The cultural Commission of the GIL is pleased to invite you to the conference of the Prof. Daphna Hacker: Women in Rifted Israel – Leaders or Victims?
Prof. Daphna Hacker is a legal scholar and a sociologist, positioned at the Law Faculty and the Women and Gender Studies Program, Tel Aviv University. Her socio-legal research focus on the intersection of law, families and gender.
Prof. Hacker has published numerous articles in leading legal and socio-legal journals and is the author of three books. Her latest, published by Cambridge University Press in 2017, is titled “Legalized Families in the Era of Bordered Globalization”, and wan the best book award by the American Law & Society Association.
Prof. Hacker is also a feminist activist who wan several awards for her contribution to the promotion of women’s status in Israel. She currently also serves as an expert member of The International Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in Geneva.
In her presentation, Prof. Hacker will talk about women’s status in Israel as a prism through which the Israeli society and law, as well as the current struggle for democracy, can be understood.
7:00 pm: dinner (CHF 15.-/CHF 5.- students).
8:00 pm: conference.