Upcoming Events
At a Glance
March 26 - Imagining a "We" in Israel-Palestine
April 3 - Weaving Transnational Threads: Mizrahi Feminist Thought and Organizing at This Global Political Moment
April 7 - Digital Humanities Pedagogy in Israel Studies Classrooms: A Roundtable Discussion
April 7 - Celebratory Reception and Project Showcase
April 8 - Encoding Morality Into Machines: Where We've Been and Where We're Going
April 24 - Navigating Bourgeois Status, Socialism, and Nationalism: Comparing Armenian and Jewish "Repatriations" From Egypt
May 8 - Sephardic Public Figures in the Argentine and Brazilian Left: Revisiting an Entangled History
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March 26, 2025
Wednesday, March 26
4:00-5:30 PM
Mandel Center for the Humanities, Room 303
Brandeis ID required
Join us for a conversation with Maurice Ebileeni and Ayelet Ben-Yishai.
In the fall of 2022, Ayelet Ben Yishai and Maurice Ebileeni – both faculty members in the English department at the University of Haifa – co-authored an op-ed. While in agreement on much of its content, they faced an unforeseen difficulty in forging an authorial “we” to speak in one voice on equal terms. Ben-Yishai, a Jewish Israeli, and Ebileeni, a Palestinian and a citizen of Israel, have since engaged in a candid (and mostly difficult) dialogue, writing to and with each other, testing out the possibilities for a common existence for themselves as colleagues and friends, and for Israelis and Palestinians in general – “from the river to the sea.” The dialogue is ongoing but has, since last year, taken on a new urgency and assumed the form of a work-in-progress.
This event invites the audience to join in, exploring questions of identity, culture, complicity, Zionism, the occupation, Palestinian displacement, history, the present, and the future.
Presented by the Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel Center for the Humanities and cosponsored by the Schusterman Center for Israel Studies.
April 7, 2025
Monday, April 7
2:30-3:50 PM
Mandel Center for the Humanities Building
3rd Floor Reading Room
Open to the public
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Join us for a roundtable discussion, moderated by Schusterman Center Director Alexander Kaye.
Panelists:
- Renana Keydar, founder and director of the Teaching Program in Digital Humanities at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem
- Daniel Stein Kokin, creator of All the Points, an online mapping project of Israel-Palestine
- Natalie Susmann, head of the Digital Scholarship Lab at Brandeis University.
This event is part of our Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference. The two-day conference is the culmination of the work of our 2024-25 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellows over this academic year. (Image courtesy of the All the Points project.)
April 7, 2025
Monday, April 7
4:00-6:15 PM
Mandel Center for the Humanities Building
3rd Floor, Room 328
Open to the public
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Join us to celebrate the 2024-25 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellows. Discover how our fellows employ digital technologies to do everything from writing history to interpreting literature, from mapping to analyzing culture. Light refreshments will be provided. The showcase is part of our Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference.
April 8, 2025
Tuesday, April 8
9:00-10:30 AM
Hassenfeld Conference Center
Lurias 2 & 3
Open to the public
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Join us for a lecture by Dr. Sydney Levine, Visiting Research Scientist at Google Deepmind and Research Affiliate at Harvard and MIT.
This event is part of our Digital Humanities in Israel Studies conference. The two-day conference is the culmination of the work of our 2024-25 Institute for Advanced Israel Studies Fellows over this academic year.