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Prof. Tal Dekel is an art historian, curator and activist. Her work deals with modern and contemporary art in Israel and around the world. Her research focuses on issues of visual culture, analyzing its interrelations with race, class, gender, sexuality and nationality, while using feminist theories and transnationalism. Her research revolves around case studies of women immigrants from the Former Soviet Union, France, Ethiopia, the Philippines, and the Middle East and North Africa. Her current research focuses on ageism and gender in Israeli art and engages with the range of forces acting upon old women from diverse social backgrounds in Israel. Dekel served as Head of the Visual Literacy Studies and the Curatorial Studies at Kibbutzim College, and previously was Head of the Gender Studies Forum at Tel Aviv University.