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We thank all the applicants for 2012-2013
The academic committee is meeting on March 22nd-23rd.
The candidates, who will be short listed, will get an invitation for an interview.
WHAT'S NEW?
On 26th of January the Buber fellows and the new fellows of the Franz Rosenzweig Minerva Research Center met for a mutual academic activity in Tel Aviv. Dr. Adreas Kraft gave a lecture: "No longer...at home in the world": Resentments and the essayistic writing of Jean Améry", followed by a discussion at the Goethe Institut, and a visit to the Anselm Kiefer's new exhibition at the Tel Aviv Museum.
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Prof. Yfaat Weiss and Dr. Adreas Kraft In front of the Tel Aviv Museum
December 13th, Colloquium with Mrs. Kim Wuenschmann, a doctoral fellow of the MBSF
Enforcing the Enemy Category: Jewish Prisoners in the Early Camps 1933/34
Workshop in Ginosar 8-9 December 2011
November 29th, Colloquium with Prof. Yoram Bilu, a senior fellow of the MBSF
"We Want to See our King": Making the Absent Rabbi Present in Messianic Habad
Greetings by Prof. Avner De-Shalit, Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences
November 17th, Colloquium with Prof. David Shulamn
"Seeing Inside the Eye: Clips from the Kerala Sanskrit Theater"
Greetings by Prof. Reuven Amitai, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities
November 15th, Dinner with Ethan Bronner, New York Times correspondent in Israel
A visit at the Israel Museum with the Scholion Researchers
First Colloquium with Dr. Eitan Grossman on “How to Get to the Future without a Verb”
Prof. David Shulman with the new Buber fellows for 2012
We are happy to welcome the New Academic Year and ten new Buber Fellows!
Prof. Shulman with Minister Schavan 
On June 19th the German Federal Minister of Education and Research, Prof. Annette Schavan, visited the Martin Buber Society and met with the Fellows and the Society’s Director, Prof. David Shulman. Minister Schavan was accompanied by Volker Rieke, Director Generalof the Federal Minister of Education and Research and Dr. Harald Kindermann, Ambassador of the Federal Republic of Germany in Israel. Prof. Schavan spoke to the Fellows about their experiences and their research, now that the first year of the program is coming to a close, and stressed her view that the Martin Buber Society of Fellows is an important contribution to the academic relationship between Germany and Israel. In addition, she expressed her belief in that the Humanities and Social Sciences have an important role in these relations. Prof. Schavan was especially delighted that the Hebrew University and the Buber Fellows are realizing the idea of academic interaction between young scholars from Israel and from Germany, a fundamental goal of the Buber Society.
June 19th Colloquium with Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer, Member of the Martin Buber Society's Academic Committee:
"Three cases of atypical settler colonization in modern times"
The Society's Study Trip to Jordan, June 12th-14th, 2011
 
Colloquium on May 19th with
Prof. Ishay Rosen-Zvi, Tel Aviv University, a Senior Fellow of the Martin Buber Society:
"Goy: a genealogy"
On May 15th the Rector of the Hebrew University, Prof. Sara Stroumza, Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Reuven Amitai, Director of the Buber Society, Prof. David Shulman and the Martin Buber Fellows met with a delegation of the Israel-German Parliamentary Group of the Bundestag (Deutsch Israelische Parlamentariergruppe) comprised of members from all German political parties. The Buber Fellows introduced themselves and their research. The Parliament members were very interested to hear about the joint group of Israeli and German fellow’s experiences and impressions from their time here at the Society.
 
Meditations on Authority
3-4.5.2011
(click to see photos of the conference)
On April 7th-8th The Martin Buber Society of Fellows' Board of Directors held its second annual meeting. This year the meeting took place in Jerusalem. The Board, headed by Prof. Gerhart von Graevenitz, approved the selection of the new Buber Fellows for the 2011-2012 academic year.
From Israel:
Nira Alperson-Afil (Jerusalem, Prehistoric Archeology)
Sarit Paz (Tel-Aviv, Archeology)
Uri Gabbay (Jerusalem, Assyriology)
Michal Pagis (Chicago, Sociology/ Anthropology)
Gadi Sagiv (Tel-Aviv, Jewish History, Modern Period)
From Germany:
Wiebke-Marie Stock (Neoplatonism, Philosophy)
Lutz Greisiger (Philosophy)
Sibylle Schmidt (Philosophy)
Kim Wuenschmann (History)
Patrizia Marzillo (Philosophy)
We're certain that the selection of these scholars- chosen from a pool of excellent candidates on any scale- reflects the high standarts of the program and we are delighted by the wide range of fields and topics of this new cohort.
Following the meeting, the Board members attended a Buber Society Colloquium presented by Dr. Roy Wagner, who gave a fascinating talk titled "Following the Signs of Italian Renaissance Algebra".
Happy Pesach from all of us at The Martin Buber Society of Fellows in the Humanities and Social Sciences!
The Martin Buber Society's Academic Committee convened in Jerusalem on March 31st and April 1st for the purpose of selecting new fellows for the academic year 2011/12. The committee chose five fellows from Germany and five from Israel that will join the current Buber Society Fellows next year.
The selection will be submitted to the Board of Directors for approval at the annual meeting on April 7th-8th.
March 17th, Colloquium with Buber Society Senior Fellow, Prof. Nikolas Jaspert, Ruhr-University, Bochum:
"Eastern Iberia and Jerusalem: Attraction and Connectivity in the High Middle Ages"
March 3rd, Colloquium with Dr. Rainer Barzen:
For the Sake of the Dead and for the Sake of the Living?
Alms Giving, Poor Relief and Hospitals in Medieval Ashkenaz
February 17th
Colloqium with Dr. Andreas Kraft
"Reflections on Destructive Emotions in Society and Literature!"
February 9th
Bauhaus Tour in Tel Aviv (click here to see more photos)
Feb. 1 Workshop:
"On the Meaning of Being Human"
 
On Tuesday January 11th, Dr. Uriel Simonsohn presented a colloquium titled:
"Conversion, Apostasy, and Penance: the shifting identities of the first generations of Muslim Converts"
Lunch Talk at the Institute for Advanced Studies
On January 9th the Buber Fellows were invited by the Institute for Advanced Studies for a lunch talk in the IAS offices on the Edmond J. Safra Campus. Buber Society Fellow Philipp Nothaft was the speaker and talked about:
"Christmas and the Birthday of Jesus: Two Millennia of Discontent"
The Buber Society hopes that this lunch constituted the first step in establishing an ongoing relationship and continued cooperation with the IAS.
 
On Thursday December 16th, Dr. Cornelia Aust presented a colloquium titled:
"Merchants, Army Suppliers, Bankers. The Jewish Mercantile Elite between Amsterdam and Warsaw (1750-1830)"
On December 14th, Senior Buber Fellow, Prof. Ruth HaCohen, invited the Buber Society to her home for a fascinating lecture which was accompanied by music:
“From the Secular to the Sacred: Emotional Transference in J.S. Bach's Easter Oratorio.”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eL1k6I_RHN8
Workshop in Ein-Gev 26-27.11.2010.
On the weekend of November 26th-27th the Martin Buber Fellows, joined by Prof. Yoram Tsafrir, Dr. Oded Irshai and the Program’s Senior Fellows, travelled north for a weekend workshop in Ein-Gev.
Click here for more information and photos
On Thursday November 18th, Philipp Nothaft presented a colloquium titled:
"Dating the Passion: Technical Chronology and its Pre-Modern Roots"
Mr. Nothaft discussed the influence of medieval Christian attempts to date the life of Jesus on the development of technical chronology
On November 7th the Society went on a study excursion in the old city of Jerusalem, professionally guided by Mr. Taufik Deadle of the Hebrew University ( click here to see photos).
The German Attaché for Scientific Affairs Meets the Buber Fellows
On November 4th the Buber Society was honoured by the visit of Dr. Jutta Illichmann, the Attaché for Scientific Affairs at the German Embassy in Israel. Dr. Illichmann had a meeting with the Buber Society's director, Prof. Shulman, afterwhich she invited the Fellows to lunch and heard about their research topics.
Following the meeting, Dr. Illichmann joined the Fellows for Dr. Yehoshua Granat's colloquium titled:
"The bard and the bee: on the (meta)poetic nature of nature poetry (Ibn Gabirol and more)"
On Wednesday October 27th the Buber Fellows gathered for a dinner. Prof. Jacob (Kobi) Metzer joined the Society for the event which was followed by a screening of Derek Jarman's Film "Wittgenstein"
On October 19th Prof. Yitzhak Hen, senior fellow of the Buber Society, presented a colloquium:
"On the living and the dead: reading the Visio Baronti"
Marking the Beginning of a New Year with the University President and Rector
The Martin Buber Society of Fellows marked the beginning of the new year and the move to our new offices at the Rabin Building with a toast given by the President of the Hebrew University, Prof. Menahem Ben-Sasson, The Rector, Prof. Sarah Stroumsa and Director-General of the University, Billy Shapira. The Program's Director, Prof. David Shulman thanked all of the members of the Hebrew University staff who assisted with renovating and setting up the offices and wished us all a year of vibrant and fruitful academic activity. The President and Rector praised the generous grant given by the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research which enabled opening the program and supporting leading young scholars from the fields of Humanities and Social Sciences.
In a seminar held after the toast, Dr. Yael Sternhell presented a colloquium titled:
“A Universe of Flight: Freedom, Power, Motion, and the Social History of the Civil War South".
In the coming days we will issue a call for applications for the next academic year, 2011-2012 along with further information about the fellowship
A New Academic Year Begins
In September the first cohort of Buber Fellows arrived in our new offices at the Rabin Building on Mt. Scopus. In their first meeting with Prof. Shulman each one of the Fellows gave a brief introduction of their research topic.
The first colloquium was held on September 16 discussed Prof. Margalit Finkelberg’s translation to Plato’s Phaedrus.
The Rector, Prof. Sarah Stroumsa, and the Dean of the Faculty of Humanities, Prof. Reuven Amitai, greeted the fellows and reiterated the importance the Buber Fellowship and the Fellow’s research and activity on campus to the Hebrew University.
Over the coming months we will be holding several colloquia with presentations from the new fellows as well as senior fellows.
On October 5, Dr. Yael Sternhell will lead a discussion titled “A Universe of Flight: Freedom, Power, Motion, and the Social History of the Civil War South".
Towards mid-October we will issue a call for applications for the next academic year, 2011-2012 along with further information about the fellowship.
We are all looking forward to a year of vibrant academic activity!
 
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