<div dir="ltr"><div dir="ltr"><div><div><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Dear Colleagues</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">We
 will be chatting with Yael Warshel in two weeks
about her new book, Experiencing the Israel-Palestinean Conflict: Children, Peace Communication, and Socialization, <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">She
 has asked us to read chapter 9 and parts of the introduction.  Please 
read as much as you can, but do feel free to join us even if you haven't
 managed to read everything.  <br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><br></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">The readings can be found here:</p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/54rm8ld5ha94iix/Warshel.Experiencing.the.Israeli-Palestinian.Conflict.2021.Chapter%209.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank">https://www.dropbox.com/s/54rm8ld5ha94iix/Warshel.Experiencing.the.Israeli-Palestinian.Conflict.2021.Chapter%209.pdf?dl=0</a></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"> </span></p>
<a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/74imvclsz0bjlam/besky.tasting.qualities.intro.ch.2.pdf?dl=0" target="_blank"></a><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">The meeting will be 1-2 pm  EST on Friday, September 24th, and can be </span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 12pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">reached by clicking on this Zoom link:<br><br>

<a href="https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698" style="box-sizing:border-box;background-image:none;background-position:0% 0%;background-size:initial;background-repeat:repeat;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;color:rgb(14,113,235);text-decoration-line:none;font-family:Lato,Helvetica,Arial;font-size:14px" target="_blank">https://iu.zoom.us/j/949202698</a><br></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Looking forward to seeing you all virtually,</span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif">Ilana</span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0in 0in 0.0001pt;line-height:normal;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:"Times New Roman",serif"><br></span></p></div>

</div><div>Press blurb:</div><div>

<span style="color:rgb(89,89,89);font-family:"noto sans",Helvetica,Roboto,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:16px">Over
 the last eighty years there has been a global rise in 'peace 
communication' practice, the use of interpersonal and mass communication
 interventions to mediate between peoples engaged in political conflict.
 In this study, Yael Warshel analyses Israeli and Palestinian versions 
of Sesame Street which targeted negative inter-group attitudes and 
stereotypes. Merging communication, peace and conflict studies, social 
psychology, anthropology, political science, education, Middle Eastern 
and childhood studies, this book provides a template to think about how 
audiences receive, interpret, use and are influenced by peace 
communication. By picking apart the text and subtext of the kind of 
media these specific audiences of children consume, Warshel examines how
 they interpret 'peace communication' interventions, are socialised into
 Palestinians, Jewish Israelis and Arab/Palestinian Israelis, political 
opinions they express, and violence they reproduce. She questions 
whether peace communication practices have any relevant structural 
impact on their audiences, why such interventions fail, and offers 
recommendations for improving future communication interventions into 
political conflict worldwide.</span></div></div></div>