Prof. Danny Kaplan

Update: February 2025

Danny Kaplan, PhD - Curriculum Vitae

Research Interests

Masculinity Ideologies, Fathering

Cultural Sociology, Politics of Friendship, Social Clubs and National Solidarity,

Media and Social Media

Current and Past Positions

2024-present  Chair, Gender Studies Program, Bar Ilan University

2021-present  Full Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Gender Studies

                      Program, Bar Ilan University

2016-2021      Associate Professor, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Gender

                      Studies Program, Bar Ilan University

2015-16         Visiting Fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Sociology Department, Yale

                      University

2008 to 2015 Senior Lecturer, Department of Sociology and Anthropology & Gender Studies

                     Program, Bar Ilan University

2006             Columbia University, Department of Sociology, Visiting Scholar.

2005-2007   Tel Aviv University, Horowitz Research Institute on Society and Economy, 

        Post-Doctoral Research Fellow, Host: Haim Hazan.

Summer 2005 University of Leipzig, Simon-Dubnov-Institut for Jewish culture, Visting Scholar 

         Host: Dan Diner.   

2003-2004     Hebrew University, Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Lady Davis

         Postdoctoral fellow, Host: Meira Weiss.

Additional affiliations

Faculty fellow, Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University

Co-director, Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology

Education

Ph.D. summa cum laude, 2003. Department of Behavioral Science, Ben Gurion University, Israel.

Supplementary studies at San Francisco State University, 2001. Host: Gilbert Herdt.

Dissertation title: The construction of fraternal friendship among contemporary Israeli men

Supervised by Niza Yanay. Committee: Eyal Ben-Ari, Dan Bar-On, Ruthellen Josselson.

MA   magna cum laude,1997. Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Thesis title: Combat military service and the shaping of sexual identity

Supervised by Eyal Ben-Ari. Reader: Yoram Bilu.

BA    magna cum laude, 1992.  Department of Psychology and Amirim Program for Outstanding  Students in the Humanities, Hebrew University of Jerusalem. 

Grants and Fellowships

2021-2022   Israel Academy of Sciences and Humanities,  grant for international workshop on Theorizing National Solidarity, 20,200$

2018-2019   Israel Science Foundation grant for international workshop on Involved Fatherhood and the Work-Family Interface, 70,000₪

2015-2018   Israel Science Foundation grant for research project on New Masculinity, Involved

          Fatherhood and Work-Family Interface, 306,000₪

2016-2017  Israel Institute and Yale University, visiting faculty program, annual scholarship,  $68,760 (not used due to personal circumstances)

2011  Bar Ilan University Rector Grant for High-Ranked Research Proposal submitted to ISF,

           “Israeli Freemasonry and the Engineering of Collective Intimacy.”13,000₪

2009   Grant by Henry J. Leir-Luxembourg Program, Clark University, for Organizing

         International Workshop on Friendship and Nationalism, $12,000

2007  The Second Authority for Television and Radio, Hammer Scholarship, 10,000₪.

2005-2007  Horowitz Research Institute, Tel Aviv University, Postdoctoral fellowship, 140,000₪..         

2005  Residency Scholarship by the State of Saxony, Germany, €2500.

2003-2004   Korot foundation, Hebrew University, Lady Davis Postdoctoral fellowship, 71,000₪

2004  Dafna Izraeli grant for research on gender in Israeli society, Bar-Ilan University, 500₪

2000   Research Grant for survey on attitudes toward minorities in the military, Palm Center, 

          UCLA, $1200     

Awards

2018   Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (first place), for article

          Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity. Awarded by the Israeli

          Sociological Association.

2014   Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (third place), for article

         Institutionalized erasures: How global structures acquire national meanings in Israeli

        popular music. Awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.

2009  Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award for article Folk Models of Dyadic Male

          Bonds in Israeli Culture published in The Sociological Quarterly. Awarded by the

          Midwest Sociological Society.

2008  Best article in qualitative methods award for article Public intimacy: Dynamics of

          seduction in male social interactions. Awarded by the Association for the Study of the

          Multidimensional Person.

1992  Knesset (Israeli Parliament) Prize for Excelling Students.

Professional Functions at Bar Ilan University:

Supervision:

Postdoctoral fellow: 

     Tal Eitan

PhD dissertations:

completed:

1. 2015, Sara Shuchandler, A measure of New Masculinity ideology
2. 2015, Yoni Cooper, Reality TV and national solidarity
3. 2016, Yaron Schwartz, New men teaching old boys: A study of gender educational intervention programs in Israeli high-schools.
4. 2017, Efrat Knol, Cultural models for caretaking fathering in Israel.
5. 2017, Ran Almog, “Seduction community” and American male youth culture
6. 2019 Or Anabi, Involved fathering and new masculinity
7. 2020 Ofra Henman, Growing up with sisters: Experiences of sistering and the question of sisterhood
8. 2020 Shira Klimor, "Pacing" or "going with the flow" parenting & the self-fulfillment ideal: Israeli middle class parenting culture under the therapeutic and neo-liberal discourses
9. 2022  Adi Zafrir, “I present', therefore I am?”: Identity formation and examination in social networks sites: The role of self-presentation, social comparison, and gender in shaping self-esteem of young adults in different identity statuses.

in progress (research proposal confirmed)

1. Yotam Ben Meir
2. Naama Lanski
3. Reut Shapira
4. Tali Farkash
5. Nurit Kutik
6. Noam Lev
7. Liat Shefer
8. Yossi Zigdon
9. Adi Sadeh

in progress before confirmation of research proposal:

   10. Shlomo Mark

   11. Noa Feigenblatt

   12. Michal Wertheimer

MA thesis:

completed:

1. 2007  Yoni Cooper, Between private and collective identities: GLBT Organization for Education and Change, co-advisor Aziza Kazoum.
2. 2010   Anat Payzov, New Masculinity discourse in the men’s periodical Blazer, co-advisor Oren Meyers.
3. 2012   Shani Almog, New Body measurement and Metrosexuality, co-advisor Amir Rosenmann
4. 2015  Yanir Shimon, Customer and employee mistreatment, co-advisor Shani Pindek
5. 2016   Natali Baruch, Perceptions of masculinity among socially mobile Mizrahi men

in progress

1. Daniel Mandel
2. Atar Rosenfeld
3. Lior Duek
4. Rawan Hamaisi

Membership in Academic Societies

Eastern Sociological Society

American Anthropological Association

Work and Family Researchers Network

Israeli Sociological Association

Association for Israel Studies

Israeli Anthropological Association

Editorial positions

Advisory editor:Journal Men and Masculinities, 2009 to 2018

Editorial board: Critical Military Studies, 2014 to present

Editorial board member, American Journal of Cultural Sociology, 2023 to present

Ad hoc reviewer for:

American Journal of Sociology

American Journal of Cultural Sociology

Theory, Culture and Society

Poetics

Cultural Anthropology

American Ethnologist

Journal of Contemporary Ethnography

Journal of Computer-Mediated Communication

Radio Journal

Symbolic Interaction       

Men and Masculinities

Psychology of Men & Masculinity

GLQ

Journal of Homosexuality

Identities

Comparative Studies in Society and History

Megamot

Misgarot Media

Sociologya Israelit

Kriot Israleliot

Additional involvement in the discipline

Editing a themed section for Nations and Nationalism on “Mechanisms of National Solidarity,” includes 6 papers from internationally acclaimed authors

Chair of organizing committee, International Workshop on Theorizing National Solidarity, Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology and Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, Sde Boker, May, 2022.

Steering Committee Member, Annual Men’s Congress, White Ribbon Israel Campaign, Bar Ilan University, 2020.

Steering Committee Member, Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Bar Ilan University, 2020.

Gutman award committee chair, Israeli Sociological Association, 2020

Conference Organizer (with Shira Offer), the International Symposium on Involved Fatherhood and the Work-Family Interface, Bar Ilan University, 2019.  Attended by worldwide 20 leading researchers in the field.

Conference Organizer, Reappropriating Durkheim? Cultural Sociology Here and Now, The Launching Conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, guest speaker Jeffrey Alexander. Bar Ilan University, 2019.

Conference and Workshops Organizer, Home anxiety: Are men afraid of becoming involved in  family life? Center for Men Studies, Bar Ilan University, 2019.

Conference Organizer, Contemporary Approaches to Mixed-Methods Designs in the Social Sciences, hosting guest speaker Sharlene Hesse-Biber, Bar Ilan University, 2018.   

Conference and Workshops Organizer, New Masculinity in Practice: Changing men in the age of the therapeutic discourse. Center for Men Studies, Bar Ilan University, 2018.

Discussant in Keynote lecture by Ann McGinley, Policing and the Class of Masculinities. Faculty of Law, Tel Aviv University, 2018. 

Panel Organizer, Personal Friends beyond the Private Sphere, Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, 2016.

Panel discussant, New Masculinity and Femininity, Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Ruppin Academic Center, 2013.

Panel discussant, Dialectic Identities, Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Hebrew University, 2012.

Research project co-director, international workshop: “Friendship and the Nation: the Politics of

   Emotion in the 20th Century.” Luxembourg, 2010.

Steering committee, International Conference "Networks of Peace and Security: Gender

   Perspectives", Gender Studies and Program for Conflict Resolution, Bar-Ilan University, 2009.

Van-Lir Institute, research group on the therapeutic discourse and inequality, 2007-2008.

Organizing the psychological-organizational forum, Department of Psychology, Bar-Ilan, 2008.

Organizing the anthropological-organizational forum, Department of Sociology and

   Anthropology, Tel Aviv University. 2005-2007.

Panel organizer, commemoration session, Annual Conference of the American Anthropological

   Association, San Jose, 2006.

Panel organization and chair, masculinity session, Annual Conference of the Israeli

   Anthropological Association, Ashdod, 2006.

Panel organization and chair, Sociology of sexuality, Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociology

  Association, Ben-Gurion University, 2004.

List of Publications

   a. Authored books

Kaplan, Danny (2018). The nation and the promise of friendship: Building solidarity through sociability. New York: Palgrave Macmillan.    

Kaplan, Danny (2006) The men we loved: Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. New York: Berghahn Books.

Kaplan, Danny (2003). Brothers and others in arms: The making of love and war in Israeli combat units. New York: Routledge [former Haworth Press].

Kaplan, Danny (1999). David, Jonathan and other soldiers: Identity, masculinity and sexuality in combat units of the IDF. Tel-Aviv: Hakibbutz Hameuchad Publishing (Hebrew).

* Peer reviews of the books have appeared in various journals, among them 

   Nations and Nationalism, The Review of Politics, American Ethnologist, Israel Studies Forum, Shofar, Men and Masculinities, AJS Review Focaal:European Journal of Anthropology, GLQ, Amiety, Sociologya Israelit, Hevrah Ve-Revacha, Soziopolis: Gesellschaft beobachten

   b. Refereed articles

1. Kaplan, Danny (2025). Introduction to themed section on mechanisms of national solidarity. Nations and Nationalism 31(1), 25–29.
2. Kaplan, Danny (2025). Clubs and events: Two models of performance in studies of sport and national solidarity. Nations and Nationalism 31(1),30–46.
3. Kaplan, Danny (2024). Performing identity or performing relationships? Rethinking performance theory in social media studies. Cultural Sociology 18(4), 441–463.
4. Kaplan, Danny. (2023). When a club turns into a public event: The structural transformation of the British parliament and the making of collective solidarity. Society 60(6), 881-892.       
5. Klimor-Maman, Shira, Kaplan, Danny, and Offer, Shira (2023). “Going-with-the-flow” or “getting-things-done”: A Folk model of intensive parenting among middle-class parents. Journal of Family Issues 45(3), 697-719.
6. Kaplan, Danny (2022). Imagining national solidarity: Strangers-turned-friends-turned-brothers. European Journal of Cultural and Political Sociology 9(4), 397-422.
7. Kaplan, Danny and Shira Offer (2022). Masculinity ideologies, sensitivity to masculinity threats, and fathers’ involvement in housework and childcare among US employed fathers. Psychology of Men & Masculinities 23)4(, 399–411.
8. Kaplan, Danny (2021). Distinguishing solidarity from identity in studies of nationhood: An alternative to the civic-ethnic dichotomy? Nations and Nationalism 28(3), 760–776.

9. Offer, Shira, and Danny Kaplan (2021). The “new father” between ideals and practices: New masculinity ideology, gender role attitudes, and fathers’ involvement in childcare. Social Problems 68(4), 986–1009.

10. Kaplan, Danny (2021). Public intimacy in social media: The mass audience as a third party. Media, Culture & Society 43(4), 595-612.

11. Kaplan, Danny (2020). National solidarity as confidentiality and complicity: Insights from a study of reality show Big Brother Israel. Sociologya Israelit 21(1), 102-123 (Hebrew)

12. Kaplan, Danny, and Efrat Knoll. (2019). A cultural model of parenthood as rngineering: How caregiving fathers construct a gender-neutral view of the parent role. Journal of Family Issues 40(3), 363 –389.

13. Kaplan, Danny (2018). Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity. American Journal of Cultural Sociology 6(1), 1-36.   

*This article won the Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology, awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.

14. Rosenmann, Amir, Danny Kaplan, Ruth Gaunt, Mariana Pinho, and Mor Guy (2018). Consumer masculinity ideology: Conceptualization and initial findings on men's emerging body concerns. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 19(2), 257-272.

15. Kaplan, Danny and Yoni Kupper (2017). Toward an interaction-centered approach to media events: Mediated public intimacy on the reality TV show Big Brother. Journal of Communication 67(5), 758-780.

16. Kaplan, Danny, Rosenmann, Amir, and Sara Shuhendler (2017). What about non-traditional masculinities? Toward a quantitative model of therapeutic New Masculinity ideology. Men and Masculinities 20(4), 393–426.

17. Almog, Ran, and Danny Kaplan (2017). The nerd and his discontent: The seduction community and the logic of the game as a geeky solution to the challenges of young masculinity. Men and Masculinities 20(1), 27-48.

18.  Fraiberg, Steve A., and Danny Kaplan (2015). Outsmarting the nation, together: Subversive virtual fraternity in the Israeli men’s magazine Blazer. Israel Studies Review 30(1), 42-65.

19. Rosenmann, Amir and Danny Kaplan (2014). Masculine body ideologies as a non-gynocentric framework for the psychological study of the male body. Body Image 11(4), 570–580.

20. Kaplan, Danny (2014). Jewish-Arab relations in Israeli Freemasonry: Between civil society and nationalism. Middle East Journal 68(3), 385-401.

21. Kaplan, Danny (2014). Freemasonry as a playground for civic nationalism. Nations and Nationalism, 20(3), 415-435.

22. Kaplan, Danny (2014). The architecture of collective intimacy: Masonic friendships as a model for collective attachments. American Anthropologist 116(1), 81-93.

23. Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2014). Toward an empirical model of male homosocial relatedness:An investigation of friendship in uniform and beyond. Psychology of Men and Masculinity 15(1), 12-21.

24. Danny, Kaplan (2013). National mood stations: The “commemorative mode” of Israeli radio broadcasting during memorial days and times of emergency. Megamot 49(2), 232-256 (Hebrew)

25. Kaplan, Danny (2013). Programming and editing as alternative models of music radio production. International Journal of Communication 7, 759-779.

26. Kaplan, Danny (2012). Institutionalized erasures: How global structures acquire national meanings in Israeli popular music. Poetics 40(3), 217-236.

*This article won the Louis Guttman award for excelling articles in sociology (third place),

  awarded by the Israeli Sociological Association.

27. Kaplan, Danny and Orit Hirsch (2012). Marketing nationalism in the absence of state: Radio Haifa during the 2006 Lebanon War. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 41(5), 495– 525.

28. Kaplan, Danny and Amir Rosenmann (2012). Unit Social Cohesion in the Israeli Military as a Case Study of “Don't Ask Don't Tell.” Political Psychology 33(4), 419-436.              
29. Danny, Kaplan (2011). Neo-Institutional analysis of the rise of light mizrachi music on Israeli radio, 1995-2010. Sociologya Israelit 13(1), 135-159. (Hebrew)
30. Kupper, Yoni, and Danny Kaplan (2010). When the private meets the public: The politics of recognition in an LGBT organization for education and social change. Sociologya Israelit 12(1), 159-180. (Hebrew)
31. Kaplan, Danny (2009). The songs of the siren: Engineering national time on Israeli radio. Cultural Anthropology 24(2), 313-345.
32. Kaplan, Danny (2008). Commemorating a “suspended death”: Missing soldiers and national solidarity in Israel. American Ethnologist 35(3), 413-427.
33. Kaplan, Danny (2007). What can the concept of friendship contribute to the study of national identity? Nations and Nationalism 13(2), 225-244.
34. Kaplan, Danny (2007). Folk models of dyadic male bonds in Israeli culture. Sociological Quarterly 48 (1), 47-72. 

*This article won the Distinguished Contribution to Scholarship Award by the Midwest

  Sociological Society.

35. Kaplan, Danny, and Niza Yanay (2006). Fraternal friendship and commemorative desire. Social Analysis 50 (1), 127-146.
36. Kaplan, Danny (2005). Public intimacy: Dynamics of seduction in male homosocial interactions. Symbolic Interaction 28 (4), 571-595. 

*This article won the best article in qualitative methods award by the Association for the Study

  of the Multidimensional Person.

37. Kaplan, Danny (2004). “The most silent of the world’s passions”: Eroticism after death in the Israeli perception of male friendship. Teoraya VeBikoret (Theory and criticism) 25, 123-142. (Hebrew)
38. Kaplan, Danny (2003). The construction of combat emotions as a central site of "sexonality" Sociologya Israelit (Israeli Sociology) 5 (1), 49-73. (Hebrew)
39. Kaplan, Danny, and Eyal Ben-Ari (2000). Brothers and others in arms: Managing gay identity in combat units of the Israeli army. Journal of Contemporary Ethnography 29 (4), 396-432.

40. Ben-Cnaan, Nimrod, and Kaplan, Danny (2000). Performing drag in Israel: Jewish resistance on high-heels. Bamah: Drama Quarterly 159-160, 81-97. (Hebrew)

41. Adler, Nurit, Danny Kaplan and Vered Argaman (1998). Using career choice considerations in the counseling process: Examination of the structure of preferences, gender and age differences. Work 11, 331-338. 

 c. Chapters in collective volumes  

42. Kaplan, Danny (2020). Fraternal and civic ties among Jewish and Arab Freemasons in Israel. In Gisela Dachs (eds.) Jüdischer Almanach Freundschaften Feindschaften, pp. 180-194. Berlin: Suhrkamp. (in German)

43. Kaplan, Danny (2014). “Marketing and nationalizing ethnicity: The case of Israeli Mediterranean pop music.” In Dan Caspi and Nelly Elias (eds.), Ethnic minorities and media in the holy land, pp. 99-116. London: Vallentine Mitchell Academic.
44. Kaplan, Danny (2012). Editing the nation: How radio engineers encode Israeli national imaginary. In Daniel Fisher and Lucas Bessire (eds.), Radio fields: Anthropology and wireless sound in the 21st Century, pp. 89-107. New York: New York University Press.
45. Kaplan, Danny (2012). “Cyclic Interruptions:” Popular music on Israeli radio in times of emergency. In Ranen Omer-Sherman and Rachel S. Harris (eds.), Narratives of Dissent: War in Contemporary Israeli Arts and Culture, pp. 65-77. Detroit: Wayne State University Press.
46. Kaplan, Danny (2011). Chemistry and alchemy: Narrative building-blocks of friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture. In Bernadette Descharmes , Eric A. Heuser, Caroline Krüger and Thomas Loy (eds.), Varieties of friendship: Interdisciplinary perspectives on social relationships, pp. 119-141. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht Unipress.

47. Kaplan, Danny (2000). The military as a second Bar Mitzvah: Combat service as an initiation-rite to Zionist masculinity. In Mai Ghoussoub and Emma Sinclair-Webb (eds.), Imagined masculinities: Male identity and culture in the modern Middle East, pp. 127-144. London: El-Saqi Books.

    Appeared in Arabic translation of the same book, pages 149-167.

    Reprinted in: Estelle, Disch (ed.) (2002). Reconstructing gender: A multicultural Anthology, Third Edition. McGraw Hill.

   d. Book reviews

Kaplan, Danny (2006) Review of Higate, Paul R. (ed.), Military Masculinities: Identity and the State. Men and Masculinities, 8 (3): 375-377.

  e. Selected non-refereed publications

Kaplan, Danny (2010). The rise of “Mediterranean Pop” and its implications: an organizational analysis of the privatization reforms on Israeli radio. Panim 52-3, 155-164. (Hebrew)

Kaplan, Danny (2010). Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: Lessons from Israeli combat units. Foreign Policy. February 3, 2010.

Kaplan, Danny (2009). Introduction to the Hebrew edition. Connell, R.W., Masculinities. Translated by Oded Wolkstein. Haifa: Pardes. (Hebrew)

Kaplan, Danny (2008). National mood stations: Music broadcasting policies on the regional radio. Research report submitted to the Second Authority for Television and Radio. (Hebrew)

Presentations in Scientific Meetings

a. Presentations in conferences

“Between Distance and Closeness: A Folk Model of Involved Fatherhood from Afar” (with Liat Shefer). Paper presented at the 16th ESA Conference, Porto, Portugal, August, 2024

“Club Sociability: A New Perspective for Studying Israeli Nation-Building and Solidarity.” Paper presented at the AIS-EAIS Annual Conference, Charles University, Prague, July, 2024.

“Does the digital revolution challenge the existence of national communities?” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv, February 2023.

“For whom maternal gatekeeping constitutes a barrier? Testing the links between maternal gatekeeping, attitudes about gender roles, and fathers’ involvement in childcare” (with Shira Offer). Paper Presented at the Work and Family Researchers Network 6th Biennial Conference, New York, June 2022.

“Solidarity, identity, and models of performance in studies of nationhood.” Paper presented at the International Workshop on Theorizing National Solidarity, Bar Ilan Center for Cultural Sociology and Azrieli Center for Israel Studies, Sde Boker, May, 2022.

“Performance of identity versus performance of relationships: Implications for civil sphere theory.” Paper presented at the first meeting of the civil sphere theory working group. Trento, October, 2021.

“Masculinity Ideologies, Sensitivity to Masculinity Threat and Fathers’ Involvement in Domestic Work” (with Shira Offer). Paper Presented at the 116^th Virtual Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association, via Zoom, August 2021.

“Solidarity, clubbiness, and civic nationalism.” Paper Presented at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship, 20th Anniversary Conference, Bristol UK, November 2019

“Fraternization of friendship: Newly-found friends as rediscovered brothers between simultaneous and mythic time.” Terrains of Time workshop, Open University, September 2019

“The Nation and the Promise of Friendship: Insights from audience participation in Big Brother Israel reality TV show. Paper presented at the 35th Annual Meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Kinneret College, June 2019

“Social club sociability between networks and collective effervescence.” Paper presented at the conference Reappropriating Durkheim? Cultural Sociology Here and Now, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, January 2019. 

“New Masculinity between therapeutic discourse and feminist critique.” Paper presented at the conference “New Masculinity in Practice: Changing men in the age of the therapeutic discourse.” Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, June 2018.

“Work family interface and fathers' new masculinity ideology” (with Or Anabi and Shira Offer). Presented at the 7th Community, Work & Family Conference. Milano, 2017.

“New Masculinity and fathering: The gap between attitudes of participation and practices of partial involvement in parenting.” Paper presented at the conference “Dialogues of Change: Women, Men and Feminism,” Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan, June 2017.

“How changes in the nuclear family give rise to a cultural model of parenting as expertise: The case of involved fatherhood.”  Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Gender Studies Programs, Tel Aviv University, March 2017. 

“Toward a theory of national attachment as a social club: the case of Big Brother reality TV” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Raanana, January 2017.

“New Masculinity and fathers’ involvement in childcare” (with Shira Offer and Or Anabi), Paper presented at the Work and Family Researchers Network conference, Washington DC, June 2016.

“Can we really distinguish between civic and national solidarity? How social club sociability resurrects civic nationalism from below.” presented at the annual conference of the Center for Cultural Sociology, New Haven, April 2016.

“Social Club Sociability as a model for National Solidarity” presented at the annual meeting of the Eastern Sociological Society, Boston, March 2016. 

“Masonic male fraternity as the blueprints for civic nationalism.” Presented at the 3rd European Conference on Politics and Gender, Barcelona, 2013.

“Israeli Freemasonry between civil society and the Zionist state.” Presented at the 28th Annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Haifa University, 2012.

“Nationalism and multiculturalism under privatization reforms: The case of Mediterranean pop on Israeli radio.” Presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Hebrew University, 2012. 

“Presence of openly gay soldiers in IDF does not undermine social cohesion.” Presented at Conference on Lessons Learned from the Service of Gays and Lesbians in Allied Militaries. Brookings Institution, Washington DC, 2010. (travelling funded by the host)

“Chemistry and alchemy: Narrative building blocks of friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture.” Presented at the Henry J. Leir workshop on Friendship and the Nation, Luxembourg, 2010.  (travelling funded by the host)

“Marketing war.” Presented at conference on Cities and the New Wars, organized by Committee on Global Thought and Saskia Sassen. Columbia University. New York, 2009. (travelling funded by the host)

“Fraternal friendship as the missing link between civil society and the nation-state.” Paper presented at the conference “Friends, Patrons, Followers”, Freiburg, Germany 2009. (travelling funded by the host)

“Nationalism as commerce: Haifa radio station during the July 2006 Lebanon War” (With Orit Hirsch), Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, San Francisco, 2008.

“The songs of the siren: Popular music and the framing of emergency as sacred on Israeli Radio.“ Paper presented at the 24th Annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, New York University, New York, 2008.

“Between nationalism and therapeutic-consumerism: The double framing of emotionality among contemporary Israeli men.” Psychology on the Couch: International Conference and Workshop. Van Lir Jerusalem Institute, 2008

“New families and old states in late modernity.” Conference on Employment, Welfare and Families (in the memory of Dafna Izraeli), Bar llan University, Ramat Gan, 2008.

“The local is the national: A case study of Haifa Radio and the Second Lebanon War.” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv University, 2008.

“The men we loved: New book presentation.“ Paper presented at the 23rd Annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, Open University, Ra’anana 2007. 

“Commemorating a suspended death: The Israeli case of missing soldiers. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the American Anthropological Association, San Jose, 2006.

“Re‘ut as a case study of collective intimacy” Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Bar Ilan University, Ramat Gan. 2006.

“The mask of Reut in Israeli homosocial discourse.” Presented at the 17th. Annual meeting of the Association for Israel Studies, American University, Washington DC, 2001. 

“Masculine Culture in and out of uniform: Can national service replace the military as an initiation-rite to masculinity?” Poster presented at the 5^th global conference on national youth service, Jerusalem, 2000.

“Walking on thin rope: Identity and identification processes in the IDF.” Paper presented at the conference on civil-military relations. Center for multiculturalism, Haifa University, 2000.

b. Invited lectures

“Does the Digital Revolution challenge the existence of national communities?” Plenary lecture presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv University, 2023.

“Cosmopolitanism as social club.” Mini-Plenary lecture presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Bar Ilan University, 2020.   

The nation and the men’s social club. Presented at the Centre for the Study of Ethnicity and Citizenship. University of Bristol, UK. March, 2019. (travelling funded by the host)

Social club sociability and civic-national solidarity: The case of Big Brother reality TV. Presented at the CRCC-LUNN seminar series. Loughborough University, UK, March 2019. (travelling funded by the host)

“Can we really distinguish between national and civic solidarity? Lessons from a model of the nation as social club social.” Mini-Plenary lecture presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Bar Ilan University, 2019.   

“Involved fatherhood between new masculinity and old statehood.” Plenary lecture presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, Tel Aviv University, 2014.   

“Missing soldiers and the politics of friendship in Israel”, Invited public lecture, Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, NYC, 2006.

“Compulsory heterosexuality and homoeroticism in combat units” Conference on “Don’t ask, don’t tell, 10 years later”, Hofstra University, Hampstead, NY, 2003.

“Queer fantasy in Eretz-Israel”, Presented at a round table discussion in the 1st Conference on Queer Theory, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2001.

c. Colloquium presentations (selected)

“Social club sociability as a model for national solidarity,” Sociology Department, New York University, NYC, 2015.

Similar talk presented at: Center for Cultural Studies, Yale University, 2015.

“Soon we’ll turn into a song: Masculinity and commemoration in the media.” Gender Studies Colloquium, Bar Ilan University, 2008.

“Missing soldiers and the politics of friendship in Israel”, The Middle East Institute, Columbia University, NYC, 2006.

   Similar talk presented at:

   Taub Center for Israel Studies, New York University, NYC, 2006.

   The Graduate Seminar, New School for Social Research, NYC, 2006.

“Re‘ut as a case study of collective intimacy”, Sociology and Anthropology faculty seminar, Tel Aviv University, Tel Aviv, 2005. 

“Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture”, Hebrew studies seminar, Princeton University, Princeton NJ, 2003.

“The making of love and war in Israeli combat units”, Sociological Colloquium, State University of New York, Stony Brook NY, 2003.

   Similar lectures presented at: 

   Department of Jewish Studies, Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, New Brunswick NJ, 2003.

   Graduate Center Colloquium, City University of New York, New York NY, 2003.

“Eroticism after death as a site of ’sexonality’ “, Sociology and Anthropology faculty seminar, Hebrew University, Jerusalem, 2003. 

   Similar lectures presented at:

   Anthropological seminar, Haifa University, Haifa, 2003.

   Sociology and Anthropology faculty seminar, Bar Ilan University, Ramat-Gan, 2003.

“The hegemonic scenario of male bonding”, sociological seminar, Ben-Gurion University, Beer Sheva, 2002.

“Identification of soldiers with military culture.” Women's Studies Forum, Massey University, Palmerston North, New Zealand, 1998.

Presentations at international workshops

“Israeli Freemasonry as a Case-study for Collective Intimacy” Presented at the Seminar on the Culture, History and the Politics of Sentiment, Van Leer Jerusalem Institute 2009.

“Male friendship and nationalism in Israeli culture”, Graduate workshop for Israel Studies, New York University, NYC, 2006

“Folk models of Israeli male bonds”, Simon Dubnov Institute for Jewish history and culture, University of Leipzig, 2005.

“Fraternal friendship: The Israeli case”. Institute on Sexuality, Society and Health, San Francisco State University, San Francisco, 2001.

“Combat military service as a second Bar Mitzvah.” Middle Eastern studies, Emory University Tour in the Middle East, 2000.