Conferences

Given Papers

  1. ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. City Trajectory: A New Planning for Envisioning Better Futures. Salt Lake City. October, USA. 2011.
  2. Effective Urban Energy Planning and Governance: A New Conceptual Framework. WREC – The World Renewable Energy Congress; Linköping: July 2011.
  3. Culturally Sustainable Housing: the Case of Gaza. (with Naomi Carmon), ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, Baltimore, Maryland, USA. November 2002.
  4. The Theoretical World of Sustainable Development According to the Metaphor Analysis. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning Volos, Greece. July 2002.
  5. A community of Trust: New Interpretation and the Case of Muslim Communities in Gaza. Chicago, USA: ACSP-AESOP 4th Joint Congress-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and the Association of European Schools of Planning. Coauthor: Naomi Carmon. July 2008.
  6. Creating spaces of trust: the challenge of future planning theory in Western cities. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning. Liverpool, UK.
  7. Theorizing Planning for Climate Change: Critical Reading for New York City’s Recent Plan – PlaNYC 2030. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning. Helsinki, Finland. July 2010.
  8. IRENEC 2011: International 100% Renewable Energy Conference and Exhibition, Istanbul. 2011.
  9. Theorizing Planning Countering Climate Change. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning. Ankara: Turkey. July 2012.
  10. Urban Self-Determination: Conceptualizing Urban Rights in Contemporary Capitalism. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning and ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Dublin: Ireland. July 2013.
  11. Territoriality Planning. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning and ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Utrecht: Holland, July 2014.
  12. Two Presented Papers: (1) Conceptualizing the right to necessity and the right to space production: Insurgent versus legal rights in Planning contexts. (2) Spaces of Trust. IV WPSC – World Planning Schools Congress, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, July 2016.
  13. Territoriality of Negation. In Royal Geographical Society Annual Conference, London, August 2017.
  14. Social Sustainability: A new conceptual framework (with Efrat Eizenberg). AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning, Lisbon, July 2017
  15. Urban Ontological Security (with Efrat Eizenberg). The Association of European Schools of Planning, Lisbon, July 11-14, 2017.
  16. Planning the Contemporary Risk City under the Conditions of Uncertainty. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning, Gothenburg, Sweden July 10-14, 2018.
  17. Planning the Contemporary Risk City: New Theory and Practices from London and New York City. ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. 58th Annual Conference, Buffalo, New York. 24-28, October 2018

Plenary, keynote or invited talks

Abroad

  1. Orientalism as a Concept for Analyzing the Current Reconstruction of a New Iraq. ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning, 45th Annual Conference, Portland, Oregon. October 2004 (invited).
  2. Iraq’s Built Environment: Past Glory and Present Despair. Boston Society for Architects and Boston Architectural Center. March 2005 (plenary).
  3. Visions and Legal Aspects. The Centre for International Studies and the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT, Cambridge, MA. Jerusalem 2050 Visionaries International Conference, April 2005 (plenary).
  4. A New Theory for Sustainable Metropolitan Forms. IFMRD-International Forum on Metropolitan Regions Development. Hunan Academy of Social Sciences, Research on Metropolitan Regions of China; Hunan Provincial Finance Bureau. September, Changsha, China, 2008 (plenary).
  5. UN – UN Forum on Minority Issues; United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights. Geneva, Switzerland. Paper: “Conceptual Framework for Understanding Minority Rights in Urban Planning and Economic Fields. February 2010 (plenary).
  6. The Risk City. Roundtable on Security/Safety. AESOP-The Association of European Schools of Planning and ACSP-Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning. Prague, Czech Republic, July 2015 (Invited).
  7. Social Sustainability: Ideas and Practices from Contemporary City Plans. In Sustainable Urban Planning and Design Symposium. Nicosia, Cyprus, May 2016 (invited).
  8. Planning the Contemporary Risk City. In Climate Congress 2017: 5th Annual Congaree on Climate Change. Birmingham, UK, August 2017 (invited).
  9. Planning the Contemporary Risk City. The International Conference on Renewable & Non-Renewable Energy Sources Valencia, Spain, November 2017 (Invited).
  10. Minority Spatial Status as Reflected in State National Policies: Minorities in the Global South vs. Global North. The 11th Annual International Conference on Global Studies: Business, Economic, Political, Social and Cultural Aspects. Athens, Greece, December 2017 (invited).

Invited Talks in international universities

  1. New Urbanism and the Heritage of the Islamic City: The Case of Jerusalem. Aga Khan Program for Islamic Architecture, MIT.
  2. “Big Plans” – Seminar of John de Monchaux, the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. Vision and Big Plans for Iraq. 2005.
  3. Politics and the End of Geography. Forum for Justice, Law School, Harvard University.
  4. Planning in Israel. Student Forum at the Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT.
  5. Democracy, the Arab World, Islam, and Iraq. John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University. March 2004.
  6. Theoretical Introduction: Trust, Risk, and Planning. SPURS – Special Program for Urban and Regional Studies; Department of Urban Studies and Planning at MIT; Organizer of SPURS Forum on Risks, Trust, and Plans.
  7. The Right to the City. Center for International Studies and the Department of Studies and Planning; Seminar on “Cities against Nationalism: Urbanism as Visionary Politics”, with David Harvey. MIT. 2004.
  8. The Contribution of Planning and Architecture to Conflict in Cities: The Case of Nazareth. Cities in Conflict Seminar Series, Department of Urban Studies and Planning, MIT. 2003.

Plenary, keynote or invited talks

In Israel

  1. Planning and Memories. The Van Leer Institute, Jerusalem. Conference on One Place- Different Memories: Rethinking the role of planning in the Production of Urban Space. December 2006 (invited).
  2. Informality as resistance: Modes of Spatial Production: Palestinian Territories. The Chaim Herzog Center for Middle East Studies & Diplomacy. Ben Gurion University: Urban Informality: Israel/Palestine and Global Trends. December 2008 (invited).
  3. Planning the Periphery in Israel. Conference of the Association of Geographers in Israel. Haifa University, May 2009 (invited).
  4. The Employment of Arabs in Israel: The Challenge of the Israel Economy”. 18th Caesarea Economic Policy Planning Forum, Jerusalem: The Israel Democracy Institute. Nazareth, April 2010, (plenary).
  5. Strategies and Measures of National Planning. The First International Conference on Urban Planning in Palestine: Current Challenges & Future Prospects. October, Al-Najah University. 2011 (plenary).
  6. The emerging spaces of trust and risk in contemporary cities. Israel Geographical Association: Environment of Changes and Regeneration. May, Tel Aviv University, 2011 (keynote).
  7. The Annual Conference on Science and Environment. Review Lecture: Sustainability and Planning Evaluation. The Israel Society of Ecology & Environmental Sciences. Tel Aviv University, Israel. April 2012 (invited).
  8. Territoriality of Negation and the Creation of Bi-national Spaces. International Conference on Dilemmas of Recognition in Asymmetric Conflicts: The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in a Comparative Perspective. Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, The Hebrew University in Jerusalem; The Walter Lebach Institute for Jewish-Arab Coexistence through Education, Tel Aviv University, May 2015 (plenary).
  9. Recent Approaches in Urban Justice and Sustainability: The Israeli Sociological Society Conference, Kinneret College, February 2015 (invited).
  10. Fantasy and Planning in Contemporary Capitals: The Case of Amman. The International Conference on Urbanism, Planning and Muslim societies. Ben-Gurion University. December 21, 2016.

Invited Talks in Israel universities

  1. Conference on the Volatile Mixed Cities in Israel. The Western Galilee College: Mixed Cities in Israel: Reality vs. Vision. December 2008.
  2. Conference on Cities of Tomorrow and Sustainability. Tel-Aviv University. Lecture Title: “Environmental Justice and the Case of Jaffa-Tel Aviv”. 2009.
  3. The influence of the Arab civil society on the planning discourse in Israel. Planning the Space of Israel: 1948-2008: The Influence of Planning, the Market, and the Social Activities on the Map of Israel. The Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University. April,
  4. Women’s Employment in the Arab World and in Israel: A Comparative Research. The Jewish-Arab Center. Haifa University. 2010.
  5. Excellence in Academia: Promoting Programs for Israeli Students. Western Galilee College, 2017.

Participation in organizing conferences

  • Member of Scientific Committee. The International Conference on Renewable & Non-Renewable Energy Sources. Valencia, Spain, November 2017.
  • The First Conference of The Arab Women in Technology and Sciences. Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Director of the conference. April 2015,
  • Gender, Culture, and Ethnicity of Employment among Arab Women, Neaman Institute for Advanced Studies in Science and Technology, Technion – Israel Institute of Technology. Director of the conference. 2009
  • Head of Multidisciplinary Forum: Starr Forum. “The Politics of Reconstructing Iraq.” 2005. Available online at MIT World: http://videolectures.net/site/search/?q=jabareen
    See also: http://cis.mit.edu/events/starr-forum-politics-reconstructing-iraq