January 11-12, 2015: "The East-West Dichotomy in Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky's Samson"
International Conference: Mediating Israeli and East-European History
Saitama University, Tokyo
. March 15-16, 2015: "Cities of Joseph Brodsky"
International Workshop: To Moscow, To Moscow! European Metropolis and the birth of Modern Hebrew Literature,
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
June 1, 2015: "Manuscripts don't burn! They turn into the movie scripts: Master and Margarita on the screen"
Annual Conference of Israeli Inter-University Partnership in Russian and East-European Studies
Ben Gurion University of Negev
May 15, 2017:"Sensualists or Revolutionaries? Sex and Radicalism in 19th century Russian Literature"
Conference: Autobiography Literature and Testimony in Russian Context and Beyond
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 16-17, 2017: "Slivers of Empire: Towards the Collective Biography of Post-Soviet Hebrew Writers"
International Conference Exodus of the Mind: East-West Knowledge Transfer Since 1989
German and Israeli foundation for Scientific Research and Development (GIF), Potsdam
December 14-15. 2017: "Homel as a Laboratory of Modern Hebrew Literature"
International Workshop in the framework of GIF research project At their Surroundings: Localizing Modern Jewish Literatures in Eastern Europe
University of Regensburg
. December 26-28, 2017: "Round Table: Israeli Culture and the Reds"
International Conference Russian and Zionist Revolutions: Visions of New Society in 1917and Today
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
October 23- 25, 2018: "Close Reading of Haim Lensky's poem 'The Day Came Down'
International Conference Shared Spaces – Contact Zones: Modern Hebrew and Yiddish Literature in Eastern Europe
Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, The University of Leipcig.
May 13-16, 2019: "Empire and Nationalism in Vladimir Jabotinsky's Samson
International Conferences Mapping Victorian Empires, Cultures, Identities
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem and The University of Haifa
December 29, 2019: "Gomel: The Lost Center of Hebrew Modernism",
Annual Inter-University Conference for the Study of the Hebrew Literature,
The Open University of Israel (with Natasha Gordinsky)
January 22, 2020: "Round Table: Hebrew and Russian as Source and Translation Languages in Israel"
Founding Conference of the Jewish-Russian Literature Program
Bar-Ilan University
February 5, 2020: "Round Table: Memories and Morals of Chernobyl"
Chernobyl as a Parable: To Understand Nuclear Disaster During Post-Truth Period
The Open University of Israel
April 29-May 1, 2020: "Defending the World Republic of Letters in the Age of Totalitarianism: The Case of David Vygodsky"
International Conferences The Limits of (un)freedom: Intellectuals and Illiberalism in Central, Eastern and Baltic Europe,University of Tartu-Postponed due to Covid 19-
June 21 - 22, 2021: "Between Palestine and Odessa: Samson by Vladimir Jabotinsky"
International Conference Odessa, Cosmopolitanism, Modernism
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies
June 28-31, 2021: "The City of Gomel: Laboratory of Hebrew Modernism"
International Conference The History, Culture and Heritage of Jews in Belarus Across the Ages
Belarusian-Jewish Cultural Heritage Center in Minsk and University of Southampton
November 3, 2021: "Brenner and Dostoevsky"
Yosef Haim Brenner and his Work
The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities
December 7-9, 2021: "Joseph Brodsky: The Last Imperial Poet" International Conference, Mnemopoetics of the 20th-century Traumas: History and Culture,University of Lausanne
January 25-26, 2023: "From Periphery to Center and Back: Haim Lensky’s Leningrad Sonnets"
International Conference, Revolutionizing the City: Urban Reality in the Wake of October 1917, University of Amsterdam
Guest Lectures and Seminars
April 27, 2010: "Y. H. Brenner's Work and Russian Thought and Literature"
Guest Lecture, Cummings Center for Russian and East-European Studies
Tel Aviv University
December 1, 2011: "The East-West Dichotomy in Russian Zionism"
Guest Lecture, Cherrick Center Forum for the Study of Zionism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
February 25, 2014: "Post-Colonial Readings of Samson by Vladimir (Ze’ev) Jabotinsky"
Guest lecture, Cherrick Center Annual Reception for Herzl Fellows
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 8, 2014: "Jerusalem as a Site of Desire: The Cases of Yehuda Amihai and Uri Zvi Greenberg"
Guest Lecture, Sapir College
February 20, 2015: "Hebrew Literature in the European context" (with Dr. Natasha Gordinsky)
Seminar, Deutsche Literaturarchiv, Marbach
May 19, 2016: "Under Russian Eyes: Israeli Place and Literature in Russian-language literature in Israel"
Guest Lecture, Cherrick Center Forum for the Study of Zionism
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
March 29, 2017: "Joseph Brodsky: The Last of Imperial Poets"
Guest Lecture, Department of Comparative Literature
Haifa University
June 2, 2019: "Eros and Revolution: Two Poles in The World of Leftist Radical in 19th Russian Literature"
Guest Lecture, Russian and East-European Studies Program
Tel Aviv University
June 5, 2019: "Nikolai Gogol and Bureaucracy"
Guest lecture, Department of Hebrew and General Literature
Beit Berl College
March 15, 2021: "Russian and Hebrew Literatures: Contacts and Influences"
Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Sefer Center for University Teaching of Jewish Civilization in Moscow
June 11, 2023: "Poetry and History: The Concept of the Empire in Joseph Brodsky’s work"
Guest lecture, Department if History, Philosophy, and Judaic Studies ,The Open University of Israel
Public Talks
December 18, 2011: "The Immigrant as a Critic, the Writer as an Immigrant," Keynote Address
Literary Encounter on Immigration and Literature with the participation of
H.E. Mr. Shimon Peres, President of the State of Israel
President of the State of Israel Residence, Jerusalem
September 11, 2012: "Immigration in Modern Jewish Literature"
Columbia University Hillel, New York
February 2014: Series of lectures on Russian-Jewish Literature
Zalman Shazar Center, Jerusalem
December 1, 2014: "Between Jewish Renaissance and Russian Decadence: Literary Works by Vladimir (Ze'ev) Jabotinsky"
Menachem Begin Heritage Center, Jerusalem
May 27, 2014: "Between Leo Tolstoy and Meir Shalev: Russian Romances of Hebrew Literature"
Catedra Lecture Series "Mother Russia and Eretz Israel"
Eretz Israel Museum, Tel Aviv
April, 2019: "Literature as History, History as Literature: Leo Tolstoy's War and Peace"
Radio University Series War and Peace, Galei Tzahal
November 9, 2020: Book Launch Event, Am ve-Olam: A Tribute to Israel Bartal (eds. Jonatan Meir, Dimitry Shumsky, Gershon Hundert),Zalman Shazar Center
January 4, 2022: Book Launch Event, The Russian Context of Hebrew Literature by Hamutal Bar Yosef
The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
May 19, 2022: Conversation with 2018 Noble Prize Winner Olga Tokarczuk
The Open University of Israel
June 4, 2023: Book Launch Event, Problems of Discipline: Secondary Education, Activism, and the Origins of The Jewish Intelligentsia in the Russian Empire by Alex Valdman
Tel Aviv University
