- Professor
- Tier l CRC-Comm/Cult/Civil Soc
University of Calgary
Michael Keren
Research Interests
Currently Teaching
| F2012 - COMS 627 - Media and Politics | ||||||||||
| ||||||||||
Education
B.A. (Philosophy and Political Science), The Hebrew University, Jerusalem
, Ph.D. (Political Science), the University of Minnesota
Research
My research interests include political communication, political literature, life-writing, and new media. I am presently involved in three major research projects: an attempt to derive insights on early 21st century reality from works of fiction; an attempt to understand the impact of new media on contemporary societies; and a project, conducted in cooperation with Dr. Shlomit Keren, on life writing by Jewish legionnaires in the First World War.
About
Michael Keren was born in Jerusalem in 1944. He received his B.A. in philosophy and political science at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem in 1968 and his Ph.D. in political science at the University of Minnesota in 1975. Since 1975 he lectured on political philosophy and political communication at Tel-Aviv University where he also served as department chair and as head of the Institute for the Study of Jewish Press and Communications. In 2002 he was awarded a Canada Research Chair in Communication, Culture and Civil Society at the University of Calgary. Professor Keren lectured in many universities and other institutions in North America, Europe and Asia, and frequently comments on Israeli and global affairs in the media.
Books
Ben Gurion and the Intellectuals: Power, Knowledge and Charisma. (1983)
The Pen and the Sword: Israeli Intellectuals and the Making of the Nation-State (1989)
Professionals against Populism: The Peres Government and Democracy (1995)
The Concentration of Media Ownership and Freedom of the Press (1996)
Political Literature in the Twentieth Century (1999 - in Hebrew)
History of Political Ideas (2001 - in Hebrew)
International Intervention: Sovereignty vs. Responsibility (2002 - with Don Sylvan)
Zichroni v. State of Israel: The Biography of a Civil Rights Lawyer (2002)
The Citizen's Voice: Twentieth Century Politics and Literature (2003)
Blogosphere; The New Political Arena (2006).
Reality and Fiction at the Turn of the Millennium (2007 - in Hebrew).
War Memory and Popular Culture (2009 - with Holger Herwig).
We Are Coming, Unafraid: The Jewish Legions and the Promised Land in the First World War (2010- with Shlomit Keren)
Recent Refereed Articles
(With G. Klosko and S.A. Nyikos). “Political Obligation and Military Service in Three Countries.” Politics, Philosophy and Economics 2 (February 2003): 37-62.
"The Struggle again the Law Banning Meetings with the PLO." Politika 10 (Winter 2003).: 27-42. (In Hebrew).
“Blogging and the Politics of Melancholy.” Canadian Journal of Communication 29 (January 2004): 1-19.
“National Icons and Personal Identities in Three Israeli Autobiographies” Biography 27 (Spring 2004): 357-83.
"Commemoration and National Identity: A Comparison between the Making of the ANZAC and Palmach legends." Israel Studies Forum 19 (3). November 2004: 9-27.
“Narrative and Image in the Commemoration of War: The Case of LT Smash,” Journal of Military and Strategic Studies. (March 2005).
"Online Life writing: One israeli's Search for Sanity." Auto/Biography 13 (December 2005): 187-205.
(With Shlomit Keren). “The Jewish Legions in World War I as a Locus of Identity Formation,” Journal of Modern Jewish Studies 6 (1) (March 2007): 69-83.
“The ‘Original Position’ in José Saramago’s Blindness Review of Politics 69 (Summer 2007). Pp. 447-463.
"Fiction and the Study of Slums: Anosh Irani's The Cripple and His Talismans" Journal of Poverty 12 (2008): 251-261.
“A Canadian Alternative to the ‘Clash of Civilizations.” International Journal of Canadian Studies 37. 2008.
(With Shlomit Keren). “Chaplain with a Star of David: Rabbi L.A. Falk and the Jewish Legions.” Israel Affairs 14 (April 2008). 180-197.
“The Bystander’s Tale: Gil Courtemanche's A Sunday at the Pool in Kigali and the Rwandan Genocide.” Studies in Canadian Literature 34/2 (2009): 22–39.
"Blogging and Mass Politics" Biography 33(1) Winter 2010: 110-126.
Curricula Vitae
Powered by UNITIS. More features.