Dr. Uri Rosenberg
August 2023- today
Postdoctoral researcher: University of Heidelberg. Main research interests:
1.) Jewish-Arab relations in Israel/Palestine; 2.) Turkish-Islamist discourses on Jews and Israel
Academic courses: "Jewish-Arab Relations in Mandate Palestine": MA and BA seminar, Heidelberg University & Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, winter semester 2023/24.
September 2022 - August 2023
Postdoctoral Researcher: Institute for Jewish Studies and Religious Studies, University of Potsdam. Research focus: The Millî Görüş movement in Germany - ideological and discursive changes from the 1970s until today.
September 2022
Ph.D. in History/Middle Eastern Studies, Tel Aviv University. Dissertation topic: The Millî Görüş view of "the West" (1973-1995).
June - August 2016
Research on Jewish-Muslim relations in Azerbaijan. Research on the Jewish community in Baku. Focus on mixed Jewish-Muslim families, identity issues, religious fluidity, patterns of interethnic relations and historical narratives of the community under the USSR and in the post-Soviet Republic of Azerbaijan.
June 2016
M.A. in History, Tel Aviv University.
September 2015 - February 2017
Research on interethnic relations in Acre. investigating the relationship between Jewish immigrants from the Caucasus and Arabs in Acre (a mixed city in northern Israel), focusing on the collective memory of inter-communal relations of Jews and Muslims in Azerbaijan and Dagestan.
August 2015
M.A. in International Relations, University of Chicago. Thesis topic (awarded honors): Narratives of Prehistory in Azerbaijani Nationalism.
August 2010
B.A. in Behavioral Sciences & General B.A. (Philosophy & Political Science), Ben Gurion University.
Peer Reviewed Article
Rosenberg, Uri. ""If you can't beat them-join them": explaining Milli Görüş movement's views towards the West." Southeast European and Black Sea Studies (2023): 1-21.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/14683857.2023.2259193Rosenberg, Uri. "The Millî Görüş movement's view on Muslims in the West: Turkish migration to Germany as a case study." Middle Eastern Studies 60, no. 1 (2024): 94-111. www. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2023.2181342
Rosenberg, Uri. "Are cinema, TV and football recommended for Muslims? The Millî Görüş movement's view on popular culture." Middle Eastern Studies 60, no. 4 (2024): 663-678. www. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2023.2249831
Rosenberg, Uri. "Was the prehistoric man an Azeri nationalist? Mobilized prehistory and nation-building in Azerbaijan." Central Asian Survey 43, no. 2 (2024): 196-214. www. tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/02634937.2023.2256796
Rosenberg, Uri. "Reconstructing the Caliphate or bringing Liberal Democracy to Turkey? Millî Görüş's view on Liberal Democracy, before reaching power," Middle Eastern Studies (2024): 1-18.
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/00263206.2024.2336092
Books
- Rosenberg, Uri. "If you can't beat them, join them": Millî Görüş's view of "the West" from entering Turkish politics until reaching power. Under review with Brill Academic Publishers.
2015: University of Chicago, "Armenian Circle" workshop: presentation on Azeri and Armenian mythmaking and nationalisms
2015: Indiana University, Bloomington: ACES conference for Central Eurasian Studies: presentation on Azeri nationalism
2017: Ben Gurion University, Be'er Sheva, Israel: Conference of young researchers in European Studies and African Studies. Presentation on Millî Görüş's view on "the West" and on Turks in Germany during the 1980s
2019: Lancaster University, UK: Presentation on the Geopolitical outlook of the Turkish Millî Görüş movement at the end of the Cold War
2022: University of Potsdam, Germany, Colloquium on Religious Studies: Presentation on Millî Görüş's view of Turkish migration to Germany
2023: University of Bern, Switzerland: Workshop on "Dis/connectivities in the South Caucasus": Presentation on post-Soviet Azerbaijani nation-building
2023: Heidelberg University, Germany, Middle East Studies Colloquium: Millî Görüş and the West (1973-1995)
2024: University of Potsdam, Germany, Colloquium on Religious Studies: Presentation on Millî Görüş's view of Jews and Christians
2024: Oxford University, UK, Conference on "Political Theologies of Enmity: Time and the Other": Presentation on Millî Görüş's view of Jews and Christians
2024: The Institute of Ismaili Studies, Aga Khan Centre, UK. Conference on the Historical and Contemporary Migration of Central Asian Muslims. Presentation on Immigrants from Central Asia and the Caucasus in Israeli 'Mixed' (Jewish-Arab) cities
2024: University of Edinburgh, UK, ASEN Conference on Nationalism and Memory: Presentation on Caucasian-Jewish migrants' memory of Muslim-Jewish relations
2024: Heidelberg University of Jewish Studies, research colloquium: Presentation named "We respect but also suspect them": Ambivalent enmity between 'Kavkazi' Jews and Palestinian-Arabs in Akko
2024: Heidelberg University, colloquium of the research group "Ambivalent Enmity": Millî Görüş and the West (1973-1995)
2024: Heidelberg University, ENCOUNTERS Workshop: Studying Jewish-Muslims Relations - Approaches, Challenges, Perspectives: Presentation named "Beyond conflict and coexistence: Towards an entangled history of Jewish Arab relations"
2024: Charles University, Prague: Annual AIS/EAIS (Israeli Studies) conference. Presentation on Caucasian-Jewish migrants' memory of Muslim-Jewish relations
2024: Heidelberg University, Germany, Middle East Studies Colloquium: Presentation on Azerbaijani nation identity
Contact details:
Dr. Uri Rosenberg
Karl Jaspers Center
Voßstraße 2, Building 4400
Room 400.02.08
69115 Heidelberg
Germany
+49 (0) 6221 54 4315
uri.rosenberg(at)hcts.uni-heidelberg.de