Academic Conferences

1.	Caspi, D. and Elias, N. (1999). Being here but feeling there: The Russian mass media in Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, May 27-June 1, San-Francisco.
2.	Elias, N. and Caspi, D. (2002). From Pravda to Vesti: The renaissance of the Russian media in Israel. Paper presented at the International Scientific Congress “300 Years of Russian Newspapers”, October 17-19, Moscow.
3.	Elias, N. (2003). The role of mass media in the integration process of immigrants: A cross-cultural comparison of Russians in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the conference “The New Media, Technology and Everyday Life in Europe”, April 23-26, London.
4.	Elias, N. (2003). The roles of mass media in the crisis period: The case of Russian immigrants in Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association, April 13, Ramat-Gan (in Hebrew).
5.	Kemp, A. and Elias, N. (2003). The new second generation in Israel: Key issues and main challenges. Paper presented at the conference “The Immigrant Second Generation in North America and Europe”. Bellagio Conference Center, June 18-23.
6.	Elias, N. (2004). “We live in Germany, but our hearts are in Israel”: Identity seeking and cultural preservation among the participants of Nash Dom club in Köln. Paper presented at the conference “Russian Jews in Germany in the 20th and 21st centuries”, University of Sussex, Brighton, December 13-14.
7.	Elias, N. (2004). The role of the mass media in immigrants’ adaptation: A cross-cultural comparison of immigrants from the FSU in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the conference “Russian-speaking Jewry in Global Perspective: Assimilation, Integration and Community-building”, June 14-16, Ramat-Gan (in Hebrew).
8.	Elias, N. (2004). Media uses as an adaptation strategy: The case of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association, April 1, Netanya (in Hebrew).
9.	Elias, N. (2004). Media uses as an adaptation strategy: the case of immigrants from the Former Soviet Union in Germany and Israel. Paper presented at the international workshop on “Transnational Risks and Civil Society”, January 2-10, Potsdam.
10.	Panel organizer and chair: “Image of the Other in Israeli Cinematography”, within a framework of Cinema Festival “Jewish Eye”, Ben-Gurion University, November 23, 2005.
11.	Elias, N. and Malakanova, O. (2005). Perception of Jews in Russia as a construction of civil society. Paper presented at the conference “Russia: Tendencies and Perspectives”, December 16-17, Moscow (in Russian).
12.	Elias, N. and Zeltser-Shorer, M. (2005). Russian Diaspora On-Line: A Virtual Community of Immigrants from the Former Soviet Union on the WWW. Paper presented at the conference “Innovations and Reproductions in Cultures and Societies”, December 9-11, Vienna.
13.	Elias, N. (2005). Methodological issues in researching immigrants from the FSU in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the conference “Russians” in Israel and Beyond: The Meanings of Culture in Discourse and Practices. The Van Leer Institute, June 8-9, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
14.	Elias, N. (2005). The Russian-language Internet in Israel. Paper presented at the conference “Electronic newspapers in Israel”, The Israel Democracy Institute, Jerusalem, February 15 (in Hebrew).
15.	Elias, N. and Khvorostianov, N. (2006). One does not live by bread alone: A cultural life on the “Russian street” of Beer-Sheva. Paper presented at Ashdod International Conference, “From urban heterogeneity to multiculturalism: envisioning the city in the Global era”, December 11-12 (in Hebrew)
16.	Elias, N. and Bernstein, J. (2006). Wandering Jews, Wandering Stereotypes: Media Representation of the Russian-speaking Jews in Russia, Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the conference “Russian” Jews in Global Perspective, October 17-19, Bar-Ilan University (in Russian).
17.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2006). When all else fails: The Internet and adolescent-immigrants. Paper presented at the DREAM conference on “Informal Learning and Digital Media”, September 21-23, University of Southern Denmark.
18.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2006). Between Three Cultures: Media in the Lives of Immigrant Children in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Communication Association, June 19-22, Dresden.
19.	Elias, N. (2006). Living in Germany, Longing for Israel: The Old Jewish Immigrants from the FSU in Germany. Hurst Seminar on Jewish Immigration in the 20th Century, Dead See, May 23-25.
20.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2006). Between Three Cultures: Media in the Lives of Immigrant Children in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of IPP Social Sciences “Transdisciplinary Migration and Biographical Research”, May 8-13, Frankfurt.
21.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2006). Together and separately: the roles of the mass media in the lives of immigrant families from the FSU. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association, April 9, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
22.	Elias, N. and Zeltser-Shorer, M. (2006). The Russian Web in Israel: An analysis of electronic newspapers for immigrants from the FSU. Paper presented at the conference “All of us are Others: Multiculturalism in Israeli society and mass media”, March 22, Emek Izrael College (in Hebrew).
23.	Elias, N. and Soker, O. (2006). The Ambassador: A Discourse of “Israeliness” in prime-time. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, February 22-23, Ramat-Gan (in Hebrew).
24.	Conference organizer: “Media and Immigrant Children and Adolescents”, Ben-Gurion University, May 15, 2006.
25.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2007). Internet’s roles in the lives of immigrant adolescents: The case of Former Soviet Union youth in Israel. Paper presented at the international conference of the Diaspora, Migration and Media Section on “Mediations of Cultural Difference: Debating Media and Diversity”, September 7-8, Leeds.
26.	Elias, N. and Khvorostianov, N. (2007). Newly-born Christians of the Jewish State: Post-Soviet Immigrants in search of the Spirituality? Paper presented at the international conference on “Revisiting Perestroika - Processes and Alternatives”. Aleksanteri Institute, University of Helsinki. November 29 - December 1.
27.	Jamal, A., Elias, N. and Soker, O. (2007). Boundaries of Collective Identity and Imagined Equality in Popular Reality Shows in Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Communication and Media Research, July 23-25, Paris.
28.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2007). Spinning the Web of Identity: Internet's Roles in Immigrant Adolescents' Search of Identity. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the International Association for Communication and Media Research, July 23-25, Paris.
29.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2007). Internet uses and a search of identity amongst the FSU immigrant adolescents in Israel. Paper presented at the international workshop on “Media, youth culture and ethnicity: theoretical and methodological challenges”, June 25-26, Halmstad.
30.	Elias, N. and Kemp, A. (2007). The new second generation in Israel: Black Jews, non Jewish Olim and children of migrant workers. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Association of Israel Studies, June 11-13, Ra’anana.
31.	Elias, N., Lemish, D. and Khvorostianov, N. (2007). “Britney Spears was left behind in Russia”: The role of popular music in the lives of immigrant youth. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association, March 29, Ra’anana (in Hebrew).
32.	Elias, N. (2007). Russian immigrants’ Web in Israel and Germany: The main trends. Paper presented at the International Conference on “Russian-Speaking Jewish Immigrants in Israel and Germany: Policies, Realities, Lessons”, 21-22 March, The Van-Leer Institute, Jerusalem (in Hebrew).
33.	Lemish, D., Elias, N. and Khvorostianov, N. (2007). Re-inventing Identities: The Internet in the Lives of Immigrant-Youth. Paper presented by Dafna Lemish at the International Conference on Children and New Media, Holy Cross College, February, Tamil Nadu, South India.
34.	Elias, N. (2008). Homecoming Migration in Israel and Germany: Patterns of Social and Cultural Integration. International Conference on “Jewish Migrants from the Former Soviet Union in Different National Contexts: The Case of Germany, Israel and the United States”, Centre for German-Jewish Studies, University of Sussex, December 1-3.
35.	Elias, N., Lemish, D. and Khovorostianov, N. (2008). “Britney Spears remained in Russia”: Dynamics of musical preferences in the integration of immigrant adolescents. ECREA’s 2nd European Communication Conference on “Communication Policies and Culture in Europe”, November 25-28, Barcelona.
36.	Elias, N. (2008). Identity seeking and cultural preservation among recent Jewish immigrants in Germany. International conference “Points of Passage: Jewish Transmigrants from Eastern Europe in Germany, Britain, Scandinavia and other Countries 1860-1929”. The Institute for the History of German Jews at Hamburg University, September 13-15.
37.	Lemish, D. and Elias, N. (2008). The role of fashion in identity formation of immigrant youth from the Former Soviet Union to Israel. Paper presented by Dafna Lemish at the “Child and Teen Consumption conference”, University of Trondhiem, Norway, April.
38.	Elias, N. and Khvorostianov, N. (2008). Newly-born Christians of the Jewish State: The choice of Christianity by the FSU immigrant adolescents in Israel. International workshop “Reinventing God and Creating Citizens: The Religious Lives of the Second Generation”, Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University, April 17-19, Cambridge.
39.	Elias, N., Lemish, D. and Khvorostianov, N. (2008). Dynamics of Musical Preferences in the Integration of Immigrant Adolescents in Israel. Paper presented at the Annual Conference of the Israeli Sociological Association, February 12, Tel-Aviv (in Hebrew).
40.	Conference co-organizer and chair: “The Constitution of Diasporic Identities through Arts, Media and Politics”. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, October 26, 2009.
41.	Conference co-organizer and chair: “Arabs” and “Russians” in Israel: Between Histories and Ideologies. Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, April 20, 2009.
42.	Elias, N. and Lemish, D. (2009). Media in the lives of immigrant families: The case of Russian-speaking immigrants in Israel and Germany. Paper presented at the conference “Diaspora, Migration and Media: Crossing Boundaries, New Directions” organized by the Diaspora, Migration and Media section of the European Communication Research Association (ECREA). Utrecht University, November 6-7.
43.	Elias, N. and Soker, O. (2009). Back to the Melting Pot: Boundaries of the collective identity in the Israeli reality shows. Paper presented at the conference “Communication and Culture: Interfaces and Conflicts”, Inter-Disciplinary Center, July 2, Herzliya (in Hebrew).
44.	Elias, N. and Soker, O. (2009). Minority-majority divide in the Ambassador Reality Show in Israel. The DGPuK annual conference “Media Culture in Change”, April 29-May 1, Bremen.
45.	Elias, N. (2009). Between Faith and Community: The Choice of Christianity by the FSU Immigrant Adolescents in Israel. 10th Berlin Roundtables on Transnationality, March 18-23, Berlin.
46.	Elias, N. (2010). Media by and for minorities: Access, representation and agenda. Paper presented at the conference "Minorities and media: Challenges of access and the digital gap", Tel-Aviv University, December 15 (in Hebrew).
47.	Conference co-organizer and chair: "Minorities and media: Challenges of access and the digital divide", Tel-Aviv University, December 15 and Ben-Gurion University, December 20, 2010.
48.	Lemish, D. and Elias, N. (2010). Between three worlds: Media in the lives of immigrant children. Keynote presentation by Dafna Lemish, COST (European Cooperation in the field of Scientific and Technological Research), Action IS0906 Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies, Lisbon, Portugal, November.
49.	Lerner, J. and Elias, N. (2010). Between national religion and universal faith: Post-Soviet immigrant religiosity in Israel. Invited lecture at International conference "Our Common Future", Essen, Germany, November.
50.	Elias, N. and Khvorostianov, N. (2010). Role of the book reading in copying with the migration crisis amongst the Russian immigrant adolescents in Israel. Annual Conference of the Israeli Communication Association, Inter-Disciplinary Center, Herzliya, March 25 (in Hebrew).
51.	Elias. N. and Lerner, J. (2011). Learning with and teaching the readers: Immigrant and professional narrative of the Russian-speaking journalist in Israel. Presented at the conference "Media for and by Minorities", Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 19 (in Hebrew).
52.	Conference organizer and chair: "Media for and by Minorities", Ben-Gurion University of the Negev, July 19, 2011.
53.	Elias, N., Khovorstianov, N. and Nimrod, G. (2011). 'Without it I am nothing': The Internet in the lives of older immigrants. Paper accepted at the international conference "Transforming Audiences" , The University of Westminster, London, September 1-2.

Public and Guest Lectures

2002	Department of Communication, Tel-Aviv University
2003	Department of Communication Studies, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2005	Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Haifa University
2006	Department of Social and Cultural Studies, University of Applied Sciences, Germany
2006	Department of Communication, Haifa University
2007	M.A. Program in migration and social integration, Rupin Academic College
2008	Department of Communication, The Hebrew University
2008	Department of Sociology, Wellesley College, USA
2009	Department of Sociology and Anthropology, Ben-Gurion University of the Negev
2009	M.A. Program in migration and social integration, Rupin Academic College