We are delighted to share with you another fruitful year of research and collaboration at the IIAS. Despite multiple lockdowns and ongoing restrictions, we were fortunate to continue our Research Group activities and hold numerous interesting and enriching events, both virtually and in person. |
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This year, the IIAS hosted four Research Groups:
Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam. Organized by Uriel Simonsohn (University of Haifa) and Luke Yarbrough (UCLA)
September 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Behavioral Ethics Meets Corporate Governance: Paradigm Shift? Organized by Adi Libson (Bar-Ilan University)
September 1, 2020 - June 30, 2021
Triangulating Towards Socrates: The Socratic Circle and its Aftermath. Organized by Gabriel Danzig (Bar-Ilan University) and James Redfield (University of Chicago)
October 12, 2020 - February 11, 2021
Animals and Human Society in the Sinitic World. Organized by Gideon Shelach Lavi (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem) and Nir Avieli (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
March 1, 2021 - July 31, 2021
A number of fellows were able to join us in person at the IIAS, and each Research Group held virtual seminars to enable the fellows from abroad to participate as well.
Every two weeks, we held a Fellows Forum in a virtual format for all IIAS fellows. In each session, three fellows had the opportunity to introduce themselves and their research, and this was a fantastic way for the fellows across the world to connect, despite their physical distance.
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| On March 18-19, the fellows of Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam and Animals and Human Society in the Sinitic World went on a Negev fieldtrip. The trip included visits to educational sites of camels, horses and goats, Har Michya petroglyph park, the ancient city of Shivta, and an overnight stay in Bedouin hospitality. |
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| We ended the year with a trip for IIAS fellows and staff to Caesarea. The tour was led by renowned historian Shaya Gafni, whose expert knowledge of the site enriched our experience of the ruins of the Herodian city. |
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| This year's Artist in Residence at the IIAS is Agi Mishol, one of Israel's most prominent and popular poets, and the author of 16 volumes of poetry.
On February 22, Agi led a poetry workshop for a select group of literature students from universities across Israel. The workshop provided a space for the students to listen, to be heard, to develop their writing skills, and for the rare opportunity to receive constructive feedback from Agi. |
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On June 23, we launched an art exhibition entitled 'For the Brain is a Lump of Poison' at the IIAS of artwork created by Yoav Weinfeld, and inspired by Agi’s poetry. The exhibition will run for 6-12 months. Click here for more details. |
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| The 26th Advanced School in Life Sciences on Condensates and Phase Separation in Biology took place on November 3-4, 2020. Over 400 academics and students from across the world came together virtually to explore this topic and gain insight in the field.
Click here to watch the lecture recordings. |
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| On November 7, 2020, the Advanced School in Computer Science and Engineering hosted the 2020 Rabin Lecture, Algorand: The Truly Distributed Blockchain, presented by Prof. Silvio Micali (MIT). Over 150 participants joined virtually to hear Prof. Micali discuss the revolutionary features of blockchains as a tool for transactions.
Click here to watch the lecture recording. |
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| The 31st Jerusalem Advanced School in Economic Theory on The Economics of COVID-19 took place on June 28-30, 2021. Participants from over 20 countries joined the virtual sessions, with topics spanning vaccines, supply chains, and priority schemes.
Click here to watch the lecture recordings. |
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On November 9-12, 2020, the Re-theorizing the Architecture of Housing as Grounds for Research and Practice Research Group, led by Yael Allweil and Gaia Caramellino, held a virtual conference entitled The Terms of Habitation: Re-theorizing the Architecture of Housing. The virtual conference featured numerous engaging panels that investigated the terminologies associated with the language of housing.
On April 27-28, 2021, the Cultural Brokerage in Pre-modern Islam Research Group, led by Uriel Simonsohn and Luke Yarbrough, held a workshop entitled Towards a Theory of Cultural Brokerage in the Pre-modern Islamic World, 600-1600. This workshop contributed to the development of a theory that elucidates the circumstances and mechanisms of cultural brokerage in premodern Islamic history. The workshop was held in-person and streamed over Zoom.
On May 18-20, 2021, the Behavioral Ethics Meets Corporate Governance: Paradigm Shift? Research Group, led by Adi Libson, held a conference which explored the intersection between ethical biases in decision making and corporate governance. The panels featured academics of law, psychology and ethics to address this interdisciplinary topic, and the conference was held in-person and on Zoom.
On June 21-24, 2021, last year's Cosmopolitan Spaces in an Urban Context: A Case Study of Odessa, 1880-1925 Research Group, led by Efraim Sicher and Mirja Lecke, held a workshop entitled Odessa, Cosmopolitanism, Modernism. The workshop brought together anthropologists, historians, cultural studies scholars, literary specialists and musicologists to discuss the theoretical and practical aspects of Odessa's unique cosmopolitan network before the Russian Revolution and in its immediate aftermath. |
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| On May 24, we held the Michael Bruno Award Ceremony for the 2020 laureates:
Ido Amit, Immunology, Weizmann Institute of Science
Ronit Satchi-Fainaro, Medicine, Tel Aviv University
Shai Shalev-Shwartz, Computer Science & Engineering, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Congratulations to all the laureates!
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| On March 14, Ido Amit, 2020 Bruno Award laureate, held the AmitLab Innovation Cup at the IIAS. The event was an initiative for post-graduate students from the Amit lab of the Weizmann Institute of Science, who competed for the most impactful, creative and innovative project proposal in the fields of fundamental biological questions, development of new genomic technologies, and translational or clinical research with therapeutic application.
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| On May 4-5, Hossam Haick, 2018 Bruno Award laureate, held a Strategic Planning Workshop at the IIAS. The event was held for the members of his research team at the Laboratory for nanomaterial-based devices (LNBD) at the Technion, as well as guest Fatina Abreek-Zubiedat (ETH Zurich).
The sessions included a workshop on creative thought and development, and a lecture on idea development in third-world societies. |
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We are delighted to announce the 2022-2023 Research Groups and Individual Fellows at the IIAS.
RESEARCH GROUPS
New Christian and New Jewish Discourses of Identity between Polemics and Apologetics: Rhetoric and Representation from the Late Middle Ages to the
End of the Early Modern Period. Organized by Claude Stuczynski (Bar-Ilan University) and David Graizbordb (University of Arizona)
September 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Meta Reasoning: Concepts, Open Issues and Methodology. Organized by Rakefet Ackerman (Technion–Israel Institute of Technology) and Valerie Thompson (University of Saskatchewan)
September 1, 2022 - December 31, 2022
What Allows Human Language? Seeking the Genetic, Anatomical, Cognitive,
and Cultural Factors Underlying Language Emergence. Organized by Inbal Arnon and Liran Carmel (both of The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
February 1 - 28, 2023 and June 1 - July 31, 2023
INDIVIDUAL FELLOWS
Carol Harrison (University of Oxford)
September 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Edward Schoolman (University of Nevada)
September 1, 2022 - June 30, 2023
Marc Brettler (Duke University)
September 1, 2022 - Jan 31, 2023
Edward Breuer (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
September 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023
Stefan Schmid (University of Vienna)
September 1, 2022 - January 31, 2023
George Yaakov Kohler (Bar-Ilan University)
February 1 - June 30, 2023
Edward Stolper (CALTECH)
February 1 - April 30, 2023
Ronit Kessel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
February 1 - April 30, 2023
BRUNO AWARD LAUREATES
We wish warm congratulations to the 2021 Michael Bruno Award laureates:
Tamar Herzig, Department of History, Tel Aviv University
Mona Khoury-Kassabri, School of Social Work & Social Welfare, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem
Yardena Samuels, Department of Molecular Cell Biology, The Weizmann Institute of Science |
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OPEN CALLS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2023-24
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Interested in deepening your research with fellow scholars in Jerusalem?
The IIAS invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group proposals and Individual Fellowship proposals for the 2023-24 academic year.
For more information, view the Research Group open call and the Individual Fellowship open call. |
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