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Two of us: On The Dual, Double, and Opposite
Luft Gesheft/Kalam Fadi: The Forth Annual Conference for Doctoral Students and
Postdoctoral Fellows in the Humanities
Luftgescheft/Kalam Fadi is a yearly interdisciplinary conference for doctoral students and postdoctoral fellows held at the Zvi Yavetz School of History and Regional Studies at Tel Aviv University. The conference aims to examine historical questions from a broad perspective, bringing together early-career scholars in the humanities and
adjacent fields. We seek to foster interdisciplinary dialogue; facilitate mutual exposure to diverse methodologies, theories, and scholarly traditions; and lay the foundations for exchange and collaboration among the next generation of researchers. Luftgescheft/Kalam Fadi is a platform for advanced graduate students and postdoctoral
fellows to present their work, acquire experience, and form interdisciplinary and intergenerational networks between researchers working in different fields.
The theme of the fourth annual conference is “Pairing, Duality, and Relationality”. Through this theme, we invite participants to reflect on the various ways in which human beings have conceptualized, structured, and experienced the paired across history. The tendency to think in pairs is among the most fundamental and enduring ways in which human beings make sense of reality. The conference therefore proposes to examine pairing as an analytical, philosophical, and cultural category, attentive to its historical variability and conceptual force.
Binary models have served as powerful tools for understanding and explaining reality across cultures and periods: good and evil, tradition and progress, purity and degradation, man and woman, male and female, nature and civilization, center and periphery, body and soul, life and death. Their positioning as opposites was often presented as natural or self-evident. Yet they were in fact grounded in specific assumptions, that were themselves repeatedly questioned, negotiated, and reconfigured.
At the heart of the twofold lies the relationship between its two elements. Is it one of cooperation, rivalry, or resistance? Do the two parties represent opposing forces, or complementary aspects of a single entity? Is binary opposition inevitable, or can the paired be understood as a part of a broader spectrum of possibilities? How do
paired relationships reflect, reproduce, or reshape power relations, and how do they participate in the construction of social hierarchies—gendered, political, or theological? What tensions emerge when the dual ceases to be harmonious—when it excludes, marginalizes, or disintegrates?
In this context, the conference will address not only symmetrical pairings but also asymmetrical ones, such as parent and child, ruler and subjects, teacher and student, alongside relationships presumed to be balanced, such as military alliances, business partnerships, or domestic couplings. In all these cases, pairing is understood not as a static condition but as a dynamic interplay – relations in constant flux, structured by tensions.
Topics may include (but are not limited to):
* Duality in its various forms: complementarity, duplication, opposition, and binaries
* Homogeneous and heterogeneous pairings
* Reciprocity, dependency, influence, and other power relations
* Conflict and cooperation among humans, between humans and God, between humans and nature, and within the self
* Representations of pairings and the dual in literature, art, religion, and philosophy
* The breakdown of the paired: separation, conflict, exclusion
* Expanding the paired: redefinition, critiques of binarity, and the recognition of spectra
* Practices of comparison and contrast: creation and adaptation, original and imitation, precedent and continuation
* Dual systems: spirit and matter, body and soul, nature and civilization
Doctoral and postdoctoral researchers from institutions in Israel and abroad, from all fields within the humanities and related disciplines (including music and the arts, law, economics, sociology and anthropology, political science and international relations, psychology, social work, geography and urban planning, architecture, communication,
and media studies) are invited to submit proposals for 20-minute presentations. Selected papers will be organized into interdisciplinary panels moderated by leading scholars. Proposals for organized panels, including two or three presentations, are also welcomed and encouraged. Please submit individual and panel proposals via the online submission form by February 15, 2026. Notifications will be sent out in March 2025. Conference participants will be required to submit full drafts for panel discussion (approximately 6,000 words) by April 30, 2026. The organizing committee is committed to fostering an open, inclusive, and diverse scholarly dialogue. Accordingly, priority will be given to conference programs that reflect institutional, disciplinary, and social diversity.
The conference will be held in Hebrew and English on May 17-18, 2025, at Tel Aviv University. Please submit an abstract (up to 250 words) including a title, a brief academic biography (up to 150 words), and contact details (full name, institutional affiliation, academic status, and email address) in a single PDF file. Abstracts should include a concise statement of the main argument and their connection to the conference theme.
Panel proposals should include individual abstracts and presenter details in one PDF file, along with a separate file containing the proposed panel title and a brief explanation of the thematic or methodological connection between the presentations. The organizing committee reserves the right to accept panels as proposed or to combine individual submissions into new panels.
The organizing committee: Oded Feuerstein, Dana Ran Margolis
For further information, please contact: luft.tau@gmail.com
