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Christian Baden has specialized in the analysis of meaning co-construction in dynamic discourse. Key aspects of his research relate to frames and narratives as semantic structures, the transmission and reconstruction of meaning between distinct discourses and toward recipients, as well as the cognitive representation of meaning and knowledge in mind. His research has focused on various aspects of European political discourse, crisis discourse, and the discursive construction of conflict and propaganda.
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Christian Baden’s main methodological work relates to the development and integration of discourse analytic, (automated and manual) content-analytic, and (semantic) network analytic methods. Drawing upon both quantitative and qualitative techniques of data collection, his aim is to advance techniques for the analysis toward a rigorous comparative and dynamic analysis. Christian Baden opened his Habilitation process (Project title: Measuring Meaning: Unraveling the dynamic co-construction of political discourse) in 2013. He is currently an Assistant Professor (Akademischer Rat) at the Institute for Communication Science & Media Research (IfKW), LMU Munich.
Raz Chen-Morris holds an M.A. (cum laude, in the history of medieval and Renaissance science) and a Ph.D. (2001) from Tel Aviv University. Throughout his studies Chen-Morris taught at several high schools and colleges, among them IASA High School in Jerusalem, The Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem, Tel Aviv University, and Seminar Hakibbutzim. For From 2003-2014 he was a senior lecturer at the STS graduate program at Bar Ilan University. Today Chen-Morris is an associate professor in the History department at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.
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He has published widely on Renaissance science, concentrating on Kepler’s optics. His major publications to date are: Measuring Shadows: Kepler's Optics of Invisibility ((University Park, PA: Penn State University Press, 2016). With Ofer Gal, Baroque Science ((Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2013). Together with Ofer Gal he edited Science in the Age of Baroque, International Archives of the History of Ideas, Dordrecht: Springer Verlag, 2012. Together with Hanan Yoran and Gur Zak, he edited a special issue of The European Legacy, (20:5, 2015) on Humanism and the Ambiguities of Modernity.
Among his publications, one can note: “Optics, Imagination, and the Construction of Scientific Observation in Kepler’s New Science”, The Monist (2001); “Shadows of Instruction: Optics and Classical Authorities in Kepler’s Somnium”, Journal for the History of Ideas (2005); “From Emblems to Diagrams: Kepler’s New Pictorial Language of Scientific Representation”, Renaissance Quarterly (2009); (With Ofer Gal) “Baroque Optics and the Disappearance of the Observer: From Kepler’s Optics to Descartes’ Doubt”, Journal of the History of Ideas (2010); with Rivka Feldhay, "Framing the Appearances in the Fifteenth Century: Alberti, Cusa, Regiomontanus, and Copernicus" (2017); and more recently "Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe", in Nuncius 35:2 (forthcoming September, 2020).
Currently his research is entitled “Geometry and the Making of Utopian Knowledge in Early Modern Europe”. The aim of this research project is to investigate the relationship of knowledge and especially practices of knowledge, Renaissance and Baroque poetics and political power in the crucial early stages of the Scientific Revolution of the 17th century. This research project is supported by the Israel Science Foundation (grant No. 312/20)
Christoph Menke is a German philosopher and Germanist and has been a professor of philosophy in Frankfurt am Main since 2009. He is considered an important representative of the 'third generation' of the Frankfurt School.
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Menke works primarily on topics of political and legal philosophy, theories of subjectivity, ethics and aesthetics. Since summer semester 2009, Menke heads the Normativity and Freedom research project in the Normative Orders Cluster of Excellence, which aims to investigate how freedom is founded as social normativity and why freedom is always freedom from social participation and thus from normativity. Against this background, particular attention is paid to the figure of subjective rights that characterizes the form of government in modern societies.
Ingrid Baumgärtner has been Professor of Medieval History at the University of Kassel since 1994. She previously taught at the University of Augsburg (1983–1992) and was a Heisenberg Fellow of the DFG and Visiting Scholar in Princeton, Stanford, and at the Villa I Tatti in Florence. She served as vice-president of the Centro Tedesco di Studi Veneziani, as faculty dean at Kassel University, and as a member of the presiding committee and scientific board of the Mediävistenverband. Her publications explore medieval canon law and Roman law, the city of Rome, gender and women’s history as well as social space, cartography, and travel reports. Geographically, her focus is on Germany, Italy, and the Mediterranean world. Her latest book discusses the sixteenth-century cartographer Battista Agnese (WBG 2017).
Prof. Ilit Ferber teaches philosophy at Tel-Aviv University.
Her research focuses on the philosophy of emotions, especially melancholy, suffering and pain, from the perspective of language. Ilit has published articles on Leibniz, Herder, Freud, Benjamin, Heidegger, Scholem and Améry. She has also co-edited a book on the role of moods in philosophy, and two books, in English and Hebrew, on lament in Gershom Scholem’s thought.
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Ferber's book Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin's Early Reflections on Theater and Language (Stanford University Press in 2013) explores the role of melancholy in Benjamin's early writings and discusses the relationship between Benjamin, Freud and Leibniz. Her second book Language Pangs: On Pain and the Origin of Language (Oxford University Press, 2019 and in German translation: Neofelis, 2023) explores the role of pain in Herder's theory of the origin of language, Heidegger's seminar about Herder, and Sophocles’ "Philoctetes”. She is now working on Jean Améry’s philosophy of temporality.
Milette Shamir is associate professor in the department of English and American Studies at Tel Aviv University. Her research focuses on U.S. literature and culture in the nineteenth century. She is the author of Inexpressible Privacy: The Interior Life of Antebellum American Literature (Penn University Press, 2005) and the editor of Boys Don't Cry? Rethinking Narratives of Masculinity and Emotion in the US (with Jennifer Travis, Columbia University Press, 2002). Her most recent edited collection, Bigger than Ben-Hur: The Novel, Its Adaptations, and their Audiences (with Barbara Ryan, Syracuse University Press, 2015), is an offshoot of her monograph on American Holy-Land Narratives and the modernization of U.S. cultural forms during the long nineteenth century. Her work appears regularly in journals and essay collections devoted to the study of American literature and cultural history.
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Professor Shamir earned her PhD from Brandeis University. She was a visiting scholar at Duke University, at the University of Texas, Austin, and at NYU. She is the editor-in-chief of the journal Poetics Today (with Irene Tucker). She co-founded TAU's American Studies program in 2006, and served as its head for thirteen years. She also served as chair of the Department of English and American Studies from 2006 to 2009 and as Vice Dean of the Humanities from 2015-2019. In 2012 she founded TAU’s pioneering undergraduate program for international students--the BA in Liberal Arts—and served as its academic director until 2016. From the Fall of 2020 she is TAU's Vice President for International Affairs.
