Speakers

The conference will include more than 500 scholars and participants, with more than 120 panels, as well as keynote speakers, plenary, film program, and cultural events. Opening night events include a conversation with the former US Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro, who grew up in Urbana-Champaign, and whose father was a faculty member in the English department and a founder of the Program in Jewish Culture and Society. Also, a plenary on the ways women are using the law to advocate for women's rights across traditional divisions in Israeli society, fighting against gender based violence, discrimination and inequity.