Upcoming Events

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)
Experts, Expertise, Professional Jurisdiction and the Study of Antisemitism after the Holocaust

15.1.2025
Dr. Jonathan Grossman (JRI)
AI-powered Tools for Research and How to Make the Best Out of Them

22.1.2025
Dr. Yael Rimer-Cohen (Faculty of Law, HUJI)
Juvenile Court as Poor-Families Court – the Potential Contribution of Poverty-Aware Paradigm for Human Rights of Parents and Children

29.1.2025 
Prof. Rotem Giladi (University of Roehampton, London & JRI)
Flogging Jack Nafte: Jewish Whiteness and Imperial Emancipation in Pre-Apartheid South Africa

Past Events

December Seminars
On 4.12.2024, Seminar by Dr. Yael Netzer (Lead Scientist of DH@Huji lab)
"Creating Archives and Knowledge Through Digital Humanities Perspectives"

On 11.12.2024, Seminar by Prof. Simon Rabinovitch (Northeastern University, Department of History and Center for Jewish Studies)
"Sovereignty and Religious Freedom: A Short History of Jewish Individual and Collective Rights"

On 18.12.2024, Seminar by Dr. Rhona Burns (Jewish Studies Program, Cornell University)
"From King to Peasant: Class Imagination in the Formative Years of Jewish Nationalism"

On 12-13.12.2024, International Workshop: "Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies"
The Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies
Centre for German-Jewish Studiesv, University of Sussex

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On 21.11.2024, International Symposium: "Human Rights in Troubled Times"
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In the academic year 2023-24, the Institute hosted a seminar series. Read more

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