Netta van Vliet

Personal Websites

www.nettavanvliet.wordpress.com

A sample of the kinds of work students do in senior projects and after graduation in anthropology and related fields:

https://seniorproject.myportfolio.com

Course Areas

Postcolonial studies, political and cultural anthropology, feminist theory, psychoanalysis, Israel studies

• Ph.D. Cultural Anthropology, Duke University, Durham, NC.
• Graduate Certificate in Gender, Sexuality and Feminist Studies, Duke University, Durham, NC.

Publications

(in progress) The Israeli Jewish Question

(under review) “Israeli Autoimmunity”

Peer Reviewed Publications

2022 “Postcolonial Remainders: Revisiting the Trace from the Standpoint of the Anthropocene.” In Oxford Literary Review 43(2): 249-267.

2020 “Israelijew Jewisraeli: Yoram Kaniuk’s Adam Resurrected and the Problem of the Human.” In Religions. 11(4). pgs.1-16.

2016 “Humanity Lost: Alterity and the Politics of a Melancholic Anthropology.” In Anthropology and Humanism. Vol. 41(1): pgs. 44-65.

Other Publications

2016 “An Anthropological Paradox” Review of Ilana Feldman’s Police Encounters: Security and Surveillance in Gaza under Egyptian Rule in Anthropology Quarterly. Vol.89(1): pgs. 355-361.

2015 “On Calls to Boycott Israeli Academia” in Public Seminar. The New School.

2015 “Review of Deconstructing Zionism” in Critical Inquiry. Vol. 42 (2): pgs. 412-414.

Presentations

2020 (upcoming) “Israel and the Prosthesis of Origin” (Derrida Today conference, Marseille, France)

2020 (upcoming) panel organizer of Derrida Today conference panel: “Jewish Difference and the Borders of the Human” (Marseille, France)

2018 “Hauntology of Language: The Politics of Israel and the ‘Character of the University’” (“Questions of Education” panel at Derrida Today conference, Montreal, CA)

2017 “Borders of Unbelonging in Israel” (AAA meeting, Washington D.C.)

2016 “Israeli-Jewish Difference and Questions of Sacrifice” (AAA meeting, Minneapolis, MN)

2016 “Zionism’s Autoimmunity” (Derrida Today Conference, Goldsmiths, University of London)

2015 “Israel, Woman, Animal, Human: Revisiting “the Jewish Question” (AAA meeting, Denver, CO)

2015 Co-organizer (with Carla Hung) of AAA panel: “Mediterranean Encounters: The Incommensurability of Difference”

2014 “Transnational Feminisms and Interdisciplinarity” (Barnard Center for Research on Women “Locations of Learning: Transnational Feminist Practices” Conference)

2014 “Impossible Sovereignty of Hysterical Possession on Both Sides of the Mediterranean” (AAA meeting, Washington D.C.)

2013 “Speculum of the Postcolonial Woman” (Irigaray Circle Conference, “Thinking Life,” University of Bergen, Norway)

2012 “Explaining The Differend of Israel: Responses from the Field” (Jewish Studies Perilman Symposium, Duke University)

2011 “On the Question of Origin” (“Possibilities of the New: The Subject of Truth in Psychoanalysis,” Cornell University)

2011 Invited Response to Frances Hasso’s “The Governance Bargain Between Women and States in the Middle East” (Women’s Studies Colloquium, Duke University)

2009 “The Ethics and Politics of Anthropology in the Context of Israel” (AAA Philadelphia, PA)

2008 “Ethics, Politics, and Anthropology’s Episteme” (AAA annual meeting, San Francisco, CA).

2004 “States of Exception: The Mas’ha Campsite and Israel’s ‘Separation
Wall’” (Conference of the Society for Cultural Anthropology, Portland, OR).

2003 “Mapping Boundaries of Violence and Prospects for Peace in
the Israeli-Palestinian Context” (Panel co-organized with Nell Gabiam at AAA) Chicago, IL)

2003 “Fanning the Flames: The Fight Against Israel’s ‘Security Fence’” (AAA, Chicago, IL)

2002 “Transmogrify Machines in Guatemala: The Politics of NGO’s in Post-Civil War Guatemala” (AAA, New Orleans, LA)

2000 “Growing Pains in Guatemala: Political Struggles of Youth in the Body Politic of Post-War Guatemala”(“Understanding the Social World II”, International Soc. Conference, UK)

1999 “Living With/in Contradictions: The Movement of Youth, History, and Anthropology in the Context of Guatemala’s Peace Process” (AAA, Chicago, IL)