Upcoming Events

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

17.06.2025
Prof. Arie Dubnow (Max Ticktin Chair of Israel Studies, The George Washington University)
The Three Rs of Postwar Internationalism: Refugee, Return, Repatriation

25.06.2025
Dr. Vladimir Levin and Dr. Anna Berezin (Center for Jewish Art, HUJI)
The Center for Jewish Art at the HU and the preservation of Jewish tangible heritage

Past Events

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

2024

2023

2022