Events
November Seminars
26.11.2025
Dr. Jacob Tovy (University of Haifa)
Developments in the Attitude of the Leadership and Society in Israel Towards Germany and its People, 1948-1965
December Seminars
3.12.2025
Dr. Vladimir Levin and Dr. Anna Berezen (Center for Jewish Art, HUJI)
Do the Jewish People have Collective Rights over Jewish Heritage?
10.12.2025
Dr. Oded Steinberg (HUJI)
Informal Networks of Aid: Christian, Political and Racial Advocacy for the Armenian Cause (1876–1909)
Januray 2026 Seminars
7.1.2026
Dr. Marina Germane (JRI, HUJI)
Interwar Minority Activism and Its Legacy
21.1.2026
Dr. Moritz Föllmer (University of Amsterdam)
The Quest for Individual Freedom in Twentieth-Century Germany
28.1.2026
Dr. Georg Wehse (JRI, HUJI)
Henry Morgenthau, The Greek Refugee Settlement Commission and the Jews of Saloniki
Feburary 2026 Seminars
4.2.2026
Avishag Ben-Yosef (JRI, HUJI)
In the Beauty Salon of History: Translating Historical Research into an Exhibition
11.2.2026
Prof. Rotem Giladi (JRI, HUJI & University of Roehampton)
Corporal Punishment in Mandatory Palestine: Isolated Episodes or a Unified Agenda?
2-4.9.2025
International Workshop: "Beyond Wiedergutmachung: Unravelling the Legacies of the 1952 Holocaust Reparations Agreement"
The Ben-Gurion Institute for the Study of Israel and Zionism, The Sylvan Adams Campus in Sde-Boker
June Seminars
11.06.2025
Prof. Helmut Smith (Department of History, Vanderbilt University, USA)
The View from Washington Heights: The Jews from Württemberg Look back on their German Past, circa 1980
May Seminars
07.05.2025
Dr. Oskar Mulej (Department of East European History, University of Vienna) Interwar Nationalities Law in Central and Eastern Europe: Liberal and Illiberal Approaches to Accommodating Group Rights and the Idea of Ethnic Sovereignty
14.05.2025
Dr. Jonathan Grossman (JRI, HUJI)
Diaspora Student Diplomacy: Israeli Emissaries and Jewish Students on College Campuses Abroad
28.05.2025
Prof. Tamara Sheer (Department of East European History, University of Vienna)
The Right to Use a Language and the Obligation to Identify With it: Nationality Categorization in the Austro-Hungarian Army
April Seminars
23.04.2025
Dr. Yael Rimer-Cohen (Faculty of Law, HUJI)
The Criministrative Set-up and Poverty (un)Awareness in Juvenile Courts
March Seminars
26.03.2025
Prof. Danny Orbach (History and East Asian Studies, HUJI)
The Principle of Distinction as a Historical Construct: The Laws of War in the European and Sino-Japanese Spheres in Comparative Perspective
February Seminars
19.02.2025
Prof. Börries Kuzmany (Department for East European History, University of Vienna)
Accommodating National Diversity: An Intellectual and Political History of Non-Territorial Autonomy in Europe
26.02.2025
Dr. Lee Mordechai (History Department, HUJI)
Bearing Witness to the Israel-Gaza War as an Academic
January Seminars
1.1.2025
Maya Kreiner (Dubnow Institute, Leipzig)
Political Rights and Colonial Control: Debates on the Legislative Council in Mandatory Palestine as a Case Study
8.1.2025
Tom Eshed (JRI, HUJI)
Experts, Expertise, Professional Jurisdiction and the Study of Antisemitism after the Holocaust
15.1.2025
Dr. Jonathan Grossman (JRI, HUJI)
AI-powered Tools for Research and How to Make the Best Out of Them
29.1.2025
Prof. Rotem Giladi (University of Roehampton, London & JRI, HUJI)
Flogging Jack Nafte: Jewish Whiteness and Imperial Emancipation in Pre-Apartheid South Africa