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An interview film on the emotion of resentment and how it defines culture and politics today. Featuring: Wendy Brown, Grayson Hunt, Rahel Jaeggi, Alexander Nehamas, Robert Pfaller, Gyan Prakash, Peter Sloterdijk, and Sjoerd van Tuinen.
Invitation to a scenic re-enactment of Viktor Frankl’s theater play from 1946, „Synchronisation in Birkenwald – A Metaphysical Conference“, on January 29th, at 19:00, in Yad Vashem, Jerusalem; to mark the occasion of the International Holocaust Day 2020.
Hebrew translation: Prof. David Guttmann, Dr. Jan Kühne Artistic Director: Prof. Shimon Levy Dramaturg, Producer, Initiator: Dr. Jan Kühne
Oded Na'aman's essay, "The Checkpoint", was selected as one of twelve must-read essays published in the past decade in Boston Review. The essay is about the logic of the West Bank checkpoints as seen from the perspective of a soldier.
Dr. Dennis Halft received the Alexander Böhlig Award for his pioneering research on Christian-Muslim interaction in the Persianate World. The € 7,500 award is granted bi-annually by the Gertrud and Alexander Böhlig Foundation for the study and research on the culture and languages of Eastern Christianity. Dr. Halft was honored with the award at the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities in Berlin on December 13, 2019, by former Senior Buber Fellow Prof. Dr. Dr. h.c. mult. Christoph Markschies, president-elect of the Academy.
Dr. Orly Lewis has won a €1.5 million Euro ERC Starting Grant for her project Anatomy in Ancient Greece and Rome: An Interactive Visual and Textual Atlas (ATLOMY).
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The aim of the project is to produce a groundbreaking integrative atlas of Greco-Roman anatomical ideas, terminology and research. Its historical scope will stretch from the Classical period to the High-Roman Empire – from our earliest extant Greek medical works to the pinnacle of Greco-Roman medical and anatomical research.
The research will uniquely combine historical and philological analysis with empirical research and digital development. ATLOMY’s team will consist of classicists, historians, experts in modern anatomy, a digital artist and a software developer, who will analyse together the ancient sources. Based on a close analysis of the sources the team will re-enact the empirical research of ancient anatomists, decipher and visually present the diverse anatomical ideas and terminologies in ancient Greece and Rome and examine how empirical observations and theoretical assumptions led to changes in knowledge.
The team will create a long-desired lexicon of ancient anatomical terms, re-enact ancient anatomical dissections, develop a high-end, interactive digital visual atlas presenting and analysing the ideas and terms of different ancient authors and compose in-depth interpretive studies of anatomical theories and research in ancient Greece and Rome.
This integrative visual and textual map and analysis will substantially advance our understanding of ancient ideas of the body and of empirical methods of scientific research in ancient times. Moreover, it will enable the growing audience of Greco-Roman medical and philosophical writings to engage with these sources in a deeper and more informed manner, thus enhancing studies in related fields. More broadly, ATLOMY will offer a tight-knit interdisciplinary heuristic model for the study of the history of science, one which offers means for bridging the disciplinary gap between historians and classicists and the natural scientists whose works we study.
The research will take place at the Department of Classics at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in cooperation with researchers from the School of Veterinary Medicine and the Faculty of Medicine.
*All fellows of the Martin Buber Society can apply for ERC Starting Grants through The Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
We are delighted to present the elected fellows for the academic year 2019/20! Clara Wenz(Ethnomusicology, Middle Eastern Studies) Ilil Baum (Jewish History, Linguistics, Sephardic Jews post 1492) Anna Gutgarts (Medieval History, Crusaders, Urban Identity) Christian Wollin (German Literature, Philosophy, Hannah Arendt) Amit Gvaryahu (Talmud, Jewish History, Roman Empire, Coins)
Collected Dramatic Works by Sammy Gronemann, Vol. 1 of Sammy Gronemann Critical Edition (Edited with introduction and commentaries by Jan Kühne)
Volume 1 of the Collected Works by Sammy Gronemann, which compiles all extant dramatic works. They include the Purim play Haman’s Flight written for Martin Buber (ca. 1900) and The Wise and the Fool, written around 1940 in Tel Aviv, a work which—in Nathan Alterman’s translation—was to become the most successful comedy on the Hebrew stage.
Infertility in Early Modern England The Martin Buber Society of Fellows & the Bloomfield Library for the Humanities and Social Sciences are honored to invite you to an event in honor of the publication of the book “Infertility in Early Modern England” by Dr. Daphna Oren-Magidor.
