School of Humanities and Social Sciences

• MA Dissertation Module
• The ‘Other’ and the ‘Stranger’ in European Cinema
• Diasporas in European Cinema
• PhD Seminars in Film Theory

Supervision of research students (PhD)

• Joanne Lim Bee Yin, Nationalising the Real: The Cultural Politics of Reality TV in Postcolonial Malaysia

• Angshukanta Chakraborty, Crossover Cultures: Interrogating the ‘Transnationalisation of Multiculturalism’ in South Asian Diasporic Cinema/Fiction

• Frances Cetti (AHRC funded), Asylum, the ‘Global Alien’ and the Discourse of Fear: the Centrality of the ‘Refugee’ to the European ‘Security State’

• Yasmin Sason, Identification, Friendship and Intimacy: Watching Lesbians on Israeli Film and Media

Publications

Books

• Loshitzky Yosefa, Screening Strangers: Migration and Diaspora in Contemporary European Cinema (Indiana University Press, 2010).
• Loshitzky Yosefa, Identity Politics on the Israeli Screen (The University of Texas Press, 2001). A Choice Outstanding Academic Book of 2002.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, (ed.), Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (Indiana University Press, 1997).
• Loshitzky Yosefa, The Radical Faces of Godard and Bertolucci (Wayne State University Press, 1995).

Books in Preperation

• Loshitzky Yosefa, Just Jews? Anti-Semitism and Islamophobia in Contemporary Culture and Beyond
• Loshitzky Yosefa, (ed.), Fortress Europe and Its “Others”: Cultural Representations and Debates in Film, Media and the Arts

Guest Editor

• Loshitzky Yosefa, guest editor of a special issue of Third Text Vol.  20, No. 6, (November 2006), on “Fortress Europe: Migration, Culture and Representation”.  ISSN 0952-8822

Referred Journal articles

• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Fortress Europe: Introduction,” Third Text, Vol. 20, No. 6 (November 2006), pp.  629-634. Special Issue on “Fortress Europe: Migration, Culture and Representation,” Guest Editor: Yosefa Loshitzky
  
• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Journeys of Hope to Fortress Europe,” Third Text, Vol. 20, No. 6  (November 2006), pp.  743-752. Special Issue on “Fortress Europe: Migration, Culture and Representation,” Guest Editor: Yosefa Loshitzky

• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Pathologising Memory: From the Holocaust to the Intifada,” Third Text Vol.  20, Nos. 3-4 (May/July 2006), pp. 327-335.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, “The Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of Post-colonialism: La Haine Revisited,” Studies in French Cinema Vol. 5, No. 2 (2005), pp. 137-147.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Quintessential Strangers: The Representation of Romanies and Jews in Some Holocaust Films,” Framework, Vol. 44, No.  2 (Fall 2003), pp. 57-71.

• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai's Urban Trilogy," Framework, Vol. 43, No. 1(Spring 2002), pp.  134-151. Republished in French: “Histoire de trois villes: La trilogie urbaine,” in CinemaAction: Amos Gitai entre terre et exil (Corlet Publications, 2009), pp.  124-131.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "National Rebirth as a Movie: Exodus Revisited," National Identities, Vol.  4, No. 2 (July 2002), pp. 119-131.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Forbidden Love in Israeli Cinema," Theory and Criticism 18(Spring 2001), pp. 101-108 (in Hebrew).

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Constructing and Deconstructing the Wall," Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History, Vol. 26, No. 3 (Spring 1997): 276-296.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Travelling Culture/Travelling Television," Screen Vol.  37, No.  4 (Winter 1996): 323-335.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Authenticity in Crisis: Shur and New Israeli Forms of Ethnicity," Media, Culture and Society Vol.  18, No. 1 (January 1996): 87-103.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Ways of Seeing the Intifada: The Case of Nahalin," Journal of Film and Video, Vol.  47,  No.  4 (Winter 1995-96): 33-45.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Inverting Images of the 40s: The Berlin Wall and Collective Amnesia," Journal of Communication Vol. 45, No. 2  (Spring 1995): 93-107.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Text of the Other - the Other in the Text: The Palestinian Delegation's Address to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference," Journal of Communication Inquiry Vol. 18, No.  1 (Winter 1994): 27-44.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "From Orientalist Discourse to Family Melodrama: Oz and Volman's My Michael." Edebiyat: A Journal of Middle Eastern Literatures, Vol. 5, No. 1 (1994): 99-123.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "L'Intifada dans les actualites televisees: Le cas de Nahalin." Communication et Langages, No.  99 (1994): 4-19.

• Danet Brenda, Loshitzky Yosefa and Israeli-Bechar Havah, "Masking the Mask: An Israeli Response to the Threat of Chemical Warfare" Visual Anthropology, Vol.  6, No. 3 (Fall 1993): 229-270.    

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Bride of the Dead: Phallocentrism and War in Kaniuk and Gutman's Himmo, King of Jerusalem." Literature/Film Quarterly, Vol.  21, No.  3 (1993): 218-229.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Tourist/Traveler Gaze: Bertolucci and Bowles' The Sheltering SkYosefa" East-West Film Journal, Vol. 7, No. 2 (July 1993): 110-132.

• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "Plato's Cave and the Cinema." Studio 43 (May 1993): 31-34 (in Hebrew).

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Die Braut des Todes: Phallozentrismus und Krieg Zu Amos Gutmans Film und Yoram Kaniuks Roman "Himmo, der Konig von Jerusalem." Babylon, Vol. 10-11 (October 1992), 45-58. 

• Loshitzky Yosefa and Meyouhas Raya,  "'Ecstasy of Difference': Bertolucci's The Last Emperor." Cinema Journal, Vol. 31, No.  2 (Winter 1992): 26-44.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "More than Style: Godard's Modernism versus Bertolucci's Postmodernism." Criticism, Vol.  XXXIV, No.  1 (Winter 1992): 119-142.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Articulation of Historical Memory in Bertolucci's Cinema." Zmanim: A Historical Quarterly, Vol. 39-40 (Winter 1991): 92-99 (in Hebrew).

• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue." Media, Culture and Society, Vol. 13, No. 4 (October 1991): 557-571.

• Loshitzky Yosefa, "`Memory of My Own Memory': Processes of Private and Collective Remembering in Bertolucci's The Spider Stratagem and The Conformist."  History and Memory,Vol.  3,  No.  2 (Fall 1991): 87-114.

Book Chapters

• Loshitzky Yosefa,  “Veiling and Unveiling the Israeli Mediterranean: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Terrorist and My Land Zion,” in Flavia Faviosa (ed.), Visions of Struggle in Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean (Palgrave MacMillan, 2010).
• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," in Ronit Lentin (ed.), Re-Presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), pp.  127-138. Also in a slightly different version in Sylvie Crinquand (ed.), Par Humour de soi (Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004), pp.  253-262.
• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "Verbotenes Lachen: Die Politik und Etik der Holocaust-Filmkomodie," in Margrit Frolich, Hanno Loewy and Heinz Steinert (eds.), Lachen uber Hitler - Auschwitz-Gelachter? Filmkomodie und Holocaust (Edition Text + Kritik, 2003),  pp.  21-36.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue" and "Authenticity in Crisis: Shur and New Israeli Forms of Ethnicity," in Tamar Liebes and Miri Talmon (eds.), Culture and Communication (Tel Aviv: The Open University Press, 2003), Vol. I, pp. 47-61 and Vol. II, pp. 402-417  (in Hebrew).  
• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Afterthoughts on Mulvey's `Visual Pleasure` in the Age of Cultural Studies,” in Elihu Katz, John Durham Peters, Tamar Liebes and Avril Orloff (eds.), Canonic Texts in Media Research (Cambridge, UK: Polity Press, 2002), pp.  248-259.
• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue," in Hanna Herzog and Eliezer Ben-Rafael, (eds), Language and Communication in Israel (New Brunswick, NJ and London: Transaction Publishers, 2001), pp.  461-477.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Hybrid Victims: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust,” in Barbie Zelizer, (ed.), Visual Culture and the Holocaust (Rutgers University Press, 2001), pp.  152-175.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, “Postmemory Cinema: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust in Don’t Touch My Holocaust,” in T.G Ashplant, Graham Dawson and Michael Roper, (eds.), The Politics of War Memory and Commemoration (Routledge, 2000), pp.  182-200. Republished in T.G Ashplant, Graham Dawson and Michael Roper, (eds.), The Politics of Memory: Commemorating War (New Brunswick and London:  Transaction Publishers, 2004), pp. 182-200.
• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in Some Post-Colonial Film and Literature" in Elizabeth Hallam and Brian Street, (eds.), Cultural Encounters: Representing "Otherness" (Routledge, 2000), pp.  51-71.
• Loshitzky Yosefa,  "Fantastic Realism: Schindler's List as Docudrama," in Alan Rosenthal, (ed.), Why Docudrama? Fact-Fiction on Film and TV, (Southern Illinois University Press, 1999),  pp.  357-369.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Bride of the Dead: Phallocentrism and War in Himmo, King of Jerusalem" in Nurith Gertz, Orly Lubin and Judd Ne’eman (eds.), Fictive Looks - On Israeli Cinema) (Tel Aviv: The Open University Press, 1998), pp. 247-260.  (In Hebrew.  A partial translation of "The Bride of the Dead: Phallocentrism and War in Kaniuk and Gutman's Himmo, King of Jerusalem").
• Loshitzky Yosefa,  “Holocaust Others: Spielberg’s Schindler’s List versus Lanzmann’s Shoah,” in Loshitzky Yosefa (ed.) Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (Indiana University Press, 1997): 104-118.
• Loshitzky Yosefa, "The Self-Reflexive Film and the Cinema of Godard." In The Medium in 20th Century Arts, (eds.), Rachel Bilski-Cohen and Baruch Blich (Jerusalem: Or Am, 1996): 207-221 (in Hebrew).
• Loshitzky Yosefa, "Images of Intifada Television News: The Case of Nahalin." In Framing the Intifada: People and Media, (eds.), Akiba Cohen and Gadi Wolfsfeld, Ablex, (1993): 160-175.

Book Reviews

• Gordon, Robert, Pasolini: Forms of Subjectivity. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1996.  Screen, Vol. 38, No.  3 (1997), pp.  302-305.
• Fairclough, Norman, Media Discourse. London and New York: Edward Arnold, 1995.   Journal of Pragmatics, Vol.  27 (1997), pp.  18-22.
• Malkmus, Lizbeth & Armes, Roy, Arab and African Film Making.  London: Zed Books,1991. Journal of Communication, Vol.  44, No. 1 (February 1994), pp. 159-162.

Exhibition Catalogues

• Loshitzky Yosefa, “In Israel von den Alpen träumen: Das Heidi aus Shikun Mapam,” in Hanno Loewy and Gerhard Milchram (eds.) Hast Du meine Alpen gesehen? Eine judische Beziehungsgeschichte,” (Did you see my Alps? A Jewish Love Story) (Bucher, 2009), pp.  404-413.  Judisches Museum Hohenems, Austria (April 26-October 4, 2009), Judisches Museum Wien, Austria, (December 16, 2009-March 15, 2010), Alpines Museum des Deutschen Alpenvreins, Munchen, Germany (April 2010-February 2011).

Conference Organisation

• Member on the International Advisory Board of “Beyond camps and forced labour: current international research on survivors of Nazi persecution,” Third international multidisciplinary conference, Imperial War Museum, London, 7-9 January 2009
• Initiator and organiser of a conference on “Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts,” 4-6 April 2005, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London. Sponsored by: The British Academy; Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London; School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of East London; Third Text and The Italian Institute. 

For reports on the conference see:

• Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts,” Journal of Contemporary European Studies, Vol.  14, No. 1 (April 2006), pp.  107-109.
• Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”, Un primo report sulla conferenza, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milano: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp.  39-44.
• Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”: A Preliminary Report on the Conference, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milan: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp.  47-52.

Keynote Addresses

• “Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators,” keynote speaker for the Symposium “Violent Contradictions and Feminist Responses to the War on Gaza,” April 2-3, 2009, Institute of Women and Gender Studies, University of Toronto, Canada
• “Gaza as a Metaphor: Victims and Perpetrators,” SOAS Palestine Society, January 12, 2009, SOAS, London, UK 
• “Veiling and Unveiling the Mediterranean: Palestine/Israel between East and West,” the keynote speaker for the International Symposium on Visions of Struggle: Women’s Filmmaking in the Mediterranean, November 2-3, 2007, Wellesley College, Massachusetts, USA
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” part of a plenary panel, Disunited Nations: Cinema beyond the Nation-State, April 27-28, 2007, University of Birmingham, UK
• "Forbidden Laughter? The Ethics and Politics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," the keynote speaker for the International Conference on Film Comedy and the Holocaust organised by The Goethe University and the Fritz Bauer Institute in Frankfurt, 25-29 April 2001, the Evangelische Akademie Arnoldshain, nearby Frankfurt, Germany

Invited Lectures

• “Veiling and Unveiling Palestine/Israel: Yulie Cohen-Gerstel’s My Land Zion,” “Culture, Politics and Performativity: Cinemas of the Middle East and South Asia,” A Two-Day Conference with invited world leading experts on Middle Eastern and South Asian cinemas: Hamid Naficy, Viola Shafik, Ranjana Khanna, Corey Creekmur, Yosefa Loshitzky and Azade Seyhan, 15-16 May 2009, University of California, Davis, USA.
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe and Beyond,” 28 April 2009, Centre for Narrative Studies, University of East London, UK.
• “Contempt or Discontent? Contemporary Reflections on Godard’s New Wave Women”:  “The French New Wave-50 Years On,” 13-14 March 2009, Cine-Lumiere Cinema, The French Institute, London, UK.
• “Just Jews? Representation/Misrepresentation of Jews and Romanies (Gypsies) in the Holocaust Film,” “The Holocaust, Art, and Taboo: Transatlantic Exchanges on the Ethics and Aesthetics of Representation,” 26-28 June 2008, Hamburg University, Germany.
• “The White Continent is Dark: Bernardo Bertolucci’s Besieged,” “Not of this Place: Migration and Its Memory,” A Two-Day Interdisciplinary Seminar with Rosi Braidotti, 8-9 November 2007, Faculty of Arts and Humanities, Centre for Intercultural Studies, UCL, UK.
• Respondent to panel on “Memories of Europe” at the ESF Exploratory Workshop “Europe in Cinema, Cinema in Europe”, 16-18 September 2005, University of Southampton, UK, (cancelled due to health condition).
• “Transnational Hybrid Cinema: European Cinema and the Post Holocaust Imagination”, Four Leverhulme Lectures, 26 January, 9 February, 23 February, 9 March, 2005, UCL, UK (cancelled due to health condition).
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe: Migratory Travels in Contemporary European Cinema,” AHRB Centre for Asian and African Literatures, three- year project “Tradition and the Modern,” and the State University of Rio de Janiero in Brazil, Conference/Workshop “Migratory Modernisms,” 28-30 June 2004, Rio de Janiero, Brazil.
• “Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy,” Workshop on “Holocaust Film: Recent Work,” The Research Centre for The Holocaust and Twentieth-Century History, Department of German, Royal Holloway, University of London and The Wiener Library, 21 May 2004, The Wiener Library, London, UK.
• “The Representation of the Palestinian Israeli Conflict in Israeli Cinema,” Graduate Seminar, Centre for Israeli Studies, UCL, 24 March 2004, London, UK.
• “Ethno-diasporas and European Cinema,” a series of three lectures, Film Programme, UCL, 2, 9, 16 March 2004, London, UK.
• “Representing Immigrants and Ethnics in European Cinema,” Work in Progress Seminar, Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 15 January 2004, Senate House, London, UK. 
• “Identity and ‘Non Identity’ in Contemporary European Cinema,” Identities and Culture in Europe: A Mellon Interdisciplinary Seminar Series, UCL Mellon Programme, 3 December 2003, UCL, London, UK.
• Convener of a Workshop on "War Media/Media Wars 1: Dis/Regarding the Pain of Others." A Conference on "Smart Bombs, Dumb Wars,” 8 November 2003, Institute of Education, London, UK.
• “A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Urban Trilogy,” AHRB Centre For Asian and African Literatures (SOAS/UCL), The City and Literature, Workshop Two, Cities Across Time, 5-7 November 2003, Institute of Commonwealth Studies, London, UK.
• “Working on Film and Using Film Archives,” Research Training Programme 2003-04, Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 25 October 2003, Senate House, London, UK.
• Introduction and Q&A for James’ Journey to Jerusalem, London Film Festival, 23 October 2003, London, UK. 
• "Cinema and Migration," a Conference on "Mobilizing the Mediterranean: Migration, Alterity, Identity," Institute of Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London, 4-5 July 2003, London, UK.
• "Place, Identity and Memory Politics," 20 June 2003.  Colloquium on Memory and Raphael Samuel History Centre Annual Lecture, London, UK.
• Training and research seminars on using film in teaching history and the Holocaust, 24-27 April 2003, Centre for Multiethnic Research, The Uppsala Programme for Holocaust and Genocide Studies, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden.
• "The Ethics and Politics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," A Conference on Humour as Self-Definiton, 27-29 March 2003, Universite de Bourgogne, Dijon, France.
• "Screening Strangers in Post-Holocaust European Cinema,” Seminar Programme, 11 February 2003, School of Cultural and Innovation Studies, University of East London, London, UK.
• “Identity and Memory Politics in Israeli Cinema,” Seminar on “Media Memory/Political Memory,” 1 February 2003, University of London, London, UK.
• "Identity Politics in Israeli Cinema," The Hebrew Centre’s David Patterson Seminar Series, 23 October 2002, Oxford Centre for Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Yaranton Manor, University of Oxford, UK.
• "Screening Strangers in Post-Holocaust European Cinema,” The Media Research Seminar Series and the Media and Diaspora Series, 17 October 2002, The London School of Economics and Political Science, London, UK.
• "Identity Politics in Israeli Cinema," Research Seminar, 9 May 2002, Centre for Mass Communication Research, University of Leicester, UK.
• "The Representation of the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict in Israeli Cinema," 1 May 2002, Research Seminar, Centre for Modern Hebrew Studies, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Cambridge University, UK
• Respondent to David Cesarani and a panelist in "After Eichmann: Collective Identity and the Holocaust Since 1961," 8-10 April 2002, University of Southampton and Imperial War Museum, London, UK.
• "The Politics and Ethics of the Representation of the Holocaust on Film," 16 November 2000, University of Vienna, Vienna, Austria.
• "The Films of Amos Gitai," a guest speaker in a tribute to Amos Gitai at the 11th Ljubljana International Film Festival, 9-22 November 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenjja.
• "Bertolucci as an Historian," in "A Bridge over the Mediterranean: History and Cinema around the Mediterranean," an international seminar, 20-21 September 2000, Mishkenot Sha'anaim, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Visual Zionism: Israeli Cinema," a conference on "The Zionist Century: A Continuing Debate," 19-21 June 2000, Ben-Gurion University and Sde Boker Research Center, Sde Boker, Israel.
• "Amos Gutman's Bar 51," a paper delivered for a series of lectures and screenings entitled "Reflections: Israeli Society on Film," organized by the Institute for Social Research, 21 May 2000, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• “A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Trilogy,” March 31-April 2 2000, an international seminar on “Film and Media in the Middle East,” organized by the Cultural Disorder Project of the Department of Media Studies at Bergen University in cooperation with the journal Framework, the Bergen Cinematheque and Bergen European City of Culture 2000, Bergen, Norway,
• A participant in the workshop on “Art and Other Media in Holocaust Education and Remembrance” in The Stockholm International Forum on the Holocaust hosted by the Swedish Government for political leaders and officials from 70 countries. A panelist in a seminar on “Art and the Construction of Memory,” 25-30 January 2000, a joint initiative by the Swedish Government and the Programme for Research about the Holocaust and Genocide at Uppsala University, Stockholm, Sweden. 
• Commentator on “Visual Pleasure and Narrative Cinema,” an international seminar on “Canonic Texts in Media Research,” The Smart Communication Institute, 9-10 June 1999, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust," Memory and the Holocaust Conference, The Lohamei Hagetaoat Holocaust Museum and Haifa University, 18-19 May 1999, Haifa, Israel.
• "The Nation-Diaspora Duality in the Age of Globalization," Time and Value Conference, 10-13 April 1997, Centre for the Study of Cultural Values, Lancaster University, Lancaster, UK.
• "Survivors of the Holocaust: A Discussion of The Survivors of the Shoah Visual History Foundation," guest panelist, 19 June 1996, London Jewish Film Festival, London, UK.
• "Schindler's List and The Cinematic Representation of the Holocaust," 19 June 1996, guest panelist, London Jewish Film Festival, London, UK.
• "Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," 25 May 1996, Warwick Arts Centre, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• "Sexual Politics in Godard's Cinema," 25 April 1996, Division of Film and Video, School of Media, The London Institute, London, UK.
• "Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," 12 March 1996, Centre for Jewish Studies, School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London, London, UK.
• "Libertinism, Pornography and Heresy: The Representation of Women in Godard's Cinema," 6 March 1996, Department of Film and Television Studies, University of Warwick, Coventry, UK.
• "Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," Conference: Film and the Holocaust, 19 December 1995, The Department of English Literature, The University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK.
• "The Representation of the Holocaust in Film and Popular Culture," 21 November 1995, Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
• "Orientalist Representations: Palestinians and Arabs in Some Postcolonial Films and Literature," 13 November 1995, Graduate Research Centre in Culture and Communication, University of Sussex, Brighton, UK.
• Panel Discussant (with Lena Jayyusi), "Diasporas and Nations," Annenberg Public Space Conference, 1-4 March 1995, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
• Chair, "Reality and Image: The Army in the Public View," The Leonard Davis Institute for International Relations Conference on "The Army at a Crossroads: The Israel Defence Forces and Israeli Society," 12 June 1995, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "From Novel to Film: Bertolucci and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky," The American Psychoanalytic Association, Fall Meeting, 15-19 December 1993, Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, New York City, USA.

Selective Conference Papers

• "The Camp Trilogy: Michael Winterbottom's In this World, Code 46 and The Road to Guantanamo" , NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, June 25-28 , 2009, Lund, Sweden.
• “The Question of Terror in the Land of Zion,” the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, March 6-9, 2008, Philadelphia, USA.
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” The Vienna Conference: Perspectives and Challenges for Cinema and Media Studies,” NECS, European Network for Cinema and Media Studies, June 21-23, 2007, Vienna, Austria
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” Cultural Studies Now, 19-22 July, 2007, University of East London, UK
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” The British Sociological Association Annual Conference, 12-14 April, 2007, University of East London, UK
• “Crime Drama and the European Immigration Debate,” 5th Conference on Popular European Cinema, June 25-27, 2007, Paris, France
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” Diasporic and Migrant Cinema in Contemporary Europe, July 5-7, 2006, Oxford, UK (cancelled due to health condition)
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” Media in the Enlarged Europe, May 5-6, 2006, University of Luton, UK (cancelled due to health condition)
• “Memory and Identity in Israeli Cinema,” Memory and Identity, August 28-30, 2005, The University of Oslo, Norway (cancelled due to health condition)
• “Screening Strangers in Fortress Europe,” Cinema in Europe: Networks in Progress, June 23-25, 2005, University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands (cancelled due to health condition)
• Chair, “Cinema and National Identities,” Annual Conference of the SCMS (Society for Cinema and Media Studies), March 31-April 3, 2005, London, UK (cancelled due to health condition)
• “Miscegenation and Immigration in the Eternal City: Bertolucci’s Besieged,” a conference on “Crossing Borders: Images of Immigration in European Cinema,” 15-16 September 2004, Manchester Metropolitan University, Manchester, UK. 
• "The Post-Holocaust Jew in the Age of Post-Colonialism: La Haine Revisited," Screen Studies Conference, 28-30 June 2002, Glasgow, Scotland.
• "Godard's Legacy of `Hate`: The Influence of Godard's Work on La Haine," the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, May 24-27, 2001, Washington, D.C., USA.
• "The Representation of the `Other` and the `Stranger` in European Cinema," European Cinema Research Forum Conference: Foreign Film? European Cinema beyond Its Frontiers, January 27-28, 2001, University of Wales, Bangor.
• "Visible Cities/Invisible Others in Amos Gitai's Urban Trilogy," The 3rd Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies, May 28-30, 2000, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• “Afterthoughts on `Visual Pleasure` in the Age of Cultural Studies,” The International Communication Association, June 1-5, 2000, Acapulco, Mexico.
• “A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai’s Trilogy,” the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, March 9-12, 2000, Chicago, USA.
• “Afterthoughts on `Visual Pleasure` in the Age of Cultural Studies,” The International Psychoanalytic Association, “Freud at the Threshold of the 21st Century,” December 13-16, 1999, Jerusalem, Israel.
• “Screening the Birth of the Nation: Exodus Revisited,” an international conference on “Frontiers of Memory,” September 17-19, 1999, London, UK.
• Round table discussant “Media Celebrations of Global, National, and Local Events,” 34th World Congress of the International Institute of Sociology, July 11-15, 1999, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• “Screening the Birth of the Nation: Exodus Revisited,” The Israeli Association of American Studies conference on “The America-Israel Intertext: Promised Lands, Chosen People,” May 24-26, 1999, Tel Aviv and Jerusalem, Israel.
• “The Orient and Forbidden Love: Transgressing the Palestinian Israeli Conflict,” the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, April 15-18, 1999, West Palm Beach, Florida, USA.
• “The Orient and Forbidden Love: Transgressing the Palestinian Israeli Conflict,” an international conference on “The Conflictual Constructions of Identities in the Middle East,” November 24-26, 1998, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust," and "The Nation-Diaspora Duality in the Age of Globalization," Sixth Annual Conference of the International Society of the Study of European Ideas (ISSEI), August 16-21, 1998, Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.
• “Screening the Birth of a Nation: Phallocentrism and War in Israeli Cinema,” (a paper given in a session organized and chaired by me on “Border Identities (Mis)communicating the Palestinian/Israeli Conflict;” “Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust;” Respondent to the session “Revisiting Spielberg’s Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler’s List - Five Years Later” (a session organized around my book); panelist in a session on “Visualizing boundaries in Israeli and Palestinian Films;” Local coordinator of the Visual Communication Interest Group, The 48th Annual Conference of the ICA (International Communication Association), July 20-24 1998, Jerusalem, Israel.
• “Screening the Birth of the Nation: Exodus Revisited,” The 2nd Tel Aviv International Colloquium in Cinema Studies, June 8-11, 1998, Tel Aviv Cinematheque, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• “Screening the Birth of a Nation: Phallocentrism and War in Israeli Cinema,” the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, April 4-7, 1998, San Diego, California, USA.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust," 29th AJS Conference, December 21-23, 1997, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Tell the Holocaust," XVth ICLA (International Comparative Literature Association), August 16-22 1997, Leiden, the Netherlands.
• "Surviving the Survivors: Second Generation Holocaust Film Culture," Twelfth World Congress of Jewish Studies, July 29-August 5, 1997, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Screen the Holocaust," Screen Studies Conference, 27-29 June 1997, Glasgow, Scotland.
• "Memory in Transition: Second Generation Israelis Tell the Holocaust," the Annual Conference of the Society for Cinema Studies, May 15-18, 1997, Ottawa, Canada.
• "The Nation-Diaspora Duality in the Age of Globalization," 12th World Congress of Education Research, "Education of Ethnic Minorities: Unity and Diversity," May 9-12, Rethymno, Crete-Greece.
• Panel Chair, "Reconstructing Holocaust Memories," AJS Conference, 15-17 December, 1996, Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
• "Film and Historical Trauma: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," Screen Conference,  28-30 June, 1996, Glasgow, Scotland.
• "Travelling Cultures/Travelling Television," Culture and Identity: City/Nation/World, 2nd Theory, Culture & Society Conference, 10-14 August 1995, Berlin, Germany.
• Panel chair, "Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List," 1995 SCS Conference, March 2-5, 1995, New York City, USA.
• Coordinator and chair of a symposium on "Male Identity: Militarism and Gender in Israeli Cinema," July 12, 1995, The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the Jerusalem Cinemateque, Jerusalem Film Festival, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Inverting Images of the 40s: The Berlin Wall and Collective Amnesia," and "The Text of the Other - the Other in the Text: The Palestinian Delegation's Address to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference," 44th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, July 11-15, 1994, Sydney, Australia.
• "Postcolonial (Jewish/Israeli?) Anxiety: Exile, Home, Travel" 10the Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, June 12-13, 1994, Gratz College, Pennsylvania, USA.
• "Global Space after the Fall," "Console-ing Passions: Television, Video and Feminism."  April 21-24, 1994, The University of Arizona, Tuscon, Arizona, USA.
• Coordinator of a Symposium on "Spielberg's Schindler's List," March 24, 1994, The Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA.
• "Traveling Culture/Traveling Television."  Society for Cinema Studies Annual Conference, March 2-6, 1994, Syracuse, New York, USA.
• "The Text of the Other - the Other in the Text: The Palestinian Delegation's Address to the Madrid Middle East Peace Conference."  "The Voice of the Voiceless: Non-Canonical Literature and Film and Non-Canonical Approaches to the Canon."  Nineteenth Annual Conference on Literature and Film, January 27-29, 1994, Florida State University, Tallahassee, Florida, USA.
• "Staging the Real on Television: The Case of the Madrid Peace Conference," September 9-12, 1993, "Visible Evidence: Strategies and Practices in Documentary Film and Video."  Duke University, Durham, USA.
• "From Metapornography to Meta-Heresy: Godard's Images of Sexuality," May 27-31, 1993, The 43rd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, Chicago, USA.
• "History in the Making and History as a Remake: The Fall of the Berlin Wall and Global Television," February 11-14, 1993, The 1993 SCS Conference, New Orleans, USA.
• "From Orientalist Discourse to Family Melodrama: Oz and Volman's My Michael," 6-9 July 1992, Melodrama Conference, British Film Institute, London, UK.
• "The Tourist/Traveler Gaze: Bertolucci and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky," Screen Conference, , 26-28 June, 1992, Glasgow, Scotland.
• "The Tourist/Traveler Gaze: Bertolucci and Bowles' The Sheltering Sky", The 42nd Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, 21-25 May, 1992, Miami, Florida, USA.
• "From Orientalist Discourse to Family Melodrama: Oz and Volman's My Michael." April 30 - May 3, 1992, SCS Conference, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, USA.
• Coordinator of a National Symposium on "Film/Politics/Ideology", April 8, 1992, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Masking the Mask: An Israeli Expressive Response to the Threat of Chemical Warfare" (co-researchers B. Danet and H.  Bechar). October 18-20, 1991, The Annual Meeting of the American Folklore Society, St.  John's, Newfoundland, Canada.
• "The Politicization of Memory in Bertolucci's Cinema: Psychoanalytic, Cinematic and Historical Perspectives." The Annual Israeli Psychological Association, October 8-10, 1991, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.
• "Ways of Seeing the Intifada: A Comparative Analysis of Visual Images in Television News." July 24-26, 1991, International Television Studies Conference, British Film Institute, London, UK.
• "Framing Images of Intifada Television News: The Case of Nahalin." International Symposium on the Media, Protest and Political Violence, June 9-14, 1991, Jerusalem, Israel
• "Godard's Modernism versus Bertolucci's Postmodernism." The 41st Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 23-27, 1991, Chicago, USA.
• "American Television Mediating the Intifada: Ted Koppel's 'Town Meeting' in Nightline in The Holy Land." April 1-3, 1991, The Annual Israeli Sociological Association, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• "The Appropriation of Historical Consciousness and Public Memory in Bertolucci's Cinema." January 8, 1991, Conference on History and Film, School of History and the Department of Film and Television, Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• "Eros and Civilization Revisited: Traces of Marcuse's Thought in Bertolucci's The Last Tango in Paris."  The 40th Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, June 1990, Dublin, Ireland.
• "Ideology, Entertainment Values and Storytelling in Ted Koppel's Nightline in The Holy Land." October 1989, The 7th International Conference on Culture and Communication, Philadelphia, USA.
• "Images of Jerusalem and Tel-Aviv in Amos Gutman's Himmo King of Jerusalem." SCS Conference, April, 1989, University of Iowa, Iowa City, USA.
• "The Bride of the Dead:  Phallocentrism and War in Kaniuk and Gutman's Himmo, King of Jerusalem." March 1989, International Conference, "Women in American and Israeli Literature and the Arts:  Identity and Image," Tel-Aviv University, Tel Aviv, Israel.
• "Ideological Representation of Gender Issues in Cinema: The Case of Israel." June 1988, International Conference, "Private Woman - Public Work," Haifa University, Haifa, Israel.

Media/Art outputs

Media Appearances:

• Invitation to participate in the Cinema Show, BBC Four’s weekly flagship film programme to review a BBC Four premiere of the film Almost Peaceful (February 2006, cancelled due to health condition)
• "The Films of Amos Gitai," a guest speaker in a tribute to Amos Gitai at the 11th Ljubljana International Film Festival, 9-22 November 2000, Ljubljana, Slovenjja.  Television and radio interviews by Ljubljana TV and radio stations.
• “Die Popkultur ist machtiger als die Wachter der historischen Wahrheit”, An interview with Die Presse (Austria’s leading broadsheet) on Schindler’s List, 18 November, 2000, Kultur, p.  35.
• Coordinator of a National Symposium on "Film/Politics/Ideology." April 8, 1992, The Hebrew University, Jerusalem, Israel.  Interviewed by Israel Television, Channel One.
• 1987-2001: Sporadic appearances on Israel Educational Television (interviews and commentaries on film and literature)
• 1987-2001: Sporadic commentaries and book reviews in the Israeli broadsheet Ha’aretz

Research Grants

• October 2000-October 2002: Recipient of research grant ($120,000) from The Israel Science Foundation, The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities for research on "The Representation of the 'Other' and 'Stranger' in European Cinema."

• February 2001-January 2002: Recipient of research grant (5,000$) from the Smart Institute for Communications, Hebrew University, for "Ethnicity, Gender and Identity in European Cinema."

• March 2000-March 2001: Recipient of research grant (10,000$) from The Shaine Center for Research in Social Sciences, Hebrew University, The Levi Eshkol Institute for Economic, Social and Political Research, The Faculty of Social Sciences, Hebrew University (10,000$) and the Authority for Research and Development of the Hebrew University for research on identity politics in Israeli cinema (10,000$). 

• January 2001-September 2001: Recipient of research grant (2,000$) from the Institute for European Studies, Hebrew University to develop a course on "The Representation of Women and Minorities in European Cinema."

• 1987-1999: Recipient of research grants (20,000$) from the Smart Institute for Communications, Hebrew University, for different research projects (i.e., media events related to the Madrid Peace Conference and the Fall of the Berlin Wall, identity politics in Israeli cinema, Second Generation Holocaust cinema, the representation of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict in Israeli cinema, etc.).        

Research and Study Fellowships

• March-June 2001: Research Fellow at the Yitzhak Rabin Center for Israel Studies within the framework of the project "Immigration, Identity and Political Community."  Research topic: "Images of Exile: Diaspora, Displacement and Identity in European Cinema" (50,000$)

• 1996-1997:  Self and Other: Cultural Processes of Inclusion and Exclusion. A research group within the framework of the Project “Europe in the Middle East: Political Key Concepts in the Dialogue of Culture,” Sponsored by The Van Leer Jerusalem Institute and the European Community (20,000$).

• 1993-1994 (while on Sabbatical from Hebrew University): Annenberg Scholar, Annenberg School of Communication, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, USA, within the framework of the Annenberg Scholars 1993-94 theme of "Public Space."  Research topic: "The Construction of a Global Public Space for Public and Political Change as Illustrated by Television Coverage of the Fall of the Berlin Wall and the Madrid Peace Conference" (45,000$).

• Summer 1990: Recipient of a research grant from the French CNRS (2,000$).  Recipient of a research grant from the Italian CNR (2,000$).  A Visiting Scholar in the Facolta di Lettere e Filosofia, The Division of Art, Music and Show at Bologna University, Italy.  Research topic: "The Political Cinema of Godard and Bertolucci".

• Fall 1989: Visiting Scholar, Department of Cinema Studies, Tisch School of the Arts, New York University, USA.  Research topic: "The Political Cinema of Godard and Bertolucci."

• August 1989: The Directors Guild of America Educators Workshop, Hollywood, California, USA

• Spring 1987: Recipient of an Overseas Exchange Fellowship from Indiana University, USA

• Summer 1984: Recipient of an Overseas Exchange Fellowship from Indiana University, USA

• Fall 1983: Recipient of Israel's "National Council of culture and Art" Fellowship

• June-August 1980: Recipient of the United States Fulbright Summer School Scholarship to study in St. John's College, Santa Fe, New Mexico, USA

Translations

• Loshitzky Y.  "A Tale of Three Cities: Amos Gitai's Urban Trilogy," Framework, Vol. 43, No. 1(Spring 2002), pp.  134-151. To be republished in French in CinemAction.
• Loshitzky Y. "Forbidden Laughter? The Politics and Ethics of the Holocaust Film Comedy," in Ronit Lentin (ed.), Re-Presenting the Shoah for the 21st Century (Oxford and New York: Berghahn Books, 2004), pp.  127-138. Also in a slightly different version in Sylvie Crinquand (ed.), Par Humour de soi (Editions Universitaires de Dijon, 2004), pp.  253-262.
• Loshitzky Y.  "Verbotenes Lachen: Die Politik und Etik der Holocaust-Filmkomodie," in Margrit Frolich, Hanno Loewy and Heinz Steinert (eds.), Lachen uber Hitler - Auschwitz-Gelachter? Filmkomodie und Holocaust (Edition Text + Kritik, 2003), pp.  21-36 (in German, translated from English)
• Loshitzky Y. "The Intifada as a Meta-Televisual Dialogue" and "Authenticity in Crisis: Shur and New Israeli Forms of Ethnicity," in Tamar Liebes and Miri Talmon (eds.), Culture and Communication (Tel Aviv: The Open University Press, 2003), Vol. I, pp. 47-61 and Vol. II, pp. 402-417 (in Hebrew, translated from English).  
• Loshitzky Y.  “Introduction”, in Loshitzky Y. (ed.), Spielberg's Holocaust: Critical Perspectives on Schindler's List (Indiana University Press, 1997).  Translated into Swedish for the book Bilden av Forintelsen, (ISBN 91-85248-66-5) published in 1998 by the Swedish Film Institute in association with The Living History Project at The Swedish Government Offices. Translated by Larry Abramson.
• Loshitzky Y. "L'Intifada dans les actualites televisees: Le cas de  Nahalin." Communication et Langages, No.  99 (1994): 4-19.  (in French, translated from English)
• Loshitzky Y. "Die Braut des Todes: Phallozentrismus und Krieg Zu Amos Gutmans Film und Yoram Kaniuks Roman "Himmo, der Konig von Jerusalem." Babylon, Vol. 10-11 (October 1992), 45-58.  (in German, translated from English)
• Reports on the conference on “Fortress Europe and Its ‘Others’: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts,” 4-6 April 2005, Institute of Germanic and Romance Studies, School of Advanced Study, University of London.
• Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”, Un primo report sulla conferenza, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milano: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp.  39-44.
• Enrica Capussotti and Ross Forman, “Fortress Europe and Its Others: Cultural Representations in Film, Media and the Arts”: A Preliminary Report on the Conference, in Identita e nomadismo (Identity and Nomadism), exhibition catalogue, eds., Lorenzo Fusi and Silvana Editoriale (Milan: Cinisello Balsamo, 2005), pp.  47-52

Editorial work:

• 1995-2004: Member on the editorial board of Cinema Journal (the official organ of the SCMS, the Society for Cinema and Media Studies, the largest Cinema Studies Association in the world).
• 1997-2000: Member on the editorial board of Kolnoa: Studies in Cinema and Television, published by Tel Aviv University, The Yolanda and David Katz Faculty of the Arts, Department of Film and Television.

Referee for international journals and academic presses:

• Cinema Journal
• Screen
• Journal of Communication
• Critical Studies in Mass Communication
• Clio: A Journal of Literature, History and the Philosophy of History
• History and Memory
• Signs
• National Identities
• American Historical Review
• Comparative Studies of South Asia, Africa, and the Middle East
• Feminist Review
• Shofar
• Journal of Modern Jewish Studies
• Patterns of Prejudice
• Theory and Criticism (in Hebrew)

Referee for academic press

• Oxford University Press
• Wayne State University Press
• University of Texas Press
• University of Minnesota Press
• University of Manchester Press
• Valentine Mitchell Press
• Peter Lang
• Routledge
• The Open University, Israel
• The Ben-Gurion Research Center, Sde-Boker Campus Publishing House

Referee for tenure promotion:

• Purdue University, USA
• University of California at Santa Cruz, USA
• Queen’s University, Alberta, Canada
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Tel Aviv University, Israel
• Haifa University, Israel

Reader for Research Bodies

• The Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC), UK
• The Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities

External Examiner and Ph.D Supervisor and/or Director of Studies

• University of East London (UEL), UK
• Uuniversity College London (UCL), UK
• New York Uuniversity (NYU), USA
• Harvard University, USA
• University of Bristol, UK
• The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel
• Tel Aviv University, Israel

 

Professional experience:

• January 1999: Jury member, The Israel Prize in Film
• July 1998: Jury Member, Jerusalem International Film Festival
• April, November 1990: Participant and consultant for radio and television programmes for the Open University in Israel on the representation of women in Israeli film and literature
• 1987 – 1988, 1999, 2000, 2001: Lecturer at the Jerusalem Cinematheque: "The Representation of Women in Classical Hollywood Cinema," “Schindler’s List and the Globalization of the Memory of the Holocaust,” “Second Generation Holocaust Film in Israel.”
• Summer 1984: Special reporter of the Israeli newspaper H'adashot to the 1984 Venice Film Festival
• 1975-1981:  Various free-lance work in the field of television and film, including the writing of critical film reviews for the Israeli Film Institute; writing and researching of documentary scripts for Israel television; writing on theatre, television, and film for the Jerusalem weekend edition of Ha'aretz; organizing weekly events at the Tzavta Cultural Center in Jerusalem; teaching filmmaking in various Jerusalem community centers; reporter for Israeli radio (a programme on life in Jerusalem, written and broadcast by David Grossman)
• 1977-78:   Production Assistant for Israel Television
• 1976-1977: Documenting and archiving with Nathan Axelrod (the first filmmaker in Palestine before the establishment of the state of Israel) the Carmel Newsreels. This work was the basis for two volumes of The Nathan Axelrod Collection, edited by Amy Kronish and Scott Mittelman and published by the Israel Film Archive/Center for Preservation of Israeli and Jewish Film in 1996 and for archival and documentation work done by The Steven Spielberg Jewish Film Archive, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Israel