Research Groups | Israel Institute for Advanced Studies

Religion and Nationalism in the Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Hindu Worlds

[RG #102] Religion and Nationalism in Jewish, Christian, Muslim and Hindu Worlds

September 1, 2005 - February 28, 2006

Organizers:

Hedva Ben-Israel (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Yosef Salmon (Ben-Gurion University of the Negev)
Emmanuel Sivan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Muʿtazilism within Islam and Judaism

[RG #101] Muʿtazilism within Islam and Judaism

September 1, 2005 - August 31, 2006

Organizers:

Wilferd Madelung (University of Oxford)
Sabine Schmidtke (Free University of Berlin)

Transmission and Appropriation of the Secular Sciences and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism: Comparative Perspectives, Universal and National Aspects

[RG #108] Transmission and Appropriation of the Secular Sciences and Philosophy in Medieval Judaism: Comparative Perspectives, Universal and National Aspects

March 1 - August 31, 2007

Organizers:

Gad Freudenthal (CNRS, Paris)
Ruth Glasner (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra

[RG #109] Combinatorics of Polytopes and Complexes: Relations with Topology and Algebra

March 1 - August 31, 2007

Organizer:

Gil Kalai (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity and Transformation

[RG #107] Charity and Piety in the Middle East in Late Antiquity and the Middle Ages: Continuity and Transformation

September 1, 2006 - February 28, 2007

Organizers:

Miriam Frenkel (Ben-Zvi Institute)
Yaacov Lev (Bar-Ilan University)

The Interface Between Evolutionary Biology and Game Theory

[RG #106] The Interface Between Evolutionary Biology and Game Theory

September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2007

Organizers:

Sergiu Hart (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Avi Shmida (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movements

[RG #105] Movement Ecology: Establishing a Novel Interdisciplinary Field of Research to Explore the Causes, Patterns, Mechanisms and Consequences of Organism Movements

September 1, 2006 - August 31, 2007

Organizer:

Ran Nathan (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Moral Psychology, Moral Motivation and Moral Realism

[RG #112] Moral Psychology, Moral Motivation and Moral Realism

March 1 - August 31, 2008

Organizer:

David Enoch (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)

Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis

[RG #113] Common Law Legal Transplants: A Comparative Historical Analysis

March 1 - August 31, 2008

Organizers:

Ron Harris (Tel Aviv University)
Assaf Likhovski (Tel Aviv University)

Neurons and Cognitive Processes

[RG #111] Neurons and Cognitive Processes

October 7, 2007 - February 28, 2008

Organizers:

Hanoch Gutfreund (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Israel Nelken (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Naftali Tishby (The Hebrew University of Jerusalem)