Three IIAS former fellows collaborated to organize an international workshop titled "Displacement, Forced Migration and Reparation: Comparisons and Controversies" at the University of Sussex, UK. This event was co-hosted by the Jacob Robinson Institute for the History of Individual and Collective Rights at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, the Weidenfeld Institute of Jewish Studies at the University of Sussex, and the IIAS.

The Israel Institute for Advanced Studies is delighted to announce the recipients of the 2024 Michael Bruno Memorial Award, recognizing exceptional young Israeli scholars who exemplify academic excellence and leadership with the potential to shape the future of research in Israel.

This year’s laureates are:

Chief Kes Berko Tegegne reads from the Orit, written in the Ge’ez language. (photo credit: Michael Zekri and the Jerusalem Post)

Dr. Dalit Rom-Shiloni, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the research group "Convergence and Divergence in Pentateuchal Theory: Bridging the Academic Cultures of Israel, North America, and Europe," has been closely involved in a project that will make ancient manuscripts from the Ethiopian Jewish community, Beta Israel, accessible to the public.

Image courtesy of Xinhua

Gideon Shelach-Lavi, a past fellow of the Israel Institute for Advanced Studies and a member of the "Animals and Human Society in the Sinitic World" research group, recently commented on a remarkable archaeological find in China—a 5,000-year-old jade artifact in the shape of a “dragon,” discovered in a tomb belonging to the ancient Hongshan culture.

The IIAS is pleased to feature a recent publication by former fellow Daniel Neuhauser, a professor in the Department of Chemistry and Biochemistry at UCLA. Neuhauser, who was part of two IIAS research groups — Computer Simulation Methods in Chemical Physics and Molecular Electronics — has co-authored a new paper on the time-dependent Hartree-Fock (TDHF) method. The study, titled "No More Gap-Shifting: Stochastic Many-Body-Theory Based TDHF for Accurate Theory of Polymethine Cyanine Dyes," was published in The Journal of Chemical Physics.

Achim Lichtenberger, a past member of the "Contextualizing the Cult of the Southern Levant in the Greco-Roman Period: Monotheism and Polytheism between Continuity and Change" research group at IIAS, is co-curating an exciting new exhibition at the University of Münster.