May 31
Middle Eastern Melting Pot: How Immigration Has Shaped Israel Over Time
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12:00 p.m. - 12:30 p.m.
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Julia Mirsky, Ph.D. is a Professor Emerita at the Department of Social Work, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev. She joined the department in 1998 after a long career as a senior clinical psychologist and a consultant on immigrant issues to public and governmental organizations. She served as the head of this department, supervised tens of Ph.D. and M.A. students and retired at the beginning of this year. Her scientific work is focused on psychological aspects of migration, and she has published several books and tens of academic papers on this subject.
Prof. Mirsky heads the Center (in progress) for Research and Education on Migrant’s Lives at BGU. Up to her retirement, she headed the Samuel and Miriam L. Hamburger Chair in Integration of Immigrant Communities. She had also led the international consortium of six Israeli higher education institutions and five European universities in a project (DEMO) funded by the European Council Erasmus + program. This project developed and implemented experimental teaching methodologies in Israeli academia that focus on the lives and experiences of migrants and refugees. The Center aims to continue the activities of Documentation, Research and Education of professional and communities about migrants’ lives and experiences.