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Our Virtual Bookshelf displays books written and edited by former IIAS fellows that were initiated or completed during their stay at the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies, and which acknowledge the IIAS in print. The books are the natural outcome of our visiting Research Group members’ stay at the IIAS – reading, studying, interacting with colleagues – and we are pleased to present them to you.

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2023
Modeling fall armyworm resistance in Bt‑maize areas during crop and off‑seasons
Maysa P Tomé, Weber, Igor D, Garcia, Adriano G, Jamielniak, Josemeri. A, Wajnberg, Eric , Hay‑Roe, Mirian M, and Godoy, Wesley AC. 7/14/2023. Modeling Fall Armyworm Resistance In Bt‑Maize Areas During Crop And Off‑Seasons. Journal Of Pest Science , (2023), 96, Pp. 1539–1550. . Publisher's Version

Entomologists have often used computational modeling to study the dynamics of insects in agricultural landscapes. Recently, important issues such as the movement of adults and immatures associated with insect resistance to GMO (genetically modified organism) crops have been addressed using computational models. We developed an individual-based model using the cellular automata approach (CA) to investigate how an intercropping system composed of maize engineered with Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt) gene, refuge areas (non-Bt maize), and grasses combined with off-season periods might influence the evolution of resistance in Spodoptera frugiperda (Lepidoptera: Noctuidae), one of the leading agricultural pests targeted by GMOs.

We designed the Bt and non-Bt plants in two different arrangements: (a) a seed mixture and (b) strips rows, adding grasses in areas adjacent to the field. We added the seasonal planting dynamics (crop season and off-season), to evaluate a total of six agricultural scenarios. We followed a crop calendar from the United States to create simulations close to agricultural practice.

The results showed that the frequency of the resistance allele was strongly related to the landscape arrangements and their dynamics. Since the adult insects are mobile, the seed-mixture scenario increased the frequency of the resistance the most (95.86%), followed by strips (82.10%), without grass fields. The maize harvest made it possible to reduce the frequency of resistance allele below 1%. Based on our results, we can expect that the maintenance of pasture areas, for instance next to the corn crops, will act as a reservoir of susceptible insects during off-season periods.

Can sociality facilitate learning of complex tasks? Lessons from bees and flowers
Tamar Keasar, Pourtallier, Odile , and Wajnberg, Eric . 2023. Can Sociality Facilitate Learning Of Complex Tasks? Lessons From Bees And Flowers. Philosophical Transactions Of The Royal Society B, 378, 1872, Pp. 20210402. . Publisher's Version
A Lasting Vision: Dandin’s Mirror in the World of Asian Letters

A Lasting Vision is dedicated to the Mirror of Literature (Kāvyādarśa), a Sanskrit treatise on poetics composed by Dandin in south India (ca. 700 CE) and to its remarkable career throughout large parts of Asia. The Mirror was adapted and translated into several languages in the southern Indian peninsula (Kannada, Tamil) and the island of Sri Lanka (Sinhala, Pali), as well as in the Tibetan plateau far to the north (Tibetan, Mongolian). In all these receiving cultures, it became a classical text and a source of constant engagement and innovation, often well into the modern era. It also traveled to Burma and Thailand, where it held a place of honor in Buddhist monastic education and intellectual life, and likely to the islands of Java and Bali, where it contributed to the production of literature in Old Javanese. There is even reason to believe that it reached China and impacted Chinese literary culture, although far more peripherally than in other parts of Asia. It also maintained a prominent position in the Sanskrit learned discourses throughout the Indian subcontinent for at least a millennium. This multi-authored volume, organized by region and language, is the first attempt to chart and explain the Mirror’s amazing transregional and multilingual success: what was so unique about this work that might explain its near-continental conquest, how it was transmitted to and received in the many different environments, and what happened to it whenever it was being adopted and adapted.

2022
Optimal foraging strategy to balance mixed diet bygeneralist consumers: a simulation model
Tarryn Schuldiner-harpaz, Coll, Moshe , and Wajnberg, Eric . 2022. Optimal Foraging Strategy To Balance Mixed Diet Bygeneralist Consumers: A Simulation Model. Behaviour, 159, 2022, Pp. 1263-1284. . Publisher's Version
Quotations as Pictures
Josef Stern. 2022. Quotations As Pictures. MIT Press. . Publisher's Version
Trait-based characterisation of parasitoid wasp communities innatural and agricultural areas
Miriam Kishinevsky and Keasar, Tamar . 2022. Trait-Based Characterisation Of Parasitoid Wasp Communities Innatural And Agricultural Areas. Ecological Entomology, 2022, 47, Pp. 657–667. . Publisher's Version
2021

PERFORMANCE RESEARCH VOLUME 26 ISSUE 5
On Interruptions

Suddenly, the topic of the research laboratory for theory and practice in performance that had been active daily for three months at the Israeli Institute for Advanced Studies in Jerusalem, became a global reality. In October 2019, a group of researchers and artists began investigating the notion of Interruptions expressed in artistic creativity and in works of art as well as through reflection and academic research in aesthetics, performance theory and poetics. And in January 2020, as we held the symposium summarizing the initial findings of this project, we did not yet know anything about the pandemic, which is still—now, a year and a half later—a central feature of our everyday realities. This issue of PR, with its thirty contributions by scholars and artists from the initial research laboratory (which focused on the work and thinking of Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin and Bertolt Brecht) as well as the ‘newcomers’ from the local (Israeli) and international communities, considers the notion of Interruptions in/of performance in a broad range of historical, theoretical and political contexts.

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Das erste Buch Mose (Genesis). Die Urgeschichte Gen 1-11
Jan Christian Gertz. 2021. Das Erste Buch Mose (Genesis). Die Urgeschichte Gen 1-11. 2nd ed. Göttingen: Vandenhoeck & Ruprecht .
The Structure of Knowledge: Al-Fārābī, Avicenna, and the Classification of the Sciences
Nadja Germann. 2021. The Structure Of Knowledge: Al-Fārābī, Avicenna, And The Classification Of The Sciences. Revue De Philosophie Et De Théologie, 153, 2021, Pp. 269-290. . Publisher's Version
Categorically Jewish, Distinctly Polish: Polish Jewish History Reflected and Refracted
Debate by the Book, about the Book, in a Book: Shem Tob Falaquera’s Epistle of the Debate, Al-Fārābī’s Book of Dialectic, and Aristotle’s Topics on Philosophy and the Holy Writ
How to Teach Things with Words: Al-Fārābī, Māyin’s Doubt, and the Transmission of Knowledge
Leah Horowitz’s Tkhine Imohos A Proto-Feminist Demand to Increase Jewish Women’s Religious Capital
Logica graeco-arabico-hebraica, special issue of Studia Graeco Arabic 11/2
Maimonides' Modalities
Josef Stern. 2021. Maimonides' Modalities. In Maimonides' Guide Of The Perplexed: A Critical Guide, Pp. 184-206. Cambridge University Press. . Publisher's Version
Of Semen and Tears: Senses, Substances, and the Boundaries of the Body in the Three Hundred Chapters of Niketas Stethatos
Derek Krueger. 2021. Of Semen And Tears: Senses, Substances, And The Boundaries Of The Body In The Three Hundred Chapters Of Niketas Stethatos. In Rituels Religieux Et Sensorialité (Antiquité Et Moyen Âge), Pp. 417-427. SilvanaEditoriale.
Reading Javanese literature; New directions
Els Bogaerts and Day, Tony . 2021. Reading Javanese Literature; New Directions. Wacana, 22, 3, Pp. 535-743. . Publisher's Version
On urban studies in Brazil:The favela, uneven urbanisation and beyond