Who's the modernist poet everyone should be familiar with? What's the social significance of toys? And what does a pilgrimage in the Himalayas look like?
After two wonderful previous editions, "Short and to the Point" is back for a third time!
Eight researchers from the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities at the Hebrew University will come together for one evening at the National Library, offering a glimpse into some of the most fascinating, exciting, and pressing questions in current humanities research. From doctoral students to senior researchers, each participant has exactly 6 minutes and 40 seconds to present what's on their work desk. History, English literature, Talmud, religious studies, Arabic language, and more - all short and to the point!
Please note: This event will be held in Hebrew!
Host: Eliya Greenfeld
Opening remarks: Prof. Galit Noga-Banai, Academic Head, Mandel School
Participants:
✦ Neta Amir | In Motion, In Gaze: On the Formation of a Ritual Space in Foreign Territory | History, Mandel Scholion Center
✦ Michal Elgavi | Not Child's Play: What Is a Toy and What Is Its Socio-Cultural Significance | Education, Mandel Scholion Center
✦ Aharon Moskowitz | Anatomy Without a Body: The Rabbis, Women, and the Invention of Talmudic Realia | Talmud, PhD Honors Program
✦ Yotam Benhorin | History, Climate Change, and Learning from the Past: Norse Greenland as a Case Study | History and Environmental Studies, Excellence Doctoral Program
✦ Tom Schwartz | Tradition in Motion: An Ethnography of Pilgrimage in the Indian Himalayas | Religious Studies, PhD Honors Program
✦ Ben Elias | Speach, Up-Close and at a Distance: Using Digital Media to Study Spoken Dialects in the Gaza Strip | Arabic Language and Literature, PhD Honors Program
✦ Tali Benin | The "Righteous Beauty" of Modernism: The Turbulent Life and Subversive Poetics of Mina Levy | English Literature, Martin Buber Society of Fellows
✦ Amit Levy | A Jew, an Arab, and a Brit Buy an Embroidered Dress: The Surprising Story of the Folklore Museum in Mandate-Era Jerusalem | History, The Martin Buber Society of Fellows
Ticket price: ₪45 | Please note that seating at the event is unassigned.
✦ Sponsored in honor of Wendy and Saul Singer by grateful friends Rachel and Josh Opperer (Detroit and Jerusalem)
