How can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current genocidal moment, this research analyzes the seamless paths of mundane violence in the post-Oslo Jewish-Israeli public sphere.

Laliv Melamed is a Professor of Digital Film Cultures at the Goethe University, Frankfurt. Her work focuses on media and forms of governance in Israel-Palestine. Melamed is the author of Sovereign Intimacy: Private Media and the Traces of Colonial Violence (University of California Press, 2023).

Co-sponsored with the Film and Digital Media Department and the Institute of Arts and Sciences.

 The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM.

Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.