The 26th Advanced School in Life Sciences (ZOOM event)
Mon, 02/11/2020 to Wed, 04/11/2020
The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies (IIAS) of Jerusalem is a national institution devoted to academic research. Located at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, on the Edmond J. Safra campus at Givat Ram, the IIAS is a self-governing body, both in its administrative function as well as its academic pursuit.
The primary function of the Institute is to encourage and support collaborative research. Along with collaborative Research Groups, the Institute annually hosts six Advanced Schools as well as many conferences.
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IIAS Schedule
OPEN CALLS FOR ACADEMIC YEAR 2022-23
The IIAS invites scholars from Israel and abroad to submit Research Group proposals and Individual Fellowship proposals for the 2022-23 academic year.
For more information, view the Research Group open call and the Individual Fellowship open call.
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Featured Story
Artist in Residence Joshua Sobol
Joshua Sobol was born in Israel in 1939. He graduated in philosophy at the Sorbonne in Paris. A leading Hebrew playwright, Sobol has been artistic director of the Haifa Theater; he has also taught esthetics and directed theater workshops at Tel Aviv University as well as at various colleges. Sobol has written over 60 plays, many of which have been performed in Europe and the USA to great critical acclaim. Soul of a Jew was performed at the Edinburgh, Berlin and Chicago Festivals and has been produced in Germany, Austria, Denmark, France, the USA and Russia. His play Ghetto won the London Critics' and the Evening Standard awards for Britain's Best Play of the Year in 1989, and has been staged in leading theaters worldwide. Witness was performed at the Heidelberg Theater Festival, 2005, and was produced at the Mark Taper Theater in Los Angeles. His polydrama Alma has been playing for the last 18 years in Austria, Italy, Portugal, USA, Germany and Israel. Sobol's novel Silence was nominated for the Sapir Literary award. In 2013 Sobol was awarded the Golden Medal of the City of Vienna in recognition of his long-standing theatrical innovation on the stages of Austria’s capital, and in 2014 he received the Culture Minister's Zionism Prize for Village.
Click here to read Joshua Sobol's recent piece reflecting on the current state of affairs in light of the corona virus.
See also: Featured Story, 2019-2020
Announcements
WE HAVE (TEMPORARILY) MOVED!
The IIAS offices have temporarily relocated to C5 of the Rachel and Selim Benin School of
Computer Science and Engineering, while the Feldman Building is undergoing renovations.
We look forward to returning to the newly renovated IIAS at the beginning of September.
CALL FOR APPLICATIONS: CAT (Constructive Advanced Thinking) Programme
The aim of the CAT initiative is to foster networks of excellent early-career researchers
dedicated to devise new ideas to understand and to tackle current or emerging societal challenges.
