Presentations
Selected Presentations in Conferences and Colloquium Talks
2023 - “Non-Compliance with the Law as Institutional Maintenance at Ultra-Religious Schools,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education Network (Glasgow, Scotland).
2023 - “Non-Compliance with the Law as Institutional Maintenance at Ultra-Religious Schools” (Centre for Sociology of Education and Equity, Institute of Education, University College London).
2022 - “On Youth Participation and Manipulation by Adults: Exploring the Lowest Rung of Hart’s Ladder in a Non-Formal Educational Setting,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education Network (Online).
2022 - “Conceptualizing Student Participation in School Decision Making: An Integrative Model,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Democratic Citizenship in Education SIG, San Diego, California.
2022 - “Elementary School Children in the Online World: Naming and Mobilization of Rights,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Law and Education SIG, San Diego, California.
2022 - “Universalism and Relativism in Haredi Children’s Rights” (Global Childhood Seminar, Institute of Education, University College London).
2022 - "Promoting Secular Studies in American and Israeli Haredi Schools: Top-Down and Bottom-Up Processes," Teachers College and Institute for Jewish and Israel Studies, Columbia University, New York.
2022 - “The Intersection of Participation and Manipulation,” Centre for Children’s Rights, Queen's University Belfast, Northern Ireland (Online).
2021 - "Students’ Perceptions of Their Rights in School: A Systematic Review of the International Literature," in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education Network (Online).
2021 - “Students’ Perceptions of their Rights in School: A Review of the Literature,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (Online).
2021 - “Legal Socialization in Schools of Enclave Communities: The Case of ultra-Orthodox Schools’ Compliance with the Covid-19 Closure Regulations,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Law and Education SIG (Online).
2021 - “Haredi Community-Based Activism to Promote Secular Education in New York Hasidic Schools,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association, Religion and Education SIG (Online).
2021 - “Educational Reforms in Haredi Schools: Law, Policy and Practice,” in the faulty seminar of the Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Bar-Ilan University (Online).
2020 - “A Missed Opportunity? Insights from an Empirical Study on Haredi Schools in the First Wave,” in the conference The Haredi Society in the Age of Corona (Israeli Democracy Institute, Jerusalem), with Netta Barak-Corren.
2020 - “Differential Rights Consciousness: Teachers’ Perceptions of Pupils’ Privacy in the Surveillance School,” in the Bonavero Institute of Human Rights (Faculty of Law, University of Oxford, UK).
2020 - “Ethnic Segregation in the Haredi Education in Israel: Policies and Practices,” in the Israel Studies Seminar (The Oxford School of Global and Area Studies, University of Oxford, UK).
2019 - "Differential Rights Consciousness: Teachers’ Perceptions of Pupils’ Privacy in the Surveillance School," in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University of Hamburg, Germany).
2019 - "Conceptualizing the Limits of Children’s Participation Rights in Education," in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University of Hamburg, Germany).
2018 - "Caught on Camera: Teachers’ Surveillance in Schools," in the Annual Conference of the Association of Moral Education (Barcelona, Spain).
2018 - "CCTV Surveillance in Primary Schools: Normalisation, Resistance, and Children’s Privacy Consciousness," in the Annual Conference of the Association of Moral Education (Barcelona, Spain).
2018 - "Conceptualising the Limits of Children’s Participation Rights in Education," in the Youth Research Centre Seminar (Melbourne University Graduate School of Education, Australia).
2018 - "The Juncture of Religion, Nationalism and Mutliculturalism in Israeli Education: The Cases of Haredi Education and Arab Education," in Israel in the Modern Middle East Seminar (Department of Hebrew, Biblical and Jewish Studies, University of Sydney, Australia).
2018 - “Promoting Secular Studies in Haredi Schools: Insights from Israel and the World,” in the conference "Planning for Diverse Needs in the Haredi Society” (Israeli Democracy Institute, Jerusalem).
2018 - "Justice in the Haredi Education: Between Goals and Reality," in the conference “Rights, Justice, and Equality in Education” (conference for the launch of Prof. Yossi Dahan’s book, The Open University, Israel).
2018 - "Teachers’ Surveillance by CCTVs," with Michael Birnhack, in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (Bar Ilan University, Israel).
2018 - "Mobilizing the Right to Equality in Admissions to Haredi Schools: Litigation, Politics, and Social Change,” with Oshrat Perelstain, in a conference titled "Integration in Education" (Academic Center of Law & Business & Open University, Israel).
2017 - "A Comparative Perspective on Education Law and Curricular Choices in Israeli, Belgian, and British ultra-Orthodox Communities,” in the 17th World Congress of Jewish Studies (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).
2017 - "Young Children’s Views on Equal Treatment and Due Process in Schools’ Disciplinary Procedures,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark).
2017 - "How Do Primary School Pupils Perceive School Surveillance Cameras? Normalization, Resistance, and Privacy Consciousness,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University of Copenhagen, Copenhagen, Denmark).
2017 - "The Hidden Human Rights Curriculum of School Surveillance," in a conference titled "Social Aspects of Surveillance and Supervision" (Bar Ilan University, Israel).
2017 - "Educational Surveillance," in a conference titled "Privacy by Design" (Faculty of Law, Tel-Aviv University, Israel).
2017 - "Public Haredi Schools in a Lawless Space," with Shay Katzir, in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (School of Law, Netanya Academic College, Israel).
2016 - “The Hidden Human Rights Curriculum of Surveillance Cameras in Schools,” in the annual conference of the Association of Moral Education (Harvard University, Massachusetts, USA).
2016 - “The Hidden Human Rights Curriculum of Surveillance Cameras in Schools,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland).
2016 - “’We Know the Clear Limits’”: The Confined Right to Participate in Municipal Youth Councils and its Educational Impacts,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Children’s Rights in Education network (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland).
2016 - “Color Blind? Religious Affiliation, Ethnicity, and Power in the Admission Policies to Jewish Religious Schools,” in the annual conference of the European Educational Research Association, Policy Studies and Politics in Education network (University College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland).
2016 - “Changes in the Israeli Haredi Education and their Intersection with the Legal System,” in a professional development colloquium for judges titled “Law and Sociology” (Neve Ilan, Israel).
2016 - “Young Children’s Research Advisory Groups: Methodological Insights,” in an international ISF research workshop titled Studying Young Children’s Perspectives: Challenges and Implications (Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).
2016 - “As Adults? The Right to Participate in Municipal Youth Councils,” with Tal Nir, in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (Faculty of Law, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel).
2015 - “The Impact of Education Law on Antwerp's Haredi Schools: Lessons for Israel,” in a conference titled Development and Trends in the Israeli ultra-Orthodox Society (Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Israel).
2015 - Discussant in a roundtable discussion “Children's Rights, Religion and the State: Focus on Education and Religious Rituals,” in a conference titled Children’s Rights in Relation to Parent’s Rights (Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University; Radzyner Law School, IDC Herzliya; School of Law, Sha'arei Mishpat Academic Center, Israel).
2015 - “The Educational Role of Litigation: Mobilization of Rights in the Admissions to Israeli Haredi Schools,” in the annual conference of the American Educational Research Association (Chicago, Illinois, USA).
2015 - “Curricular Choices of ultra-Orthodox Jewish Communities: Translating Law to Policy,” in a conference titled Worlds of School Choice (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA).
2015 - “When Educational Choice Encounters Discrimination: The Impact of Litigation on the Rights Consciousness of Haredi Parents in Israel,” in a conference titled Worlds of School Choice (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA).
2015 - “Private Ordering in the Shadow of an Imagined Law: Surveillance Cameras in Israeli Schools and the Right to Privacy,” in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (University of Haifa, Israel).
2014 - “A Comparative Perspective on the Regulation of Curricula in ultra-Orthodox Schools” (Haredi Researchers Forum, Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies, Israel).
2014 - “'We 3rd Grade Kids Don't Want To Go To the Circus': Freedom of Speech in Schools and the Right to Participation’”, in the Civic and Moral Education Initiative Colloquium (Harvard University Graduate School of Education, Cambridge, Massachusetts).
2014 - “The Right to Privacy in School,” in an international conference titled Contemporary Privacy Studies (Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, Israel).
2014 - “From the Constitution to the Classroom: Educational Freedom in Antwerp ultra-Orthodox Schools,” in a conference titled School Choice: Beyond Rhetoric to Research (Fort Lauderdale, Florida, USA).
2013 - “Legal Pluralism in the Field of Education Policy: Religion, Law, and Communal Boundaries in Israeli and Flemish ultra-Orthodox Schools,” in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (Academic Center for Law and Business, Ramat Gan, Israel).
2013 - “Education Law on the Cultural and Political Edge: Insights from Israel,” in a conference titled Law on the Edge (University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada).
2012 - “The Legal-Political Discourse on the Funding of ultra-Orthodox Education,” in a conference titled From Survival to Consolidation: Changes in Israeli Haredi Society and its Scholarly Study (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel).
2012 - “The Story of Judicial Involvement in the Regulation of ultra-Orthodox Schools: Legitimacy, Competency and Effectiveness,” in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (Academic Center for Law and Business, Israel).
2012 - “When Courts are Riding the Third Rail of Education Policy: The Case of Ultra-Orthodox Schools in Israel,” in the annual conference of the Israel Studies Association (University of Haifa, Israel).
2011 - “The Right to Education: Its Changing Faces in a Constitutional Revolution Era,” in a conference titled Protection of Human Rights in Israel: Twenty Years for the Constitutional Revolution (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Tel-Aviv University, University of Haifa and the IDC Herzlia, Israel).
2011 - “The Role of the Right to Education in Education Policy,” in the annual conference of the Israeli Law and Society Association (Faculty of Law, Bar-Ilan University, Israel).
2010 - “The Israeli Educational System: A Model for Tolerance or a Dividing Factor,” in the discussion Religion and Politics in Israel (German Federal Agency for Civic Education, Israel).
2010 - “Religious and Cultural Exemptions from Education Laws in the United Kingdom and in Israel,” in a conference titled Minority Rights to Language and Education (Department of Legal Sciences, University of Trento, Italy).
2009 - “The Regulation of the ultra-Orthodox Education in Israel – Between Politics and Law,” Regulation in Education research group (Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Israel).